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Wednesday, 4 July 2012

The Contemporary Significance Of Charcoal Paintings

By Laura Gallagher


Some charcoal paintings may actually be drawings. They may be called 'paintings' because paintings sound more prestigious than drawings which are often preliminary sketches for more complex work. Ironically, the skills required by artists who use the pure element of carbon exclusively in their work are fine and specialized.

Artists of the stone age era probably used the ash from their fires for the earliest art work. Used in its pure form it would not last long and simply flake away from the surface upon which it had been applied. However it would have been mixed with other substances to make it permanent.

On the Internet there are many contemporary artists now exhibiting drawings in this style. This illustrates how it is fashionable in the twenty-first century though it might have been considered rudimentary before the advent of the Internet. Several factors are responsible for this development in which primitive materials are used in the creation of sophisticated art.

Environmental literacy has brought about understanding of the need to find ways to preserve natural resources and achieve sustainable development. Some artists now use litter to create installations that point to current issues. Perhaps the use of the most prolific element to create conventional but highly original representations in carbon can be seen in the same vein. They are signs of current times in fundamental instrumentation.

The ancient substance retains some qualities that can hardly be matched by synthetic substances. It has a blackness about it that is almost tactile in its intensity. Yet this intensity can be manipulated and controlled by techniques that are as skillful as those used by ancient hunters. Industrialization has advanced to the point where the effective use of pure substances is seen to have a technological edge. It is now fashionably clever.

This is the context in which charcoal paintings have become highly fashionable. Natural textures are shown to be in effective use creating original works that are situated in the present yet rooted in the elemental past. As computer scientists use ancient words to convey the latest thoughts in technology so artists use pure elements of the past to depict the present.




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