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Paintings of
Memory and Desire
Excerpt
from Jerry Buchanan's Sketch Book 1972
In his
30's, Jerry spent many hours contemplating art as viewed through a window.
Perhaps he thought he might glimpse the
solution to an artistic problem if he studied this perspective. He considered the
window metaphor numerous times in sketches during this period of his life.
The painting, "Landscape" was created on many canvases during Jerry
Buchanan's career. The date of the above painting is not known.
His sketch book illustrates a variety of concepts such as window panes
with glass, and frames filled with carpet. Most of these concepts
were actually constructed, supporting the comments made throughout Jerry's
career that "Mr. Buchanan builds, rather than paints, his art."
Some thoughts from Jerry's sketchbook follow ...
"I'm getting to a very un-self-conscious way of
painting. The question will arise soon: does it evoke
passion?
"These colors in the current
"window" series is a cross between "art" and "life." It is a
blending of a conceptual wood colouration and conceptual cubist
colouration. Painting semi-wood on "point" colors; blue brushed in
"wood" strokes. Painted wood becomes more or less "natural.
"Consider all possible manifestations of painterliness; a didactic art, in
making the several explications possible, instead of the single solution,
of a problem? Is it necessary to "clean -up" after a stroke?"
J. Buchanan, from his Sketchbook, 1972
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