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copyright 2003, Eric W. Bragg
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| The first half of 1993 was very bad.... |
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| Unfinished |
| This image was also a product of that very fruitful academic artistic experience I mentioned in the previous frame. The assignment in this particular case was to find the work of a master (i.e. any popular painter who had managed to find his or her way into one of those large, coffee table books that some folks buy at art galleries) and to reproduce the image down to the minutest detail. The painting I chose was one by a Fauvist named Manguin. I did my best in the reproduction, paying attention to scale, as was requested by the instructor. The very last detail that was to be completed in my rendition was the face of the fair maiden near the bottom of the canvas. Unfortunately, due to an error of scale, I discovered to my utter horror that it would be impossible to fit the image of the woman's face correctly into the unobligingly compressed area (my honest error). Therefore, the only solution at the time was to flatten the skull, making the figure skeleton-like. Although the professor was not amused, the rest of the class was. For a more detailed look at what appeared to be a stroke of pure artistic luck, feel free to examine the frame that follows this one. Life sometimes has these trifling pleasures. |
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| Once upon a time, I took an academic painting class "taught" by a professor who found delight and focus in reproducing images from nature, down to the minutest of details. Some folks might even call this twentieth-century fascination, "miserabilist realism." In this art class, I had the utter pleasure of having to realistically paint a still-life with kitchen utensils, including brushes. Hence the above image. The entire experience was thoroughly masturbatory, in that very special way that only academic environments can provide. |