{"id":65,"date":"2011-08-13T04:12:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T04:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-09-21T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T22:46:09","slug":"permitting-influences-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Influences (Andrew Wyeth)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don Farrell - Margaret's Basket - 1983 - 23 x 33 cm - 9 x 13 in - watercolour<\/p><\/div>\n

Margaret’s Basket is one of the first paintings in which I consciously allowed myself to be influenced by another artist.<\/p>\n

Around 1980, I was still mostly concerned with representation and accuracy in my work.\u00a0 I was studying the wonderful details of Andrew Wyeth when it suddenly occurred to me – Wyeth’s strength is in the shapes he chooses!\u00a0 This insight changed my approach forever.\u00a0 Realizing that the viewer responds to shapes before detail, my new focus was trying to achieve a harmony of shapes.\u00a0 This harmony is not something that the viewer needs to be aware of, in fact I expect it to be mostly subconscious.\u00a0 The artist, however, uses shapes to direct the viewer and inform the details.<\/p>\n

Margaret\u2019s Basket is an arrangement of triangles. There are three prominent ones that hold the painting together, as well as other supporting triangles. \u00a0 Another way of putting it is this painting has a triangle motif.<\/p>\n

Of course, shapes aren’t the only considerations for a painting, and I would quickly like to introduce one other because of how easy it is to see in this painting.\u00a0 I call it “integration”.\u00a0 Notice how the left handle of the basket is in line with a fold in the drapery below it?\u00a0 I used this to keep the viewer’s eye from straying out of the left side of the painting.<\/p>\n

The beautiful pursuit of art is not in just knowing these things, but in being able to use them poetically.<\/p>\n

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Andrew Wyeth - Wolf Rivers - 1959 - 34 x 33 cm - 13 1\/2 x 13 in - tempera<\/p><\/div>\n

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