{"id":8645,"date":"2023-04-02T19:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T18:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8645"},"modified":"2023-04-03T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T04:30:49","slug":"art-another-old-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8645","title":{"rendered":"ART: Another Old Series\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This series, in one pic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This little series of miniature abstracts was born of spell of mental ill health. I hate that phrase, and I don\u2019t think it really accurately captures what I was going through. But anyway, whatevs, as they say these days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was, rather amazingly, prescribed a short series of therapeutic art classes. As is so often the way with me, ornery curmudgeon that I am, I didn\u2019t play by the rules – adopts Saxondale manner – this lone wolf rides to the tune of a different drummer (face-slap!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My raison<\/em>-ing was that, given I\u2019m already a trained, even professional (occasionally!) artist, I didn\u2019t need to do the ABC type stuff my group was doing. I just needed a quiet corner in which to pursue already established trajectories. Fortunately I was allowed to do just that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The net results were this little serious of four mini-abstractions. They began life as an evolution from sketches of a stained glass window. In fact somewhere I\u2019ve got an image I really like, showing how these little artworks evolved. I\u2019ll stick that up here if I can find it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To those with a bit of art or art history knowledge, some of my influences might be discernible? Perhaps ironically the single greatest influence on my own art isn\u2019t <\/em>really obvious in these series. That\u2019d be Picasso. More on his influence to follow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the major influences on this approach, however, are Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, and to a much lesser extent, some of Brice Marden\u2019s linear stuff. There\u2019s even a bit of Georg Baselitz in there (thanks to the influence of an old – and much missed – pal, Ben Carter). And then there are less obvious folk, like Turner, and even Caspar David Friedrich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These aren\u2019t the best photos. You can see the shadow of my head on them! It\u2019d be nice to have much better lit and positioned photographs, but these\u2019ll have to do for now!<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This little series of miniature abstracts was born of spell of mental ill health. I hate that phrase, and I don\u2019t think it really accurately captures what I was going through. But anyway, whatevs, as they say these days! I was, rather amazingly, prescribed a short series of therapeutic art classes. As is so often … <\/p>\n

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