Visit to the museum

Museum visit
9 novembre 2005-11-09



Jacques Hurtubise
Fanette, 1965

The first work wich took my attention at the museum was Fanette. It’s a big red canvas with a green mark in the center. The choice of the color is simply brilliant. It form a contrast totally hypnotic and psychedelic. If you look at the wall where it’s suspend, your eye is immediately attract by this great work. It was place between two other line composition, and that help a lot to reenforce the contrast of the paint. It’s interesting that we spoke of color in the last course. This is a good exemple of two color put together wich form a uncomfortable feeling, a lot of agressivness. I thik this work show a great duality.


Micheal Merrill
Studio Table 2, 2002

This work really inspire me for my final projet. This is a lifting hand drawing of an artist studio. The subject is not really original but the final result is. He simply drew the contour line of everithing in his studio so you can see through everithing. The result is like everithing was kind of transparent. So you can see through the wall and actually what there is outside of the house. The quality of the line is very importent in the work cause there is no shading, he had to represent volume only with contour line, so there’s many different line width in the drawing, The final result is simply breathless, and it take a great talent to manage that kind of work. Also the drawing is only gray dark pen on a white canvas. At the museum they put the frame alone on a light part of the wall to enhance the contrast of the lines.


Sylvia Safdie
Earth Mark 1997

I choose that one cause it really shock me, the pain and the sadness that i saw in that paint is made of oil on mylar. I cheaked her other paint and i found them all very grim and bleak. I don’t know anything about her method, but the person into the frame look almost like a wound wich bleed. The painting, i think, shows a person sit on a chair his back turn. You can feel a lot of solitude into it and lot of darkness. Even if we don’t see the person very well, you can sense his pain. Right next to the canvas , you have a another similar paint. It’s a another person sitting alone. So when you look at both at the same time, it’s almost like a couple tears appart. I’m very impress with the technique she used. It’s give a look very original. It inspire me, for my final project, cause in my piece i want to show great pain and solitude.