{"id":24510,"date":"2023-03-03T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=24510"},"modified":"2023-03-25T22:01:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:01:33","slug":"forever-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/forever-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Forever Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Artist G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg described painting as a \u2018resilient practice\u2019 \u2014 always in the now, and expanding rather than ever truly changing. There\u2019s something both comforting and exciting about this. Exciting, because there really are endless possibilities, and comforting because it\u2019s deeply rooting knowing that a contemporary painting can embody all that comes before it in the most subtle of ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One such way for F\u00f6rg was the link of dabbing paint on a canvas, to the act of preparing colour itself. Why not turn testing colour and pigment densities into an art? Embodying the act of free-play experimentation and discernment on his canvases, the pieces celebrate the act of painting for painting\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s curation is inspired by F\u00f6rg, and the current exhibition of his last works at Hauser & Wirth London<\/a>. The below pieces follow F\u00f6rg in their expressivity, playfulness, and focus on brushstrokes – dabbing, scumbling, stippling, feathering\u2026 the options are endless. Even Toni Harrower\u2019s systems paintings evidence a \u2018brushstroke\u2019, albeit deconstructed in both defying and abiding by abstract restraints.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pond by Mary West, \u00a3950<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Mary West\u2019s \u2018Pond\u2019 and Olivia Bartlett\u2019s \u2018Guts\u2019 further give us thrashing and swooping paint that marries pastels with electric greens and magentas. Bustling with life these works are in the line of the \u2018tried\u2019 and an expansion of the \u2018true\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Guts by Olivia Bartlett, \u00a3250<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Untitled by Michaela Hollyfield, \u00a3485<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Oh YEAH by Lindsay Mapes, \u00a31300<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Over the Edge by Toni Harrower, SOLD<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Auroa by Timothy Betton, \u00a3425<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Untitled – (Watford Reflection) by Janine Hall, \u00a3750<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Car Crashing by Claire Shakespeare, \u00a3420<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Break the System by Toni Harrower, \u00a3255<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Hairdryer by Claire Shakespeare, \u00a3620<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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TEL AVIV by Christian Neuman, \u00a32000<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artist G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg described painting as a \u2018resilient practice\u2019 \u2014 always in the now, and expanding rather than ever truly changing. There\u2019s something both comforting and exciting about this. Exciting, because there really are endless possibilities, and comforting because it\u2019s deeply rooting knowing that a contemporary painting can embody all that comes before it in the most subtle of ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[325,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curated-collections","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24559,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24510\/revisions\/24559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}