There is a current exhibition at the Tate Britian of the work or artist Tony Swain-the simple idea of using newspaper and acrylic to create and capture a scene or mood could provide great inspiration for an artwork.
Check out the link below and repond with your own thoughts, and possibilities for your interpretations...
http://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/t_swain/index.php
Tony Swain was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1967 and lives and works in Glasgow. Swain studied at Liverpool Art School and Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1990. Recent exhibitions include Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2004). There is something incredibly refreshing and vitalic in the new work by Swain. Deriving their material source from newsprint and magazines, Swain’s paintings have a strange air of familiarity. Seemingly random patterns are produced from a starting point as oblique as a shadow or colour on the newsprint. The final result being at times a surreal, fantastical landscape or a depiction of an intimate, but unrecognizable object.
2 comments:
Tony Swain – I find his artworks really interesting. There is lot to see in each of them. To me it seems as if one can see something different in the artwork every time one looks at it. As already pointed out, the artworks look a bit surreal, because of the colours used and the more or less realistic shapes of everything. However, the shapes are not realistic, because they don’t fit into the environment created with the paint. With these two features, the artworks are surreal. Because of the way the different object build up the image, it seems very deep and realistic. One can really distinguish between the foreground and the background.
I find his artworks very hard to understand. I don’t really know what he wanted to express with them. Also, I don’t understand why he used newspaper instead of normal paper. In most of the artworks, the acrylic paint covers up the structures and material of the newspaper. Because of this it would not really make a difference to use normal paper.
I just got his methods!!! I was trying to figure out how he used the newspaper when there was no evidence of words and so many different light techniques in pictures from a newspaper. His technique is very vague, you can see the image, yet I don't understand the use of newspaper. Why not other papers? Why use paint for the whole image instead of blending in two colors? His images don't always make sense, instead it looks like different shapes and lines added to the image that form a picture.
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