The painting centers on a solitary, front-facing figure—helmeted in darkness, simplified into near-iconic contours—set against a field of highly charged, slanting color. The overall effect suggests a stylistic convergence: the handling of the background recalls the velocity and fractured rhythm of modernist abstraction, while the figure’s reductive silhouette and masklike facial treatment evoke the hieratic … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Trois
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Deux
The painting presents a paradoxical figure-ground relationship: a luminous human form emerges at the right, yet the surrounding space refuses stable depth, collapsing into a field of gestural colour. This visual strategy—recognizable as a hybrid of expressionistic figuration and painterly abstraction—positions the work between likeness and atmosphere. The result is not a portrait in the … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Deux
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Un
The composition presents itself as a deliberately hybrid surface—part pictorial scene, part textual artifact, and part emblematic portrait. Its dominant field of burnt-orange and vermilion functions less as “background” than as an ideological climate: a warm, saturated plane that is scratched, rubbed, and worked with visible texture, suggesting a process-oriented practice in which meaning accrues … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Un
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ceramics for Beginners: Animals & Figures by Susan Halls
Susan Halls’s Ceramics for Beginners: Animals & Figures positions itself at the intersection of pedagogical clarity and sculptural imagination. Aimed squarely at novices, this volume nevertheless aspires—even at the introductory level—to cultivate both technical facility and aesthetic sensibility in its readers. As a literary scholar might probe a text for subtext, narrative arc, and ideological underpinnings, so … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ceramics for Beginners: Animals & Figures by Susan Halls
Unstable – Music-book Doodles 2022
In my frantic browsing on Pinterest, I often swipe past art that comes back to me later because of some unsuspected trigger. This is the case for a bunch of amorphous forms I've drawn... maybe the large block of colour behind them reminds me of Mark Rothko's fields of colour, where my imagination wanders in … Continue reading Unstable – Music-book Doodles 2022
Vanishing Point, Up – Music-book Doodles 2022
In my frantic browsing on Pinterest, I often swipe past art that comes back to me later because of some unsuspected trigger. This is the case for a bunch of amorphous forms I've drawn... maybe the large block of colour behind them reminds me of Mark Rothko's fields of colour, where my imagination wanders in … Continue reading Vanishing Point, Up – Music-book Doodles 2022
Very Tall – Music-book Doodles 2022
In my frantic browsing on Pinterest, I often swipe past art that comes back to me later because of some unsuspected trigger. This is the case for a bunch of amorphous forms I've drawn... maybe the large block of colour behind them reminds me of Mark Rothko's fields of colour, where my imagination wanders in … Continue reading Very Tall – Music-book Doodles 2022
Looking Back – Music-book Doodles 2022
Again, the possibility of building up tones and highlights with the simple wax crayon amazes me. I wasn't sure I could get the figure to appear on the surface of the green shape, if I started with my outline and then filled in the colours... So, I lightly coloured in the green square-ish shape, then … Continue reading Looking Back – Music-book Doodles 2022
Disdain – Music-book doodles 2022
What happens when all we can see is differences. Not seeing eye to eye is often a choice to not listen and consider another perspective. These two figures are similar in many ways, and yet they chose to focus on their differences and even turn them into hatred. The facial expressions are angry and mistrustful; … Continue reading Disdain – Music-book doodles 2022
Working out an Inspiration – T’Hed Forty-Five: On the Verge of emotions…
See T'Hed Forty-Four for more of this expletive... Seeking intensity, the protagonist allowed himself to get red with anger and then started laughing at his preposterous attempts... laughing so hard that his face got even more red. Time to get back behind the curtain and let the creativity develop as much as it can... I'm … Continue reading Working out an Inspiration – T’Hed Forty-Five: On the Verge of emotions…