Paul Allik
Model I
| Artist: | Paul Allik (1946 - 2003) |
| Title: | Model I |
| Date: | 1993 |
| Technique: Material: |
acrylic canvas |
| Height (cm): | 180.0 |
| Width (cm): | 230.5 |
| Description: | There are roughly two approaches to the abstract painting. One of them derives from reality but simplifies the object to the extent that the work is intentionally becomes only a play between colour and form. The representatives of the other approach start with a “clean slate" without any plan. Paul Allik's “Model I" includes both methods. On one hand the colour, form and brush-strokes speak for themselves, excluding contextualisation in the direct sense of the word. The artist's subjective state of mind, reaches viewers through a composition based on the dynamics of colour and painting. Abstraction is not however the sole means of expression for Allik. He has painted portraits, still-lifes, landscapes and nudes and this experience is reflected also in his abstract works. His earlier, more expressive manner of painting is still there but the object seems to have been erased from between the forms, lines and surfaces. It appears as a fragment from another picture, placed under a magnifying glass, or a layer of paint before the last covering. The conflict between the dynamic forms, their falling apart and re-uniting afterwards in the picture, symbolize the idea of synthesis and dismantling. The result of the dismantling is definitely a birth of a new synthesis - the beginning of every form of life. Anu Allas |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 6993 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 46070 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/247936 |
| File info: |
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