Artist
Statement:
This new painting
technique, is a replica of technologies, developed by Industrial Revolution.
Why Industrial Revolution? Because the new shapes and surfaces that came
out of Industrial Revolution have composed the cultural landscape of 20th
century.
If the culture of 20th century wants to leave it’s fingerprints
it has this painting technique for it.
Technological transformations at the beginning of 20th century sparked
the spirit of ‘‘modernity.’’ While modern painting
exploring how to align itself with the dynamics of its time. The painting
process remained technically unexplored throughout the century.
We have to go back 600 years to find the last technical innovation in
the history of painting. 600 years ago, at the absence of camera and electronic
communication painting was an advance technique. ‘‘It was
the main generator of social symbols’’. Painting brought the
world to people shows how live in it, new values to adopt and ideas to
believe.
Today all that successfully achieved by mass media simply because it’s
armed with more advance technologies.
Cameras and computers are the main technical tools of mass media. The
current power of this tools evolved through 160 years of development.
This remarkable development attracted universal efforts and resources,
because of their practical needs and not the artistic ones. And yet parallel
to their practical use, cameras and computes created numerous masterpieces
of art.
We see that parallel development of economic and aesthetic principles
can give us great results. Guided by these same principles can we reinvent
the painting process? If yes, how to use our hands and the same sticky
paint to compete with magical technologies of our time? Let say we succeed,
can painting regain its old power by this?
This humble new painting showing us that simple process by hands and the
use of same paint is enough to achieve great production speed, extremely
low cost, unlimited size and high quality that cameras and computes have
not yet achieved in their ultimate visual images.
Hratch Israelian
Rio
Hondo College in Whittier California : fine art
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