Self-portrait as Proserpine. Reinterpreted from Rossetti's.
Charcoal (and soon to be oil) on canvas
32" x 42"
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| Image © J. Timlin 2010 |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Venus Verticordia (detail).
25 October 2010
Today's progress
The product of today's studio time, it took about 5 hours of drawing to get this far:
Self-portrait as Proserpine. Reinterpreted from Rossetti's.
Charcoal (and soon to be oil) on canvas
32" x 42"
Self-portrait as Proserpine. Reinterpreted from Rossetti's.
Charcoal (and soon to be oil) on canvas
32" x 42"
17 October 2010
Artist statement
This is the latest draft of my artist statement, after some revisions for my senior thesis class.
In a certain sense, all art is about its maker. My art is about its maker in more than one sense. Through art media I investigate my level of cognizance regarding my experiences. Sometimes the work is searching and sometimes it is explaining, but it is always an attempt to apprehend the significance of my personal history to my amalgamation as this individual. I have begun searching out my personal visual vocabulary, which I utilize as a tool to revisit, reflect on, and reinterpret my life in visual terms. I address past and present occurrences, acquaintances, impressions, remembrances, affinities, and what they all mean to me in the moments of creation. At times, the pieces may coincidentally pertain to the more general questions of the human condition. Humbler are my pursuits, however, typically seeking answers more selfish and specific. While in a certain sense all art is about its maker, my art is about its maker in every sense.Just a few minor but significant adjustments. I think I resolved alternatives for certain ambiguous or vague terms which make my intentions a bit clearer.
22 May 2010
Senior Thesis
So far this summer I've begun to think about and work on my senior thesis, building off of the ideas I latched onto last semester. I've been writing a little about the work to flesh out my ideas, and sketching for some eventual pieces. More updates will hopefully be forthcoming, but until then here are some tidbits of what I have thus far:
Working Statement:
Allegory of Home series:
Working Statement:
In a certain sense, all art is about its maker. My art is about its maker in more than one sense.
In my work I deal with my measure of consciousness (awareness) regarding my experiences. Sometimes the work is searching and sometimes the work is explaining, but it is always an attempt to understand the significance of my experience to myself and to my development as an individual. I have begun searching out my personal visual vocabulary, which I use in my work to revisit, reflect on, and reinterpret my life- from the events, to the feelings, to the people it contains- and what it all means to me in the moments of creation. At times, the work may coincidentally play to the universality of human experience, but typically its aim is solely the selfish, and specific. In a certain sense, all art is about its maker. My art is about its maker in every sense.
Allegory of Home series:
Charity:
all images and text © J. Timlin 2010
21 May 2010
Sketchbook, Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
Here are some sketchbook pages from last semester, when I was at MICA, and taking the train into DC often for my internship.
all images © Jeff Timlin 2010
Here are some more recent pages from the same book, from trips and wandering around Italy and Florence.
all images © Jeff Timlin 2010
12 May 2010
Some studies
Ponte Rialto, Venezia by night.
Firenze from Piazzale Michelangelo.
Sketchbook page: Firenze and Venezia.
All images © J. Timlin 2010
The landscape of Florence
Some small watercolor drawings from up near San Miniato del Monte, and the Boboli Gardens.
All images © J. Timlin 2010
30 December 2009
Ciao!
A little less than two weeks ago, my toughest, busiest semester so far ended. Shortly after, I realized that I had neglected this blog since the semester hit the ground running in August. I have quite a few drawings that I am happy with as a product of this fall, but they have been packed and stored without being photographed amidst the hectic nature of my final week. And while those drawings won't make their online debut until the summer months, I do have a number of pages in my current sketchbook that will grace this site as soon as I get the chance to scan them.
In other (and much more exciting) news, my winter break this semester is a short one. On January 6th I'll be boarding a plane for Florence, Italy, where I'll be spending the entire spring semester studying in the Studio Art Centers International program. I'll be studying painting, High Renaissance art history, and museum studies, as well as doing any traveling possible, and a ton of museum/church hopping. My professor is requiring us to keep a sketchbook/journal of our visit, so expect excerpts from that to be posted occasionally, as well as photos of travels, and new work, and other random entries as usual.
