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The Flat Centaur (Painting #11)
Acrylic Paint on Canvas, March 2003, 61cm x 46cm
The Flat Centaur (Painting #11)
The Flat Centaur (Painting #11) is a simple painting of the Tricolour Centaur.
It consists of a plain blue background with a detail of the Tricolor
Centaur. The aim of this painting is to play with the flatness of the five colours in the picture. With no shading or tones, the colors tend to merge the 3D Centaur form into a single flat spread of colours.
This brings into play two things for the viewer. Firstly, the colours either project forward or recede backward relative to each other. Secondly, the shapes then tell the viewer how to read the form. This makes it possible to read the forms very clearly if you know what it is you are reading. Alternatively, it challenges the viewer to read the gestalt of either the 2D flat colour shapes or the 3D perspective based forms. As with all Gestalt images, the viewer is able to flip back and forth from the two ways of looking at the image.
In addition to this, and simply to make things a little
more interesting, two sections of ‘blue’ on the
3D form are painted in the identical ‘blue’ of
the background. In this way, the colour is not a clue to
the 3D form and the viewer must rely on the shape to literally
‘fill in the gaps’.
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