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“DEATHKARZ “australia” and “songlines” and “dreamtime”_102.1”

I saw Mondrian’s early work, paintings of flowers. Well, that sort of stuck in the back of my mind ever since: spring-time blossom. Why did he paint flowers for most of his life? On the Guggenheim’s website collection there it says that reflecting on his attraction to the subject, he wrote, “I find flowers beautiful in their exterior beauty yet there is hidden within a deeper beauty”²… It is also in these paintings that he began to employ techniques such as passage. Patch- like brushwork that breaks up the contours that seem to define two-dimensional forms, in a way that surfaces appear to flow together, blurring the distinction between solid form and surrounding space. Over a century later, using Photoshop in elaborating a painting resonates with former avant-garde methodologies. It allows for an extremely fluid means by which to produce new hybrid textures and to multiply endlessly the number of possible outcomes.

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“Embrace Inefficiency”

Let’s introduce a joke that accompanies the next argument: “If you think colours aren’t funny… then you lack a sense of hue-mour”. 😛
The eyes are most sensitive to red. Red has the longest wave length of the colours visible to the human eye whereas violet has the shortest (remember the acronym VIBGYOR to recall the order of seven colours in the spectrum of white light). If you look at this painting from far away, dust, moist and other elements in the gallery’s atmosphere will interact with the daylight as it travels to your eye. These interferences tend to diminish the strength of the light, a sort of glitch in our visual system. But red adapts the eye for the dark. Infra-red. “As a transparency, it is a mask in a way, filtering light, dramatically altering the perception of the piece, the writing, the composition”.