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Originally Posted by Ngaire Winwood
that abyss one can go into where all can be revealed, of these moments, of this level of achievement, that usually halts soon after we start to seek analysis of that moment/journey. I suppose how each of us can journey into that abyss and methods used to lengthen the time of this oneness, when using music as the catalyst or doorway.
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Ngaire, I did my Master's thesis on the topic of tactility in contemporary figurative / portrait painting. I focussed on the loss of boundaries between the artist and the painted object and, subsequently, between the viewer and the resulting painting.
I was fascinated by the question of what makes or made a figure painting great. i.e a real sense of flesh, touchable and human. This idea was spurred by the sparsity of luscious contemporary figurative painting like the paintings of Courbet, for example, and by the lack of interest (it seemed) in painting in general.
I went to probably the only serious painting school in my undergraduate years in South Africa, and had, what I now realise, was a truly world-class
painting instructor . But outside of this little (glorious) world there seemed to be a dearth of passionate, deep-thinking painters. A lot of contemporary paintings seemed cold and calculated and I wanted to spend some time finding out why, when in the first analysis they seemed to have all the aspects of a Goya, Vel