Sunday, September 18, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Review of My Drawing Show...
 |
| Landscape with Dogs by Karri Paul |
...by T.J. Hunt for Pastelgram, August 11, 2011: http://pastelegram.org/reviews/46
An excerpt:
At their most successful the works encapsulate the beauty and violence of nature. Nowhere does the artist more explicitly pair these attributes than in Landscape with Dogs (2010). Large and snarling canine mandibles arc menacingly downward towards a lone leaping deer gracefully highlighted against a dense forest. The deer appears fragile and ethereal under the weight of the powerful jaws that dominate the composition. Paul’s mark-making echoes this dichotomy, alternately forceful and exquisitely delicate. Upon close inspection, even the drawing’s deep blacks reveal a rich layering of varied line work. Like the shades of meaning that emerge from an oft-read poem, the works are better appreciated with repeated viewing.
 | ||
| Masaccio's fresco Trinity (1425) Santa Maria Novella picasaweb.google.com |
Nice! I also like that Hunt makes a connection between some of my drawings (this one and this one) and the memento mori ("remember your mortality") tradition. It's something I think about a lot, often involuntarily.
"Io fu già quel che voi sete: e quel chi son voi ancor sarete," the inscription on the tomb at the bottom of Masaccio's Trinity, which I am so lucky to have spent time with in Florence, translates to, "I once was what you are; what I am, you will become." Those words send chills down my spine even now.
Images like Jean Morin's The Skull (1650) also come to mind. Andreas Vesalius's anatomical drawings fascinate me: the poses, the facial expressions, the landscapes and settings these half-dissected or skeletonized figures are placed in. (Example, example, example.) Some of my collages (not included in the show) are translations of these.
 |
| Masaccio's Trinity (detail) |
I don't know if my fascination with death (and/or reminders of death) is anything more than anyone else's, but I found an audio tape recording from when I was five, singing a song of my own invention. It's refrain: "I don't want to die... 'cause I'm only five."
(compose project this image, is on view through September 2, 2011.)
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Fun with Google Image Search
 |
| Photo by Karri Paul |
Above: The image, my own, that I image searched. Below: Top two images that "match."
 |
| Source: http://www.gaellelepetit.fr/blog/ |
 | |
| Source: http://193.190.56.244/abk/onderzoek.htm |
Below: Screen grab of top sixteen results that are "visually similar."
Fun with Google Image Search
 |
| Source: http://www.karripaul.com |
 | ||
| Source: http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/comics/1188/ |
Fun with Google Image Search
 |
| Karri Paul http://upum.blogspot.com/ |
My picture of the life-size wooden bear in Minocqua, Wisconsin, upper-left corner of the picture below. The rest are the visually similar results from Google.
Sunday, August 07, 2011
Friday, August 05, 2011
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Monday, August 01, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Friday, July 08, 2011
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Monday, July 04, 2011
New Paintings
Watercolor and gouache on paper, 13.5 x 6.75 inches (left) and 13.5 x 4.3 inches (right).
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Smog Boy Revisited
The nearby used car dealership, which was also a "Smog Boy Test Only" station, as the sign has weakly bragged for at least three years, may no longer be a boy o' smog. Since I took pictures just six days ago, the yellow sign, long ago been relieved of its red lettering, has been painted over with gray, and not very neatly. Below: "before" (July 21) and "after" (July 27):
Below: A weird thing happened below. Reflection of Cape Honeysuckle juxtaposed with discarded basketball hoop on top of a retired U-Haul trailer behind the former "Smog Boy" place.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)