"Prismatones"

"Prismatones"

In today's featured discussion, we will talk briefly about a unique older work of mine entitled "Prismatones"

This artwork is classified as a "Geometric-Cubist Abstract Compositional." The piece was created using German Acrylics and some Mixed Media and then built on a 18 x 24" Canvas.

Today's work is a sublime and "non-calculated" Geometric artwork, unlike many of the calculated geometric art I now do. 

The term "calculated" is used when discussing my art as it relates to the fact that these works are created with a specific artistic goal and construction concept in mind. Therefore then time is spent prior to building the art on all "calculating" the works end visual impact. Specifically then and relating to; visual conceptualizations and result impact, and to compositional and creation process configurations. 

With today's piece, "Prismatones," I was working without a net, - so to speak. I created this work "on the fly" using only a notion of the delivery I was looking to achieve.. I then built this image directly from brain to canvas. 

I have found over the years that creating thought provoking and inspired geometric art can come in both packages, the calculated & non-calculated. I have continued down these dual paths to deliver both artistic beauty and metaphoric imagery for over 20 years now.

Many of the great geometric painters in history had a "method to their madness." It wasn't just about the curiously beautiful shapes and forms, it was also about what the image (in part, - and as a whole), ..represented. 

Studying geometric art for many decades, I do maintain a few favorites. Reviewing both their work and their artistic goals, I have grown to maintain a great deal of respect (and reverence) for several painters in the geometric art field.

Some of my favorite Linear and Geometric Artists include: George Braque, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Jean Metzinger, Paul Cezanne, Franz Cline, Richard Diebenkorn, Barnett Newman, and Joan Miro. 

One other artist (not yet mentioned), was a major driving force behind much of my geometric work we see today. He has put many of his thoughts and ideas down on paper for all to read. In reading his words, I truly understand his feelings on the creative process and equally "the spiritual nature of creating." He had both the passion and the vision to create abstract and geometric artwork before anyone else. Kandinsky possessed a natural ability for visualizing linear-geometric imagery. He had an innate ability to see these fantastic constructs in his mind, then extract them, - and build them on canvas. This is not an easy thing to do. As I discuss this ability over and over with artist friends, it is one talent to "conceive," and then another to "build." He had both, which makes you a master artist and as well a genius. 

In case you are still guessing of whom I am speaking of, it is no other than the father of both abstract painting and linear-geometric abstraction, - Russian born artist "Wassily Kandinsky."

If you read just a few of Kandinsky words, you will quickly come to know that he believed at his core that abstract work was the purest (and truest) of all the art forms. In his mind (and mine),...

" - it is the only work in which the very soul and artistic DNA of it's creator can be truly revealed. "

It is, - at it's very best, "an untainted visual gift to humanity." Free from all earthly pressures or academic demands, - and therefore "true and pure art," 

Wassily Kandinsky has written numerous wonderful and revealing quotes on art, here are just a couple:

"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is most essential.”

- Wassily Kandinsky  

"I value those artists that embody the expression of their life."

- Wassily Kandinsky  

Result for the viewer: 

It's difficult to explain to someone just how these complex images come into my head, - but they do. Each geometric piece is conceived through my minds-eye, and then built on canvas. 

In this work today entitled "Prismatones," try in your mind and break out the entire composition into specific areas of view. Note the melodic geometric components floating as individuals, and then coming together as a composition. They have a voice on their own, and then as a family of shapes. If you do this, you will better understand the dynamic forces at play and deeper natures of the overall works creative energies.

The interaction of shapes, the special both public and private discussions going within an artwork, was the basis of so much of Kandinsky's geometric art. - and as well mine.

I hope you have enjoyed your viewing and my brief discussions on "Prismatones" here today.

NOTE: Sometimes Linkedin cuts the image size when loading. It may have happened in this case to this work. To see the entire work, please go to www.zedlerfineart.com, and then to the Linear - Geometric page. Scroll down, and you will see this piece as whole.

For further information on this piece or any others, - please feel free to reach out. 

Carpe Diem,

Matt

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www.zedlerfineart.com