The Grotto
The Grotto
From what has been found that has so far survived, cave paintings top the list.
'The last Supper' by Da Vinci needs constant meddling with after only 500 years compared to 30,000.
Presumably 'the photographic' and 'depth of field' and 'image resolution' were still the facts of realism way back 30,000years ago because those are pictorial matter-of-facts.
We don't know if the cave paintings weren't nightclub scenes behind a bar.
We don't know to what extent the surfaces on which the paintings were made and the pictorial worlds around them, were contemplated-as-image with all the subtlety of current photographic knowledge.
I have been lucky to survey the history of art, mostly through books and also at first-hand in the making of pictures.
I've been working on a painting in the garden on and off for about 15 years.
This year I decided to bring it into the flat.
Each year I imagine I can finish it.
It's very difficult to make because it requires a lot of imagining.
I go for months without looking at it and being off it.
I've decided just to work on it until the end, whatever.
Even if it take 40 years, it's a project.
'The Grotto' Jan 2021.
'The last Supper' by Da Vinci needs constant meddling with after only 500 years compared to 30,000.
Presumably 'the photographic' and 'depth of field' and 'image resolution' were still the facts of realism way back 30,000years ago because those are pictorial matter-of-facts.
We don't know if the cave paintings weren't nightclub scenes behind a bar.
We don't know to what extent the surfaces on which the paintings were made and the pictorial worlds around them, were contemplated-as-image with all the subtlety of current photographic knowledge.
I have been lucky to survey the history of art, mostly through books and also at first-hand in the making of pictures.
I've been working on a painting in the garden on and off for about 15 years.
This year I decided to bring it into the flat.
Each year I imagine I can finish it.
It's very difficult to make because it requires a lot of imagining.
I go for months without looking at it and being off it.
I've decided just to work on it until the end, whatever.
Even if it take 40 years, it's a project.
'The Grotto' Jan 2021.
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Is that it’s limits or a portion. It keeps you looking. I love it.
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If anyone can, you can Pstotto. I remember seeing your artwork of Turf Moor perhaps a year ago. You have a great talent.
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I don't know what it is because I haven't seen the picture finished.
It will be something unknown.
This is my 'Star Wars' or 'Star Trek' or 'Lost in Space', a journey into fantastical imaginings.
It will be something unknown.
This is my 'Star Wars' or 'Star Trek' or 'Lost in Space', a journey into fantastical imaginings.
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I know nothing about art, what do you need to do to finish it, cant you call it finished now......or what about leaving it as it is and calling it ' Unfinished in the Grotto'
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Have you got a high resolution/bigger version?
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Nightclubs etc. often have fake exotic interiors however there's the realism of it being a backdrop to life and also its fantastical nature is closer to the truth of our existence on the skin of a ball of molten metal in outer space.
When one leaves the nightclub and the silence and ringing hits, the world just been can always claim mystic status even if it is fake.
When one leaves the nightclub and the silence and ringing hits, the world just been can always claim mystic status even if it is fake.
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It's a real picture 4ft x 6ft.
Resolution-to-form is the intended finish.
Resolution-to-form is the intended finish.
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I really like that, Pstotto.
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The more you look at it, the more it drags you in.
I guess that's what you call a work of art.
I guess that's what you call a work of art.
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Very impressive.
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It would make a great jigsaw puzzle, a very difficult one mind.
The more you look at the painting and the more your eyes are drawn to it ,it's pretty impressive and if I was you I would leave it well alone now.
The more you look at the painting and the more your eyes are drawn to it ,it's pretty impressive and if I was you I would leave it well alone now.
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There's some way to go to match the synesthesia of Action Transfers.
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It's like a jigsaw puzzle, trying to finish it, because there are different levels of detail which constitute different forms and the extremity of the vision can't be got back.
It's a bit like a matrix and getting all the bits in the right place.
It's a bit like a matrix and getting all the bits in the right place.
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Love it I think really good art is something the average person cannot do this is one of those pieces. This could be the one Pstotto that gets you famous if that is what you want.
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I’d take advice. You could reach a point where you feel you can’t stop. That it is never exactly what you are looking for and in the process you could ruin what is very special.
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All right I suppose but hardly a masterpiece is it
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Alberto Burri,eat your heart out.
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Very nice Stotto, I'm with Aclaret, it draws you in and makes you wonder, ask questions.
I've no idea about art, other than liking what I like. Looking at this, it makes me think you're channelling a bit of Guernica, and a bit of the geometry of Joaquín Torres-García / Bridget Riley. Which I'm trawling now, so cheers, Stotto.
I've no idea about art, other than liking what I like. Looking at this, it makes me think you're channelling a bit of Guernica, and a bit of the geometry of Joaquín Torres-García / Bridget Riley. Which I'm trawling now, so cheers, Stotto.
