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Separation. Displacement. Asunder.
A boundary. A union. A contradiction.
Diremption is incongruity and antithesis in agreement; two planes in the same space separated by form, shape, color, depth, meaning; each a stilled moment in its own time joined in common boundary by a contrary moment, like fingerprints on a window, unique, separate, together.
An ongoing series
It’s fantastic! Looking carefully at these fancy patterns on the pine tree bark you can see amazing pictures and even faces.
“But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit.
For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”
1 Corinthians 2:9-16 ESV
Falun, Dalarna, Sweden.
I have just started "colouring in" some of my abstract work, i.e. adding new colours to the original shot. There are some fantastic colour abstractionists here on flickr working like that and they are a constant inspiration to me. Please pay a visit to the uncrowned queen of colour abstracts, caeciliametella.
Suprematism is an early twentieth-century art movement focused on the fundamentals of geometry (circles, squares, rectangles, triangles). The term itself refers to a form of abstract art based on the supremacy of pure artistic expression rather than on a visual or literal depiction of objects. It is entirely subjective and gives room for the artist to present what they think or perceive versus what they may see.
“We are what we hide.” I read that somewhere. Must have been sometime ago. Or maybe I wrote it myself. From experience. I’m not really sure, but I know its truth. Our fallen hearts spin artifacts of fear; confining, hiding, confusing, obscuring. Betraying neighbors and friends, family, lovers, with only ever the partial glimpse, a pretense, or a parade. In the end, a fraud. I read that somewhere. Or maybe I wrote it myself. From experience. •• Apps used: Snapseed, iColorama, Stackables, Aerograph, SuperimposeX, BigPhoto (photo credit for male face: Unsplash)
Suprematism is an early twentieth-century art movement focused on the fundamentals of geometry (circles, squares, rectangles, triangles). The term refers to a form of abstract art based on the supremacy of pure artistic expression rather than on a visual or literal depiction of objects. It is entirely subjective and gives room for the artist to present what they think or perceive versus what they may see.
I had the privilege of discovering a new artist (to me) during our visit to Castelo Branco. Manuel Cargaleiro (16 March 1927 – 30 June 2024) was a Portuguese artist who was one of the last painters to join the well-known Paris school and the lyrical abstractionist movement. His works can be found in museums and galleries all over the world but his home region houses a dedicated museum to his work. Get Googling to view his unique and wonderful art ... you won't regret the time spent and visit the museum in person if life allows. It's inspiring ....
- Castelo Branco, Portugal -
Abstract Surrealism has always been one of those smaller "rooms" off at the back or side, that's not always talked about or widely celebrated, but where wonders exist and categorization is confounded. One of the great Surrealists, Max Ernst, was a Master of the form.
Over the years I've derived a lot of inspiration from his Abstract Surrealist pieces and continue to do so. Ernst ventured quite far into pure abstraction as well, but art theorists and historians don't seem to like to use the word abstraction when talking about Ernst or the other historical Surrealists. Yet, Ernst was quit an accomplished abstractionist. Pieces like "Birth of a Galaxy" and "33 Children Chasing Butterflies" are prime examples.
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In the next little while I'm going to be taking threads from all the styles I've worked with these past few years and employing them all, to varying degrees, in the service of abstraction. Particular emphasis will be placed on Pano-Sabotage, otherwise called by me - "TumbleWorld".
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Music Link: "Meadow of Infinity Pt1 / The Glass Bridge / Meadow of Infinity Pt 2" - Peter Baumann, from his album "Romance'76". Baumann was one of the earliest members of the infamous, 70's, German electronic outfit, Tangerine Dream. "Romance" was his first solo album, recorded shortly before his departure from the band.
Whereas Tangerine Dream were known for their big, swelling, gothic, Wagnerian "washes", Baumann's first outing showed a different sensibility - one that was stripped back and pared down to almost icy clarity and a more "chamber" feel in his arrangements.
This suite here has always been a favourite musical piece of mine to dream by, to imagine with. Baumann's seamless and cutting edge blend of advanced electronics combined with a few cellos, some percussion and a small choir makes for some mysterious and atmospheric imagining. Turn it up, and the lights down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPIqwPW1YfE
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2015. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
Yale Daily News: “YaleBleeds champions menstrual equity and social justice on campus and beyond”
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“Co-president Maddy Corson ’26 led the abstractionist painting workshop using colors most associated with period blood, textures and smells. She said the event was held to facilitate engagement between students and for Yalies to focus on their identities as ‘menstruators.’”
Proverbs 3:35 “The wise will have glory for their heritage, but shame will be the reward of the foolish.”
An Homage to one of my very favourite artists, Surrealist, Max Ernst ( 1891-1976 ). Ernst's artistic achievements started in original Dada, moved into Surrealism, which in both fields he was a key and influential leader. Later he ventured into abstraction, collage, and sculpture with incredible results. Whatever this consummate artist turned his vision on resulted in unforgettable and highly accomplished imagery.
I wanted this homage to not only collage his work but to also have the look and feel of an "Ernst". Max Ernst himself was a highly accomplished collage artist and he also often worked in multiple planes, long before digital layering. Even my looping lines reference paintings of Ernst's such as, "Young Man Intrigued by the Flight of a Non-Euclidian Fly" ( 1942/47 ) and "The Bewildered Planet" ( 1942 ).
Ernst's work can be hauntingly beautiful, quietly disturbing, wonderfully innocent ( "33 Little Girls Chasing Butterflies", 1958 ) or deeply cerebral. His abstraction has never been recognized for it's high degree of accomplishment, placing him, in my opinion, as equal to any of the great European Abstractionists, the American Abstract Expressionists and the Post "Ab-Ex" painters of the 60's and 70's.
In the "Award Tree" group's challenge "Famous Painters".
Provenance, going left to right:
- "The Anti-Pope", 1941 - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
- "The Temptation of St. Anthony" 1945 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg.
- "L'Oeil du Silence" 1943/44 - Washington University Art Gallery, Saint Louis, MO.
- "Birth of a Galaxy" 1969 - Galerie Beyeler, Basle.
- "Un Capricho de Venus" - Date & Provenance unknown.
- Photograph of Max Ernst, Frederick Sommer, 1946
Ernst strongly believed that making art was an entirely new venture with each new piece. He felt that an artist that knows what they want exactly and stays strictly to that idea, is not an artist. An artist must be prepared to accept and incorporate what comes out of the process of making each piece, the surprises and the accidents. In that Max Ernst was true to the Surrealist spirit of the time that sought to give complete allowance for the expression of the sub-conscious. That made him a both an accomplished painter but also a great improvisor. His aesthetic can be summed up in his statement:
"Blind Swimmer, I have made myself see. I have seen. And I was surprised and enamoured of what I saw" - Max Ernst.
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© The finished, whole collage - Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2017. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
This image is made up of individual paintings by Max Ernst, the provenance of which is listed above. The current artist makes NO claims to any of that work whatsoever. This "collage" is in honour of Max Ernst. No monies will come from this project.
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* - See my Galleries featuring some of the best of Flickr's purely Abstract Art at: