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The back of the artwork shows the reality: boards, staples, toile, wood, gesso, along with a few bolts to hold the many "planes" together. The glossy otherworldly graphic illusion of the front side is dispelled in this view as theatrical artifice, less related to a TV screen world of light than to old-fashioned trompe-l'oeil traditional paintings.

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The back of the artwork shows the reality: boards, staples, toile, wood, gesso, along with a few bolts to hold the many "planes" together. The glossy otherworldly graphic illusion of the front side is dispelled in this view as theatrical artifice, less related to a TV screen world of light than to old-fashioned trompe-l'oeil traditional paintings.
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Tarnport (tarnport@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 16:22:46 JST Tarnport

An 80s "Memphis-style" #Painting by Neil Loeb from a retail site. I'm most interested in the back view, the "bones." It's made to look glossy and post-modern machine-generated ethereal, but that's only artifice, not so different than the illusions of traditional representational art which claim to be windows onto landscapes or people's faces, but in fact are only 2D paint on canvas, too. Rags, wood, pigment - and in this case some bolts, too - arranged to trick the mind into seeing more.

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