What is beauty. Is it in the eye of the beholder? To be pretty, beautiful or sublime are all very different equations.
Several years ago an artist posted this. “Art is more than pushing paint around.” I disagreed wholeheartedly, as its exactly that & just that. How one goes about that though is more to his point, I suspect.
When I was a young person and just beginning to explore my likes in the art world, it was Da Vinci & Caravaggio. The more illustrated, the more realistic, I thought then and as a young person thought, “how pretty”. As I grew, my tastes gravitated to Dali, still more illustrate, but then shifted to van Gogh, and the impressionists & post impressionists and thought, “how beautiful”. In my young adulthood I grew as Pollock and other abstract expressionist showed up in my range & scope. Add Basquiat, some graffiti and later CY Twombly and it became the sublime in human visual expression. I love it all, always will, its about context and respect for me…bananas & duct tape included.
Not having a full academic training via college, I have spent my lifetime seeking info & experimenting. These color studies, usually 6”x6” or 12”x12” these days is where much of that raw energy & expression takes place. Its all fractals, pattern & chaos with me, as I try to fuse abstraction & representational subjects into one idea of expression.
This past year I’ve gotten a bit more loose, as if that’s possible. Here’s a small selection of my most recent studies. I don’t usually put them on my website. So occasionally post them in a blog. The center section to the far right or #6 is not available anymore, but the rest are, message me for titles, size and prices.
As always thank you for your interest,
Richard
