“Reclining Nudes” by Richard Colson
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Artist(s) and People Involved:
Exhibiting Artist(s):
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Richard Colson
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- University of London
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Artist Statement:
The work exhibited deals with similar themes as those which I tackle in my work in other media such as ink, charcoal and oil paint. I worked a great deal from life having models to sit for me in my studio, a practice I have continued since I left art school. Having said this, working on a screen is very different to other media, and although similarities in working methods may exist, I have always wanted to exploit with computers what was totally impossible with any other means.
l spend a great deal of time constructing my own user defined work tools to draw textures such as skin and also to simulate light effects. These effects are not possible at all with other media. The colour available on screen has also been one of my major interests and I have tried to exploit both the intense colours offered by the medium and the very subtle nuances and changes in colour that can be effected.
First and foremost I consider myself to be a draughtsman and the work shown here reveals attempts to draw figures with a computer using the features that it offers to create images which are convincing, not only in the way that they deal with light and shade, but also in their portrayal of movement in a static image. I am also concerned to reveal the method of creation so that the images can be recreated by the viewer thus allowing for a measure of open access to the work. I therefore have made no attempt to hide individual marks but rather have sought to underline that each image is both image and the sum of a
collection of pixels on the screen.
This I think is in marked contrast to the kinds of concerns which occupy the commercial world of advertising’s use of computer imagery which has been largely concerned with hiding the methods by which images have been achieved thus rendering them rather closed and without sufficient depth.
