I seem to paint a lot of bottles. A friend recently asked me
why? I see a still life as a visual meditation, and glass can be a mental challenge
in that you must decide what is effective and what is not in explaining the
image. It is walking an edge of what is
optical information (that what we see) and conceptual information (that what we
know) to express form and imagery.
The simpler explanation is that old glass bottles
are cool.
Marbles with Bottles, oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches, Jim
Serrett
"Is not what you look at that matters, it's what you
see." -- Henry David Thoreau
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Maravilhosa pintura , real !!! Perfeita , parabéns! Jane sorgetz
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jane 👍
DeleteThere's a famous Canadian realist painter, Mary Pratt (just passed away not too long ago) who loved the complexity of painting glass and other clear objects. I saw an exhibition of hers involving gorgeous paintings of plastic wrap! It was stunning.
ReplyDeleteI looked up her work. Interesting stuff 🎨 would like to see it in the real.
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