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Nicholas O'Neal Blume
oil on canvass 36'x48'
This painting was about mark making restraint. I would make a mark think about that mark to the point that I was scared to make another. I continued that process until cowardice over took me and I stopped.
Documentary Expressionism
Morning, Chile Earthquake - February 27th 2010
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Magnetised Iron Filings, Charcoal, Metallic Nail Paints & Inks
Large Cave Wall Sized - H:228cm by W:148cm
(Not yet Exhibited - Unsold)
Metallic Inks used in this art make photographing it accurately difficult. When it is exhibited spotlighting or strong side on sunlight could be used to take full advantage of the quality of the picture's surface effects. All these large pictures as with any large pictures are created firstly to be seen large as they are & in the flesh!
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This is from a series I call Documentary Expressionism - Where using source photos collected from real events in the world I make an expression of art with hopefully a respect to that event. During this expression the relative size of characters can grow bigger or smaller & their species may transform & even mix together!
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Magnetised Imagery is a way to portray the undefinable living energy of people, creatures, nature & all the physical forces of our universe.
My artistic process manipulates expressivly the physical reaction of iron powders by using various magnets & quickly sealing that result to create a permanent image in this medium.
This frozen magnetic dance seems to perform forever, freely moving & alive.
In creating this new medium to portray life, I am percieving living bodies as wilful energy behind skin masks of shape & circumstance.
A soul is being portrayed as hard to catch in its costumed outline of a body!
These polaroids remind me a bit of Mark Rothko's work. Although I admire him immensely, these shots were actually supposed to turn out looking a lot more like daffodils than Rothko's "multiforms." Sadly, my recently acquired SX-70 (because, let's face it, I have a Polaroid addiction) may be destined for decorative use only, as it seems hell-bent on ejecting several sheets of film (and these only partway!) each time the shutter release button is pressed. Could be a bad pack of film, but I'm reluctant to find out by wasting another pack when the damn stuff is discontinued.
Overview
Group of Houses in Spring is an oil on canvas executed by Johannes Itten around 1916. The work depicts a cluster of village buildings on Gansheide hill near Stuttgart, rendered with luminous color and a rhythmic arrangement of simplified forms.
Style: Expressionist Abstraction
Itten’s painting embodies Swiss Expressionism filtered through his study with Adolf Hölzel. Rather than seeking literal perspective, he organizes flat, geometric shapes into a visual “melody,” using color contrasts—cold vs. hot, light vs. dark, transparent vs. opaque—as principal themes. This approach treats hues as emotional and spiritual carriers and applies musical compositional principles to pictorial form, achieving powerful expression through a primary “melody” of color and shape, with secondary accents as accompaniment.
Key Characteristics
- Abstract rhythm of interlocking forms and vibrant color fields
- Emphasis on psychological and spiritual effects of hue relationships
- Composition guided by contrasts analogous to musical structure
- Flattening of spatial depth in favor of decorative, harmonic balance
One of five posters that I did for my portfolio class. I'm entering these in the student exhibition too, so hopefully they get accepted.
Guggenheim Museum Venice Italy.
After tragically losing her father on the Titanic , heiress Peggy Guggenheim befriended Dadaists, dodged Nazis and changed art history at her palatial home on the Grand Canal. Peggy's Palazzo Venier dei Leoni is a showcase for surrealism, futurism and abstract expressionism by some 200 breakthrough modern artists, including Peggy’s ex-husband Max Ernst and Jackson Pollock (among her many rumoured lovers).
Peggy collected according to her own convictions rather than for prestige or style, so her collection includes inspired folk art and lesser-known artists alongside Kandinsky, Picasso, Man Ray, Rothko, Mondrian, Joseph Cornell and Dalí.
The core mission of the museum is to present the personal collection of Peggy Guggenheim. The collection holds major works of Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical painting, European abstraction, avant-garde sculpture, Surrealism, and American Abstract Expressionism, by some of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
More grafitti style abstract art, this item has a 3 dimensional surface using clay granules - this gives the painting a different look depending on the angly of the lighting. In this case, the lighting was coming from the upper right side.
Guggenheim Museum Venice Italy.
After tragically losing her father on the Titanic , heiress Peggy Guggenheim befriended Dadaists, dodged Nazis and changed art history at her palatial home on the Grand Canal. Peggy's Palazzo Venier dei Leoni is a showcase for surrealism, futurism and abstract expressionism by some 200 breakthrough modern artists, including Peggy’s ex-husband Max Ernst and Jackson Pollock (among her many rumoured lovers).
Peggy collected according to her own convictions rather than for prestige or style, so her collection includes inspired folk art and lesser-known artists alongside Kandinsky, Picasso, Man Ray, Rothko, Mondrian, Joseph Cornell and Dalí.
The core mission of the museum is to present the personal collection of Peggy Guggenheim. The collection holds major works of Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical painting, European abstraction, avant-garde sculpture, Surrealism, and American Abstract Expressionism, by some of the greatest artists of the 20th century.