I'm sure to find communication with the states much more difficult while abroad. Friends and relatives please find this blog to be a resource in following my travels and experiences, as I intend to be much more diligent in its upkeep than I have been in the past 4 months. I'm really looking forward to this experience, and posting about it, so keep an eye out for new things.
And on that note I'll close by utilizing the entirety of my Italian language knowledge... Grazie! Ciao! Spaghetti!
Jeff
In other (and much more exciting) news, my winter break this semester is a short one. On January 6th I'll be boarding a plane for Florence, Italy, where I'll be spending the entire spring semester studying in the Studio Art Centers International program. I'll be studying painting, High Renaissance art history, and museum studies, as well as doing any traveling possible, and a ton of museum/church hopping. My professor is requiring us to keep a sketchbook/journal of our visit, so expect excerpts from that to be posted occasionally, as well as photos of travels, and new work, and other random entries as usual.
I'm sure to find communication with the states much more difficult while abroad. Friends and relatives please find this blog to be a resource in following my travels and experiences, as I intend to be much more diligent in its upkeep than I have been in the past 4 months. I'm really looking forward to this experience, and posting about it, so keep an eye out for new things.
And on that note I'll close by utilizing the entirety of my Italian language knowledge... Grazie! Ciao! Spaghetti!
Jeff
29 December 2009
Victorian Aestheticism
Researching for a paper on artist Frederic Leighton introduced me to a great book:
"Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting" by Elizabeth Prettejohn.
The book includes essays on a number of Victorian painters, some of the first to express aesthetic values, and the formative characters of the Aesthetic movement, including Frederic Lord Leighton, Albert Moore, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The essays talk about each painter in the way that his work specifically addresses aesthetic concerns, or diverts from the academic traditions of the day, and the realism of Pre-Raphaelite painting. For anyone like myself, with an interest in 19th century Aestheticism, or even 19th century art in general, this book will be an interesting and educational read.
The essay on Frederic Leighton is really interesting for explaining his background, association with the Royal Academy in London, and the way he creates a relationship between his academic working process and aesthetic ideals. The book also gave me my first real introduction to the work of Albert Moore, whose paintings utilize repetition, rhythm, and other musical ideas in visual form, which parallel the symphonic references of Whistler. The information on his use of repetition as a compositional device was unexpectedly relevant to my own taste and ways of thinking about organizing an image and controlling the gaze of the viewer.
Frederic Leighton:
Pavonia, 1858
Icarus and Daedalus, 1869
Albert Moore:
Dreamers, 1879-82
The Quartet,1868
Apples, 1875
"Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting" by Elizabeth Prettejohn.
The book includes essays on a number of Victorian painters, some of the first to express aesthetic values, and the formative characters of the Aesthetic movement, including Frederic Lord Leighton, Albert Moore, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The essays talk about each painter in the way that his work specifically addresses aesthetic concerns, or diverts from the academic traditions of the day, and the realism of Pre-Raphaelite painting. For anyone like myself, with an interest in 19th century Aestheticism, or even 19th century art in general, this book will be an interesting and educational read.
The essay on Frederic Leighton is really interesting for explaining his background, association with the Royal Academy in London, and the way he creates a relationship between his academic working process and aesthetic ideals. The book also gave me my first real introduction to the work of Albert Moore, whose paintings utilize repetition, rhythm, and other musical ideas in visual form, which parallel the symphonic references of Whistler. The information on his use of repetition as a compositional device was unexpectedly relevant to my own taste and ways of thinking about organizing an image and controlling the gaze of the viewer.
Frederic Leighton:
Pavonia, 1858
Icarus and Daedalus, 1869
Albert Moore:
Dreamers, 1879-82
The Quartet,1868
Apples, 1875
11 September 2009
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