"The Living Will" created by Matthew Ritchie in 2004 is made from oil and marker on canvas. This piece was a part of his post-9/11 creations and through the abstraction and mediums used, he depicts the infiltrating smell that permeated everything in New York City after the attacks. He shows how "...we were all breathing in this terrible thing and it became part of us. And so I started to make these paintings and drawings about figures being reassembled and rebuilt inside the people that had survived." In my opinion, the piece is awesome at evoking tactile and visual textures without actually using a texture. I see textures of smoke, vegetation, and water. However, at the same time the use of many visual textures are chaotic and connect to the theme of 9/11 disarray and how it affected each person in New York through the textures permeating each individual person.
Monday, February 23, 2009
"The Living Will", 2004
"The Living Will" created by Matthew Ritchie in 2004 is made from oil and marker on canvas. This piece was a part of his post-9/11 creations and through the abstraction and mediums used, he depicts the infiltrating smell that permeated everything in New York City after the attacks. He shows how "...we were all breathing in this terrible thing and it became part of us. And so I started to make these paintings and drawings about figures being reassembled and rebuilt inside the people that had survived." In my opinion, the piece is awesome at evoking tactile and visual textures without actually using a texture. I see textures of smoke, vegetation, and water. However, at the same time the use of many visual textures are chaotic and connect to the theme of 9/11 disarray and how it affected each person in New York through the textures permeating each individual person.
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