When I attend the critiques of the MFA painters, the thing I try and take away from it how I can apply what they do to my own work. I think about the questions the professors pose as if they were directed at me instead. Gen's approach to her female figure interests me in the way she chooses to highlight different aspects of the body depending on what the figure is doing. There is also no attention to detail in the face, which is something I am drawn to as well. I think this choice makes the viewer read the body language and surroundings of the figure to grasp whats happening. Mitch's work on the other hand makes me think about how I paint. He uses the paint (and various other items) as a material with its own personality that he guides around the canvas. I mostly think of him while painting in the way of reminding myself to free up my hand and not take the image so seriously, rather allowing the paint to bring its own qualities into my painting that I may not think to put there.
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