March, a raining Tuesday, I spent a whole afternoon at Tate Modern to analyse the post-world war painting from The UBS Art Collection combining with the significant Tate works. My task is to find out who the artist is? What kind of technique she/he applied , what kind of texture he/she used to accomplish the work, and what kind of atmosphere the work creates?
Jane Seymour
A magnificent work I have noticed from an Indian artist Raqib Shaw.
Jane Seymour, a painting depicts the third wife of Henry VIII, what really makes this work interesting is to combine the animal head with human body, which beautifully and delicately brushed by bright colours, such as dark red, yellow,.
The picture is quite scary, because of the animal head, more specifically, it's a fish head with very terrific teeth.
The textures artist applied are quite complicated, it seems having different layers on one painting, he also used fake jewel to decorate Jane's dress.
Busy life
The second painting I have looked carefully is from a French artist, named Jean Dubuffet, the whole painting applied oil on Canvas.
It's really a mess work from far away, but when you see closely, you will find out lots of going on in this work, it describes people's busy life, such as the metropolis London.
Rising sun, commuters rush to work, traffic on the highway, taxi, tubes, bikes all different kinds of transportation you can imagine.
I was wondering how the artist can keep the main characters clear on one hand, and mess around others on the other hand, however in the meantime, the whole piece of work remains as an integrated painting.
White Spring
A work from a Germany artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay - White Spring, it's quite abstract and very arty.
The paint applied oil and used white, yellow, green and black colours, there're many whirlpools in the paint, quite romantic indeed.
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