All Ego RE The Joy of Painting

by David G Wilson

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38.000 x 79.000 inches

Title

All Ego RE The Joy of Painting

Artist

David G Wilson

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

All-Ego-Re: "The Joy of Painting" is a narcissistic self indulgent excursion into and aspects of the Id, that this self portrait endeavors to explore. A self-portrait sometimes explores and subtly reveals aspects of the individual's personality that no one but the artist can reveal. In this painting, I have sought to depict the degree to which my passion for painting permeates every aspect of my being. It reveals the ecstasy that I feel when I am sitting at the easel. I become the paraphernalia of my profession. The objects within my studio become personified in me and my entire being and the exercise of painting become mutually inclusive. I experience a trance that engulfs my consciousness to a degree that I become one with the painting; immersed so deeply that I become unconscious of my surroundings and my entire being becomes so enraptured by the painting that I am executing that my existence is congruent with the image.
A close scrutiny of "All-Ego-Re: The Joy of Painting" reveals the intricacies of the painting that tell so much about my experience in front of the easel. There is an armchair placed in front of an easel, upon which one sees a tondo (a circular painting). In the background, there is a vanity, whose mirror reflects and truncates the image painted on the tondo. A table in the middle ground that is covered with a black and white tablecloth, on which the artist has placed his art supplies and the back of the armchair, are also reflected in the mirror of the vanity. In that same mirror, there is a reflection of the artist, posing for his portrait and standing outside of the parameters of the painting. A mirror that is behind him (also outside of the parameter of the picture) is frames his image within the vanity mirror. He is turning the page of an art book that bears a copy of Diego da Silva Velasquez's "Las Meninas". A vase of tulips, in the foreground, mimics a container holding large brushes. The armchair mimics the artist's alter ego in the act of painting, holding a long stem flower that represents his brush, while his banana left hand holds his palette and maulstick. The composite of images, reflected in the mirror of the vanity, metamorphoses into the face of the artist's alter ego, who is in the process of painting him, posing for his own portrait, his image reflected all over the room by means of a plethora of mirrors that reflect each other. Every reflective surface becomes a mirror that projects the image of the artist in some form or the other, the minutest and least recognizable being the upright reflection on the convex belly of black vase and the inverted image on the concaved neck of the same vase.
Ultimately, the anthropomorphosis of strategically juxtaposed studio paraphernalia becomes an image of the artist (his alter ego) and therein one may perceive five self-portraits within this image so that his studio and alter ego become an alternative reality of himself.
� David G. Wilson

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