Hello viewers from all over the world. This blog post is quite late. Blame it on the Pandemic.
Anyway, here we are. As usual, I will only comment on a peice of art if I feel it needs it.
The first piece is one of my all time favourites.
Olya
The next is one that my friend Roger likes a lot.
Ice Storm on Neptune
Roughly between 1968 and 1972, the use of pink and black in magazine hippy-style art and posters was quite common. I've always liked that style and decided I'd make a wall hanging peice of my own, in the Op Art genre.
1968 style wall hanging
A bit of abstract art:
Networking
The following six images could be straight out of late 60's - early70's, undergound comics. They nicley fit the Op Art style as well.
A note about Vibrating colours: For over 50 years, I've been in love with the effects possible by using
vibrating colours. Put simply, I like images that play tricks with your vision and perception. These are colours which when placed next to each
other and have the same spatial hue, seem to move or vibrate. People with colour blidness, may have problems in seeing the next few images as they are intened to look. I aplogise for that.
Boom
The Word, "Oz" in the title below, is a reference to the Oz magazine from the early 1970s. There was a great deal of artwork in the Oz magazine and underground comics, in this style back then. The word. "comix" was created to diferentiate between the standard comics and the ungerground ones.
Oz Spiral
Hippy Quarter
Pop Twists
Flower
Moving on to less visually agressive images, the next peice is another of my favourites. Artists often struggle with the difficult question, "When is a peice of work finished?" With the following peice, I didn't have that issue. As soon as I'd got the circle against the grey background, I knew it was finished. It was perfect in it's simplicity of form and colour. It's the first time I've felt like that with one of my works.
Saw Blade
Fetish
I like Hundertwasser's paintings and architexture. For one thing, he hated straight lines. He said that you didn't get straight lines in nature.
A couple of years ago, I saw a small exhibition of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's drawings and paintings, in Sheffield. I was particularly impressed with her drawings of rock and stone. I live in a hilly area, there is a great deal of bedrock here. I was born in the Pennine Mountain chain, rocks are part of my life. I love the cracks, shades, shadows, colours and the flora and fauna which live on them. They produce wonderful opportunities for photography. I wanted to try and emulate her ability to give life to them. Below is the result, it's my tribute to Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
Rock Hollow Quarry
Now for some nore abstract art.
Splash
Detonation
The following, is a tribute to the painter Robert Delauney. I like the speckled, "dotted" look of some of his paintings. I wanted to try and get that nice, soft, result. The piece below is about texture, it does not particularly reflect the forms he used in his work.
It seemed a good idea to finish with a strong colours.
Sensual Curves
I hope these images were worth the wait. I said last time, that I would post about every 2 months. I didn't manage it. I will try to do so next time. I already know that the next post will be some of my photography, possibly with a few pieces of artwork thrown in for good measure.
Keep safe in these difficult times.
Gordon.
