is it possible to fully subsume the objective stuff of colors?
mando
On May 9, 2009, at 5:13 PM, William Conger wrote:
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
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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/
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Michael Brady
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