The reduction of a painting to its title or even to the memory of it is the core idea of this section of Bad Painting Phase 2. I would like to keep this page as a work-in-progress description of the artistic process of work and thought. The latest development is on the top.
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29 July 2020, Margate, UK
Bad Painting Reduction 65 based on Bad Painting number 65: Casa Pia Supermarket - The doctor would check
selected boys and girls to ensure they were not suffering from sexual infections. (One night each week) Bibi would
then usher the children outside into a van that drove them to the prestigious homes of 'the magic circle'.
61cm x 76cm, acrylic on canvas
17 July 2020, Margate, UK
Bad Painting Reduction 65 based onBad Painting number 65: Casa Pia Supermarket - The doctor would check
selected boys and girls to ensure they were not suffering from sexual infections. (One night each week) Bibi would
then usher the children outside into a van that drove them to the prestigious homes of 'the magic circle'.
61cm x 76cm, acrylic on canvas
6 July 2020, Margate, UK
Bad Painting Reduction 23: Portraits of Mariusz Krezolek and Magdalena Luczak.
Based on Bad Painting number 23:
4-year old beaten, locked up, drowned, starved & force-fed salt by mother & stepdad.
2 x 30.5cm x 22.7cm
4 July 2020, Margate, UK
Bad Painting Reduction based on Bad Painting number 55: Smugglers throwing refugees over board.
They will all drown.
22.7cm x 30.5cm, acrylic on cavas
Bad Painting Reduction based on Bad Painting number 40: Six guys beating a transsexual woman to death.
22.7cm x 30.5cm, acrylic on cavas
3 July 2020, Margate, UK
Bad Painting Reduction based on Bad Painting 46: Five teenagers, armed with a fence panel with nails
protruding from it, a machete, a stick & a baseball bat attacking a black family. One
of the attackers shouting "Stab the dad!"
61cm x 76cm, acrylic on canvas
2 and 3 July 2020, Margate, UK
Bad Painting Reduction based on Bad Painting number 89: "If they die, let him dump them in a forest in Germany,"
Mr. Lahoo said. 71 migrants suffocated in the back of a lorry.
61cm x 76cm, acrylic on canvas
30 June 2020, Margate, UK
Bad Painting Reduction based onBad Painting 164: An angry father is yelling at his daughter and telling her that
she is stupid and will never achieve anything in life.
61cm x 76cm, acrylic on canvas
Bad Painting Reduction based on Bad Painting number 23:
4-year old beaten, locked up, drowned, starved & force-fed salt by mother & stepdad.
61cm x 76cm, acrylic on canvas
Bad Painting reduction based on Bad Painting number 97: The male performer is punching the female performer.
He is wearing a solid gold ring.
Because of hte severe pain she wants to stop the scene while the crew is filming.
61cm x 76cm, acrylic on canvas
Bad Painting Reduction based on Bad Painting 143: The husband is about to hit his wife with a belt in the face.
22.7cm x 30.5cm, acrylic on cavas
Bad Painting Reduction based Bad Painting number 107: Soldiers are forcing a mother to perform oral sex on
her 14-year old son.
22.7cm x 30.5cm, acylic on canvas
26 May 2020, Margate, UK: People don't give a fuck about social distancing
This painting was intended to become a regular Bad Painting. After the second layer of paint I have decided to leave it as it was because I liked the ambiguity of the dark figures.
size: 22.7cm x 30.5cm
material: acrylic on canvas
11 March 2020, Margate, UK: Abstraction and reduction
This painting refers to Bad Painting 14: the murder of James Bulger
This painting is actually upside down, the lines you can see represent the railway tracks and the grey is the first layer of paint (trees, bushes etc.)
size: 56cm x 56cm
material: acrylic, colour pencil on stretched canvas
11 March 2020, Margate, UK: The reduction of the painting to a memory
Title refers to Bad Painting 4
The title is written on a loose sheet of canvas outside the actual viewing space. Once the visitor reads the title and forms an image. This image might be based on the actual painting or is a self-created image. With this image in mind, the visitors find themselves in an empty room with only the memory of the title.
size: canvas sheet: 22cm x 18cm, frame: 32cm x 27cm
material: acrylic on canvas
10 - 11 March 2020, Margate, UK: The crime scene
I have removed all the subjects of the scenes. The paintings refer to the original Bad Paintings as indicated.
Crime Scene 01: relating to Bad Painting 101
size: 61cm x 76cm
material: acrylic on canvas
9 - 10 March 2020, Margate, UK
This painting refers to Bad Painting 27 and Bad Painting 28
size: 2 x 61cm x 76cm
material: acrylic on canvas
25 February 2020, Margate, UK: The reduction of the painting to its title
acrylic on white sheets
size: 205cm x 120cm
material: white sheet, acrylic, wood
11 February 2020, Margate, UK
work-in-progress painting of Bad Painting 134, the torture of Junko Yurata
size: 22.7cm x 30.5cm
material: acrylic on canvas
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