Sketch: shapes

Thinking of framing, containment, aesthetic infinity verses fixed objectness today after reviewing some writings on Mondrian. Also thinking about how some artists shaped their image by destroying old work and writings.

Symbol Story

Spent a long afternoon and evening of resizing images for submissions. Spent for now. So I ended up playing around with word processor characters to make characters, above.

Originality

Reference: LasCaux caves, Bison

In a very loose sense, everything that comes after is somewhat derivative of what comes before; however, I like to think enough can be approached or done differently that what is current cannot be pigeon holed as little or no more than something that was past, even if the current incorporates, references, relies upon or in other ways uses history.

On the other hand, it's disappointing how well derivative artwork can do and also disappointing how what seemed original quickly no longer is, if ever it was novel.

Frame

The top corner edges underscore that this image was created and continues to sit within a rectangle.

Reference

This burned plastic work is by Alberto Burri is from this site on Italy, including Italian painters.

This work from findartinfo.com is one of Piero Manzoni's AChrome pieces. See also this site dedicated to him.

Playing with Color II

Playing With Color