Medicina Rossa

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Medicina-Rossa/414640

YouTube - TateShots: Glenn Brown

Video with John Myatt, a renowned forger, whose exploits have even landed him a spell in prison, takes a trip to Tate Liverpool to contemplate Glenn Browns work.

Talk about the paintings and the paint.

Mark Wright

http://www.fieldgategallery.com/fieldgatewright.html

I liked the contrast of light and dark with multicolours. I also found the blurred parts of this composition interesting and then having shaper focused points around them.

Glenn Brown

The Loves of Shepherds (after 'Doublestar' by Tony Roberts) 2000
Oil on canvas, 219.5 x 336 cm (86.4 x 132.2 in)
Collection Nouvion-Rey
© Glenn Brown

The reference for the oil painting came from the illustrated cover for this book. Brown had some trouble for using this image, as it was argued to be plagiarism. But it was settled that the painting had transformed the original image to become something more than the original.

Brown works in this way, transforming, borrowing and changing various images that surround him. Some of these are science fiction. And explores them into creating different compositions and changing the meaning of the original images.


Hunky Dory 2005
Oil on panel, 157 x 110 cm (61.8 x 43.3 in)
Private Collection
© Glenn Brown

This painting looks as though the paint is 3D, but in fact it is flat to the surface. This was taken from a painting and then transformed into this cold strange looking painting.

http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/glennbrown/

Susan Derges

http://www.susanderges.com/

From the moon series.
I saw various photographs in London, these photos experimented with lack of light and textures within the image.
I think this is an interesting image. I like the idea of using the moon, which is something that orbits around the Earth in space.

Gerhard Richter

Orchidee
1997
29 cm X 37 cm
Oil on Aludibond
Catalogue Raisonné: 848-9
http://www.gerhard-richter.com/art/paintings/photo_paintings/detail.php?8270

This painting mimics the use of a camera. Parts of the flower is in focus but behind that it is out of focus.
This blurred part of the image is made by having the oil paint applied and then blurring it all with a few brush strokes going in the up, sideways and down direction in an ordered pattern. Each colour has to be planned out so this can be quickly achieved.
I've used this technique in my painting. As the first painting I had painted was from a photo that had blurred parts to it. I used this technique to start painting.

Devorah Sperber

Spock 1, 2007, 1102 spools of thread, stainless-steel ball chain and hanging apparatus, clear acrylic sphere, metal stand (44.5 x 36 x 60 inches)

Partial installation view of Mirror Universe as seen in a convex mirror, Caren Golden Fine Art, NYC

This installation was made with cotton spools used for sewing machines.
I am looking at this artist because of the subject she works on. She has taken parts from the series and re-created them in this media.

http://www.devorahsperber.com/caren_golden_show_3_08/index.html

Gerhard Richter

Fextal Piz Lagrev, 1992
1992
8.9 cm x 12.7 cm
Oil on photograph

I found this photo exciting. Because of the subject, being a beach. Also I found the oil paint over the top visually exciting. It seems a strange abstract merger.