Jackson Pollock
Action Painting: A visual choreography of
an artist’s interaction with paint and color.
This is a presentation; not representation.

Jackson Pollock Lavender Mist

Space
Form
Color
A myth maker who proclaimed
that the only valid subject
matter is that which is tragic.
“Without monsters and gods,
art cannot enact a drama.”
Rothco
Rothco

Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110

De Kooning Gotham News
Reshaping post-war
frustrations with a new
expressive vision.
De Kooning Woman

Albers Homage to the Square
Color: Its Interaction
& Expressive Qualities.
Reason vs. Intuition
Hoffman The Gate

Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup
Pop Art
Familiarity breeds…?

Claes Oldenburg Hamburger
Quality control!

Oldenburg Eraser Soft Bathtub
Seeing the familiar in an unfamiliar way.

Contemporary Iconographics
Jasper Johns American Flag
Let’s run it up the flagpole and see how it flies.

Why Three?
Thiebaud Three Machines
Illustration or fine art?

OP Art
Bridget Riley Movement In Squares

1+1=3
Albers Homage To The Square

Nelson Homage To Albers
Learning Never Ends Albers

Vasarely Optical Illusion Is permanence a factor in art?

Photo-Realism
It’s all an illusion
When paint mimics
photos which mimic
optical reality…
(literally speaking.)
Ralph Goings Ralph’s Diner

Chuck Close
A synthesis of Pointillism, Photo-Realism, Op and Intuitive Dedication..

Close…..UP!

Christo
Conceptual Art:
Environmental
Transformation
(Now there’s a thought!)

Art and plants thrive in fertile soil. For some, art is only
there for the picking. They plant and harvest endlessly,
with little thought of replenishing or rotating the crop.
But there are those artists and patrons who replenish, and
in so doing, harvest a crop rich in both tradition and insight.
Their soil encourages new growth and a mutation of endless
varieties of new visual and tactile experiences.
And then there are those who plant a new variety of seed
which germinates to become esoteric concepts. Their soil
Art: An bears abundant fruit, rich in verbal, philosophical, social
and political pronouncements for a chosen few. This crop
observation is not a feast for the eye or touch of a hand, for such
qualities are no longer recognized by these authors or their
supporters.
Visual/tactile art is not literature, music or dance. What
makes it unique is its ability to communicate visual ideas.
When the visual/tactile experience no longer serves as the
primary means of communicating, it may be an art form, but
one whose definition serves another master.
© 2009Richard Nelson

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