Art
Tension is essential to an interesting piece of work. Ugly-beautiful, curved-straight, abstract-realist, happy-depressing – the extremes are boring on their own, but the tension between them enhances the interest and intrigues the viewer. Today’s artist can no longer excuse being fluent in only one of the extremes. The artist must embrace both, drawing meaning from the conflict that results.
It is with these conflicting opposites that my latest work inevitably explores. This piece takes a new view on the age-old metaphor of darkness as evil, light as good, and suggests that light in fact may be more evil than has been considered previously. Similarly, in this age of electricity where everything is lit up, darkness is to be embraced.
So this tension between the polar opposites of dark and light, good and evil respectively, is expressed in my latest work, which I call “Visual musings on Nature’s greatest dichotomy”.
Matthew @ 20:35, August 16, 2006 to Miscellaneous | Comments (7)
Comments:
Rory
I feel that the only appropriate response is…
Your face is nature’s greatest dichotomy.
Comment added at 22:58, August 16, 2006
Matthew
Entry inspired by a real description at the Tate Modern.
Comment added at 07:10, August 17, 2006
david
you have far too much time!
ps. hows life?
Comment added at 23:44, August 17, 2006
Matthew
I wrote this on the train to a camp when I had nothing else to do. I’m busy, really. I came back from camp on the 16th and I still have 23 unread emails to attend to!
Comment added at 12:07, August 18, 2006
Mr E
It’s just a grey rectangle…
Comment added at 12:43, August 20, 2006
Salmon
To be fair, Asger Jorn’s painting was slightly more visually interesting. Even if you win on description… and whether that’s a good thing or not, I leave you to decide.
Comment added at 17:48, August 22, 2006
Matthew
You know I was merely making fun of the description, not the painting :)
Comment added at 08:52, August 28, 2006
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