"The viewer is persuaded by his senses that he occupies the center of the world around him--a world he changes at will as he moves through it." Rudolph Arnheim
"The eye is the first circle, the horizon which it forms the second, and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is gray we need...made of bright and black, able to shed the former or the latter, and be the latter or the former alone." S. Beckett
(Or grey could be neither, something completely separate from its component parts. We are the grey of our parents, our surrounding culture, the world.)
Barnett Newman:
The split in his paintings is not a divide, rather reunites, making the works whole, stronger.
Like the self
or
aggregates, augmented matrix, recalcification of broken bone
Ideas from Jasper Johns exhibit:
Mediums to try/revisit:
Oil paintstick
Sharpie
Encaustic
Ink on plastic
Sand
Scrape-off technique (with gel medium too)
Draw with graphite then paint over with slightly translucent white, many layers?
Things to think about:
Watchman--outside viewer
Upside-down imagery
Circular art--no fixed beginning/end
Jumping Dali
Famous portrait => kaleidoscopify
BLUE BLUE BLUE anything blue a field of blue
Turi's "there, there, gone" print
Mountain with ski runs like the tip of an iceberg, pink rothko sky, roots = water
Umbrellas
Beanstalk--like living ladder to the ball of gold
Sleeping in a question mark
Pretzels
Calder-esque shadows--in and out of focus
Fingerpainting/fingerprintpainting
Wrinkles
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