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As I have learnt from my exercise of using just lines and abstract shapes to reflect certain emotions, I feel it is possible for an artist to use their art as an emotional conduit between themselves and the viewer. By using aggressive angeles, tight shapes, applying more pressure it is possible to express dark emotions, and by using lighter pressure, looser shapers and swirling curves the emotion reflected is entirely much calmer.
However, I wonder if art that is as abstract as simply using marks and lines and abstract shapers, whether the emotion felt by the creator may be misinterpreted by the viewer? After all, I found though their were some similarities when creating images that reflected the emotions anger and joy. Both involved explosive movement, and bolder images where I applied more pressure with my medium.
Looking at art work such as the suggested drawing ‘locatotation’ by Julie Brixey-Williams, This collection was created by a number of dancers performing
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Gordon Keith Smedt (American, born )
Red chucks,
signed 'Smedt' (lower right), and signed, dated, initialed and numbered (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
55 1/4 x 74in
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In art school, my focus on painting was portrait and figurative. After graduation, the lack of human models left me with the gift to paint everything else in the world. inom focus on what intrigues and excites me personally, which are often objects familiar to most of us but far from obvious as typical subject matter.
The majority of my subjects are inanimate objects yet I've never considered myself a "still-life" painter. Rather I'm a figurative/portrait painter who doesn't necessarily paint humans. I can tell a more interesting narrative by painting clothing rather than a person wearing them. I've always painted large-scale canvases and feel this fryst vatten an important aspect to my work. I'm bringing life back to these subjects and the large scale gives power and importance to something often forgotten, overlooked, or discarded.
I strive for boldness through color, paint application, and scale, complimented with a sense of intimacy thr