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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 36 W x 48 H x 2 D in
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An operative stone mason uses an instrument called a "plumb" to measure perfect verticality for construction of a building such as a temple or meeting hall. The esoteric meaning for the speculative mason of this instrument pertains to a moral uprightness that a person must use to build his or her spiritual or moral internal temple. So I have used the plumb, painted with heavy impasto oil paint in a series of nominal surreal landscape impressions to express this idea.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:36 W x 48 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Christian Winslow Statement Musicians, musical Instruments, sleeping monks, serpents, masonic symbols: these are among the recurring images in my art. Although their meaning is very personal, they are only starting points rather than destinations. While painting, my original intention gives way to change as the creative process unfolds. I try to allow instinct, accidents and chance to arise. I start the process by drawing directly onto each canvas for some length of time, eventually applying multiple layers of impasto, when working in oil, or applying a sawdust/acrylic compound to achieve a sculptural relief surface. My attention is focused on the physical presence of the medium on the flat surface. I am not satisfied until a certain patina of texture emerges more akin to the surface of fired clay or blown glass, than to a painted flat picture plane. These paintings hint at or partially reveal some visual allegorical mystery or secret, yet I am not interested in illustrating an allegory in the literal sense. I am ultimately striving for a finished painting that shows the residue of allegory, but emphasizes a physically sensuous art object in the abstract, aimed at affecting the emotions. In this way, I am interested in abstract forms and all that form gives us: design, pattern, mark making, texture, color, mood, light and darkness, temperature, etc. While attempting to complete a painting, I feel my best work is done when I let go of my ego/self and stay on the lookout for what the painting is telling me to do next... until my instincts tell me a piece is finished. I then become a vessel for an outside power that is greater than me. I think that is what Marcel Duchamp meant when he said...”the artist is the painting’s way of getting painted”. Christian Winslow
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