"REDUX"

"REDUX"

In today's featured discussion, we will talk briefly about a Linear-Minimalist Color Field entitled "REDUX."

This artwork is classified as a "Linear Minimalist Color Field Abstraction." The piece was created using German Acrylics and Mixed Media on a 30 x 40" Canvas.

Today's piece is a "Calculated" artwork abstract with some artist license and freedoms.  

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 the composition and creative process configurations. 

I have found over the years that creating thought provoking and inspiring abstract artworks comes equally in both packages; the calculated and the non-calculated. I have walked the lines of these dual paths together to deliver great artistic visual wonder, beauty, and metaphoric imagery. When hitting January 2020 these efforts will span for over 20 years.

The painting today, as the name suggests ("REDUX"), is in actuality a paint-over an older hyper-complex geometric composition. As with most artists I have ever studied or known, giving an old artwork a fresh coat of paint is sometimes needed. The old geometric surely wasn't a bad piece of art, but I knew I could give a new and stronger life through rebirth. If you study this piece in person you will detect the underlying older artwork coming through in places.

Studying this effort shown today, if you are a student of modern art and color field work, you will notice something historic going on. I give some indirect reference in this piece to artist Barnett Newman. As my collectors and followers know of me, I have created a large body of Linear-Minimalist Color Field Art using a similar concept as Newman, - but created in a new and more organic fashion. I am quite proud these derivations and today's work is but another of them. 

One of the reasons I love these works and abstract art in general, is that it is the only painting style that gets "to the soul" of an artist. 

Wassily Kandinsky has written several wonderful and revealing quotes on the topic of abstract art, here are a couple:

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

"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 by far the most essential.”

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," 

"I value those artists that embody the expression of their life, and can put it on canvas."

- Wassily Kandinsky -

Result for the viewer: 

It's difficult to explain to someone just how these unique ideas and images come into my head, - but they do. Each piece is conceived through my minds-eye and then carefully (and lovingly) built onto a canvas. 

The interaction of color and shape in this work along with the mood and the metaphors for life, are quite palpable in the piece. As with those of Rothko's and Newman's art, the tangible feelings in this artwork are there for the taking if you take the time to connect with it. 

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

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

Carpe Diem,

Matt Zedler

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