Today I also went to The Baltic art gallery in Newcastle. When I visit the gallery, I personally find most of the exhibitions to be a bit strange, nevertheless I usually really like one of them. This time I really liked Marcin Maciejowski's exhibition on the ground floor.
'Marcin Maciejowski's paintings re-present everyday images of our time- found photographs, movies, posters and newspaper illustrations. Inheriting the social and political implications of their source material, his paintings deliberately abandon the traditional subject matter of his chosen medium to examine its role in today's cultural world.'
His work is so beautiful. He uses oil paints to create a soft, textured surface. He blends his paints so they accentuate features and shapes of the subjects. I found it interesting how in some of his paintings, he would capture the persons expression brilliantly and then in others, the subject would have a blank face. He usually gave the celebrities and people who he had seen in a magazine/newspaper the blank faces. Maybe this was to hide their identity or to create some sort of mystery behind the paintings. It made me think that maybe we could look at blurring the features on someones face or removing them completely to see what effect it has on the feeling of the image.
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