It has been a long time since I have written anything here at Modern Art Quotes (man I hate posts that begin like that on blogs, and now I am writing one again no less.) So where to begin,.... again? I think after such a long time (about a year) I think it is important to maybe summarize exactly what Modern Art Quotes is all about.
My name is Ed Tajchman and I am an artist, this is my blog. Originally this blog started as a kind of short weekly quip reflecting on art and thoughts from artists of the past (reflecting my fascination with art history). But over a period of months and years it morphed into a much more thorough examination of my approach and experience with the creative process, and eventually into my 'artist's blog'.
My artwork is mostly ink drawings, watercolor paintings, and more recently, acrylic paintings on canvas. For a long time my paintings were only non-representational and I spent a lot of time developing my style of painting in that vein. In the time since I stopped writing though and now, I have been doing figurative and symbolic work in acrylic paint.
I have spent a lot of time here at Modern Art Quotes explaining my experience that paintings can be completely non-representational, and also visually captivating and have a high level of technical application. Artwork that strives for complete newness and objectivity in it's forms can have an incredible aesthetic and visceral appeal, and be just as emotionally gratifying if not more so, than any figurative work.
To explain further, - some 'artists' create quick and cheap paintings with things like splatters (Jackson Pollack rolls over in his grave if he could see some of this stuff), gold foil, or simple repetitive textures etc. I am referring to this 'decorative' work that masks itself in the labels of 'modern art' or 'contemporary art'. When I discuss modern art this is the furthest thing possible from what I am talking about.
So the last two paragraphs touch on some of the themes from the past 200 posts or so here. Today though I would like to talk about what I discussed at the start of the post, my new paintings in acrylic on canvas. And it's ironic when you compare the paintings I was doing before to the ones I am doing now. I spent so much time exploring and discussing the value and experience of creating my own language of forms, line, and texture, only to now have my paintings be reflective of my ink drawings. Ink drawings that I have been doing since age 16 or so that feature symbols and figures prolifically, which is exactly not what I was painting before this new style emerged. (Going from defining my own forms to heavy use of known symbols, and figures appearing in the work).
And this new style is kind of a revelation for me, but not completely. I don't know why I didn't see it before - to put my figurative drawings on canvas and run with it. As I said I have done this particular kind of ink drawing style since I was about 16 but never put it into formal paintings. I guess in my mind I just never saw how exactly to do it, (and I was fascinated with objective work for so long) but finally it just all kind of came together in my head how I would use the acrylic paint and canvas to turn my drawings into full brightly colored works.
My name is Ed Tajchman and I am an artist, this is my blog. Originally this blog started as a kind of short weekly quip reflecting on art and thoughts from artists of the past (reflecting my fascination with art history). But over a period of months and years it morphed into a much more thorough examination of my approach and experience with the creative process, and eventually into my 'artist's blog'.
My artwork is mostly ink drawings, watercolor paintings, and more recently, acrylic paintings on canvas. For a long time my paintings were only non-representational and I spent a lot of time developing my style of painting in that vein. In the time since I stopped writing though and now, I have been doing figurative and symbolic work in acrylic paint.
I have spent a lot of time here at Modern Art Quotes explaining my experience that paintings can be completely non-representational, and also visually captivating and have a high level of technical application. Artwork that strives for complete newness and objectivity in it's forms can have an incredible aesthetic and visceral appeal, and be just as emotionally gratifying if not more so, than any figurative work.
To explain further, - some 'artists' create quick and cheap paintings with things like splatters (Jackson Pollack rolls over in his grave if he could see some of this stuff), gold foil, or simple repetitive textures etc. I am referring to this 'decorative' work that masks itself in the labels of 'modern art' or 'contemporary art'. When I discuss modern art this is the furthest thing possible from what I am talking about.
So the last two paragraphs touch on some of the themes from the past 200 posts or so here. Today though I would like to talk about what I discussed at the start of the post, my new paintings in acrylic on canvas. And it's ironic when you compare the paintings I was doing before to the ones I am doing now. I spent so much time exploring and discussing the value and experience of creating my own language of forms, line, and texture, only to now have my paintings be reflective of my ink drawings. Ink drawings that I have been doing since age 16 or so that feature symbols and figures prolifically, which is exactly not what I was painting before this new style emerged. (Going from defining my own forms to heavy use of known symbols, and figures appearing in the work).
And this new style is kind of a revelation for me, but not completely. I don't know why I didn't see it before - to put my figurative drawings on canvas and run with it. As I said I have done this particular kind of ink drawing style since I was about 16 but never put it into formal paintings. I guess in my mind I just never saw how exactly to do it, (and I was fascinated with objective work for so long) but finally it just all kind of came together in my head how I would use the acrylic paint and canvas to turn my drawings into full brightly colored works.
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| Detail of acrylic painting by Ed Tajchman, ©2011 all rights reserved. |
So here above is a preview of one of my recent paintings, I don't want to reveal any more of them until I have completed a few more and have organized them into a formal kind of show. Also it will co-inside with the official release of the new version of my online gallery. This new style of work is my new focus and the new website will feature and reflect this. (The new website with the new work should be published in a couple months, late summer 2011). Also it will be much easier to purchase paintings, prints, and other things of my work, details of the publishing of this content will be updated here.
So, in the next 200 posts or so, I will continue to write about my experience with the creative process, continue to write about my fascination with art history, I will publish my artwork (and interviews and works of other artists email me if you want to be featured), and continue to discuss life in general. Thanks to all my readers (all five or six of you! lol) I hope to be writing here now much more consistently.
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Nice to see ya back in the blog-saddle, Ed!
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