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Silhouette 2 Painting

Colin McMaster

United Kingdom

Painting, Acrylic on Wood

Size: 35 W x 49.2 H x 2.4 D in

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Painted in a limited palette on wood veneer, this half, (the male counterpart) of a pair, is where I attempted to use loaded symbols redolent in comics and pulp crime covers to convey a narrative. It is framed in linen which has been dyed black.

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Painting:Acrylic on Wood

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Size:35 W x 49.2 H x 2.4 D in

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I was born in Belfast in the 70s and after studying at Central St.Martins, have continued to live and work in London. I paint stereotypes rather than individuals, meshing references from the photographic storyboards of romantic comics and their heightened sense of melodrama, with the more sinister undertones of American film noir and pulp crime novels. The subjects are superficially attractive but there is an underlying sense of their narcissism and perhaps even their engagement in acts which the viewer is compelled to interpret as illicit. As a result, the viewer is cast as a voyeur, the perception of what's taking place in the paintings suspended in a double take, in an ambivalence between observation and accusation. Stylistically, the work owes much to the Pop Art movement. The smoothness of the picture surface and the mannequin-like quality of the figures heightens the feeling of artifice and blurs our sense of looking at a painted image. I usually work on panels of wood veneer, framed in linen - a reversal of the traditional materials used. Although recently I have tried to incorporate a more 3-dimensional aspect to my work, producing cut-out paintings assembled from different types of wood veneer cut and glued together, alongside flatly painted segments.

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