tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22251458493458407512024-03-13T19:54:55.187-04:00A Painter's Days - Dean Taylor DrewyerThoughts on making and understanding paintings and drawings.Dean Taylor Drewyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02825746860689081426noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225145849345840751.post-2696618952656019472017-01-19T08:15:00.001-05:002017-01-19T08:17:48.887-05:00Salt Air, Near Cutler; Andrew Wyeth, Walt Whitman; "What is it that you express in your eyes?"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Salt Air, Near Cutler, Maine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> oil on mounted canvas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"The way I feel about things is so much better than the way I've been able to paint them. The image I had in my head before I started is not quite - never quite - completely conveyed in paint."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Andrew Wyeth</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"What is it that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I have read in my life."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Walt Whitman</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wyeth is right, of course: one cannot make paint do magic or capture light. All one is left with is to find and express the effect of light and shadow, the color of the atmosphere at a particular time of day in a particular place. One cannot get bogged down with what one painter called the "tragic inevitability", that the whole enterprise might have been better with a completely different approach. Instead one must cling to the initial poetic spark as long as possible and mine that spark for color scheme and design choices. And as one eases into the painting, allow the painting process to gain an equal voice as measured against the origin. Allow the painting to tell what it needs, what should be discarded. Then a different kind of magic emerges - the effect of the poetic beginning filtered through the artist's sensibilities and struggles. While the work may not completely convey the original vision it now carries a piece of the artist's spirit </span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">(especially true of the power of Wyeth's work)</span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What could be better than this outcome for any of us? Enjoy!</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">artist contact: 540.338.2674</div>Dean Taylor Drewyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02825746860689081426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225145849345840751.post-43227815782610000162017-01-16T13:57:00.001-05:002017-01-16T13:59:00.820-05:00December Tree; Albert Einstein, Robert Motherwell; The most beautiful experience.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion tat stands at the cradle of true art and true science."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Albert Einstein</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"Art is an experience, not an object."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have found the experience that is making paintings or drawings. the mysterious trigger that sustains creativity, is most surely found in the edges between human development and wildness, between human commerce and unkempt country. Or, like this oak tree, places out of reach and tantalizing, free from us simply because of where they are found. These oak trees are right outside my home and my studio. Some days I will simply gaze into their top branches and dream among them as they sway in the wind. Some days one can feel the weight of these monsters, anchored in the earth. Always they are a place for thinking about how process connects to the feeling or the poetry of vision. So for 30 years they have been a subject and a retreat as I live below them. This painting is on a early December day when a 180 year old oak is catching a breeze in its upper branches and warming in the low sunlight. Almost a stolen moment before winter sets in. Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"The secret to happiness is to have something in one's life that one cannot possibly do,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How can one land on what is important in life and what can be held at bay? What is it that keeps us going - a source of our happiness? Henry Moore spoke to the answer eloquently, to work at something we love with a goal that cannot be reached. The task of making painting for me is one of confronting a complex, chaotic visual reality and struggling to bring a cohesive understanding out of it. Sometimes the things most dear, the everyday things one is most comfortable with regain their newness or we regain the wisdom to see them anew. These ancient oaks stand all around our home and over 200 years or so they have been witness to the history of this place. I walk under them every day that I go over to the studio. This fall I have a new respect for living things with such a long lasting perspective. So I will do what I do - try to bring my vision of these things that anchor me and that bring me happiness found in the all encompassing process. Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Victor Hugo</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Too bright for our infirm delight,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Emily Dickinson</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every painting is a balance between Victor Hugo's 'real' and his 'ideal' - and has to be by the nature of the painting's hand made quality. there are those who strive for absolute photographic truth in painting but that is simply a compromise of a particular kind. Make no mistake, every painting is a balancing along the fine razor's edge between the real and the ideal; the human mark measured against or in cahoots with the perceived reality. The task therefore, is to find the cohesive and expressive 'slant' that best bring us to the essence of what was found by the painter, while avoiding sentimentality or cliche - that allows viewers to experience the painter's discoveries. Perhaps most effective are those who trust the viewer enough to allow participation in deciphering the mystery rather than dictating the terms - telling it slant to match our infirm delight. Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"For all its charms, the island is uninhabited,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>and plunge, never to return, into the depths.