![]() ![]() I’m interested in the journey so I make the painterly equivalent of building lighthouses out of matchsticks. The brushstroke was a romantic idea reflecting certainty, the grand sweeping gesture that said it all. Glazing had been in use for centuries but was made obsolete in the mid-nineteenth century due to the ascendency of the brushstroke. I approached my painting in an historical manner by adopting the historical technique of Grisaille, an outmoded academic form of monochromatic tonal painting. I work long hours, meticulously and in silence. Because I rejected the self-indulgent image of ‘the artist’, I adopted the work ethos of an engineer or builder, someone with a ‘proper’ job. GC: My grandparents were Victorians and I believe that I got my work ethic from them. MP: Graham, did you appropriate anything practical on your route to being a painter? So, because meaning is never constant, objects cannot be fixed – this led me to start to paint what I regard as more ambitious pictures. ![]() I came to understand that making paintings was not about having a fixed identity, it was a matter of being in a constant conversation with the world, trying to make sense and to find meaning. When I left the Royal College in 1975 the word ‘appropriation’ was not in the lexicon. I identify as a painter because I have a passion for the activity, not because I reject modernity or technology. ![]() I find the term artist problematic, it’s woolly and self-congratulatory. MP: Graham, do you identify specifically as a painter? For the very first time I felt some ownership of my work – ironic really, as it was willfully appropriated. I ‘appropriated’ the work of the French artist Fernand Legér, a painter who had embraced the contemporary and modern world. My strategy was to borrow from previous paintings. I began to carve out a space in the postmodern landscape in which I felt I could operate legitimately as a painter. This led me to question whether I could ever be original.ĭuring those years I travelled extensively, looking at past and present art. It challenged the definition of what art is, ignoring the distinctions between high, mass and popular. Postmodernism was a movement that was both sceptical and ironic, and refused to recognise the dominance of any single style. It was around this time that I first heard the term postmodern. The dominant art of the day was conceptual, American (or both) and referred back to modernism. There was a consensus that painting was dead and painting faced institutional condemnation – fortunately, at the Royal College of Art in 1972, I met students who also wanted to paint but finding a way to go about this was complicated and we had to steer our own path. We were the generation that questioned everything. I went to St Martin’s School of Art in 1968 – a time of profound social upheaval. This way of working is an intellectual and emotional acknowledgement of the difference between what I need to do, and what I should do. As a painter, I respond differently to changing times. ![]() The exhibition title, ‘A Love of Many Things’, reflects my interest and engagement in diverse aspects of the world around me. I am asking you, as the viewer, to imagine that you are looking at a group show by five or six painters who have all responded differently to their experience of the last 40 years. Graham: This is not a retrospective, so much as a collection of obsessions and passions. D.Child, J.Monica: Graham, can you give me some background to the exhibition? D.Child, J.Jett & Graham Blvd song download, download I Hate Myself for Loving You ft. D.Child, J.Jett & Graham Blvd songīy Various Artists, I Hate Myself for Loving You ft. D.Child, J.Jett & Graham Blvd song, I Hate Myself for Loving You ft. D.Child, J.Jett & Graham Blvd song, Ready Player (Music Inspired By The Movie) I Hate Myself for Loving You ft. D.Child, J.Jett & Graham Blvd MP3, download I Hate Myself for Loving You ft. D.Child, J.Jett & Graham Blvd MP3 song, I Hate Myself for Loving You ft. D.Child, J.Jett & Graham Blvd, I Hate Myself for Loving You ft. Related Tags: I Hate Myself for Loving You ft. D.Child, J.Jett & Graham Blvd song from album Ready Player (Music Inspired By The Movie) is released in 2018. Listen to Various Artists I Hate Myself for Loving You ft. ![]()
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