The images below are just a few of the many pieces i found interesting from the Tate Britain.
The painting below i liked simply because it interests me how it is done and it is similar to the artist Jenny Saville who i've been looking at recently, who also paints in a interesting way and manages to use a kind of unorthodox method of painting using large, clashing, expressive marks to create clear understandable images. This painting at a distance is an understandable image with people, depth and structure yet at a closer look like the images below, the paint is incredibly thick and laid down in an almost childlike manner with what seem like loose un controlled marks, heavily loading the paint without detail, just using random strokes and blobs of different colour to build up the image. The paint doesn't blend to bring the image together but the colours just clash or lay blatantly over each other.
I would like to try this technique to paint a final piece for The Rakes Progress project. For me i think it will be enjoyable to do this but i may find it difficult because i tend to over work and tweak a lot, for example if i was to apply thick paint like on the below images i'd struggle to leave it how i first apply it and not accept that area as complete, i'd have massive urges to smooth it out and make it more flat and blended to seem slightly more realistic. I think it will be a challenge to paint like this but i can't wait to try it and see what happens and hopefully resist my urges to over work the painting.
The first two images below are close up's of the third image which is the full painting.
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