FINAL PROJECT
oil and beeswax on canvas
Detail 1-3
Detail 4
Detail 5
Cheyne Bishop
Artist Statement
Throughout my life I have enquired a certainty for
nature and what it beholds. The truth of outside is no
different than the truth within a studio. There are sets of
rules that allow you to proceed with the way of your will.
Now this certainty has shown me the correlation between
my paintbrush strokes and the growth of an organism.
Every minute I work on a painting it grows and grows until
the product is reached. Within nature a plant grows and
grows until a product is reached. See there is a symbiosis
between nature and me, I need it and it needs me. We take
care of each other... so what better way to show this
symbiosis other than through a visual projection. I paint to
show the connection between you, me and organic truths of
nature.
Your paintings are very interesting to me. I like the colors you have used. The blue color and texture used in the man painting is really appealing to me. The painting that is labeled as Detail 5 is my favorite! The wash in the background is very nice and the perspective is different, but I like the figure itself. The look on her face...haha she looks pissed off.
ReplyDeleteYou always have such a variety in stroke of the hand and it's quite great. My favorite image in my opinion is the figure with the turquoise background. The way in which both of the colors lay upon one another and how you're able to see the texture in it is one thing that draws me in. I also really enjoy your set up and how you chose to use a canvas that's long in height. I could see this as a series if the male figure had more browns in the background or turquoise was added into the female figure what appears to me to be a rock. Each image has such a different attitude and perspective.
ReplyDeleteThe pieces are well done, but leave me unsatisfied considering the amount of detail, or how the pieces connect as a series, and also the concept. You mention it grows until the product is reached, yet in nature, a product is never truly reached. the point of nature is to always be growing -to always be developing in a cycle of growth and decay. Make this connection more concrete -I want to know how your paintbrush correlates with this cycle. How exactly do you and nature help each other? How do you show these organic truths? Are you attempting to make a commentary on process over product? If so -develop your artist statement to a place where it is communicated clearly.
ReplyDeleteI love your color palette. I totally want to hang these paintings in my house!! The different sizes of canvas and the way you displayed this piece is appealing. I especially love the man's skin stone, the dark hills that look like flames, and the background on the third piece. They all give a sense of movement to the piece bringing them together as one painting.
ReplyDeleteI remember talking to you about your ideas in the early stages of your work and this is a very different outcome then what I was expecting, but it turned out very nice and I like the change. All three images work well together and feel like they are part of the same story, although I can't say what that story is but it feels..dark I guess. I think my favorite is the vertical piece but overall I wish there was a bit more details in all the images. There is this smokey/haze element that accompanies all images, which I like but it also obscures. I don't see the connection between your statement and the artwork because it doesn't feel like a connection with nature. Overall very nice work.
ReplyDeleteI think this is your most successful project for this class. Your technique has improved immensely and you've managed to improve in both composition and technique. I think I understand what you're saying in your artist statement. Your pieces are a statement on the process of creating something from nothing and how that evolves into a finished piece? An expansion on that through process would be cool, for example showing the stages of your painting. Another way you could do this is by displaying a decomposed version of the painting process -> wood ->canvas -> paint -> more paint -> finished piece. Just an idea, other than that keep on doing what you're doing.
ReplyDeleteConsistently, my favorite aspect of your painting style is the decisiveness with which you apply paint. None of your marks seem unplanned; all of your paintings seem meticulously crafted without feeling stale or inexpressive. I love the smokiness you've created with the oils, and the textures in huck's hair and in the flames. I'm not sure if you regard these pieces as a series or not--to me, because of the differences in framing and size, they seem to work better as individual pieces--but it is just something to think about. Good job!
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit confused about your statement and your project. I don't really see much of a symbiosis of figure and nature happening, and it doesn't feel consistent all the way through.
ReplyDeleteI also don't feel like they necessarily belong in a series together. I think arranging them differently might have helped that. I like that you did choose to work with some stylistic variation, but I want to know how that correlates to each element of nature that you are depicting a symbiosis with.
I don't read these as a series, but more of a collection of pieces that you have created. I really like the techniques you used with all three of the pieces, and I can read them all as your own. The rawness of these pieces really intrigue me. The color choices of your pieces are really interesting, looking muddy, but working very well together. I can see your improvement, and hope to see you in another painting class!
ReplyDeleteYour statement doesn't really elucidate anything about your final aside from the parallel you might be drawing about beeswax. Regardless, the strongest aspect about your final paintings are the composition and frame use. Taking extreme frames and complimenting them with lines that go along with the long vertical format is always effective. Your figures have some proportion and lighting problems in the frames, with the lighting being one that doesn't make sense (in the long vertical frame it is jarring in the other two, no problem)
ReplyDeleteI think it was your strongest piece from the class because of the composition and colors used. I think you give up to quickly when it comes to using a figure. most mediums are reworkable and you could have changed the proportions to strengthen the paintings. overall good project and keep working on identifying weak points.
ReplyDeletethis was definitely your strongest piece over the whole semester. the expressivity of each image (particularly huck) is really great and gives each image a lot of life
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