Sunday, April 08, 2007

Machete duel, sound of the drum, and six senses in colours (five plus time succession).

What else can be done? Which other elements might be added to fauvist painting to take it to neofauvist painting? (I mean to really _new_ fauvism evolved from new ideas, theories and techniques, not neofauvism just for being produced by a contemporary fauvist artist). The "neo" quality must be granted by the theory evolving the movement, not by its chronologic state: a new painter that paints like the old fauvists is not a neofauvist.
In my previous post I tried to prove some points in favour of space and time distortion, and in favour of reduction, distortion, or addition of constitutive components of the represented figure (elements that were appearing since the first impressionist show, the cubist and the expressionist trend).
Then, elements of the pop culture can be added as well. I find appropiate the action and movement expressions from in the comic books. Evolving the concept enough something useful may appear. An axe hitting a tree, creating a colourful explosion from the point of contact, expresses a strong hit and splinters spreading. OK. A real fight with machetes may cause an even stronger impression in a person, I've created this one, Machete duel (duelo con machetes) based on the impression of two persons in a violent duel, crashing each other machetes; red, green, one attacking, one defending:



That is a simple example of colour expressing the inner state of the artist, or only the movement or the crashing of two machetes if you want... and each time we are more and more approaching the expressionist and neoexpressionist trend. But I think we'll not get into it. Why? Expressionism may, or may not, use the colour (or even the space, time and motion elements) to achieve its goals. Fauvism has to, it is forced by its attachment to the colour value, it becomes essential. But there are more elements to use. Colour might represent easily the visual, the movement too; but, what about the movement, the visual _and_ the sound in one represented moment? This is a simple example of mine called "Visualizing the sound of the drums" (visualizando el sonido del tambor)... look at the cold colour environment compared with the Machete Duel hot one, and the apparent waves of sound embracing the whole image:



So, it's interesting: in fauvism, the colour doesn't have a "descriptive obligation" (to describe nature), it's not forced to use the colour in a naturalist manner to describe things as they are coloured, now, using the colour as in the Machete Duel and (...)Sound of the Drum, the descriptive obligation is back in neofauvism? at least not in a naturalistic manner, will never be, but perhaps evolved in other descriptive obligations, with some inclination to other senses, like hearing (the influence of sound and noise of the 21th century), and touch, smell and taste too. Moral inclination to issues of violence in general might be expressed, from the perspective of the artist, through colours; present times give enough influence.
Fauvism was extremely influential, but short lived. I like it so much, and find it so well-prospected, that I think it might be recovered as neofauvism, merging elements of other trends, like this ones I show.

If everything goes right with my time, I'll be back with some emotional and moral issues in colours; the real power of colours, which may turn neofauvism in an interesting fine art movement, with luck and good artists interested.

I hope you like this two paintings.

3 comments:

runnerfrog said...

WHAT is THIS? A comment already? :-)

> I am too stupid to understand the theory

That could be a verification that good old runnerfrog might be very wrong too, have that in mind. ;-)

Do never put a recently born artist with a grown up one in the same sentence!. Second one is hurt in its achievements, and first one hurts others with its vanity. :-D Just joking.

> my eyes like the paintings

Great to know, I won't aspire to more than that, and hope that better ones are coming, this ones are there to exemplify something. Sometimes a beautiful struggle is done inside a wannabe artist, to not allow its theories to interrupt its quality, but they improve it.

Stargazer said...

Bear with me, I don't understand the methods you use to create your art, but I do know that I REALLY like it!

And your descriptions (mythological references)enhance your art, making it even more stunning.

runnerfrog said...

Deborah, It is great having a colourful artist around here too.
The method you say, started at programming a serie of four programms (just binaries) to accomplish four different functions: basically simulation of inheritance, mutation, selection, and recombination of genotypes (as in human genoma, let's say), applying this four functions on a population of different phenotypes (images) created from ground zero randomly, between a serie of 40 to 50 prearranged parameters. Then the whole population of images evolves, guided by the "artist" hand, when one hits the artist expectations, the artist saves it and publish it in its blog. ;-)

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