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new paintings for yall

Posted May 5th, 2011 by david titterington

 Here are some new paintings. I'd love to hear what the community thinks. For several years now my main focus has been oil painting in a style of realism, and I feel most excited when I can experiment with imagery that is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary (i.e. magical, mythical, classical, empirical, and romantic). For this project I have been researching and synthesizing Eastern and Western approaches to art and spirituality for over 13 years. In 2004 I visited Europe and studied paintings by the Flemish masters, especially Vermeer and his Woman Pouring Milk. Seeing this work altered my path as a realist painter, and was a catalyst for me shifting to a smaller, more intimate and portable format. In 2005 I got my BFA in Painting at the University of Kansas and traveled to India to study Buddhism with the Dalai Lama at his monastery. That fall I moved to Japan where I taught English, exhibited artwork, and practiced Zen for five years.

Keeping in mind important insights from Gestalt and Reception theory (wherein the viewer literally co-creates the artwork as they perceive it, enacting their own hermeneutical depth), my intention is to invite the viewer into a space where they can draw from their own history to create meaning. 

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Beautiful!

Posted May 5th, 2011 by Stanley

I love your work David. Thank you for sharing. I would like to be in your landscapes.

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...and for a brief moment one is ushered into nondual & timeless awareness

Posted May 5th, 2011 by Carl Jacobson

This is great work David. I mean it, you really moved me. 

I appreciated what you had to write too.  A few years ago, I had a similar peak experience in front of "Woman Pouring Milk"  Before that, I never really "got" Vermeer. The realization that I had about Vermeer, was his ability to capture a sublime, peaceful serenity and communicate that state to me as the viewer.  This sensation practically leapt off of his paintings.
 

 

After the experience I was reminded of  the passage below from Grace & Grit:

"Schopenhauer had a theory of art that said, in effect: bad art copies, good art creates, great art transcends. And by "transcends," he meant "transcends the subject and object duality." What all great art has in common, he said is its ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him- or herself and into the art, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and for a brief moment one is ushered into nondual and timeless awareness. Great art, in other words, is mystical, no matter what its actual content."

 

 

Thanks for sharing your work and triggering a great memory for me. 

Carl 


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