21
Mar
2010
how to live up to this… ?
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Francis Bacon
like this painting I’m working on – I want him to look at me & hold on to a glass – really holding on – but I ‘m just staggering around with my brush & he is simply looking flat
I think he is getting there now – …
I got stuck with the book about the painters aids – by hockney – how all painters used technical aid as soon as it was invented like: camera obscura & mirrors & fotos & so on – hockney shows the traces that the technical devices leave in the work of the artist – & I fell for one detail – in many paintings the subject turns out left handed – mirrored probably – so I went to propose a change – & while I was there – feeling quite bold indeed (I don’t feel like competing with caravaggio really) – I also made up some changes in the perspective – cheers!
here is the caravaggio that lead the way
