Morris Louise

Louise was one of the early pioneers of colour field paintings, and had close associations with the school of painting described as Abstract Expressionism. Louise explored the ideas and concepts of what actually constitutes our perceptions of what a painting is, as a visual physical item. The artist believed that before anything else painting is the art of surface manipulation. The chief feature of the paintings surface is its flatness, and that this feature distinguishes painting from other art forms. Louise used a technique that involved staining the canvas by pouring paint onto unprimed canvas, and letting it run. The act of staining into the surface eliminated any three dimensional qualities inherent in the paint. Louise described how his pouring technique had a clear intent that had a chaotic effect.

Katherine Grosse

Artist uses secondary and primary colours .paints on varied surfaces using blending.

Judith Belzer

Exhibition The Inner life Of Trees.This exhibition of paintings is very relevant to my project,and has already begun to influence the direction it may take Belzer is a Berkeley based artist,her work involves the investigation and observation of the patterns and repetitions that are present in organic structures in this instance trees.The artists work is informed by photography and executed in cool earth colours such as yellow ocher,sienna and viridian.In this exhibition she explores the light effects on the wood texture of trees.

Painting project third semester

Installation of bog oak.investigation of texture,form and colour.

Kandinskys theories on colour.

Thoughts on book The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris.

In a chapter called the Stimuli Struggle, Morris describes how selective enhancement of events in drama and literature and stylisation in the arts,reveals how cultures and societies emphasis and exaggerates selective aspects of reality that are deemed vital and important to them.This is similar to the way caricature artist does a portrait.Every day life is made up of many repetitive routines and tasks for even the most important and what are described as extraordinary lives.In our culture through the medium of cinema,drama and t.v.the uneventful and the ordinary is ignored,this creates a sociological caricature of reality.This is why I admire the art of Edward Hopper so much,Hopper emphasises how life is lived through the ordinary and repetitive,and the individuals in these lives are isolated and lonely through their longing for the extraordinary and the excitement that our culture values so much,and that are really only manufactured and marketed by the various commercial media. 

Dali