Saturday 8 September 2012

TRISTIAM HILLIER - Haymaking (1943)

Haymaking
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/haymaking-8321

Good god this image is awful. I saw this in York Art Gallery and I absolutely loved the way Hillier twists the soft association of pastels by making them very bright and uncomfortable. I also wrote that I 'Dont like bottom RHC' (right hand corner) but looking again I'm not sure why it disturbed me so. I think it's because the simplicity of the painting style works with the pastels to create a surreal appearance, but these details just looked lazily done.

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