Mark Tansey interested me because of his oddities that are created in his work. He was born 1949, in San Jose, California and is an American postmodern painter best known for monochromatic works, elaborate paintings incorporating hidden text, images and symbols.
Tansey's paintings normally depict everyday or historical occurrences, though they reveal certain oddities under closer scrutinization. Although Mark Tansey uses depiction of recognizable objects in realistic perspective states, he is not a "realist" painter, because photography has co-opted the role of realism in painting. He argues that representation has other functions rather than "capturing the real." He argues that his work is about "how different realities interact with each other."
Tansey runs with the idea that illustration and representation are fundamentally necessary to heal the rift between art and practice, between symbol and meaning.
He states: "Conflict is the easiest notion [from which] to begin developing a narrative: one thing versus another. . . .crises and conflicts were results of oppositions and contradictions and these were what was necessary to activate or motivate a picture. Magritte's work also led me to wonder if this sort of conflict could take place on other levels of content, more quietly, internally, more plausibly. Could a conventional picture include many less apparent crises- the way everyday life does - without the use of overt surrealistic devices?”
I love the strange and bizarre aspects in art and i love a painting that tells a story (whether or not it can actually be understood in reality). Tansey’s work, works against and with traditional institutions of art and art making and I think it makes him all the more interesting.
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