Target#73016 29 X 42″ ac
Shooting may be sport or disease. What is the intent? What are the targets? The bulls eye and the apple: legitimate targets, one for formal sport, the other for outdoor plinking. Unless, of course, the apple is William Tell’s and sitting on someone’s head or on someone’s sill. The human skull – nor any part of the body – is not an acceptable target. Nor are birds usually, unless your life is threatened by hordes of them with inhuman designs, as in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Birds”, which was Chen’s actual inspiration for this composition, even though the bird motif is rather insignificant. (You can find another pair of wings disguised as apple leaves).All of this brings us to the central image, one of Cezanne’s most original still lifes. For backcountry plinking, nothing is more satisfying than the sudden smacking of glistening glass.The composition is a fascinating duel between round forms, which are Eastern and feminine, and the tough squares and triangles, which are more Western and masculine. The latter intrude everywhere, even cutting the circular targets into wedges.
– Lawrance Jeppson |
Target
Lamentation
2015 年 7 月 28 日