While back in Leiden, 2004, we started a series of oil (and a few acrylics) paintings. The subject varies but the technique is the same – applying many transparent layers of colors to get an effect of depth, when the light penetrates all the layers down to the first opaque layer, and each hue shines and influence the layer above it.
This technique allows us to experiment with different harmonies and balances in color and shape in the merging layers.
The first in the series was “Falling softly”, oil on canvas, 100*120cm. We started it together, the first few layers, but than I (Omer) pretty much took over the whole canvas and worked my own vision on it. A couple holding hands, free falling or floating in mid-air, with the city far below them.
“Cityscape” and “Sky” followed with the same thoughts I had about floating and falling.
“Cityscape”, oil on canvas, 60*80cm.
“Sky”, acrylic on canvas, 50*70cm
“Sky 2″, acrylic on canvas, 50*70cm
Tals’ painting “barnash” is about people, isolated, strangers to each other, each alone but sharing one road. 120*90cm, oil on canvas.
“Herd”, also 120*90cm, . Its title is self explanatory. A well known human behavior.
“Bound”, oil on canvas, 130*90cm.
oil on canvas, sold two months ago at the auction in NYC.
Lets end this post with another quote from FZ:
“On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standars of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express CREATIVELY his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.”
From the liner notes of Freak Out.
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