Plotting to Get Out of the Frame, 1995. 9" x 11", Acrylic on Canvas.
The Artful Readers Club for March
The Walking Dead Compendium One by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard { and some other folks} Charlie Adlard recently admitted in an interview that he often makes up his characters on the page. A fact which can cause any serious character designer to bow in admiration. As you can see the likeness of the graphic novel with the AMC show is very close. Tweet Review: A long, arduous display of how a few people can entertain the masses. Since I am reading and watching The Walking Dead simultaneously, I am constantly comparing the two. Fans of the television series will be pleased to know that the graphic novel is just as interesting, if not more so. The details are very different in the first 48 issues of the graphic novel, for example, Carl is a lot younger and has a playmate Sophie..whose fate in the television series is quite astonishing. There are endless differences, but the overall storyline remains consistent in both versions which is; what happens to people during a...
A pun here. Plotting means writing. Unconsciously, a book drifts into the image – just above the knee, outstretched in a hand… Plotting also suggests an idea of thinking, of spying? Subterfuge?
ReplyDeleteThe title suggests an image of strain. And this is what we read into the main image. The foot seems pressed against the left – quite like classical Greek sculpture in that all the emphasis is on a movement that is just about to take place. The image itself reminds me of the foetal position – there is a sort of theme of birth going on I would say. Perhaps the birth of creativity? The birth is taking against an existing pressure – tradition? A mother? Anyway, it reflects an existential angst.
The strange whirls give the impression of vapours or smoke – the intangible.
The entity has no eye, if one looks carefully. Or is asleep/thinking…
Very effective use of the three colours schema. Blue, of course, seems to suggest sadness, especially loneliness – which seems to be one of the overall themes here.