Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: christopher wool, coppola, new york, painting, photography, skateboard design, stencile, text paintig, typography
christopher wool is a contemporary american artist/born in 1955, in Chicago. He began and sustained his career in New York. The works of Wool, basicly his black and white paintings, have distinctive features in many ways. Besides his abstract works, the artist prefers to work with the text. These stenciled text paintings are decomposed and put forward a certain statement of the artist. According to Ellen S. Wilson,”Wool did not simply stencil the words—he broke them up so that reading the text in the usual way is an effort. You can’t scan it, you have to decipher it” and Francis Ford Coppola states that “It’s not just a statement, it’s a painting.” So it seems reasonable to say that Wool’s works stand on a highly delicate point that the viewer needs to distinguish their artistic and typographic aspects. Also his artistic productions spreads within a wide domain from photography to skateboard design.
