I call this one Such by Such. SXS could be a shortened version of the title. This particular image here is version seven. I had fun tweaking the filtering and color adjustments in Photoshop to reach the results you see. I pasted paper cut out from magazines, and drew alcohol-based marker, and water-based pens on paper to complete the work. I then proceeded to my usual next step of applying water, rubbing alcohol, and lacquer thinner to achieve the psychedelic tie dye effects. The work I do in Photoshop helps to emphasize, exaggerate, and alter the natural bleeding effects that I evoke in physical media.
This current style I’ve been exploring and experimenting with currently utilizing basic lines, points, planes, some shading, and colors is a certain kind of style that mimics a scientific or mathematic spirit. The point, line, and plane are one and two dimensional visual concepts. They can be implied with the third dimension on a two dimensional picture plane by using drawing techniques established since the European Renaissance.
The fourth dimension was theorized about by Einstein in the 20th century. Simultaneously, art in the 20th century started exploring four dimensional visualizations and concepts. Artists, such as Pablo Picasso, M.C. Escher, and Salvador Dali, explored these time warping, perspective fracturing, mind bending, multiple simultaneous points of view ideas in visual art, thus giving a kind of experience for viewers viewing these artist’s works.
I’d say that this idea of multiple points of view was developed by Paul Cezanne and perhaps Eduard Manet, both great French Impressionist, and post-Impressionist artists, first. I think Picasso and Georges Braque would agree. These two artists were inspired by Cezanne and readily admitted so. They developed what they called “scientific cubism,” which takes Cezanne’s nascent perspective distortions into greater degrees of perspective fracturing and bending, thus accomplishing cubes of space, looked at from varying, disjointed points of view, for viewers to see of a whole object.
Braque and Picasso used physical objects, such as people, guitars, and tables, to represent their semi-abstract ideas in their paintings. I’d like to think that I’m taking this concept of cubism a step further by drawing completely abstract lines and shapes that aren’t attempting to represent anything but themselves as abstract lines and shapes. When combined, I often note that they have certain dimensional and cubist qualities to them. They hint at a fourth dimension for me. I simplified the idea of measuring space in the title of this piece by calling it Such by Such because I did not attempt to measure the four dimensional mimicking nature of it. I suppose I was lazy in that regard. Oh well.
Specifications:
Title: Such By Such (version 7)
Source mediums: Water-based ink, alcohol-based marker, water, rubbing alcohol, and lacquer thinner on paper, manipulated digitally with filters
Print medium: Hewlett Packard printer ink from Hewlett Packard DesignJet Z2100 printer on Hewlett Packard print paper (Note: print can be made with archival paper and printer if requested)
Digital manipulation completed: 3/13/2018
Dimensions of print: 31 inches by 36 inches
Number of limited edition prints: 25
Contact me: artofevan@hotmail.com
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