Unit 12 Live Brief. Mother And Child. Oil Pianting Artist Profile. Arthur Jackson

Arthur Jackson Hepworth-known as Arthur Jackson/Arthur Hepworth in the art world. Artist and architect, he passed way in 2003-aged 91. (Born 1911). Through out his creative life, he was involved, constructed and participated in the movements of abstract, modernist, surrealism. My regards for Jackson's/Hepworth's oil work perhaps reflects in my own, personal delight in both abstract and surrealist movements in general.

The piece above is a painting that uses oil and graphite on canvas, entitled "Painting", and completed in 1937. The piece is an example of the "The Constructive Idea" which is a concept that proposes that form and content should be both the same thing. Personally, in my own interpretation,  I feel that the subject matter is architecture, and it has been interpreted in a very abstract manner. Jacksons abstract interpretation of architecture has been made to appear three dimensional. By Jackson using a combination of precise measurements and intuition, he has overlaid individual forms-which think is rather clever.

Similarly, John Cecil Stephenson used architecture in an abstract fashion in his 1937 Painting-which uses Tempera on canvas.  A link to the piece in

question; http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/stephenson-painting-t00617.  When comparing both pieces one observes that, both pieces were completed in 1937, have overlapping forms, and interpret the architecture in an abstract manner. However Jacksons' pieces uses curved forms, and Stephenson's piece uses straight and angular forms and lines. Both pieces suggest that the artists were both heavily influence by the Bauhaus movement.

Returning to Jacksons piece, the painting has chosen a primary colour scheme with tints and shades present. The colours selected are quite discordant-and clash with each other. The main colour that dominates this piece is blue, with a mixture of form line and shapes found within the piece. The work has a unified and consistent texture, too.

As Bauhaus influenced piece, dominated by hues of blue, this piece entraps the sensation of being alone in a building and how lonely this can feel. One implies that this piece in particular would suite the inside of a building or room that specializes the treatment of those with building/room/space associated fears-i.e., fear of heights, claustrophobia or social anxiety, and the painting-to me-emanates auras of depression and sensation of being alone in a wide and vast ocean. Trapped with water all around me.