Two and four

Two elemental figures / or are these figural elements.

Become two only when placed together.

Which defines space.

Space captures the elements

The elements format space.

Space dictates the artist.

Which makes four:

elements,

space and artist

Artisamindset: my mind steered / by earlier experience / moves the brush / to formulate the inner image / of this abstract figure.

Painting of 20x10 cm, fixed on 2nd panel with frame in one (cannot be separated) measures in total 27x17 cm

Artisamindset: m'n geest aangestuurd / door vroegere ervaring / beweegt de kwast ertoe / het innerlijk beeld vorm te geven / van deze abstracte figuur.

Schilderij van 20x10 cm, gevat in 2e paneel en erom vaste lijst, meet in het geheel 27x17cm

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This creation has three legs / and must plan each move carefully. / / Yet, it can get anywhere / carrying what must be carried / and does no harm.

Thanks to brother Wim for the welding.

(assemblage found objects, metal, wood)

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Oil on canvas; 95 x 135 cm.

Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. The paintings and graphics of Rufino Tamayo have acquired a decisive importance in contemporary art in terms both of its high quality, maintained throughout a long, intense life, and its special significance. He was very clearly one of the greatest of American creators and, at the same time, one of the artists who managed to penetrate deepest into the reality of today's Man, going beyond his historical dimension. His knowledge of the great pre-Columbian cultures allowed him to make an extraordinary synthesis which forms part of a universalist conception of art. Tamayo sought the essential, which he expressed through a deliberately limited range of colours in order to give the freest possible rein to tonal interplay. His subject matter tends to be simple - figures of men and women, animals -, almost sketchy, although charged with content.

Tamayo occupied a privileged situation. He was a modern man, one who had a complete knowledge of a cultural environment - our cultural environment - which he had helped to shape, and at the same time he had a past which in him was present. In that other world of his there were none of the usual clear-cut distinctions between time left behind, present and future. In all the ancient cultures the community was composed of the living and the dead. Nor was there the modern categorical break between men, animals and trees or plants.

One might say, writes Jacques Lassaigne, that, in the same way as pre-Columbian art, Tamayo's painting is at the same time metaphor, geometry and transfiguration. Octavio Paz comments: This is painting as a double of the universe: not its symbol but its projection on the canvas. The picture is not a representation or an ensemble of signs: it is a constellation of forces. Through this double approach, that of the prestigious French critic and that of the great Mexican poet and essayist, the viewer is better able to unravel the mysteries of one of the great artistic creations of our era.

ivanffyuhler.com/rufinotamayo.html

or Four humours intersect

9 x 12" - Watercolour on paper.

watercolour painting by Malcolm Evison

Figurative painting three women at beach, storm approaching, 24x24 acrylic on canvas

"Metamorfose"

Técnica: Mista sobre papel

Dimensões: [Adicionar dimensões]

Ano: 2024

Artista: A.fe

Nesta obra intitulada "Metamorfose", a artista A.fe apresenta uma composição vibrante e emocional, na qual cores intensas e formas distorcidas exploram a transformação e a complexidade da identidade humana. A figura central, que parece olhar diretamente para o espectador, está carregada de expressividade, sugerindo uma narrativa pessoal e introspectiva.

Acompanhada por um pequeno animal — que pode simbolizar inocência, lealdade ou mesmo um alter ego —, a figura ganha uma dimensão simbólica e multifacetada. A técnica mista utilizada proporciona texturas marcantes, enquanto as camadas sobrepostas de tinta criam profundidade e movimento na composição.

A paleta de cores quentes e contrastantes reflete emoções conflitantes, enquanto os traços gestuais revelam a espontaneidade e a intensidade do processo criativo. A.fe convida o público a refletir sobre as mudanças e as incertezas da vida, num trabalho que une a fragilidade humana à força de suas transformações.