studio diary


Monday, January 02, 2006

Went to the Jeff Wall at the Tate Modern.

I was struck by a few of the works. Steves Farm, Steveston is an expansive landscape view with a path and a stream receeding away from the viewer. Reminded me of the Van Gogh drawings I'd seen before xmas at the Metropolitan.

This work and others like The Crooked Path, The Storyteller and A Hunting Scene present the sort of rural/urban hinterlands that I've found myself drawn to both around South London and in the US,particularly the Denver Freightdrawing and painting I've been working on.

Fantastic composition in Dawn, all diagonals, interlocking to create a taught complete space.

Wall does something similar in the still life Diagonal Composition. The whole space is interesting, it's a complete composition.

It was an exhibition that I got a lot from in terms of pointers for my own practice.

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