Rules are meant to be bent, not broken; rules are guidelines to be interpreted and not followed blin
What is abstraction? Abstraction is a thinking and/or a pushing of reality to the Nth degree, where all figuration and concepts become indistinct, blurred, mosaic in nature. Pure abstraction is where all differentiations cease and a totality of colors, i.e. a gray area and/or mosaic, is created capable of multiple meanings and interpretations. This is the essence of pure abstraction painting. The aim, I’ve set out through abstraction is to influence the way people see and think about art and what abstract art consists of. This is a matter of artistic reconfiguration.
The primary critique of 99% of all contemporary pure abstraction paintings in the last 60 years, i.e. abstract-expressionisms, is that its images and its titles are merely decorative artifice & self-indulgent exstentialist non-sense, devoid of meaning, devoid of social or educational elements that speak to this 2012 contemporary age. Sixty years after its initial splash, today's abstract-expressionism and neo-abstract-expressionists are exercising an obsolete useless lexicon that is in many ways redundant and incapable of describing anything substantial and relevant to its viewer's existence in this post-industrial age. Subsequently, Color-Realism is an evolutionary and revolutionary development of the Ab-Ex corpse, a new lexical interpretation of pure abstraction, capitalizing on its multi-dimensionalism by utilizing its radical subjectivity to say something meaningful and relevant about contemporary society to its art connoisseurs, that speaks not immaterial nonsense but pragmatic material facts about current sociological, philosophical, economic, humanist conditions etc. As a result, through my artistic practice, i.e. the medium of oil painting, I am in the midst of reconfiguring the dominant ideas on abstraction; for example, such as the traditional idea that pure abstraction painting is a type of non-objectivity.
An initial breakthrough occurred in 2009 with the publication of my book: Color-Realism, acquired by the National Gallery of Canada for its library. The book’s main thesis is that color is as real as reality gets. Color is the basic language upon which all other languages develop. And it is through pure abstraction painting that this fundamental language of color is put into motion and communicated, as the basic concern in pure abstraction painting is total abstraction, color and how color communicates and is effective at doing things with, both psychologically and physically. Without color there is no form, no concepts or senses as it is color, i.e. the division between colors, that allows basic concepts to develop. For example, one cannot think of a square without color, it is impossible to think of a color-less square, what this means is that color is a precondition to our ability as humans’ to think, our basic concepts of the world around us are based on color, i.e. the divisions of color. And pure abstraction painting reminds us of this fact.
Contrary to traditional notions, pure abstraction is about objectivity and not as has been historically stated non-objectivity because pure abstraction is about the factual conditions of basic conceptual thinking, the factual limits of painting, communication and about the factual essence of reality, which is at its base level pure abstraction. Everything is abstract, conceptual to the end; reality, materiality, is but variations in degrees of abstraction founded on the concept of color, hence why I label my artistic style “color-realism” as color is as real as reality gets.
In sum, my artistic practice aims to revolutionize the way people see, think and relate to modern abstract painting and the concept of color. According to Karl Marx “Philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it” elaborating on this premise I state that “art is the continuation of philosophy via other means. Art is real actions that revolutionized conventional standards, specifically conventional practices and aesthetic standards”.
The primary critique of 99% of all contemporary pure abstraction paintings in the last 60 years, i.e. abstract-expressionisms, is that its images and its titles are merely decorative artifice & self-indulgent exstentialist non-sense, devoid of meaning, devoid of social or educational elements that speak to this 2012 contemporary age. Sixty years after its initial splash, today's abstract-expressionism and neo-abstract-expressionists are exercising an obsolete useless lexicon that is in many ways redundant and incapable of describing anything substantial and relevant to its viewer's existence in this post-industrial age. Subsequently, Color-Realism is an evolutionary and revolutionary development of the Ab-Ex corpse, a new lexical interpretation of pure abstraction, capitalizing on its multi-dimensionalism by utilizing its radical subjectivity to say something meaningful and relevant about contemporary society to its art connoisseurs, that speaks not immaterial nonsense but pragmatic material facts about current sociological, philosophical, economic, humanist conditions etc. As a result, through my artistic practice, i.e. the medium of oil painting, I am in the midst of reconfiguring the dominant ideas on abstraction; for example, such as the traditional idea that pure abstraction painting is a type of non-objectivity.
An initial breakthrough occurred in 2009 with the publication of my book: Color-Realism, acquired by the National Gallery of Canada for its library. The book’s main thesis is that color is as real as reality gets. Color is the basic language upon which all other languages develop. And it is through pure abstraction painting that this fundamental language of color is put into motion and communicated, as the basic concern in pure abstraction painting is total abstraction, color and how color communicates and is effective at doing things with, both psychologically and physically. Without color there is no form, no concepts or senses as it is color, i.e. the division between colors, that allows basic concepts to develop. For example, one cannot think of a square without color, it is impossible to think of a color-less square, what this means is that color is a precondition to our ability as humans’ to think, our basic concepts of the world around us are based on color, i.e. the divisions of color. And pure abstraction painting reminds us of this fact.
Contrary to traditional notions, pure abstraction is about objectivity and not as has been historically stated non-objectivity because pure abstraction is about the factual conditions of basic conceptual thinking, the factual limits of painting, communication and about the factual essence of reality, which is at its base level pure abstraction. Everything is abstract, conceptual to the end; reality, materiality, is but variations in degrees of abstraction founded on the concept of color, hence why I label my artistic style “color-realism” as color is as real as reality gets.
In sum, my artistic practice aims to revolutionize the way people see, think and relate to modern abstract painting and the concept of color. According to Karl Marx “Philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it” elaborating on this premise I state that “art is the continuation of philosophy via other means. Art is real actions that revolutionized conventional standards, specifically conventional practices and aesthetic standards”.
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