Studio portrait for interview by Pieter Paul: http://factor.pieter-paul.com/interview/arnaud-tandt/
(text and photos by Kristof Callebaut)
KIDS IN BLUE
Kids rarely make for an interesting subject for a painting. When asked to make a painting of my nephews I was a bit reluctant. A picture of them playing in a baby crib seemed interesting: the bars gave depth to the image.
The first version was painted quickly: shades of white on an orange background (I had done similar experiments). While I wasn't particularly pleased with the result, the rough lines of the bars suddenly reminded me of Francis Bacon's "Man in Blue" series. For the final version I decided to translate that idea, using a prussian blue (mixed with ochre) background (white was mixed with red and ochre for the skin tones).
In the end I decided to frame the picture so that there was an opening at the bottom of the image. Thus altering the image from a prisonlike space to a more abstract play of lines.
The first version was painted quickly: shades of white on an orange background (I had done similar experiments). While I wasn't particularly pleased with the result, the rough lines of the bars suddenly reminded me of Francis Bacon's "Man in Blue" series. For the final version I decided to translate that idea, using a prussian blue (mixed with ochre) background (white was mixed with red and ochre for the skin tones).
In the end I decided to frame the picture so that there was an opening at the bottom of the image. Thus altering the image from a prisonlike space to a more abstract play of lines.
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| Man in Blue V - Francis Bacon |
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| (final version) |
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(SELF) PORTRAIT
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| © NUCLEO |
(self) portrait made for the catalogue of the group exhibition "There are stories of coincidence and chance and intersections and strange things told and which is which and nobody knows" (November - December 2013 - Ghent) © NUCLEO
STUDIO
New studio. New work.
A room in a former rectory, hence the curtains and wallpaper.
Thanks to Nucleo. http://www.nucleo.be/home/index/en
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