The following are some of my resent card designs. / I thought I’d do some vector work. / they are also available as prints ect… enjoy!! / ...
The following are some of my resent card designs. / I thought I’d do some vector work. / they are also available as prints ect… enjoy!! We have matching buttons on our blog / / / / /
There seems to be a bit of confusion over what colour field painting is and so I will include here a posting from a discussion held in a …
There seems to be a bit of confusion over what colour field painting is and so I will include here a posting from a discussion held in a Painters in Modern Times forum in support of Carson Collins which came up in relation to a colour field Challenge competition. The works in the challenge were mostly not colour field painting at all. Helen Frankenthaler’s painting are close to what many people think of as colour field painting – the subtle and beautiful layerings of colours that comes with the watercolour medium. Technically and stylistically Helen Frankenthaler was not a colour field painter. Frankenthaler was not a Conceptual or Minimalist artist. True colour field painting is about the formal elements of art –eg. colour and space (space meaning the stretcher itself and the depth from the wall) usually pure abstract and non-representational. / / Colour field as I understand it ‘grew out of’ Rothko’s great works, the beautiful shifting and sliding of colour clouds, deeply spiritual and moving. From Rothko and Barnet Newman followed the destructive and heady theories of Clement Greenberg. He single handedly launched and then murdered Abstract Expressionism with theories that demeaned and intellectualized any emotion or passion involved in the act of creation. Greenberg launched Pollock and Rothko to great heights and then did a back flip which pretty much destroyed the artists. Good thing art critics have no standing now. His theories developed into Conceptual Art and Minimalism and of course were in support of Donald Judd and the theory of “specific objects” which ignored the soul of art and anything connected to the human journey. I am so glad art direction moved back into the hands of the practitioners -the artists. Colour field painting never really had the spiritual heart of a Rothko. Colour field in the context of theorists does not excite the senses, it attempts to remove them! / / Ideas were stolen by the Conceptualists from the great Marcel Duchamp and Dada as well. Duchamp addressed the problem of art as decoration, as something only to be hung on the wall. To combat the problem he placed a urinal in a gallery and called it a ‘readymade’, drawing attention to the fact that pretty much any object you see is designed by an artist somewhere. In the process he also attacked the burgeoning art market exploiting artists for material gain. It annoys me that subsequent artists play with Dada as if it were just something to play with. Postmodernism dares incorrectly to be linked to the great Duchamp, when it is not, in its intent. / / Colour field is from Conceptual Art and Minimalism and it means pure fields of colour, i.e. a canvas painted black or a white on white canvas, totally removing subjectivity and colour that is emotive. Donald Kuspit understood all this and spoke up against Greenberg and his theories. Remodernism from the Stuckists was born; it was also a rejection of the shallowness and impoverishment of original ideas in Postmodernism. The idea of Remodernism was that the great period of Modernism beginning with Cezanne reached a peak with Abstract Expressionism, but the new development had not been fully explored, it was killed before it matured. Remodernism by rejecting formalism encouraged the return of spirituality and passion in art and temporarily stopped the nonsense about art being a purely intellectual and sterile exercise for the theorists. / / I applaud the silent death of art critics such as Clement Greenberg, the art critic who managed to move art away from its public and into a graveyard of elitism and lofty and highly objective theory. Greenberg in support of the Conceptualists and Minimalists gave birth to the monster by placing pure abstraction and formalism at the forefront, destroying figurative art and placing artists at odds with each other. At the same time the great period of Modernism was destroyed before it was thoroughly explored and investigated. The great model of Modernism still stands as the greatest movement in recent art and everything else stands as either a correction or an attempt to restore, revive or destroy it. Mediums have changed with the new media arts, digital arts and the moving image, but only time will tell if a ‘new’ radical revolution can grow from this – a new period as great as Modernism itself. Check out the Remodernist Painters Manifesto on the Group page for further information.
My weaving Harvest Fields was featured today in the ”’Colour M…
My weaving Harvest Fields was featured today in the ‘Colour Me a Rainbow’ group, during their yellow-themed week. Next is the invite-only special challenge with other yellow featured artists! Many thanks to the hosts for the feature – the first one for this artwork!
Aloha, mahalo nui loa, thank you so much to the anonymous buyer / who purchased one of my matted prints this morning! I very much app…
Aloha, mahalo nui loa, thank you so much to the anonymous buyer / who purchased one of my matted prints this morning! I very much appreciate your kindness, thank you so much! / I sincerely hope you enjoy my image of the beautiful Moose displayed in your home. Please let me know how it looks when you receive it. I would love to know who purchased this matted print to thank you personally, but if you prefer to remain anonymous I certainly understand. Thank you so much for your gift of Aloha!!_ Mahalo nui loa!! E pili mau na pomaika`i ia `oe! Aloha e Malama pono Sharon Mau Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 SOLD / 1x Matted Print A beautiful cow Moose and her yearling Calf browsing near North Pole Alaska ~ Winter Scenics
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