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October 28th 2009 02:10
Keith Tyson (b. August 23, 1969) is a British Turner Prize-winning artist. He works in a wide range of media, including painting, drawing and installation, and he is noted equally for his painting series.
One such series, which we shall look at today is the Nature Paintings (2005 - 2008). A mixture of paints, pigments and chemicals are allowed to interact in specific ways upon an acid primed aluminium panel. The combined processes of gravity, chemical reaction, temperature, hydrophobia and evaporation simultaneously conspire to create surfaces reminiscent of a wide range of natural forms and landscapes. In this respect, the paintings seem to be depict nature, but they are also created by nature as well.
These painting images, information about them and quotes from Keith Tyson were sourced from the New Scientist.
This is one of Tyson's "Mathematical Nature" paintings.
This means that he has applied the paint to the aluminum in a mathematical order. In this case, he poured on the pigments in a numbered spiral but only where the prime numbers would fall.
Usually Tyson uses 10 to 15 substances on each work, including stained-glass window paint, ceramic glazes, resins and pigments he's invented himself.
This and the following four works are the "Elements" series of the "Nature" paintings.
The idea for the work came about by accident while Tyson was busy collecting "all the paints known to man" in his studio for another project.
"One day they all collapsed and there was just this huge pile of junk on the floor. I was devastated as this was thousands of pounds' worth of paint, but there was one corner that had this incredibly DNA-like structure.
"I spent ages trying to work out which paints were responsible and in the process found more patches of the mess that I liked."
Tyson says it's purely coincidental that his paintings end up looking organic: like a geological formation, a collection of tissues on a medical slide or an artist's impression of a black hole.
The title of this work refers to the way he creates the art, he says, rather than what it ends up looking like.
"Nature does its stuff instantly, at all scales, everywhere. There's no part of the painting that can be lazy. It all has to obey the laws of physics," says Tyson.
"You zoom into them and they retain their level of detail, but with a painting done by hand you can always get down to the brush marks. The paintings look as good close up as they do far away.
"Nature's better at painting than I am."
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia page for Keith Tyson.
One such series, which we shall look at today is the Nature Paintings (2005 - 2008). A mixture of paints, pigments and chemicals are allowed to interact in specific ways upon an acid primed aluminium panel. The combined processes of gravity, chemical reaction, temperature, hydrophobia and evaporation simultaneously conspire to create surfaces reminiscent of a wide range of natural forms and landscapes. In this respect, the paintings seem to be depict nature, but they are also created by nature as well.
Nested
This means that he has applied the paint to the aluminum in a mathematical order. In this case, he poured on the pigments in a numbered spiral but only where the prime numbers would fall.
Usually Tyson uses 10 to 15 substances on each work, including stained-glass window paint, ceramic glazes, resins and pigments he's invented himself.
Fire
The idea for the work came about by accident while Tyson was busy collecting "all the paints known to man" in his studio for another project.
"One day they all collapsed and there was just this huge pile of junk on the floor. I was devastated as this was thousands of pounds' worth of paint, but there was one corner that had this incredibly DNA-like structure.
"I spent ages trying to work out which paints were responsible and in the process found more patches of the mess that I liked."
Earth
The title of this work refers to the way he creates the art, he says, rather than what it ends up looking like.
Water
"You zoom into them and they retain their level of detail, but with a painting done by hand you can always get down to the brush marks. The paintings look as good close up as they do far away.
"Nature's better at painting than I am."
Air
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia page for Keith Tyson.
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