"i am original by design, a blissful misfit."

 

i love art. visual art in particular fascinates me to a great degree. the mediums i derive the most pleasure in are photography (macro, architectural, minimalist, abstract...), drawing/painting (cubism, abstract expressionism, lyrical abstraction, minimalism, surrealism...), and digital design. my single-most favored artist is M.C. Escher. The following is a quotation of his regarding the expressive aspect of his art:

"Ideas came into my mind quite unrelated to graphic art, notions which so fascinated me that I longed to communicate them to other people. This could not be achieved through words, for these thoughts were not literary ones, but mental images of a kind that can only be made comprehensible to others by presenting them as visual images." - M.C. Escher

 

i find the techniques used to create different designs to be a very fascinating aspect of the work, as much, or more so than the end result at times. with some of my work, i have invented original methods of creating designs that focus more on how i create it, instead of what it will be. through practicing these techniques in repetition, i've found that i can then use them to reach an end result of my desire. it is like learning how to draw in a methodically geometric, or cubist manner, and then using that to create representations of real objects in a cubist style.

 

i enjoy using things that i create, like drawings, sketches, photographs, poems, etc. as building blocks for further creations. it is almost as if i use visual art that i have made as "brushes" with which i impart particular characteristics from previously composed work onto the next. this process can repeat over and over, which to me deepens the scope of a design as it is refined and evolves. also, i find using multiple media to accomplish this works very well. i believe this is because it opens up dimensions of creativity that can be found in the different manner with which an artist approaches a certain medium. For example, the way that i draw or paint is unique to myself, as it generally is with everyone, but when i add my personal style of photography to a drawn or painted a composition, both myself as the creator and the viewer as an outside observer get a more complete interpretation of who i am as a visual artist.

 

"the eye, mind, and hand of an artist should speak as a single voice that delineates both a meaning, and understanding, through visually rendered expression." - ali|en|vision

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fields of interest (alphabetically listed)

 

[art|is|t-interests]

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George Carlin

Chris Cornell

Robert Delaunay

Albert Einstein

M.C. Escher

Wassily Kandinsky

František Kupka

Demetri Martin

I. M. Pei

Francis Picabia

Pablo Picasso

Bridget Riley

Layne Staley

Frank Lloyd Wright

 

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MARCOS GUTIÉRREZ MORQUECHO -> www.flickr.com/photos/creacionesmarcos/

 

[m|in|d-interests]

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abstractionism

abstract expressionism (iconic & calligraphic)

abstraction lyrique (a.k.a. lyrical abstraction)

aesthetics

architecture

automatism

classical abstraction

concrete art

concrete poetry

cubism (analytical & synthetic)

empiricism

epistemology

existentialism

fractals

geometric abstraction

geometry

hard-edge painting

imagism

intellectualism

kinetic art

light & shadow

logic

luminescence

mathmatics

metaphysics

minimalism

musical composition

optical art (a.k.a. op art)

orphism

philosophy

photography

rayonism

semantics

semiotics

stencilling

suprematism

surrealism

symbolism

syntheticism

systemic painting

tachisme (a.k.a. tachism)

 

[self|sty|list|ic-interests]

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selective technique.

unilinear inversions.

 

[q|uo|t|a|t|i|v|e-interests]

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spoken by me...

 

[-ali|en|vision-]

a|"art is a translation of emotion, that through any medium of design, expresses the blues or their absolution."

a|"a coma is a comma in life, a comma is a coma you write."

a|"a picture is worth a thousand words. how many words is a visual metaphor worth?"

a|"circles are pointless."

a|"everything has a catch."

a|"hungry minds starve themselves."

a|"now is forever, tomorrow will never be, yesterday is just a memory..."

a|"the worst things bring out the best in people."

a|"this handle can't."

a|"time is an endless measure."

a|"what do years spent buy?"

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spoken by others...

 

[-Patricia Cole-Ferullo-]

>"You can't look at abstract art without thinking."

 

[-Anton Ehrenzweig-]

>"Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form."

 

[-M. C. Escher-]

>"We adore chaos because we love to produce order."

>"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.".

 

[-Wassily Kandinsky-]

>"Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution."

>"I value those artists who embody the expression of their life."

>"The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work."

>"The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal."

 

[-Piet Mondrian-]

>"The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty."

 

[-Pablo Picasso-]

>"Every act of construction is an act of destruction."

>"Everything you can imagine is real."

>"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

 

‎"To give a smile is to touch the heart through the mind."