Painting the present
PAINTING THE PRESENT Improvisation in painting based on the character of the strokes
In this monographic workshop we investigate some of the most important principles that are intertwined in the field of improvisation, understood as a language that crosses all artistic disciplines. We work from the essay “Looking at the composition is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. 86 aspects of composition” by musician and composer Mike Vargas. The author has collaborated intensively with various artistic disciplines, dealing with the transversal aspects that exist - mainly - in the language of improvisation. This is, at present, a recurring methodology in the fields of music, dance and theatre, but it is rarely included in pictorial languages, at least consciously and as a central aspect of the process of constructing an image.
Mike Vargas lists 86 aspects that are intertwined in the processes of composition and improvisation and that are the axes on which the painting exercises will be structured. Appropriation, gesture, duration, intuition, complexity, imitation, organization, complexity, are some of them. Using Indian ink as a medium, we investigate the duration of the stroke, the mystery of the findings, the generosity of the stain, the dispersion of the mind, as well as the forms of composition contemplating emptiness as a theme. Luciana Rago
