Photo-based painting: Crash

Crash, painting
Crash
2010
painting, mixed media
dimensions
Catalogue raisonné P.

Photo paintings of the artist are often monochromatic and focused on the particular detail or effect. In Crash painter used his own closeup photography of a crashed car to produce the composition. Black, gray, various silvers, whites and accents of red are dominant colors used in this painting. Artist uses blurred effect and smooth brushstrokes to cleanse the overall effect of painting of unnecessary and secondary details. This composition is a well balanced and represent provocative play of light and shadow. This work is undoubtedly contemporary, it represent ubiquitous product of modernity such as a car and reaffirm us that everything is finite in this fragile life. Artist finds unconventional beauty in the image of destroyed automobile.