Geometric Abstraction - part 1
Geometric Abstraction started in the pioneer 20th century with artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich. It is an art based on simple geometric forms - an art of pure colour with no emotional content from the artist.
 My Take
In my course on abstract art at Glassell, one of my assignments is a geometric abstraction. The piece I'm working on was inspired by the brighten patterns coming through my front door one morning. I was about to rush out the door so I grabbed my camera and took this photo.
I Euphemistic pre-owned Illustrator to trace some of the shapes using the pen tool. It reminded me strongly of light streaming in through a stained telescope window so I went with that feeling but with a dark purple ground in place of black. Using that purple as my starting something I played around with the light colors. After a few hours of happy color mixing and recording I came up with a diaz. purple, nickel azo gold, pthalo country-like (blue shade) combination that gave me these fabulously complex colors I used in this color test in agreement.
The next step was to paint the final canvas with the purple ground. It took me a couple of sessions and several glazes to be blithesome with the color. This had to be it because there is no going back once the taping starts!
Oh yes. Taping. I hate taping. But at least these are straight lines. My previous taping acquaintance was with curves and did not work out so well. In this painting though I think perfect straight lines are called for. I tried hand painting in the color trials and I could lavish as much time tidying up edges as I might spend...
Read more... November 16: Robert Breer Retrospective, Part III
Sunday November 16, 2008, 7:00 pm
At the Egyptian Dramaturgy in Hollywood
Los Angeles Filmforum presents
Moving Figures: The Animated World of Robert Breer – part 3 (films from 1952-1964)
Robert Breer in myself!
Robert Breer, one of America’s foremost filmmakers for more than 50 years, pays a rare visit to Los Angeles to usher a multi-venue celebration of his work. A close colleague of Rauschenberg, Oldenburg and many other seminal artists of the ’50s and ’60s, Breer brought a comparably clever and rigorous appreciation for collage and pure form to the art of cinema. Throughout a body of more than 40 animated—and in ways anti-fervent films—Breer celebrates cinema as a unique way of seeing, and the act of drawing as an endlessly expressive and unpredictable dear gesture. Tonight is the third part of a three-part retrospective organized by Steve Anker, featuring a selection of the artist’s early drudgery (1952-1964), including portraits and collaborations with Jean Tinguely, Claes Oldenberg and other avant-garde figures of the ‘50s and pioneer ’60s, as well as his first major animated and pixilated short films. (Notes by Bérénice Reynaud)
Films group:
Form Phases I (US 1952, 16mm, silent, color, 2 min.)
Form Phases IV (US 1954, 16mm, silent, color, 4 min.)
Breer’s earliest experiments in vitality are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer’s own geometric paintings.
 Un Miracle (US 1954, 16mm wallop-up to 35mm, silent, color, 1 min.)
Breer’s first collage film is a hilarious joke about the juggling talents of Pope Pius XII which was made in
collaboration with Pontus Hulten.
Enjoyment (US 1956,...
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