Jetty

Peter Doig
Jetty 1994
Oil on canvas

Probably one of my all-time favorite contemporary paintings.

Peter Doig - work on paper

Peter Doig

it is Finals week = slow posts.

Past and Present: J.E.H. MacDonald and Peter Doig

J.E.H. MacDonald, In the Pine Shadows, Moonlight, 1912, oil on canvas 81.9 x 70.9 cm

J.E.H. MacDonald, Moonlight Harvest, 1913, oil on canvas 41 x 51 cm

Contemporary artist Peter Doig shares a similar sensibility:

Peter Doig

Peter Doig

Julian Lee

I like these works by Julian Lee:

Julian Lee, "Transit", Mixed Media on Canvas (130x100 cm)

Julian Lee, Untitled, Mixed Media on Canvas (90 x 70 cm)Julian Lee, Untitled(Purple) Mixed Media on Canvas ( 140 x 100cm)


Lee's wooded scene above reminds me of Peter Doig:
Peter Doig, "Concrete Cabin", Oil on Canvas, 198x275cm, 1994

Peter Doig and Simone Weil on Painting

Peter Doig, "Blotter" 1993, Oil on canvas, 249 x 199cm

"All great painting gives the following impression: that God is in contact with its point of view regarding the world, with the perspective of it, without either the painter or the person admiring the picture being there to disturb the tte--tte. Whence comes the silence of all great painting." When we look at such pictures we are in a sense not there. We are only eavesdropping (the visual equivalent of eavesdropping) on God's view of the world. " Simone Weil

(I assume the "tte--tte" is a transcription from her writings that is illegible - full article here.)