Anton Henning is definitely up on his art history--I can imagine his paintings being featured along side Braques and Picasso's debut show and no one thinking 'hey waita second this shoulda been painted 100 years from now.' The paintings aren't completely yesteryear style though, there is a certain freshness about them and they're prehaps less contrived than the early modernist paintings--I think he works from automatic scribbles which inspires me. The bottom painting is brilliant because he's combines a Cezanne landscape with this strange scribbly creature which I love. Look how he puts a little shadow behind the creature, which is a really nice contradiction to perspective based landscape. This one has got a birds eye view on the others.
Anton Henning is definitely up on his art history--I can imagine his paintings being featured along side Braques and Picasso's debut show and no one thinking 'hey waita second this shoulda been painted 100 years from now.' The paintings aren't completely yesteryear style though, there is a certain freshness about them and they're prehaps less contrived than the early modernist paintings--I think he works from automatic scribbles which inspires me. The bottom painting is brilliant because he's combines a Cezanne landscape with this strange scribbly creature which I love. Look how he puts a little shadow behind the creature, which is a really nice contradiction to perspective based landscape. This one has got a birds eye view on the others.
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