Constantly try to answer the question 'is the painting an accurate representation?'
Mainly referring to the conscious thought, the act of recreating.
Briefly:
Painting existed long before photography, long been used to make portraits
the first self-portraits in painting?
The painter has a challenge, the goal was for a literal representation (what artistic movement would this have gone with?)
From the research I have done so far:
- Expressionist movement was his style, paintings are subjective reaction, feeling
- painted what he felt
- Self portraits in Paris revealed moods, preoccupation, technical development (state of mind)
- Time period to paint the paintings, 1 or 2 a day, before feeling dulled
- his habit of painting a subject more than once
- Guaguin Les Miserables, portrayal of himself how wanted to be percieved
- Goghs #30 reply mocking - literal representation impossible
- the context given by his letters to theo? remarked?
- Correlation of his mental attacks and events in his life to subsequent paintings
- #35 seems glamourous after an attack
Simon Johnson
www.thephilosophicalphotographer.co.uk
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