Painting on Pictures
The idea of painting on a photograph is not new. It has been going on since photography's inception. Although, early uses were more apt at removing or adding details that would allow the photograph to tell a deeper truth instead of a more conceptual aim. What does painting or drawing on a photograph offer? Can this combination successfully question and expand the ideas behind the photographic process and function?
Gerhard Richter's abstract interventions into banal 4x6" snapshot landscapes are very crude and simple compared to his larger and better known paintings which deconstruct the photographic institution, but are able to offer abstraction a fresh utility.
Another artist who imaginatively and overtly talks about painting and photography is Marc Luders. I am especially drawn to his early works where the paint becomes like a UFO discretely entering into the photographic spaces.
The artist Sebastiaan Bremer uses much more illustrative approach by applying precise points of ink to large photographs. The lightness of conceptual intervention here is made up for through shear visual intrigue at how Bremer as enlivened a seemingly irrelevant photograph.
Gerhard Richter's abstract interventions into banal 4x6" snapshot landscapes are very crude and simple compared to his larger and better known paintings which deconstruct the photographic institution, but are able to offer abstraction a fresh utility.
Another artist who imaginatively and overtly talks about painting and photography is Marc Luders. I am especially drawn to his early works where the paint becomes like a UFO discretely entering into the photographic spaces.
The artist Sebastiaan Bremer uses much more illustrative approach by applying precise points of ink to large photographs. The lightness of conceptual intervention here is made up for through shear visual intrigue at how Bremer as enlivened a seemingly irrelevant photograph.
Photography and painting are two heavyweights in today's art discourse. Using them together, literally, can start to challenge the convictions and readings of both.
posted by Curtis Mann @ 2:55 PM
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