Following on from the photos and experiments produced around the landscape and the introduction of the human figure, I thought to look further into the human involvement: how much are we involved, what roles do we play and how many ways are there to indicate this?
I decided to look into artists who feature the human form in their locations and landscape work and my main links came from
Peter Doig,
Sidney Goodman,
Gerhard Richter and
Constable.
Doig, Richter and Constable are three artists I have previously looked at, but I discovered Goodman only within this project, in looking for artists who pair human and nature. There is something almost harrowing about the way Goodman's figures glare out from their home environments and day-to-day lives. Incorporating the figures seems to be something that I could work with myself.
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| Sidney Goodman |
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Sidney Goodman
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Peter Doig is another interesting artist. His paintings are almost fantastical, expressing the space with colour and depth. So many of Doig's paintings feature figures as a part of the location.They are not made to be more or less important - they are equally in the piece.
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| Peter Doig |
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| Peter Doig |
Constable paints a lot of landscape scenes, but he does occasionally feature a figure or a number of people. Like Doig, they sit within an already in depth landscape, without having one element overriding the other.
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| Constable |
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| Constable |
Gerhard Richter has something so very exciting about his compositions. In some cases, there is something haunting to them; how the figures sit so small in such a vast space, that is the landscape he situates them in. Even without the figures, there is something ominous about the open, empty space Richter introduces. I looked to "
Gerhard Richter. Landscapes" in order to get a stronger sense of the artist and his practice.
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Gerhard Richter
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