{"id":1087,"date":"2013-11-16T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T08:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2014-06-04T02:36:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T02:36:19","slug":"movement-the-reductive-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"My Work &#8211; Movement &#8211; (The Reductive Process)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1088\" style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Direction-VI-Migration-48-x-96-mixed-reduced.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1088\" title=\"Direction VI (Migration)  (48 x 96)   mixed -reduced\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Direction-VI-Migration-48-x-96-mixed-reduced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Direction-VI-Migration-48-x-96-mixed-reduced.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Direction-VI-Migration-48-x-96-mixed-reduced-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Direction-VI-Migration-48-x-96-mixed-reduced-1024x507.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Direction-VI-Migration-48-x-96-mixed-reduced-500x247.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Direction VI - 2008 - 49 x 97 in (124 x 246 cm) - mixed media on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\">This painting has a special place for me as it represents how wonderful it can be when a composition succeeds through the reductive process.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\">The seed of the painting is to convey movement as purely as possible without any superfluous markings or information.\u00a0 This can be very challenging, for it is not simplification just through omission and reduction.\u00a0 It is striving to have the viewer connect and participate at the primal level.\u00a0 Arranging and rearranging the markings until I respond is genuinely exhilarating. and It always seems to be a circuitous route..<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\">Those small dancing angles are an invitation to engage and they may represent anything the viewer wishes.\u00a0 The colours and textures are open as well, and it is my hope the painting invites a different response with every visit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\">I should mention a very important structural consideration.\u00a0 Note how the bottom edge of the light area curves upward at the right.\u00a0 To support this movement I provided a parallel line just above.\u00a0 This is very important for the composition and is meant to be felt more than seen.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\">I would like to share another detail which I feel is the finishing touch to the painting.\u00a0 When my eye comes to where the blue intrudes slightly <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\">into the light texture,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\">gently holding me briefly, I<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\"> smile.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\">(see detail)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PB106805-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" name=\"graphics1\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" align=\"BOTTOM\" border=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\">The best notes appear when we are responding to the painting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><span style=\"font-family: Kalinga,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We artists put ourselves through a great deal to arrive where we initially intended, and to be truthful that place can be elusive.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This painting has a special place for me as it represents how wonderful it can be when a composition succeeds through the reductive process. The seed of the painting is to convey movement as purely as possible without any superfluous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,12,18,31,41,7,30,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}