Aubade in Dragon Line
Through the medium of digital photo manipulation I seem to have found a way to paint. I was an abstract painter for many years and it has always been in my blood. This year I have decided not to paint on canvas, for various reasons, mostly to do with the cost of those damn tubes now. Yet here it is ... I seem to have found a way to do it in another medium.
In terms of art history this piece is a melding of two 20th century American painting movements - Gestural Abstraction, where in the hand movements of the painter are not only obvious, but the whole point. This can easily be seen in the works of Willem de Kooning. The other movement is Color Field Painting, where the main focus is the modulation of colour across the whole canvas and in this case it is colour that is the point. Colour Field Painting reached it's zenith with the work of Jules Olitski. Art history is always there in the back of my creative consciousness, exerting a subconscious influence now and then.
Image created July 16, 2022
Zoom in for a detailed immersive view.
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Music Link: "Bolero" - Maurice Ravel. Performed here by the Paris Opera Orchestra and the Paris Opera Ballet. "Bolero" made it's infamous and riotous debut as a dance piece, so it seems appropriate to choose this particular video. Brilliant choreography, staging and lighting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rQwof50VsA
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© 2022, Richard S Warner. All Rights Reserved. This image may not be used or copied or posted to another website in any form whatsoever without express permission of the creator of this work, with whom the sole copyright resides.
Aubade in Dragon Line
Through the medium of digital photo manipulation I seem to have found a way to paint. I was an abstract painter for many years and it has always been in my blood. This year I have decided not to paint on canvas, for various reasons, mostly to do with the cost of those damn tubes now. Yet here it is ... I seem to have found a way to do it in another medium.
In terms of art history this piece is a melding of two 20th century American painting movements - Gestural Abstraction, where in the hand movements of the painter are not only obvious, but the whole point. This can easily be seen in the works of Willem de Kooning. The other movement is Color Field Painting, where the main focus is the modulation of colour across the whole canvas and in this case it is colour that is the point. Colour Field Painting reached it's zenith with the work of Jules Olitski. Art history is always there in the back of my creative consciousness, exerting a subconscious influence now and then.
Image created July 16, 2022
Zoom in for a detailed immersive view.
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Music Link: "Bolero" - Maurice Ravel. Performed here by the Paris Opera Orchestra and the Paris Opera Ballet. "Bolero" made it's infamous and riotous debut as a dance piece, so it seems appropriate to choose this particular video. Brilliant choreography, staging and lighting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rQwof50VsA
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© 2022, Richard S Warner. All Rights Reserved. This image may not be used or copied or posted to another website in any form whatsoever without express permission of the creator of this work, with whom the sole copyright resides.