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Strange you should go Spanish. I thought bits of Dali and bits of Gaudi.WalkdenClaret wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 11:38 pmVery nice Stotto, I'm with Aclaret, it draws you in and makes you wonder, ask questions.
I've no idea about art, other than liking what I like. Looking at this, it makes me think you're channelling a bit of Guernica, and a bit of the geometry of Joaquín Torres-García / Bridget Riley. Which I'm trawling now, so cheers, Stotto.
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I don’t care what it is, but it’s visually stunning, which to me is all art needs to be.
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I rarely have a clue what you are on about but enjoy your posts nevertheless.
That is very impressive!
That is very impressive!
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Hi Pstotto,
Vulgar question - would you consider selling it ?
Vulgar question - would you consider selling it ?
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The picture is only half finished, it's a work in progress.
A picture can be left at any time, because there's still the pictorial of what's there.
However I still have ambitions for it, as I see more of what it can be.
If somebody offered me a million for it, I'd quit.
A picture can be left at any time, because there's still the pictorial of what's there.
However I still have ambitions for it, as I see more of what it can be.
If somebody offered me a million for it, I'd quit.
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It is actually a bit like Gaudi's original entrance to the Sagrada Familia, but it's not intentional.
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It was falling apart so I had to reinforce most of the picture with expanding foam, so it took on a completely different look, almost like the primitive arches of Parc Guell by Gaudi.
I had no option but to change it otherwise I would have lost the picture to the elements, so now it's a different picture altogether, but I'm still using the same rationale for making it, which is that every part of the picture can be form representative because 2D shape represents 3D form, according to perspective geometry.
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It seems to me that the final outcomes of this imagery could be extremely diverse. I can see a route whereby the final image could resemble some kind of enchanted garden but on the other hand I can see an image that would be akin to images portrayed in Dante's Inferno and the seven levels of purgatory.
I am fascinated as to where this will end.
In the words of PW: Exciting Times
I am fascinated as to where this will end.
In the words of PW: Exciting Times
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I love the way you've hidden the mouse.
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The reservoir of forms takes in all of creation and every man-made artifact too, so any amalgam of that will be a strange phenomenon, perhaps an alien.
Making the picture is a bit like Journey to The Centre of The Earth... If I can be bothered.
Making the picture is a bit like Journey to The Centre of The Earth... If I can be bothered.
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Please get a return ticket.
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Where's Wally?
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That is stunning Psttoto.
Showed it to Mrs VC as thought she might appreciate it being a former art student who still does a bit though not to that level.
She loved it especially the vivid colours particularly the contrasting blue effects.
She was asking about the 2D/3D aspect, is it all 2D but formed to look 3D in parts or are there actually some true 3D elements to it?
Showed it to Mrs VC as thought she might appreciate it being a former art student who still does a bit though not to that level.
She loved it especially the vivid colours particularly the contrasting blue effects.
She was asking about the 2D/3D aspect, is it all 2D but formed to look 3D in parts or are there actually some true 3D elements to it?
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The surface is buckled, it's not flat.
The picture has been rotting in a garden for 15 years.
It's fixed together with expanding foam which I squirted into all the holes and seams and this has formed its own life, rather like fungi growing on rotten wood, so there's a relief of about three inches.
I view it all as pictorial though, as if it were a flat surface.
The whole expanse of the visual field is pictorial and as such I'm also playing with object/illusion as well as surface/illusion.
With there being 24 sq ft of surface, it's a lot to know.
It you look in the top left hand corner, there's a piece of motorcycle I picked up from the street and nailed into the picture.
You can see a diagonal line, that's where the picture had folded over and then I've stuffed the gaps with foam and then painted on them.
The picture has been rotting in a garden for 15 years.
It's fixed together with expanding foam which I squirted into all the holes and seams and this has formed its own life, rather like fungi growing on rotten wood, so there's a relief of about three inches.
I view it all as pictorial though, as if it were a flat surface.
The whole expanse of the visual field is pictorial and as such I'm also playing with object/illusion as well as surface/illusion.
With there being 24 sq ft of surface, it's a lot to know.
It you look in the top left hand corner, there's a piece of motorcycle I picked up from the street and nailed into the picture.
You can see a diagonal line, that's where the picture had folded over and then I've stuffed the gaps with foam and then painted on them.
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PS how will you know if it is finished or is that the wrong question?
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The challenge is to make a fully realized image, of absolute facility, as if Tom from Tom and Jerry could dip his paintbrush in a tin and just do anything with it.
There is the lure of absolute facility inasmuch as that 2D shape represents 3D form, so any amount of chaos could be seen as perfect representation IF you had the genius vision.
If you don't, then you can spend 15 years labour on a mess and go mad, like De Kooning and Van Gogh, who both tried it (and me too and I have gone mad).
