Video: Elusive reality in the paintings of Chad Robertson
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
“In our world we live our lives and at the same time we breathe, think, sleep, constantly move, the weight of our body changes, our hair grows, our eyes blink … So much of what we do, and everything that we think about is hidden from the naked eye. But if you slow down time, then another world appears with all its details. It makes our intentions, motives, and desires more honest. Subtle nuances become the main events,”says artist Chad Robertson. And this is the world he depicts in his paintings. A world in which nothing escapes the artist's attentive gaze.
The process of creating Chad Robertson's paintings is closely related to the use of a video camera and a computer. First, the author conducts a kind of "interview" with his models, which he records on tape. The digital result of this communication is transferred to a computer, on the monitor of which Chad watches the recording frame by frame. Having chosen the most successful and expressive moments, the author superimposes them on top of each other using Photoshop and ends up with something like a sketch for a future picture.
Having done all the preparatory work, Chad Robertson picks up a brush and begins to paint. He could have just printed his "sketch" - but in that case it would have been just a digital image. And since the author seeks to convey true feelings and emotions in his paintings, he considers it necessary to fill the images with human energy - and he does this by applying strokes on the canvas. In addition, Chad claims that he is interested in the idea of returning paintings from virtual space back to the material world.
Many of Chad Robertson's paintings depict people, but the author himself refuses to call these works portraits. “My paintings do not represent specific people, they primarily represent human emotions in general,” says the author.
Chad Robertson lives and works in Los Angeles. Exhibitions of his works were held in Munich, Stockholm, Chicago, San Francisco.
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