PAINTINGS Book 3. With writing about painting.
by Anthony Bamber
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About the Book
In much of the writing in these 3 books, you could say that the underlying theme is the truth status of painting and of landscape in particular: what does a painting presume to catch or embody. Does it have reality? Francis Bacon once stated that “after the camera, painting had to deepen the game”, and since Bacon did not believe in what you could call, “the abstract project”, painting had to be representation plus. Painting is a single territory that stretches from Picasso to the humblest amateur and they are all judged and judge themselves in terms that are common. In simplest terms, a painter tries to “say something” rather than simply make something pretty or pleasing. That makes painting an unforgiving arena where most of us fall on our face. That “say something” is never a purely aesthetic value, so in what I have written in these 3 books there is a lot that may seem only very obliquely relevant to “art”.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Fine Art
- Additional Categories Nature / Wildlife, Poetry
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 240 - Publish Date: Sep 03, 2019
- Language English
- Keywords painting, acrylic, watercolour, landscape
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About the Creator
anthony bamber
N.Yorkshire
These paintings were all painted outside - a certain number being later worked on inside. What I wrote on Book 3 sums up my feeling about the now seemingly irrelevant art called landscape painting . Painting and all the arts are situated in a specific moment. The surrounding times matter. Some of the writing in all three books suggests that landscape painting might express our vague sense of loss and unease in an over-populated, urbanised habitat. There is a special pathos to landscape painting's attempt to picture the beauty of nature, seasons and weather in an age that we are told, faces at our hands, a sixth extinction. Landscape painting is indeed nostalgic.