Comments on: A look back at a painting from ‘99 http://artandperception.com/2007/07/a-look-back-at-a-painting-from-99.html a multi-disciplinary dialog Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:31:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Tree http://artandperception.com/2007/07/a-look-back-at-a-painting-from-99.html#comment-28316 Tree Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:51:44 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/a-look-back-at-a-painting-from-99.html#comment-28316 "her nipples mirror her eyes." Yes, they do seem to follow you wherever you go... “her nipples mirror her eyes.” Yes, they do seem to follow you wherever you go…

]]> By: Bart Westgeest http://artandperception.com/2007/07/a-look-back-at-a-painting-from-99.html#comment-28310 Bart Westgeest Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:59:56 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/a-look-back-at-a-painting-from-99.html#comment-28310 Looking at older works can often be a sudden confrontation for me. I often feel confused or even sad about finding something interesting that I had forgotten about. So far I never seem to get a grip on the process of creating and learning. It is like I make good works and bad works without learning as much as I could from both of them. They happen. Whenever I find an interesting old work I feel I should have continued or incorporated the good parts of it. As long as I don't focus on a subject or style and monitor the process it is hard to notice a gain of sensitivity or ability. Looking at older works can often be a sudden confrontation for me. I often feel confused or even sad about finding something interesting that I had forgotten about. So far I never seem to get a grip on the process of creating and learning. It is like I make good works and bad works without learning as much as I could from both of them. They happen.
Whenever I find an interesting old work I feel I should have continued or incorporated the good parts of it. As long as I don’t focus on a subject or style and monitor the process it is hard to notice a gain of sensitivity or ability.

]]> By: Steve Durbin http://artandperception.com/2007/07/a-look-back-at-a-painting-from-99.html#comment-28032 Steve Durbin Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:10:30 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/a-look-back-at-a-painting-from-99.html#comment-28032 Karl, I'm not sure how recent were the other paintings and drawings you've shown us, but I'm amazed how similar they are to this older one. That's the same reaction I had on re-discovering one of my own earlier photographs (<a href="http://www.artandperception.com/2007/06/oops-and-more-waterfalls.html" rel="nofollow">post here</a>). This makes it interesting to pick out small changes in technique or affect and ask yourself how you respond to the difference, and whether you want to keep going in the direction of that change. Just as an overall impression, I personally like the newer stuff better. Karl,

I’m not sure how recent were the other paintings and drawings you’ve shown us, but I’m amazed how similar they are to this older one. That’s the same reaction I had on re-discovering one of my own earlier photographs (post here). This makes it interesting to pick out small changes in technique or affect and ask yourself how you respond to the difference, and whether you want to keep going in the direction of that change. Just as an overall impression, I personally like the newer stuff better.

]]> By: Sunil Gangadharan http://artandperception.com/2007/07/a-look-back-at-a-painting-from-99.html#comment-28014 Sunil Gangadharan Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:24:00 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/a-look-back-at-a-painting-from-99.html#comment-28014 I need to come back to this later as I was a bit busytoday, but I must add that it is good to see a painting here... Karl, Do you have a website of your works? I need to come back to this later as I was a bit busytoday, but I must add that it is good to see a painting here…

Karl,
Do you have a website of your works?

]]> By: Jay Hoffman http://artandperception.com/2007/07/a-look-back-at-a-painting-from-99.html#comment-27999 Jay Hoffman Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:50:37 +0000 http://www.artandperception.com/2007/07/a-look-back-at-a-painting-from-99.html#comment-27999 Karl: Your figure wears the background landforms like a cape. They are still attached to her even as they reach the horizon and prepare to ascend and morph into cloud forms. To me this adds a poignant quality as she seems so tender and disengaged from the geological role that she assumes. There is also the jump in scale: there is no visual indication as such that she is a giantess, yet the mantle, be it ever so large, remains, for its relative size, wearable. Or she might be stepping out of the earth as Botticelli with his clam. Karl:

Your figure wears the background landforms like a cape. They are still attached to her even as they reach the horizon and prepare to ascend and morph into cloud forms. To me this adds a poignant quality as she seems so tender and disengaged from the geological role that she assumes. There is also the jump in scale: there is no visual indication as such that she is a giantess, yet the mantle, be it ever so large, remains, for its relative size, wearable. Or she might be stepping out of the earth as Botticelli with his clam.

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