To take the female form and simplify it, distort it and create the decorative nude
without losing any of the beauty of the original form.
Gustav Klimt painted his Water Serpents with an impossible angle of head and body. It is the wrongness of the figure's structure that makes the image so appealing. Picasso used it famously but inconsistently.
Painting the figure in this way adds a dimension (while removing much of the extraneous detail) that gives the work a depth that is compelling. This in contrast to a meticulously painted object that, surprise! looks just like the object. Admittedly, I have no interest nor the technique for photo realism and I am rarely moved by strictly abstract work.
Most of my paintings are failed projects, frozen in transition between where I began and where I had hoped to go. By failed I mean within the context of my original strategy. Too many anatomical details seduce me into including them. Much of my work is more representational than what I had imagined when I first stood before a blank canvas with a palette of paint and a handful of brushes.
Take the female form, reduce it to it's most simple geometric shapes, render it uniquely and decorative, then re-infuse the form with the charm and melodrama of the human spirit.
