Can you expand a little on why these images are important to you? What do they represent in your internal landscape?
regards. BB.
Well I love Vic Reeves anyway so I love his sometimes infantile and surreal subject matter and style, this is one of his more serious pieces though. A lot of people copy his style now. It's quite easy to detect when a work of his has been ripped off. He's got a very unique and playful style.
Tretchikoff became a millionaire because of this painting. Being heavily mass produced it'd usually put me off, art shouldn't be diluted and re-pressed until the litho template wears out, personally for me though; I love it. I love the kitsch value to it and the actual tones used give it a metallic, futuristic edge, although the lady is portrayed in traditional Chinese clothing.
How can you not appreciate Carravagio? You cannot deny his work is a masterpiece. Not a masterpiece like an Amy Winehouse album or a James Cameron film. I mean a true masterpiece of the arts. I love this particular piece (Boy Bitten By Lizard) because the boy in it looks distressed. It's something about the lighting and the way it's composed that unsettles me. The way the light hits the canvas is quite extraordinary actually, it looks effortless but it's obviously a work of genius.
Jenny Saville is great really because her work is very emotive and gutteral, she doesn't shy away from the nitty gritty, she makes humans look like vulnerable slabs of meat, plus her use of colours is very de-saturated and realistic. I find her work sometimes a bit hard to look at as her depictions can be quite close to the bone. Plus she's actually fantastic at painting, she uses proportions and perspective exceptionally well.
Well Pascals work featured on a lot of Fall artwork covers, I love his unmistakable style and colours are unlimited in his world, a lot of his work is repeated which in itself is hypnotic and creates rhythm in the piece. I can appreciate the great works from the master Baroque era but I also love surrealist, abstract modern work too. This is very tangible and vivid and doesn't seem to be about anything, at least not literally anyway. All of it is by hand too, nowt digital (as far as I know) something which is difficult when repeating compositions or creating symmetry, a lot of patience is needed.