Self-portrait, Bob Hainstock
Title
Self-portrait, Bob Hainstock
Subject
Portrait
Date
2020
Description
3 Questions: Artist & Curator in Conversation
1. Describe your working process?
I do not follow reference photos or sketches once I begin to paint, but rather a simplistic outline of charcoal lines that determine major elements of each work. Colors and textures are taken from memories of similar places or circumstances.
2. What was your source of inspiration for your work in the exhibition? How did the act of art making help in reflecting and respond to the pandemic?
There are few locations that can suggest conflicting emotions of tranquility, uncertainty, and desperation. Our unique dykelands and tidal waterways reflect the rising perils to environment and human health because of global industrialization, while the useless ladders, like the nearby antiquated radio-towers offer messages/images of hope never to be realized.
3.How do you think the visual arts helps us understand the complex world around us?
Visual art is most important to the individual creating the work as he/she sorts through the daily garbage bags of news and expert opinion of others. For everyone else, it's simply another puzzle to solve and to possibly share or reject.
1. Describe your working process?
I do not follow reference photos or sketches once I begin to paint, but rather a simplistic outline of charcoal lines that determine major elements of each work. Colors and textures are taken from memories of similar places or circumstances.
2. What was your source of inspiration for your work in the exhibition? How did the act of art making help in reflecting and respond to the pandemic?
There are few locations that can suggest conflicting emotions of tranquility, uncertainty, and desperation. Our unique dykelands and tidal waterways reflect the rising perils to environment and human health because of global industrialization, while the useless ladders, like the nearby antiquated radio-towers offer messages/images of hope never to be realized.
3.How do you think the visual arts helps us understand the complex world around us?
Visual art is most important to the individual creating the work as he/she sorts through the daily garbage bags of news and expert opinion of others. For everyone else, it's simply another puzzle to solve and to possibly share or reject.
Creator
Bob Hainstock
Rights
copyright, Bob Hainstock
Original Format
self-portrait, Bob Hainstock
Citation
Bob Hainstock, “Self-portrait, Bob Hainstock,” Exhibits At Acadia, accessed May 3, 2024, https://exhibitsatacadia.omeka.net/items/show/69.