Showing posts with label Belong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belong. Show all posts

Monday, June 1, 2009

Illuminations in oil


Promised and delivered. The painting on the left is titled "Belong," the dimensions are 4' x 4' oil and wax on board. The thinking behind that title has a connection to the agency of decorative style in attaching people to objects. In other words, in the anthropology of art and embellishment, the way objects or people were/are stylistically embellished communicates information about the group that the object or person "belongs" to. That is an overly simplistic description, but I wrote a paper titled "Portable Cosmography: The Agency of Style in the Ancient Southwest." that I would be glad to email to anyone who desires a more scholarly explanation.


The second painting is titled "Juxtapose," it is 20' x 24' oil and wax on canvas. With both of these paintings, the title is embedded into the painting.