stile

Stile

Oak, gloss oil paint, 1300 mm high, 1200 mm wide and 1425 mm long. 2002

A commission for the exhibition; Picture This: Revisiting the Picturesque, the Meadow Gallery at Burford House, Ludlow.
Developed out of an interest in the De Stijl movement, the idea of using the form of a stile as the basis for this piece of work was arrived at in part as a play on words, but also out of the following considerations.
As a potential crossing point, the stile will imply the transcendental nature of Mondrian’s vision “of the totality of nature expressed by the intersection of two lines.”

In "The Railroad Station, An Architectural History", Carroll L.V. Meeks has pointed out that the five principal characteristics of the Picturesque are variety, movement, irregularity, intricacy and roughness. I have chosen to explore the characteristic of movement. The characteristics of the Picturesque are similar to those of the Baroque. The Baroque is in this context seen as an opposite pole to Classicism and can therefore be defined as a permanent condition. My aim is to explore the relationship between the Picturesque/Baroque and Classicism by placing a stile, based on the classical notion, in a Picturesque setting.

Stile Oak, gloss oil paint, 1300 mm high, 1200 mm wide and 1425 mm long. 2002 A commission for the exhibition; Picture This: Revisiting the Picturesque, the Meadow Gallery at Burford House, Ludlow. Developed out of an interest in the De Stijl movement, the idea of using the form of a stile as the basis for this piece of work was arrived at in part as a play on words, but also out of the following considerations. As a potential crossing point, the stile will imply the transcendental nature of Mondrian’s vision “of the totality of nature expressed by the intersection of two lines.” In "The Railroad Station, An Architectural History", Carroll L.V. Meeks has pointed out that the five principal characteristics of the Picturesque are variety, movement, irregularity, intricacy and roughness. I have chosen to explore the characteristic of movement. The characteristics of the Picturesque are similar to those of the Baroque. The Baroque is in this context seen as an opposite pole to Classicism and can therefore be defined as a permanent condition. My aim is to explore the relationship between the Picturesque/Baroque and Classicism by placing a stile, based on the classical notion, in a Picturesque setting.


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