Medicine of Immortality left panel is a painting by Philip Slagter which was uploaded on October 9th, 2013.
Medicine of Immortality left panel
This is the left panel from a triptych Medicine of Immortality painted in LA in the 1980's on 3 canvases.... more
Title
Medicine of Immortality left panel
Artist
Philip Slagter
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
This is the left panel from a triptych "Medicine of Immortality" painted in LA in the 1980's on 3 canvases.
I have published all three panels here so you can hang them the same as the original.
I have also published an image of the 3 paintings on one print.
This is a triptych, three canvases that have a relationship with each other.
I had just relocated to LA and found my first real studio. I was fascinated with LA and its layering. Everything was layered from the graffiti over graffiti over walls over signs to all the social layering of the LA art world, personalities over personalities over personalities. I had removed the relationship between objects and their accepted collective relationships and was dealing with the formal aspects of art in relationship to themselves.
Titles of paintings became important to me as well. A title of a painting can be so limiting and confine the viewer into a preconceived idea and not let the viewer have his own personal experience but rather a collective experience, so I chose titles that were equally as open as the work I was creating, thereby letting the viewer supply the meaning because he can supply no meaning other than his own.
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October 9th, 2013
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