June 2002
The
Wittig Report - on the interface between Life and Art
Welcome to the Wittig
Report.
On the one hand there
is 'Art,' and on the other hand, there is 'Life,'
...and somewhere in
the middle, they meet.
May was 'Oil
Bar' month. Several years ago, I had purchased a bunch of Oil Bars... one of
the preferred mediums of taggers and grafitti artists, and made a number of
small paintings with them, no mean feat, given the fact that Oil Bars are huge,
fat, blunt, messy instruments. This month, I decided to use up the remaining
bars, and the canvas on Masonite boards which were still lying around from my
previous experiment... before the Oil Bars dried out, and became useless. Waste
not, want not. What I did this time, though, was to begin with the crude Oil
Bars, which forced me to 'think big', and then I finished up with standard oil
paint, which allowed me to add some precision to the work. I still have a small
pile of Oil Bars to use up, but most of them are finished. If you like
fingerpainting, and getting really messy, these are fun... but don't scratch
your nose.
Chance favours
the prepared mind.
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May 2002,
eight Oil Bar paintings:
Oil and Oil Bar
on Canvas - 'MilkeyGood': http://www.robertwittig.com/full265.html
Oil and Oil Bar
on Canvas - 'BottleGreen': http://www.robertwittig.com/full266.html
Oil and Oil Bar
on Canvas - 'BottleBrown': http://www.robertwittig.com/full267.html
Oil and Oil Bar
on Canvas - 'BottleSquare': http://www.robertwittig.com/full268.html
Oil and Oil Bar
on Canvas - 'Banana': http://www.robertwittig.com/full269.html
Oil and Oil Bar
on Canvas - 'LemonHappy': http://www.robertwittig.com/full270.html
Oil and Oil Bar
on Canvas - 'GrapeFruit': http://www.robertwittig.com/full271.html
Oil and Oil Bar
on Canvas - 'OrangeViolent': http://www.robertwittig.com/full272.html
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Art Chicago 2002 - A Brief Review
"
I passed Forum Gallery's
display... they had some really impressive pieces up... but I knew I was done
shooting pictures... I was already making my way to the exhibition hall exit...
I had already seen what I had come to see... some 'California-Clean'
cityscapes, and a beach scene... an introspectively sad young woman, painted
with a broad brush, and a crazy man in a barrow, going with the flood, wherever
the water took him... the ugliness of life, even when it is dressed up in the
finest attire, and the beauty of paint... even when it shows us at our
worst."
To read
the article, click here: http://www.robertwittig.com/paper44.html
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I
found this guy by accident... well worth a look.
To see Nick
Bridges' work, click here: http://www.caconline.org/cacartists/BridgeN/bridgen.html
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