Sunday, April 3, 2011

My artist statement

Rauschenberg, Klimt, Ernst, Vuillard, Kandinsky, Matisse. These men inspire me. I love color, pattern, texture, collage, atmospheric mixed media. These are the buttons that push me to work. I love mastering techniques that are a challenge, creating surfaces that are tactile and deep in their look, and sometimes even their feel. I enjoy experimenting, and since I'm about the process more than the product, I never get so attached to a work in progress that I'm afraid to try something for fear it will be ruined. As I tell my students, "faint heart never won fair maid".                                                                                                                                                 I love it when people love my work, but I don't really do it for anyone but myself. It satisfies something intrinsic to me, and I know this because I chose, for a short time, not to do art, and ended up painting rocks with shoe polish. It's something I have to do, that's all.                                                                                           When I paint reality, it's because natural colors are much more complex and sophisticated than any I can imagine, so I use reality to create layers of complex color. I'm not really a realist at all. I'm not interested in teaching in my art, and it carries no message greater than it's surface, at least not consciously, for me. My work is all about materials and what they can do on surfaces. Not abstract ideas or philosophical profundities, and certainly nothing greater than what can be seen or felt. What you see is what you get. That's about it.

Christine Long

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This has been revised. I tried to kill this one but couldn't figure out how to do it. C

April 5, 2011 at 10:28 PM  

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