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THE REAL McCOY

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

Posted by gigisperinck in ART FORMS, Art style

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Capture the real mcoy

“There is no such thing as good painting about nothing”  Mark Rothko

Don’t let formal tuition kill your passion

As an artist, do you approach your work with sincerity?Has your art become meaningless? Perhaps you have become a lofty art-academic who has been taught how to ‘make’ something ‘look like’ something else?

Stifling the free spirit with technical trivia

Perhaps you have been tutored (by the finest) on the art of ’portraiture ’and with more than a reasonable resemblance to the sitter can replicate his physical image on canvas. You might have learned how to paint the perfect landscape using all the tried and tested techniques and formulae of composition, colour and tone, but I don’t see any risk element of excitement there. Painting can become so dreary, you may even wonder why bother at all?

With a bit of caution, you might have tried your hand at a bit of abstraction.But can you answer the question as to what measure of the real you, you allow into your paintings?

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