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Transmission II

Have I mentioned that I am interested in the Spiritualist movement? YEah, of course I have. This one is based a bit more, aesthetically speaking, in the sort of grisaille technique used in traditional oil painting as well as contemporary artists like Cecily Brown.

 

Religious painting has been a huge influence on me. I appreciate the play of emotions, of joy, sorrow, awe, as well as the near constant forays into what today looks like melodrama. I draw the way I draw because I want to express the kind of grace and tension of traditional figurative painting, though I am simplifying many aspects of the figure by using cartoon animals.

 

Acrylic and pencil on drafting film mounted on wood. 2010

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Uploaded on February 16, 2010
Taken on February 4, 2010