"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble:

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2012

What:  Mixed media work: compressed charcoal, acrylic, paper collage on 200gsm cartridge paper.

The original work is on size paper 420 x 297 mm (A3).

Note ~ The space around the image here has been cropped down slightly for reproduction printing purposes.

Method: The compositional work employs a combination of gestural, contour drawing/painting techniques and has been worked directly from a life model.

About:  In the same life drawing session I completed several similar quick session life drawings that were all composed/grouped together on the one large sheet of cartridge paper. I later cut out and collaged what I thought the most successful images onto each their own larger A3 paper sheet  The delicate compositional balance of spacing around each of these images requires it's own problem solving.

My subject approach focuses on depicting dynamic energies through application of quick gestural, contour mark making and accentuation on spatial relationships ie. between figure-ground, negative-positive, ambiguity, unification, spaces between.

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble - Framed Print

Other Artistic Points

The principle of figure/ground is one of the most basic laws of perception.

'Gestalt' is a psychology term which means "unified whole".

Ref. The Gestalt Principles

SIMILARITY / CONTINUATION / CLOSURE / PROXIMITY / FIGURE - GROUND.

http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/gestaltprinciples/gestaltprinc.htm

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble - Card

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Juxtapositions

One of my earlier oil paintings on canvas that I hold in my own artist collection.  Original Size - H 805 mm x W 1005 mm x D 40 mm.  Female figures were first drawn/painted directly from different life models onto canvas. Then the combination of images were further developed creating the colourful abstract composition.

The work image has been professionally documented and made available for giclee prints on demand at my two online printing sites.

Artropica Innisfail Studio Gallery Fine Art
Note - One can click on a section of the work, see the enlarged section view (of the actual file size loaded up), check out the quality and artistic detail.  (Just love this unique site feature.)

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Australian Artist Ian Fairweather

I have adored and drooled over Ian Fairweather's lifetime of art work since ... well I cannot really recall, but a long time ago now - more than any other artist in the history of this planet with Matisse coming in second at this point.

When the very few opportune times have arose to travel to Brisbane from the Far North, I have stood in front of his work displayed at the Queensland Art Gallery, for such long periods ... soaking in the multiple layers of paint and their contextual meaning, then only to walk away and turn right back again not wanting to take my eyes off them.

It was one of Ian's abstract artwork images that adorned the front cover of the very first magazine publication, Art and Australia, back in the 1963. He was definitely 'not popular' in the general social community consciousness at the time.   

 

Artwork: Blue-Rhapsody (Ian Fairweather Inspired) 
 Nude drawing/painting study

Medium: gouache, charcoal on paper. Work has sold.

I have one only  precious art book on Ian Fairweather and his work purchased well over a decade ago now. In recent years there has been no books available to purchase.
I was very excited when someone had posted this ABC1 Television Guide link on facebook today (27.07.09). Yet another generation is being inspired by this man's artistic and very creative genius.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200907/programs/ZY9058A001D16072009T213000.htm

Note - Edited/updated 30.11.2011