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Into unfathomable life."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No matter what sort of subject, it seems I am drawn to try for a feeling that the place has been witnessed, even altered, by those no longer present. The only way to avoid a weakness of sentimentality is to abandon imitation of place and fully commit to the shape, space, color which in turn, if one is fortunate, gives a sense of light falling across surface at a particular time of day. In a kind of quiet solitude one must plunge into unfathomable life.</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">artist contact: 540.338.2674</div>Dean Taylor Drewyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02825746860689081426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225145849345840751.post-20301998275739460142016-09-09T18:00:00.000-04:002016-09-09T18:00:09.073-04:00Morning Stream; "But of a beautiful, unheard of kind", W.B. Yeats; Andrew Wyeth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"It is love that I am seeking for,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>from "A Shadowy Water"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A painting of a stream, of any moving water is tricky business. As soon as one declares for painting water the painting is lost. Instead one must take time to look at what is happening in abstracted shape on the surface, below the surface, and on the bottom - not as you assume but as you see it. The action of the water will repeat itself in a general way and the painter must seek patterns in reflection, in movement, in shadow, in light. In those patterns or what Degas called,"the repeated motif," will one begin to understand the task. This happens all before one makes a mark - but once decided, plunge in with confidence and a bit of bravura - too much care will dry the stream out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm not certain if I've posted this Server or not in the past. It is from a year or so back. I don't often do still life but this old dented silver plate server posed too much of a delicious challenge to ignore. So, being perverse in my avoidance of normal procedures, I set my self a task I used to assign students: No edges allowed, no preliminary drawing. Simply use shape next to shape to create edges - value and temperature from a limited palette to create form. This way of working, usually just in an exercise or study, requires the utmost attention to the location and scale and value of every mark - as each one depends on the previous and the next to hold its place in the structure. Accurate seeing must be poured onto the subject and transferred to the painting requiring a kind of meditative state. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"Therein lies the enormous aid the work of art brings to the life of one who must make it - that is his epitome; the knot in the rosary at which his life recites a prayer."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>R. M. Rilke</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I sometimes wonder at the way I feel compelled to paint every day. Indeed, if I don't get to messing around with my brushes and paint I'll soon become hard to live with (just ask Paula). Is it born out of habit already established so it is missed like other daily habits? I don't think so though the habit does reinforce other feelings. Is it a part of enjoying placing new limitations and visual problems and finding visual solutions? Yes, that is part of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I knew a smart and fine painter who cautioned to always leave a little something left to do so one got back at it the first thing the next day. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Good advice but I haven't </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">purposely done that in years. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think the answer lies in each of the quotes above; each one reflecting the personality of the speaker. Hopper, in his dour manner, has come at it from a limitation - we paint because we cannot otherwise capture and express our notions or feelings. Rilke has the metaphor that best describes the outward, reassuring nature of painting - "the knot in the rosary at which ones' life recites a prayer." It is a kind of wordless statement, a meditation on the wondrous discoveries made when one commits to non object driven seeing - a process of joy and difficulty that draws one in always, each day. Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It has been taught me by the process, every time out, that one must discover the poetry of the visual incident - and hold on by one's fingertips as the act of painting and the chaos of one's surroundings do their very best to shake one loose. Throughout the process step back and let go of objects in order to return to the poetry, the essence. The subject of the work only can exist in the record of one's sensations and all the painter's tools and skills </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lucky are the painters in this world for they tend to agree with the second way of living - walking about, enamored with small miracles at every turn. How else to go back every day and fight the good fight with shadow and light; warmth and coolness; shape and space; all to be discovered as one abandons objective knowledge and leaps into the unknown - accepting the confrontation at the end with the recorded evidence. One must be in love with the chaos and chance, the poetic visual incident based on seeing; the not knowing. My gosh it is a rollicking adventure! Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the end, painting is coming to grips with one's shortcomings in the face of an impossibility - the capturing of light and the compression of time. The bracing energy found in that attempt is found in its honesty, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing will point all of this out to the painter more clearly than trying to paint the sea and rocks along the Maine coast. The rapid tides coupled with the ever changing sky and fogs and wind will seem a harsh test. That is until one accepts the conditions as part of the deal - the place gives off so much visual energy that it will pull one in</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is nothing in nature I've found that exhibits one's <i>"hard irreducible inorganic singleness"</i> as that crashing surf and jagged rocks. