Electro Distortion, 2019, oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm
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One of Robert Dunt's Distortion Form Paintings with are inspired by music.
This painting very clearly sets out the key idea of much of Robert's work. This is taking something traditional and then adding chaos and distortion to make something new, fresh and special.
In this situation Robert paints a background like a Patrick Heron painting and then covers it with his black and white Distortion Forms which are a visual metaphor for noise and chaos. The beauty of this painting lies in the simplicity and clarity of the idea being visually represented.
Robert was influenced by paintings that explored colour such as the works by Monet, Matisse and Jackson Pollock. But he did not just want to recreate these paintings and so began looking at a way of using colour in a more contemporary context.
The Jesus and Mary Chain wrote pretty "Beach Boys" like pop songs but then covered them with noise and distortion and feedback. In a similar fashion Robert painted ‘pretty’ colourful paintings and then covered them with black and white "Distortion Forms", a visual metaphor for the noise and distortion used by the Jesus and Mary Chain.
Though inspired by music these paintings are firmly rooted in the visual, and work on making original colour combinations. The paintings also reference the act of seeing, the freneticism of some sections of the paintings referencing visual experiences such as looking at, and through, the branches of tress as they shake in the wind. Like all Robert's paintings the aim is to give the viewer greater visual pleasure of the the world and the colours they see in it.
