A little reminder- today is the last day to visit the exhibition at galleri Kvadraten, Marieberg! The opening hours are 12am-4pm.
Here comes another post about step-by-step painting so you can see all of the layering and work behind it! First sketch: Starting on the first layer, grateful that it has three distinct areas to work with. Second and third layer of the middle part is applied, to make the bricks look rougher. Playing with the idea of hard (bricks) versus soft (children). New layers of oil have been applied. You can see it very clearly if you look at the ear, or the smoothness of the background. I actually did some corrections on the face to the left after this, but I can't seem to find the photo of it. This painting is titled 'growing up'. I'm not going to reveal too much, you can make your own idea about the meaning of it. Who are they? Why does she look upwards? Why are they partly hidden? Arte Povera was an Italian movement which only lasted five years (67-72) and it was a reaction against American Minimalism and Pop Art. These artists wanted to get away from the galleries and commercial art. They didn't use expensive materials, but ordinary ones such as nature and industrial materials. Hence the name of the movement (Povera means poor, referring to the use of cheap materials). Above you see Penone's 12m high tree. There wasn't space enough at Tate so they had to divide the sculpture in two. Penone took a wood stock and started to scrape it and by following its patterns and rings he made it look like a tree with branches again. Photo bomb on its way! This is from the gallery before it started: Photo credits to Charlotte, you're the best! Here comes a little text the Brick Lane Gallery had written about the exhibition: "The Brick Lane Gallery is proud to present our eighth ART IN MIND exhibition for 2014, featuring an exciting range of talented artists from around the world, from France, Brazil, Sweden, Spain and more. With beautiful abstract ink paintings by Blandine Girerd (from France) to thought provoking manipulated photographs from Catharina Suleiman (from Brazil) along with the evocative child portraits of Elin Erikson (from Sweden). We are also proud to present the fantastic moving image type oils of Francis Vandenbroucke (from France) in compliment to the dripping paint portraits of Rike Schröder (from Germany)." Mr. Seiving, who I got to know many years ago in Madrid, stopped by. So nice to take a glass of wine and catch up a little :) Borrowed some of the Brick Lane Gallery's own photos! I was so caught up in talking to people that I didn't take enough myself.. Prandi Andrea Foster, a fellow artist, exhibited this art piece which was one of my favorites. Are you an angel or a demon? On the one side it is an angel, on the other side a demon. You choose how the artwork should look like by changing the bricks. At first, Andrea thought I was one of the girls on Catharina Suleiman's artworks (I wish hehe). Do you see any similarities? The layout plan I sent the gallery some weeks ago: And this is how it turned out: The curators and girls at the gallery have organized everything very nicely and the exhibition goes on for two more weeks, you can go see it at 196 Brick Lane until the 25th of May. My paintings are hanging going down the stairs, so you cannot see them from the display window, you must enter. If interested in buying an artpiece I can put you in contact with the gallery. I also have glicee lithographs of "Cheat Day", e-mail me on info@elinerikson.com for details.
I also have time for 1-2 custom-made paintings now that I am done with the exhibitions. So if you like my style of painting and would like to order one, use the contact form or e-mail me on info@elinerikson.com and I'll be happy to tell you more! / Nu när vernissagerna är över har jag tid att ta emot 1-2 beställningar pá tavlor, sá gillar du min stil och vill beställa en, maila mig pá info@elinerikson.com sá berättar jag gärna mer! Abstract art was closely tied to mysticism and religion. After the First World War, these artists had the utopian idea that abstract art helped creating a better world. With abstract art came the use of more unrealistic and vivid colors. KANDINSKY Kandinsky, who from the beginning was a Russian lawyer, went to see Monet's 'hay stack' and thought color and composition was more important than the motive. Kandinsky was also fed up with materialism and real objects. With these convictions he started to paint abstract paintings. Kandinsky loved music and he wanted art to be equally abstract. Can you see the music and vibrations in Kandinsky's 'swinging'? MONDRIAN The Deutch painter Mondrian is known for his simplicity, black lines and primary colors. The lines were carefully placed on the canvas and he thought a lot about opposites (horisontal vs vertical) and different ranges (small, smaller, smallest) when he painted. Mondrian thought that a painting didn't have to be complicated to be beautiful. NICHOLSON British Ben Nicholson was obsessed with painting everything white. Even so, you can see the geometrical figures by the shadows. The abstract artists during the 20-30's like Nicholson, Hepworth and Brancusi to name some, influenced each other a lot. They had some computer screens at Tate with questions the visitors were encouraged to answer. Here's one of them: Today I've been to Tate Modern on guides tours. They have an exhibition about Matisse's cutouts, but since I've already seen some Matisse I figured it would be more interesting to see Tate's permanent exhibitions. The tours were really great and highly recommended and Ill have to divide all the info in several posts. CUBISM The traditional way of portrait or landscape painting was done from one specific viewpoint. The artist often marked his standing position so he could come back to the exact same place the next day. One of the characteristics of cubism on the other hand, was that the artist used several viewpoints in the same painting! In this Picasso you can see that the woman's right shoulder is painted as if the artist was right in front of her, but the left shoulder is painted slightly from above so you can see her shoulder blade. In cubism, compared to abstract art, you can still see a face or something else being portrayed. Can you see the clarinet in this Braque painting? The pioneers in cubism was Pablo Picasso and George Braque. These two good friends had coffee together all the time, and some of their paintings look very alike in terms of brush strokes and color choices (no bold vivid colors). To put things in perspective, the paintings above are from around 1908-1911. Unfortunately the public at that point thought that cubism was rubbish and looked like shattered glass, but it actually opened up for the coming period of abstract art. |
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