“The designed picture is an entity in itself instead of a recorded
fragment of nature. It creates its own world, it has its own laws, it becomes a source of experience and gives forth its own values which are different from the values experienced from nature.”
fragment of nature. It creates its own world, it has its own laws, it becomes a source of experience and gives forth its own values which are different from the values experienced from nature.”
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There must be a balance, a controlling of these warring forces. This is what I am trying to realize with my work. All meaning exists in the context of polarities.” |
My artworks center around influences that play with one another: influences of one visual element on another greater or smaller element. Greater elements pulling smaller elements, each subject in some degree to the other’s power; these visual powers are continually at work pushing, pulling, sideways, downwards, upwards. There must be a balance, a controlling of these warring forces. This is what I am trying to realize with my work.
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The forces in all art are the forces of life, co-ordinated and organized. Form reveals itself, not as an objective thing, but as an objective phenomenon capable of giving the sensation of palpability. All great art falls under this interpretation. But form, to express itself aesthetically, must be composed; and here we touch the controlling basis of all art- organization. Organization is the use put to form for the production of rhythm. The first step in this process is the construction of line, line being the direction taken by one or more forms. In purely decorative rhythm the lines flow harmoniously from side to side and from top to bottom on a given surface. In the greatest art the lines are bent forward and backward as well as laterally so that, by their orientation in depth, an impression of profundity is added to that of height and breadth.Thus the simple image of decoration is destroyed, and a microcosm is created in its place.
Appolinaire’s word plastique is can be used here to indicate, not ‘abstraction’ but a form- quality suggestive of fluidity,organization,even life; a certain rhythm or energy in the organization of material whose action was never complete’ but always on the way to become so. Strzeminski- a rhythm arising from the interaction of all the components brought about by releasing the interdependences and the reciprocal effects of each element, the rhythm of the whole conceived as a fluid asymmetric continuity. The blot and line working together-the moving and the static combined. |
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Lindsay Brown
115 Old Schoolhouse Rd., Milford, PA 18337 and 170 Pake St, Nutley NJ 07110 H 570 296 8380/ C 973 459 1345/ lindsaybrownstudio.com/ email linzee@ptd.net |