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The petrified insight and dispassionate acceptance are a necessary part of trying to paint there - understanding how the light and elements are constantly in flux the painter has to land on a visual incident rapidly and surely. Then, using every ounce of seeing skill, recording dexterity and memory, the painter has to cling to the original poetic vision. In the final measure one accepts and plans the next foray into such a contest </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A new way of looking at a familiar visual incident leaves one exposed to doubt and questions. At the same time it is a source of joyful engagement - a kind of 'lets see if we can go down this path.' That feeling of engagement and doubt is a driving force in getting me up and out to the studio or in the field each day. The possibility of moving among mysteries while through vision and hand and heart, connecting myself to everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a way, that threat of all one has discovered suddenly disappearing, is the thrill that attracts. Can one beat the inevitable? Are you good / focused / driven enough to maintain material and mind with the intensity of observation required. Anyone painting long enough has felt it happen - that extra touch, the distracted moment and the structure goes flat, the air leaves the atmosphere, the color gets dirty. One of the earliest learning events is the simple recognition that it has happened. A hard won skill is figuring how to try to get back to the original crisp and poetic vision. A much later and more difficult skill is to stop and see and restrain the need to do more, to sustain the original vision. When one can get to that place of seeing and knowing and recognizing the poetry - the feeling is so wondrous and and exalted that it will keep you late at your work and awaken you early the next day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why brown paper and a jar? First, I was entranced by the fall of light and shadow across the surface of crumpled brown packing paper. The brown paper also offers a possibility of various color schemes to create a neutral gray while allowing pure color to escape into the shadows. The jar was added as an element completely opposite in terms of handling and surfaces and transparency. These all being fascinating problems to solve with thick, opaque paint. Perhaps that is the key to how I happen upon subjects, where ever I find myself - the seduction of technical difficulty or problems to be solved and overcome - combined with the emotional original connection - the poetry. The poetry of a given subject is what Pissaro refers to - the curious turn of mind that allows the discovery of the fascination, the beauty of ordinary subjects. I have found in 40 years of painting, the fascination of visual exploration is of the greatest satisfaction. Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This painting came from a walk in a wild park not far from where we live littered with cut up and broken trees from a severe storm that had passed through the area a couple of years ago. I can't walk through chaos without wondering how order or understanding might be discovered within. I have developed over 40 years of making paintings the understanding that held within that search for form and coherence lies my interest and energy and joy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It contains that "connection to everything" </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of which </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Porter wrote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But then, this work was so complicated that it required an extended look and rework in the studio, away from the original subject. It is then the painting reveals what it needs and how to proceed - when I have to make that extra effort, "to bring back the fleeting sensation."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Crumpled brown paper under a spotlight, perhaps not your usual subject. It's just paper some supplies came wrapped in, far superior to little styrofoam popcorns or bubble wrap. I was searching for a trigger to get the winters' painting started and saw the paper under a light and was blown away. I'm a week in and see no reason for escape - sharpening my senses to shadow and light; directional movement; dynamic space; warm and cool nuanced color. Fun and games and wonder. Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been swamped by the task of cleaning up the studio as we head into the winter. You must understand something about my studio - it is an old one room school house and as such is a little rough, more workshop than pristine, white painter's space. My carpentry tools and a good deal of cast off stuff from the house are also there, filling the corners and loft with God knows what. Plus the painting gear for the field; the huge studio easel and paint table and stretchers and panels and on and on. Each late fall I try and bring order out of chaos - which just happens to be perhaps the most important task of the artist as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is important to remember that one cannot impose this order or form upon the visual, physical chaos that comprises our environs. Instead an artist is an explorer, searching to discover and recognize understanding or some kind of order that lies within. It is, I think, a kind of alignment with one's surroundings that can only result from never looking away. A task that belongs to all the art forms, at their best. So, as I finish and begin to restart the painting engine within, I will greet the new year again eager to never look away and try to discover. Best wishes to all of you for this joyous season and a happy new year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I suppose the most difficult thing about making paintings is settling in on a subject. I am sometimes overwhelmed by the intensity of so much visual richness in the natural world - to the point of a kind of painting paralysis. It is then I have to tell myself to back off, relax, and trust that there will be time - time for it all. Then I might focus of a moment of visual poetry - a single, precious moment I can attempt to capture in a flurry of brushes and knives and seeing and feeling. The craziest part is about two and one half hours or so must be condensed back to that moment. I love the process within the attempt - this is what sends me along to the next one. Enjoy!</span></div>
