I’m a major fan of Gustav Klimt and ‘Tress from Wood’ immediately reminded me of the ‘Birch Forest’ series and a few others such as The Apple Tree, The Park, Bauerngarten mit Kruzifix and so on.
The textures he creates merges the different aspects of the painting into one greater whole which captures the observer who picks through the painting trying to absorb each little bit. I feel like I’m trying to find hidden images and get caught up in the small details so that I have to concentrate to understand the bigger picture as per the idiom “can’t see the wood from the trees” which will form the basis of my research. I’m hoping to explore hidden meanings, blindness and fear of the unknown and oneself.
I also love the linear nature of the Birch Forest paintings, the trees stand like soldiers in the forest hidden within the myriad of surrounding detail. I’d like to feed something like this into my research as well – to find ‘the trees from the wood’ i.e. individuality as opposed to mass conformity.
Great pictures these, good ideas and interpretations you're getting from them also....try to sketch out how you'll develop this into more 3-D outcomes (see my post above.) You've shown here how paintings can spark off associations with the real and personal world we all occupy. Good stuff.
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