Art at a Glance, Interpretation and Limits

Hoe Dance - Digital Painting 2005

This digital painting is another piece from the NEW Figures Art Gallery.  The piece is based on a drive by glance at two field workers hoeing in unison - no one else close by - working one in front of the other - the motion a dance.

Whether I pulled off their synchronicity or not, I can’t very well say. But I did manage to get their proximity and aloneness in the field.

From an art perspective, the fields have this wonderful texture - creating a blanket which we don’t normally view fields as - but it is often how I see.

The figures also have something pretty unusual going on. Though not intended to be anatomically accurate - they nevertheless carry a power and resolve which I am pleased came through.

When I do figures, I generally create them in one stroke of the mouse and then fill in and embellish as necessary. This partly came about because of the medium itself - not allowing for more than one correction back - as though oil painting were less forgiving.  Though to some extent I can fix and patch and correct - there are limits to it - and as I keep saying limits are valuable.

There is complexity and naiveness in this art.  The medium, my physical skills, and vision all provide limits and this gives the work a lot of its unique character.

See Also

• Dream Anatomy: Visible and Visionary: Dreaming Art Anatomy
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• Anatomy - LInks
  Extensive links to various - anatomical art and life drawing etc.