David Pocknee
GEMAK Paintings

During the residency, the technique of New Fordist Painting was refined and used to create a series of paintings which were displayed in the exhibition. These paintings are shown below - click on the images to see them in more detail.

Gallery

Ivan Pavlov

Henry Ford

Frederick Taylor

Antonio Gramsci

Balloons

Andy And His Machine

Picture Of An Exhibition

A Fish In Sea 1-4

The A Fish In Sea series attempts to amplify some of the intrinsic characteristics of the New Fordist Painting Technique:

Method
1. A photograph of a fish was painted using the New Fordist Painting Technique.
2. This painting was photographed.
3. The photograph of the painting was then painted using the New Fordist Painting Technique.
4. Steps 2 and 3 were then repeated two times.

New Fordist Painting

Author: David Pocknee

New Fordist Painting is an easy-to-use technique for creating a painting. By analyzing an image and deconstructing it into individual brush strokes, the New Fordist Painting application reduces all the steps that would take hours of preparation and training to a couple of simple gestures.

The number of layers of color in the painting should be determined and reduced if necessary, using the color reduction tool built into the software. Then, other variables can be set as well: brush size, maximum stroke length, angle and variation.

At this point, the analysis can begin. Once the analysis is completed, the results can be saved into a text file. The time needed to complete the painting is displayed in the program, as is the amount of paint needed.

When the live paint begins, the result of the analysis will be displayed by a projector on the canvas: a flashing rectangle will appear on the screen, showing the area that needs to be painted.