Tuesday, March 24, 2009
People
I am fascinated by people. People are all different, unique. I know I am lucky if I can understand myself most days, let alone others, but that is precisely what intrigues me. It is that incomprehensible aspect that I try to comprehend in my art. I love to paint people and give the viewer, and perhaps myself, a small glimpse into the workings of the mind. In addition, on those occasions when I do a portrait--one where I am strictly painting the person rather that just painting a person who is no one in particular, but perhaps embodies everyone--I paint what I know of that individual or how I see them.
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i think it is interesting that you keep gravitating towards the young male. you seem to always default to the same type of person, although you say you are fascinated by people, and how they are all different and unique. why isn't there more diversity of ages and genders? i see some diversity of emotion, but little variation in outward characteristics. is that how you view the prototypical person who embodies everyone? or what you see of most individuals?
ReplyDeleteI think I tend to get stuck on one face for a while, and then I move on to another. So, for right now, it is the same, or a similar face, again and again.
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