PAINTINGS Book 1. With writing about painting.
Can we usefully describe in words what a painting is "doing"?
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Book 1 tries to describe my back ground attitude and experience of painting and I have tried to link brush marks to the possible communication that they may carry. Most art criticism, being made by non painters is, with rare exceptions, unable to deal with the handicraft of it and just waffles on about vaguely connected other matters. I have included details so that the paintings which are 110 x 110 cms may be more closely studied. I carry on my futile war against abstract art! I have above all tried to avoid pretentious talk.
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anthony bamber
N.Yorkshire
These paintings were all painted outside - a certain number being later worked on inside. What I wrote on Book 3 sums up my feeling about the now seemingly irrelevant art called landscape painting . Painting and all the arts are situated in a specific moment. The surrounding times matter. Some of the writing in all three books suggests that landscape painting might express our vague sense of loss and unease in an over-populated, urbanised habitat. There is a special pathos to landscape painting's attempt to picture the beauty of nature, seasons and weather in an age that we are told, faces at our hands, a sixth extinction. Landscape painting is indeed nostalgic.