ArtWork Story: Guy Kilchrist

Assignment, Exploration, Modelling, Study, and then some years later - Reinterpretation

The 9" x 12" encaustic piece (at right) was created at a recent LAA workshop led by Bonnie Camos. Although it is a recent work, its origin of inspiration began three years earlier while taking a Drawing class at UL.

In our class assignment, we were given a list of famous artist of the “Suprematism” movement which is focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors based upon "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" rather than on visual depiction of objects. 
 
I chose a simple piece by Ivan Kliun (1873-1943): a Russian Avant-Garde painter, sculptor and art theorist because of its intrigue and simplicity. ​We were to model the design with household items and then do a “still life” charcoal rendering. 

​The encaustic interpretation was painted directly on a hot plate without considering the mono print would be a reverse image representation. The three dots and thin lines were applied afterwards with India ink. 

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Another derivative of the original Kliun piece.