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| Sunset XI March 20, 2014 Oil on canvas |
A tweet I sent @ricky_sears today said 'see you later, winter.' From a sunny day it was a clear and beautiful sunset tonight. What a way to end the first full day away from winter.
On the Eastern Shore
Painting back in Worton, I used cadmium yellow pale hue, alizarin crimson, French ultramarine, titanium white, buff titanium, and payne' s grey and applied the paint thick at first with a palette knife. I then blended the colors on the canvas and added dabs and patches of color to define the midground, then painted the foreground.
I've been reading Terry Barrett's Why is That Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art and at the end of the first chapter the questions for further review include What is your current philosophy of art? I'll post my current philosophy tomorrow. But until then, please see Tolstoy's quote - which could be argued is a philosophy of art - and tell me what you think.
'Certain external signs'
"Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them." -Tolstoy
Although the sky is hard to describe in a quick painting, it's the experience of its color as rendered in oil paint that I'm treating as signs, and if these signs are 'feelings that I'm living through' I'm hoping you experience them as deeply as you can.
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