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PETER DOIG (PAPERBACK) /ANGLAIS
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June 16, 2013
A solid introduction to Peter Doig's work published in association with an excellent Tate Britain Exhibition that appeared in London in 2008.
Doig is a very painterly artist and the book cannot do full justice to the work as it is presented on canvas before your eyes. But this will do until a Doig comes to a gallery near you.
My own aesthetic considers his work from the 1990s to represent a set of masterpieces of exceptional interest and resonance, creating (as the text here suggests) a form of false constructed memory that is more than dream. The memory becomes 'true' at a different imaginal level.
If you ever get the chance to see the 'Concrete Cabin' paintings (1991-1999), then drop everything and make the effort - they are mesmerically fascinating as an observation of decayed modernism.
I detected influences, intended or not, of Van Gogh, Hockney and the Symbolists but this is an artist steeped in the 'tradition' with even a bended knee to Daumier in the 'House of Pictures' series.
The book is light on text but mostly informative and contains an exchange betwen Doig and Chris Ofili that confirmed an intuition that his work has become increasingly directed to inward mental workings and immediate experiences that then 'fester' until ripe for creation.
For that reason and the move to Trinidad, he is beginning to lose me a little (I like an art that interprets the world rather than one that is overly introspective) but that does not make him any less the significant artist that he is. It just means that I have not caught up with him yet.
Doig is a very painterly artist and the book cannot do full justice to the work as it is presented on canvas before your eyes. But this will do until a Doig comes to a gallery near you.
My own aesthetic considers his work from the 1990s to represent a set of masterpieces of exceptional interest and resonance, creating (as the text here suggests) a form of false constructed memory that is more than dream. The memory becomes 'true' at a different imaginal level.
If you ever get the chance to see the 'Concrete Cabin' paintings (1991-1999), then drop everything and make the effort - they are mesmerically fascinating as an observation of decayed modernism.
I detected influences, intended or not, of Van Gogh, Hockney and the Symbolists but this is an artist steeped in the 'tradition' with even a bended knee to Daumier in the 'House of Pictures' series.
The book is light on text but mostly informative and contains an exchange betwen Doig and Chris Ofili that confirmed an intuition that his work has become increasingly directed to inward mental workings and immediate experiences that then 'fester' until ripe for creation.
For that reason and the move to Trinidad, he is beginning to lose me a little (I like an art that interprets the world rather than one that is overly introspective) but that does not make him any less the significant artist that he is. It just means that I have not caught up with him yet.
January 13, 2009
a lot of good text...more than usual for an art book...also great pictures. learned a lot about what doig's doing in his paintings.
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June 17, 2009really good so far. not a lot of philosophical meanaderings either
December 12, 2009
a constant inspiration.
March 4, 2010
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