Mural Project:
THE ARTIST'S METHOD OF INTUITION
The artist dreams...and comes to a design for an image intuitively. What follows is an explanation of how that artistic vision works for Rene' Joseph
| "In order to paint, I have to use my own vision. I act as the medium to pull out these images to make them real. You know, we all have memories inside our hearts. My goal is to bring them out and make them real again as art. After working with the community, the image of the mural was so strong--it's as if there was a snapshot of it already that I could clearly see. My task seemed simple: to record it faithfully. But reality is a different medium then what floats around in one's head. That's where my training as an artist comes in." -- Rene' Joseph |
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"The breaking of space is notable in landscape painting, with the horizon line being the most obvious division between sky and earth. Extending this simple idea into further divisions of foreground, middle-ground, and background, the movement of the eye travels back and through and across the picture." --Rene' Joseph |
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"There are other ways to divide the space of a picture: diagonals, vertical lines or triads, oval peepholes, and triangular compositions are the prominent geometric separations. Looking down a city street, a marked perspective is created when the two lines of the sidewalk seem to meet and disappear into a vanishing point." --Rene' Joseph |
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"The design of the mural was inspired by trying to fit a picture into a preexisting landscape. Because someone in the neighborhood wanted an image reflecting the historic buildings and due to a lilac-lined fence running out of the mural wall, I had the concept of putting a porch scene by the fence. The fence was thereby incorporated as a part of the picture and as an extension of the mural." --Rene' Joseph |
The Artist's Muse: "A collector once explained to me that he liked to commission work that couldn't be read all at once. He wanted it to show itself over time. He believed the more he lived with a painting, the more it should show of its layers of meanings. A worthwhile piece of art had to be direct yet subtle in order to continue to give more then just a surface impression to the viewer. That wish articulates my motto and my guide perfectly." --Rene' Joseph
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