Free Online Book:
"DECONSTRUCTIONS: Paintings by Marty McCorkle"
This book contains about forty paintings by Marty McCorkle as and observations regarding "deconstructive painting".
It is currently available for download as a PDF here or can be viewed at scibe.com.
"When I began to paint in earnest in the late 1990’s, I understood that painting was dead. “All that could be said in painting has been said,” they said.
Far from being discouraged by painting’s autopsy, I felt relief not to have to approach art seriously, but rather to play, experiment and bounce rhythms on the canvas…
Armed with the certainty that painting was a goner, off I went with a shovel (a metaphorical one) and dug up its corpse for some harmless giggles.
And in my experimental laboratory (studio) I found not only that painting came alive, but sat up, asked for a glass of water and immediately began to shimmer with life.
"Deconstructionism…opens up depiction in painting with an almost baroque flamboyance."
In this approach, painting scrubs depiction down to essential brush strokes, harking back to Cezanne, but freely disagrees with that granddaddy of all painters by not sensibly following and reinforcing contours. Shimmering swaths of solid color come into play…" Read more by downloading
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