For the March 2014 "Mid-ism" challenge in Daily Paintworks: the idea was to paint in the middle ground between Impressionism and Expressionism. In my mind, Impressionism rejected the artifice of the Academy to pursue a truth in visual representation of the "real" world and Expressionism rejects a reliance on representing the external world in order to pursue a truth in showing the internal one.
My thoughts were of responding as simply as I could to what I saw, and allowing that response to be my own as much as possible. How close it comes to truth in either regard is perhaps not for me to judge!
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I think you painted a great interpretation of this challenge, I don't know how large this is but it would look amazing in a big format.
ReplyDeleteThis is only 7 x 9 inches, but I think that's a great idea! I really prefer working larger so maybe when my arm is working better, this will be one to try! It was really fun and thought-provoking to do.
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