Shilp Wolfhagen Analysis
Art Critical: Writing About Artworks
Frame: Structural/Cultural/Postmodern
Artists: Brett Whiteley and Philp Wolfhagen
Paintings: Whiteley’s ‘River at Marulan (Reading Einstein’s Geography)’ & Wolfhagen’s ‘ Landscape Semaphore No 8’
Brett Whiteley and Philp Wolfhagen are two very interesting artists, with two very different styles. The two paintings being analysed are Whiteley’s ‘River at Marulan (Reading Einstein’s Geography)’ & Wolfhagen’s ‘ Landscape Semaphore No 8’.
Both artists have different intentions about what they are trying to say to the viewer. In Wolfhagen’s painting, he mentions that he wants the viewer, to allow the viewer to listen to his or her inner voices whiles viewing the painting. Whiteley has different intentions …show more content…
Whiteley prefers using silk-screen and etching although, he is a trained draughtsman. His skill as a painter though, particularly his handling of colour (his favourite colour being ultramarine blue) should be accredited. Wolfhagen favours oil paint and beeswax on linen for his masterpieces. Although he has majored in Printmaking, he had never been taught the actual painting technique. After purchasing a book about painting, and proper techniques, he soon discovered he wanted texture to his paintings, and turned to beeswax and oil paints, but painting with a palette knife, not a brush, to keep colour mixes clean and pure. He also likes how the knife/blade facets tonal gradations as opposed to the blur you would achieve from a …show more content…
8 is just another discrepancy of abstract paint based on the obvious divisions of sand, sea and sky. But the longer you look, the more you are ‘involved’. The wonderful, tactile nature of the paint, the gentle slippages between colours, the suggestion of raw surface at the edges all fascinate the viewer to ‘lose’ themselves within the work, to hand over to pure sensation and memory. There is also a hint of sadness or loss and a sense of poetry within these atmospheric renderings. Whiteley does provocative work, breaking traditional boundaries of representation stimulating our imagination with its bent shapes and empty
Frame: Structural/Cultural/Postmodern
Artists: Brett Whiteley and Philp Wolfhagen
Paintings: Whiteley’s ‘River at Marulan (Reading Einstein’s Geography)’ & Wolfhagen’s ‘ Landscape Semaphore No 8’
Brett Whiteley and Philp Wolfhagen are two very interesting artists, with two very different styles. The two paintings being analysed are Whiteley’s ‘River at Marulan (Reading Einstein’s Geography)’ & Wolfhagen’s ‘ Landscape Semaphore No 8’.
Both artists have different intentions about what they are trying to say to the viewer. In Wolfhagen’s painting, he mentions that he wants the viewer, to allow the viewer to listen to his or her inner voices whiles viewing the painting. Whiteley has different intentions …show more content…
Whiteley prefers using silk-screen and etching although, he is a trained draughtsman. His skill as a painter though, particularly his handling of colour (his favourite colour being ultramarine blue) should be accredited. Wolfhagen favours oil paint and beeswax on linen for his masterpieces. Although he has majored in Printmaking, he had never been taught the actual painting technique. After purchasing a book about painting, and proper techniques, he soon discovered he wanted texture to his paintings, and turned to beeswax and oil paints, but painting with a palette knife, not a brush, to keep colour mixes clean and pure. He also likes how the knife/blade facets tonal gradations as opposed to the blur you would achieve from a …show more content…
8 is just another discrepancy of abstract paint based on the obvious divisions of sand, sea and sky. But the longer you look, the more you are ‘involved’. The wonderful, tactile nature of the paint, the gentle slippages between colours, the suggestion of raw surface at the edges all fascinate the viewer to ‘lose’ themselves within the work, to hand over to pure sensation and memory. There is also a hint of sadness or loss and a sense of poetry within these atmospheric renderings. Whiteley does provocative work, breaking traditional boundaries of representation stimulating our imagination with its bent shapes and empty