Dream Painting

Dreamed I was given a painting which has a sentimental religious theme, somewhat in the style of Thomas Kincade, only even more Catholic.

Sunrise, Thomas Kinkade

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In the dream I was explaining what I had done with it as if I was an artist in the media being interviewed. I had painted or drawn on top of the painting, a bit like the way Jake and Dinos Chapman have added peeled layers to Goya and other paintings.

 Jake and Dinos Chapman. One Day You Will No Longer Be Loved - That it Should Come to This. 2010 

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I had obscured much of it, and magnified details, so that only certain elements were visible.

Jay Ohlrich, Riversbend

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Vuillard reproduction

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The point was that I was making obvious the illusion which painting is, showing in detail the tricks and visual agreements that comprise image. By this, I was showing what an illusion such religion is. Somehow, by being a lapsed Catholic, it had allowed the veil of painting illusion to be lifted.

6th August 2012