A Primal Dance by Todd Brugman
Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
45.7 cm (18.0 inch) x 30.5 cm (12.0 inch)
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“Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (This is not a pipe) by René Magritte illustrates (in every sense of ‘illustrate’) that he did not paint a pipe. No matter how accurate one is to rendering a pipe, it will never be a pipe, just a mere depiction or illustration of a pipe. If one were to carve, drill, and shape briar wood into a pipe, then you'd have a pipe. This is all quite obvious when spelled out, although one’s first reaction is that the painting is a pipe. This René Magritte painting speaks so much about the illustration of something vs. the embodiment of something. Everything has an intrinsic size. I could make a 100” X 100” painting depicting ecstasy, but I could not then scale it down to 10” X 10”, and with the same the result. An appropriate title of the new 10” by 10” painting would be “Ce n'est pas de l’extase,” “This is not ecstasy”. Therefore, if that is the only goal is to representing or illustrating physical objects, scale doesn’t matter. Yet, weather you are representing physical objects, splattering paint, or the other, scale is intrinsic to sentential experiences.

TODD BRUGMAN
Somerville, ma United States
For me, creating art is deeply personal, it is loosely autobiographical, therapeutic, and the answer for everything: in every sense of the meaning of ‘everything.’ My art doesn’t illustrate something, it is that something. That something is ... More
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Artwork Details
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support Type: Wood Panel
Artwork Height: 45.7 cm (18.0 inch)
Artwork Width: 30.5 cm (12.0 inch)
Depth: 3.8 cm (1.5 inch)
Weight: 3.0 lbs (1.4 kg)
Ready to Hang: Yes
Framed: No
Year Created: 2020
Signed: Yes
Signature Location: back
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