So when are you going to give up the descriptive figure drawing and set those wonderful compositions free from servitude to the figure/object ? Or fully subsume the objective stuff? wc
________________________________ From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2009 12:53:31 PM Subject: Re: Architecture and Philosophy On May 6, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Frances Kelly wrote: > My task in wrestling with this thorn is to find out if it is possible to > frame a philosophic theory of architecture. Hercules Wrestles with the Thorn, one of the metopes on the Parthenon that Pericles overruled. <g> But, as it happens, I've been reshaping my front, side, and back yards, mainly to correct some problems with the drainage, to put in new flower beds, and to get rid of a lot of chickweeds and other pesksy unwanted green stuff growing where the grass should be. In any event, I have "sculpted" my yard by making great sweeping arcs and ogees, small shifts in the ground level to promote drainage, which leaves behind these ground "marks." As I was planning it, I realized that I was visualizing it almost exactly in terms of the large abstract forms I use in my paintings. So I continued in that direction and kept those painting shapes in mind. As a further cross-connection between the land-work and my art-work, when I am painting these shapes, I think simultaneously that they resemble landforms as seen from the air, or in a map, and also that I don't merely "paint" them as a manual act similar to handwriting (which is a fluid, almost non-tactile or non-tangible laying down of "words") but that I "carve" and "mold" them, reworking them with scumbling that is akin to dressing the marble or such or carving a wood block for a print. Here are some paintings: http://michaelbradydesign.com/PhotoAlbums/album_1241367593/ http://michaelbradydesign.com/PhotoAlbums/album_1241368711/ http://michaelbradydesign.com/PhotoAlbums/album_1241371199/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady [email protected]
