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An exploration into hybridisation of digital and analogue painting. These works are made by scanning individual brushstrokes and wrapping them around gestures drawn in a 3D drawing program, though some later images were created by feeding my own artworks into AI image generators. This investigation continues with my long-running interest in technologically informed painting and conceptual ideas of what painting is and can be. It has connections to the halftone dot paintings from my foundation year, the painting/video installations from my BA and the sculptures made out of paint from my MA.
"The subject of painting is painting itself" Eugène Delacroix (ref needed, 1790?)
"Remember that a painting... is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order" Maurice Denis , 1890.
"The medium of painting is color and space: drawing is essentially a division of space. Painting is therefore the mind realizing itself in color and space." Robert Motherwell, 1944.
"What is of importance in painting is paint." Jules Olitsky, 1967
"There are two problems in painting. One is to find out what painting is and the other is to find out how to make a painting. The first is learning something and the second is making something." Frank Stellla, 1971
"Freedberg and Gallese argue that the pleasure a viewer gets from a painting by Jackson Pollock or Lucio Fontana emerges from the indexicality of motion captured in a work, be it the splattering of paint for the former or the slashing ofthe canvas for the latter. When looking at a work of Fontana's, they suggest, 'sight of the slashed painting invites a sense of empathetic movement that seems to coincide with the gesture felt to have produced the tear'. Empathy, here, is a mental simulation of motion that comes from an inner mirroring of external perception." Grant Bolmer, 2020
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