“flesh was the reason oil paint was invented” de kooning major studio project
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“ F L E S H WA S T H E R E A S O N O I L PA I N T WA S I N V E N T E D ” D E KO O N I N G
major studio project
concept
painting as a form of creating flesh -> bringing things to ‘life’
myth of Pygmalion -> Greek myth about a sculptor-king who fell in love with the statue he create
explore ideas about creation, dimension, digitality & space
execution
Live painting-performance overlaid with a 3-d projection on the columns in 12f 6e16th
execution
sketches
Type I: timed animation using 3-d modelling overlaying; separate bones combining to form the final shape of a skull which will ‘leap’ from the wall
sketches
sketches
Type 2: using openCV edge detection to overlay polygonal pixel shapes while painting to transform the flat colour into 3-D …………(not sure what the final shape will be though, if using this)
T H A N K Y O U
to be continued…..?