That's what modernism was about, the conceit to cheat to perfection.
Post-modernism is a cry to 'Give us a break, Lord,' it's too much.
On the other hand and as a result OF the innate perfection of a picture, one can just do a brush stroke and be satisfied, like Chinese Calligraphy.
If one has lesser ambition for picture then one can leave it when it looks 'OK' and you're satisfied that you've given enough time for that picture.
The Grotto is a bit like those 'stream of consciousness' animations that can mutate forever, like watching reflections in a river.
If one finds oneself chasing shadows or bubbles in lemonade, then it's better to try a different way of working otherwise it's like De Kooning and there will never be a solution that one can grasp.
My way of keeping sane is to write art theory and do 'test images' to state what is going on and thus absolve myself from the drama.
There is the lure of absolute facility inasmuch as that 2D shape represents 3D form, so any amount of chaos could be seen as perfect representation IF you had the genius vision.
If you don't, then you can spend 15 years labour on a mess and go mad, like De Kooning and Van Gogh, who both tried it (and me too and I have gone mad).
That's what modernism was about, the conceit to cheat to perfection.
Post-modernism is a cry to 'Give us a break, Lord,' it's too much.
On the other hand and as a result OF the innate perfection of a picture, one can just do a brush stroke and be satisfied, like Chinese Calligraphy.
If one has lesser ambition for picture then one can leave it when it looks 'OK' and you're satisfied that you've given enough time for that picture.
The Grotto is a bit like those 'stream of consciousness' animations that can mutate forever, like watching reflections in a river.
If one finds oneself chasing shadows or bubbles in lemonade, then it's better to try a different way of working otherwise it's like De Kooning and there will never be a solution that one can grasp.
My way of keeping sane is to write art theory and do 'test images' to state what is going on and thus absolve myself from the drama.
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One can put a mark the size of a pinhead on a picture, but if it's 6ft long that a lot of pin heads to look after and manage.
So really the painting is too much and I'm working on some much smaller pictures because it's easier to manage detail.
If you look at this detail of the painting, if one has the cognitive spatial IQ to see it as order of form and space then there's a path to bringing that vision to a greater clarity, but as such visions are often extreme and fleeting, it's almost impossible to fix a vision.
So, a point of ending might just be to create a pictorial matrix that facilitates visions rather than makes them concrete.
There's an art to that and a way to present that and for the most part that is what one can achieve, although there's pressure to go beyond that, if you're not connected in the art world, because I have to do something better, which isn't really fair.
Only a few artists are promoted in the media because they want a society of big and small people.
'The nation's favourite artist' David Hockney's fame is founded on the suicides of thousands excluded for him, but they don't put that in the press.
The say 'break through' because there's a will to stop you from the likes of Hockney, who want to kill off everyone else, so not the nicey nicey pictures of flowers etc, that they have at the R.A. or in whatever newspaper.
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Just update a detail of how it's going.
It could take a few days or 30 years to finish depending on contingent forces.
It could take a few days or 30 years to finish depending on contingent forces.
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Outside the Zeitgeist, cosmology lurks.
Pictorial space exploration with geometry is just as important as any other cosmological science.
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The Bayeux Tapestry had some restoration work done on it in the Mid-1800's. Surprisingly, the Victorian threads have lost their colour and gradually turned white, whereas the original 950 year old threads have kept their colours.
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30,000 years old cave paintings still around... Most art of now will perish at some stage leaving no trace however meantime it's liable to start off as one thing and lose its context and pictorial function or painted over, vandalized whatever.
The following drawing is an imagined pre=history to the Grand Ganyon:
The following drawing is an imagined pre=history to the Grand Ganyon:
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The Führer won't be happy, Pstotto. You need to quit these degenerate art projects.
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Would make a great JigsawPstotto wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 5:49 pm30,000 years old cave paintings still around... Most art of now will perish at some stage leaving no trace however meantime it's liable to start off as one thing and lose its context and pictorial function or painted over, vandalized whatever.
The following drawing is an imagined pre=history to the Grand Ganyon:
What's left of the original.jpg
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People do like to contemplate imagery via doing jigsaw puzzles.
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Down where I live BB, they'll soon be stubble on the fields to make a straw effigy for Bonfire Night.
Last year I made a Hitler one and a song for it:
A penny for the Fuhrer
For one more cockney
Fewer
A penny for the Fuhrer
For one more cockney
Fewer
Whether that was a degenerate art project, only God knows.
Last year I made a Hitler one and a song for it:
A penny for the Fuhrer
For one more cockney
Fewer
A penny for the Fuhrer
For one more cockney
Fewer
Whether that was a degenerate art project, only God knows.
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Meanwhile, there's been an incident at The Grotto, there's been a spill.
The police are looking for someone wearing a Sunderland scarf:
The police are looking for someone wearing a Sunderland scarf: