 Philip Koch
The Trees, 1985
Sepia Ink on Paper, 30 x 42"
(76.20 x 106.68 cm)
By
the early 1980s, Koch's brushstrokes become fluid and are used with ease in his
oil sketches, sepia drawings, and paintings. The sepia drawings are rendered
with great freedom, sometimes with a light, impressionistic touch and forceful
chiaroscuro. They are one of the highpoints of this decade, along with a corpus
of paintings and drawings of imaginary landscapes that Koch calls his "surrealist
landscapes." The meaning of these artworks is elusive and inspires various
levels of interpretation. However, they foreshadow the artist's later visionary
paintings, where universal metaphors dominate the iconography of his work, but
in a different style. |
