The 10 North Main Art Studio in Minot North Dakota
Male 1: In downtown Minot in a studio about one of the best restaurants in the state 10 North Main artist Walter Piehl.
Male 2: Well, they call the style of painting, I guess expressionism. It’s after the German expressionist and the abstract expressionist of the New York school of the abstract from the 50’s and I guess if I have to be part of any label that would be one that I think does kind of fit what I’m doing.
I chose this because I was forced and finding a more appropriate finding new contemporary way of dealing with this cowboy rodeo’s subject by my professors at the University of North Dakota when I was a student graduate student. And they said, “We watched you to paint this thing because it’s a better subject for you to be worked it on than those lame and incepted landscapes and cityscapes of figures that you been doing and since you- we hear that you rodeo and all the time we think it could be very like a very good subject.”
So I rodeo is full of action and follow movement an it took me a long time to kind a really find that I could work this way and well, its kind of fit, fit need personally also because I‘d find that I’m, I’m rather an inpatient painter I like rather quick results some things and expressionism in my style hopefully fits both rodeo on my personality I guess.
Now, what I tried to do is make drawing underneath and then I create a lot of kiosk over the top of it and then after I have completely probably made it a image of kiosk and I try to bring some sort of control and resolution to that kiosk and while I’m doing that hopefully it retains some of the freshness and vitality of a rather expressionistic approach to it, with enough detail to tell you what it is, when I think you know that tourist import to my style.
Well, it’s a long way from finish, that’s a barely a start but I think it has public potential it all do and I find that the best ones in the end are ones that I probably lose control of in the process and if they make me wonder a lot about how am I going to solve the how am I going to resolve it make it work and you have to resort to sometimes very drastic measures of taking the big areas out, painting it over and if you that you retain some of the original kiosk in it, it seems like those with the best paintings for once it come really easy and don’t have a lot of struggle aren’t necessarily the best ones.
I want them to look like they were probably done in a half hour an hour to in a very energetic kind of controlled way, but that’s not the case, the tough artist to keep them fresh when, through changes after you wants start the painting it can have a lot of freshness and energy but they don’t have the richness that you get from layering them.
And I want to retain that freshness look cup party as you paint on them over a period of days and it occurs to you what to change and you look at them a lot and you come back and you may work for only 15 to 20 minutes then you let a set when you come back to it as you do all of that it may on the average make between 8, 10, 12 hours for painting.
I may have done paintings as large in a matter of 3-4 hours, start to finish but some of them have taken me 40 or 50 hours to solve the problems that I’ve set up for myself as well, so its not something that you can predict really.
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