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By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:01:12 +0000

Cheers lad.

Will have some thoughts about out relative aims in a contemporary context soon. Will perhaps try to unearth them through a discussion of a few contemporary painters.
Aiming to try get my head sorted by end of September, to work out what I have done over the last tweleve months and what I have planned. Need to get some clarity as to what exactly it is I am trying to do with my work. Think some blogs on other painters for a while will help me with this.
For now I am going to carry on trudging out some thoughts on each chapter of ‘the logic of sensation.’

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:51:11 +0000

That was excellent mate, i think the best you’ve written. superb. it was one concept in the book which i was really struggling with, and you’ve helped me to understand it.
The difference between music and painting i found particularly enlightening. he isn’t saying that painting is second best because it can’t reach pure sensation, but that this tension or “hysteria” is an essential ingredient in paintings own particular success.
I think an interesting point to raise here is that during this period in the mid 20th century, some of the greatest figurative paintings ever came from britain (and yes i’m aware of the complexity of that statement, with lucien freud, frank auerbach, etc in the list who weren’t from britain but came here at a young age), it appears to me that it was at this stage where the london painters really got to grips with their own sense of awkwardness and that the british sensibility was perhaps particularly suited to this realisation of the futility of capturing sensation in figuration, when the rest of the world was reaching for abstraction. it is certainly true that these paintings couldn’t have been created anywhere else.
What i’m interested in is whether you think this type of painting can be produced now, because i think i’d question whether it can. the honesty which bacon was striving for seems naive now, even tho you look at his works and they really do do all they say on the tin, still. the production of them is insincere if we attempt to do them today.