Bad Paintings Series | 「壞畫」 『糟糕的繪畫/上好的藝術』繪畫系列

從根本上的轉變：Michael Andrew Law 的「壞畫」系列
從超寫實主義演變成表達性抽象，Michael Andrew Law 的「壞畫」系列標誌著他藝術之旅的轉折點。這個標誌性系列從多元化的影響中獲取靈感：策展人Eva Badura-Triska為2008年在維也納現代藝術博物館的展覽「壞畫：好藝術」所寫的一篇文章，以及藝術家Francis Picabia、Gerhard Richter、Julian Schnabel和Yan Pei-Ming的豐富作品。

這系列是對Law早期追求模仿攝影精確的超寫實主義作品的一種故意的轉變，「壞畫」擁抱抽象、表達性和行動繪畫。該系列向傑克遜·波洛克致敬，更偏向將繪畫作為表現故事的一種姿態，而不是專注於獲得真實的結果。所出現的圖像是副產品，而不是主要目標。

「壞畫」系列主要呈現單色作品，在預備的色調畫布上使用透明的繪畫技術。該過程避免了色彩混合，保留了每一筆的原始「透明度」，並且最小化修飾以防止失去這種透明質感。每件作品要麼在幾個小時內完成，要麼完全被丟棄，反映了Law對他獨特的藝術視野的堅定承諾。

這個系列代表了表達藝術、抽象藝術和流行藝術的和諧融合，成為深刻的社會評論的載體。它深入探索了如死亡、性愛、自我、歷史和流行文化等普遍的人類主題，提供了一種獨特的透鏡，讓我們可以觀察和理解這些複雜的主題。

The artist’s signature painting series which inspired by an essay by curator Eva Badura-Triska in for the 2008 show “Bad Painting: Good Art” at the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna , as well as the works of Francis Picabia , Gerhard Richter , Julian Schnabel , Yan Pei-Ming .

Contrary to the Photorealistic paintings earlier in Michael Andrew Law’s earlier career which tried to make painting looks more like a photograph , “Bad Paintings” intended to be more on the side of abstract , expressive and action painting ( Here referencing Jackson Pollack ) so in which image or realistic result not the first priority instead using painting as a gesture to showcase a story , the images just a side effects. Most of the “ Bad Paintings Series “ are painted in monochrome with transparent painting techniques on top of a prepared toned canvas , in which there were minimum to no colour mixing ( Avoiding mixing of different colour paint ) in the entire painting process , with the least cover up or retouching in the painting process to avoid losing “transparency” of the painting , each work either could completed within couple hours or would be destroyed .

The artist consider this series more of an mixture of Expressive Art, Abstract Art and Pop Art in which acting as a medium of social commentary for the uses of explores humanity subject matters such as Death, Sex, Self, History and Popular Cultures.