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Creoss

 

Its interesting to me how some of my work becomes more or less interesting to me.   More more less influential this piece titled Croess was first developed in 1984 and its influencing a whole new body of work in relation to Neurological Expressionism. It was a self portrait and the blurring within the image is the movement of my figure throught the projected light.

Contemporary Australian Landscape Painting

In Elbow Valley 3 the fork of the tree has been placed in the foreground. The cross hatching is intense and highly contrasted . The painting has been completed on a white ground which helps to emphasize the contrast. Some branches have formed shadows or have been painted as curved black marks giving the painting a sense of movement or vibration. Elbow Valley is in Queenland part of Northern Australia.

Elbow Valley 3

Australian Landscape Painting

I'm about to post some work from early 2010, paintings from black mountain. This is quite fresh and something of a challenge in terms of my art practice. The painting was reseached by taking the digital camera up to an area near my home called Black Mountain. During this shoot I was intrigued by the graphic nature of the Australian trees,mostly gums so characteristic of this area. So I have set about limiting the colour in the compositions and working with cross hatched lines rather than areas of tone or colour. This painting was selected by Australian art critic John Macdonald and included in the Stanthorpe Art Festival

Black Mountain

Kathe Kollwitz

by way of an introduction

Richard Baldwin

Yesterday, 11:28 AM

Welcome to "neurological expressionism" a blog that presents the art practice of Richard Baldwin.  By way of an introduction I would like to discuss with the reader the work of Käthe Kollwitz.  I recently happened upon The Neurocritc a blog that poses the question - Did Käthe Kollwitz have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome? Alice in Wonderland Syndrome can be caused by migrain headaches, epilepsy or Epstein-Barr virus. The symptoms are the alteration of body image so that sizes of the body may be altered incorrectly or the alteration of the perception of  objects so that they may become distorted.

The point that I would like to make is that "Neurological Expressionism" can be identified in quite a number of expressionist artists. The changes associated in the work of Kollwitz, it has been argued, may have more to do with perceptual changes and "less to do with a deliberate emphasis of the artist’s feelings".  Kollwitz produced this image The Widow 1 in 1923. As we can see the hands are prominent in the woodcut and this may have been influenced by the artists and neurology. For further information please go to http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2010/02/did-artist-kathe-kollwitz-have-alice-in.html  .  Read more…