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“On Being Didactic (but not necessarily pedantic)”
Christl is currently visiting some of her favourite artists in history:Motherwell, Matisse, Kandinsky, Pollock, Bacon, Richter, Rubens, Raphael, Seurat etc....none is safe. Because of the nature of Christl's gallery, she shows her work as it is being completed. This series will be ongoing for the remainder of the year 2003.
Painting in the present tense, reflecting the past
Art history is usually written about in terms of movements: Impressionism, Cubism, Constructionism. Deconstructionism, Symbolism, Expressionism, and Modernism, post pre etc.etc. All these “isms” are intended to explain how one movement capitalized on the innovations of their predecessors. Reading Art magazines, I can see that art movements have merged to be the individual expression of the artist. Many artists seriously create abstract art, which has no representational aspect in the work. Other artists work in figurative and landscape styles. My motivation is to paint. This year I am traveling through my art history books to visit the artists that I love.
In 1992, my daughter, Neeva, posed for me with bandages wrapped around her face. I wanted to paint my frustration with my two teenagers. The resulting painting is in the catalogue. I‘ve cannibalized this work and started a new series. In my university studies I was also frustrated by my professors’ love for American Abstract Expressionism as they taught it to us.
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