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Luminosity: “Homage to Turner”
Acrylic and Glaze on Canvas, 2008
Purchased by a private collector
As a modernist, non-objective painter, I greatly admire and am indebted to the work of J. M. W. Turner “1775-1851”, an English artist during the era of Romantic, epic paintings. Turner is often viewed by art historians as a precursor to abstraction by his loose […]
Posted: May 31st, 2008 under Musings, abstract, painter, paintings.
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Non-objective art is not an invention of the 20th century
Humans have made non-objective art since they first drew pictures in the dirt. Abstract designs have existed in Western culture in many contexts. In abstract art a distinction is made between making a pattern as in decorative arts and creating fine art which expresses our unique and also similar human feelings and ideas through color, form, and a variety […]
Posted: April 19th, 2008 under abstract, abstract expressionism, color field, painter, paintings.
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