Friday, September 30, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Pierre Bonnard painting "White interior" #art #painting #jeremyholton
Friday, September 23, 2011
Mona Breede "Last Entrance" #art #jeremyholton
Thursday, September 22, 2011
David Hockney painting "Winter Timber" 2.7 by 6.1 metres #art #painting #jeremyholton
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Vincent Desidario painting "Mourning and Fecundity II" #art #painting #jeremyholton
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Jeremy Holton's painting 'Camelot' #painting #art #jeremyholton
My painting 'Camelot' in Florida on its owner's wall
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Claude Monet's painting 'Route de Giverny en hiver' #art #painting #jeremyholton
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Salvador Dali's painting 'Portrait of Gala with two Lamb Chops Balanced on her Shoulder' #art #painting #jeremyholton
What interests me in this painting, apart from the surrealism, is the repetition of shapes between the chops, the sides to the door at the back, the opening to the rock building, her hair and the shadow behind her shoulder. The tonal contrast around the door at the top right draws the eye.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Max Ernst 'Robing of the Bride' #painting #art #jeremyholton
Distinguishing features: There's an unsettling splendour to this painting. In Beyond Painting, Ernst mocks abstract art. The opulent figurative excess of this vision could scarcely be further from the purity advocated by modernists from Le Corbusier to Judd. It's a troubling, glorious thing, this picture. Seeing it in a gallery is like encountering a screaming exotic bird in a cathedral.
It is both beautiful and horrible. The mantle, with its crushed velvet feathery texture, pours off the canvas. The body arcing forward with her long leg walking, small breasts, prominent belly, appears to have a monster's face. Of the bride's real face all we see is an eye peering out of a hole. Above this, staring straight at us, are the eyes of an owl, impenetrable, knowing.
The green demonic bird-man serving his new bird-queen holds a broken spear. Her sexual majesty daunts him, as it defeats the gross four-breasted creature weeping on the right. The bride is attended by an enraptured nude whose headdress is a burst of decalcomania, the technique invented by the surrealist Oscar Dominguez that spreads paint in a dappled organic way. Also decalcomanic is the painting of the same subject that hangs on the wall.
As well as an erotic fantasy, this is a meditation on creativity. The painting within the painting is a clue. Ernst opened himself to images, he claimed, just as Leonardo da Vinci advised artists to do, by staring at a stain. You will see in the stain, said Leonardo as quoted by Ernst, "human heads, various animals, a battle... "
In the arbitrary red form that emerged in his small decalcomanic image, Ernst saw the bride being robed; in the completed, large painting this is fleshed out as a complex history. It is Leonardo's method exactly."
Jonathan Jones
The Guardian, Saturday 6 December 2003
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Ryo Arai paper sculpture #art #painting #jeremyholton
Max Beckmann's painting 'Der Hafen von Genua'. #art #painting #jeremyholton
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