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With all of Frank Benson's dire warnings I thought perhaps some of Delacroix's 'nourishment of grand ideas of beauty' might be called for. Benson is correct though, it is a constant struggle to attempt to get somewhere near one's original concept and at the same time, allow for the painting to change and develop as it is built. The key through all that, whether a single go over two or three hours or a day after day marathon, is to hold to the discipline of your initial vision. This is a combination of absolute holding to accurate seeing tempered by the poetic idea that first drew one to the subject. All the structural bones come out of the poetry. The vision allows for a chance to bring understanding or form out of the chaos of nature. The only possible way someone might attempt to paint say, a breaking wave, is to have an over-mastering desire to see if one can </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't paint scenes or scenery. Perhaps you've noticed this by the entries in the blog. I have nothing against them, as such, I just get bored easily when involved in that kind of painting. While the presence of beauty and especially, rural settings can be an enjoyable kind of nostalgia, I don't trust those yearnings or inspirations or what they tend to give me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every painter needs an edge or a visual problem to spur on a process and a progression in their work. A kind of unspoken reason to work. Welliver's quote here speaks directly to something I use as a spur - the flux between presence and imposition - the self and the subject. Coloring that battle is the desire to produce something that speaks to the passage of time and the presence of pictorial space. I have found that abandoning myself to the shapes and relative intensities of the subject, ignoring what they are supposed to be - resisting any sort of imitation or illustration - is the challenge and the purpose. This requires a leap of faith that whatever the result, in the end will somehow grab the poetic essence that attracted me at the outset. The inevitable disappointments must lead to the next effort!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This idea is related to the old saying about the world can be discovered in a grain of sand and essentially, this is true. Into this idea we must realize a painter is confronted every day with limitations, limitations unique to each one. These are with us as surely as fingerprints and can be a wall to get around or a tool for liberation. For me, some days it is the former and some days, good days, it is the latter. Over around forty years of this painting business I have come to terms with both kinds of days and their cumulative effect - a day spent trying to make a picture of the whole world, contained in a small corner, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is a wondrous day no matter how smooth or rough. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These two small works are originally images from an aluminum row boat on the Potomac River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Somewhere I once read a quote that said "the forest must devour itself in order to be reborn". Anyone who walks deliberately through a forest becomes aware of this process of life and death and renewal, all around one. In all seasons some part of the life cycle is in action. The markers of this phenomena are, for me, the remains of fallen trees - the stumps. Scattered throughout a wood, they each are in a differing state of decay, mossy or dry, new fallen or ancient and powdery. However interesting biologically and historically, the woodland life cycle is not my primary reason for painting and finding images there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These stumps are sources of color and reflectors of light, casting shadows, occupying form and mass. They are a refuge and a visual trigger amongst the monotony of the green canopy and the vertical trees. I am drawn to them as well because they provide me an avenue away from the dictatorial quality of nature - they provide an avenue for me to explore the things I love about making paintings, the emphatic quality of thick paint; the visual impact of intense color; the truth of the flat surface; the visual tension between changing positive and negative space. The challenge, to my way of thinking, is to take these vestiges of modernism and get them to still describe the essence of a place and a subject. I guess this struggle is the "knot in the rosary at which my days recite a prayer". Hope you will enjoy the result!</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">artist contact: 540.338.2674</div>Dean Taylor Drewyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02825746860689081426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2225145849345840751.post-50455344946404145012015-10-17T11:55:00.001-04:002015-11-06T07:15:49.187-05:00Early Autumn Stump, "art is a triumph" John Cheever; Friedrich Nietzsche;<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Early Autumn Stump</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> oil on panel 16" x 16"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>" ...art is the triumph over chaos...to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>like a bewildering and stupendous dream"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>John Cheever</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"We have art in order to not die from the truth."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Friedrich Nietzsche</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The whole triumph over chaos idea appeals to me a great deal. After a chaotic summer and early fall of starting and stopping work in favor of family duties and travel and such - and though I do as a habit of life work every day - good stuff and life interrupted for a while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So now I am home and back to work without anything looming on the horizon and I am blown away with the bewildering and stupendous dreaming, visual world and the difficulty in coming to grips with it with a brush. Perhaps returning and relearning and new seeing are the secrets to vitality and joy. Certainly they bring one to face the limitations of one's hand and the struggle to reconcile that with the essence, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the truth of what lies before us. Somewhere on that razor thin edge might be found what we hope is art. Only time can say, in the meantime - Enjoy!</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">artist contact: 540.338.2674</div>Dean Taylor Drewyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02825746860689081426noreply@blogger.com0