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6 January, 2009
Klee Ryder Bess
Responding to Professor Bolas's art prompt, I felt like working in 2D. I reached immediately for Forrest Bess, a auto-didact explorer of internal terrain. He wasn't listed on Wikipedia, so I did some research and pulled together a brief Forrest Bess entry.
I found that one of his influences was a bloke named Albert Pinkham Ryder who also worked in mysterious personal landscapes. I was fascinated to read about Ryders layering of laquers and pigment.
Paul Klee has inspired me, as I noticed I like painting mostly symbols and colors.
So I stared at the three of these:
Albert Pinkham Ryder - The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)
I drew from each, inadvertently, but I created this based primarily on one work:
Which one?
Ryder - the layering of drawn elements, traces of old thoughts. And the animal looking at the traveler - snake in Ryder, hand-shadow wolf in my illustration. The scythe echoed in the game controller here. I worked to echo the racetrack's complete circle with the lines of the couch here. This is a picture I drew after a long run playing Oblivion; it seemed an appropriate self-portrait on my couch confronting shadow-wolves.
Posted by justin at May 14, 2006 9:23 AM
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