'White Pears #27'
oil
on canvas/16″ x 20″/April 2016
Continuing with the Edmund de Waal-inspired compositional device of
placing some of the observed objects behind a translucent ‘screen’ (of tracing
paper), this latest painting displays a distinct split between upper and lower
levels, those on the upper horizontal plane unscreened and those on the lower
behind and appearing out of focus, but no less keenly seen. In the
representation of both, and over the entire picture plane, of course, paint as
manipulated material stuff is emphasised as such as much as it assumes ‘object-form’
in the description of the whitewashed, re-modelled, hand-finished pears and the
horizontal and vertical surfaces of the grounds upon and against/behind which
they sit and appear.
This one might have failed more than some of the others in the
series to date…
(detail)
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