Collages Index | Richard Horvath Artworks
Bar
1989-90
Photocopy, dot matrix print, calico and acrylic paint
56 x 41 cms
Artists are often partial to a drink, yet after the impressionists the number of artworks featuring a bar or cafe became almost non-existent.
The underlying image in this collage is a printout of a screen capture of the 1950's film noir, Cape Fear. The television scan lines of the image are faintly visible beneath the hatching of cloth and paper strips. The printouts of props such as the oversize glasses, ashtray and seashell were drawn on an early model Mac that had a monochrome screen the size of a postcard.
As in nearly all of the collages in this series the theme here is barely legible because the elements that could help contextualise it are buried in an abstracted surface mayhem. Hopefully it imparts the mood of the venues I used to spend a bit too much time in.
The darkly glazed strip on the left that disrupts the composition is a contrivance intended not only to disturb the eye but to simulate the breakdown of the image that poor television reception chronically imposed on my viewing pleasure. In a backdoor fashion it suggests the inspiration and source of images that inform much of this series.
The underlying image in this collage is a printout of a screen capture of the 1950's film noir, Cape Fear. The television scan lines of the image are faintly visible beneath the hatching of cloth and paper strips. The printouts of props such as the oversize glasses, ashtray and seashell were drawn on an early model Mac that had a monochrome screen the size of a postcard.
As in nearly all of the collages in this series the theme here is barely legible because the elements that could help contextualise it are buried in an abstracted surface mayhem. Hopefully it imparts the mood of the venues I used to spend a bit too much time in.
The darkly glazed strip on the left that disrupts the composition is a contrivance intended not only to disturb the eye but to simulate the breakdown of the image that poor television reception chronically imposed on my viewing pleasure. In a backdoor fashion it suggests the inspiration and source of images that inform much of this series.