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julian Broadhurst The Melbourne
Festival Pictures - Text 2 Drowningcircle Contemporary Fine Art |
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The
lifetime project of my Art is Elementalism - a
branch of Op Art specialising in the Analysis of
Form and process in terms of a composition with Geometric particles or Elements.
Elementalism though is an Art, not a Science, where the Artist plays with
notional, and the notion of, Form and its Mis-apprehension; as when I
deliberately fool the eye into perceiving what is actually not there. Think
of the primary illusions of representation, as where, for example, a circle
is perceived as a Sphere.
Elementalism
is about Composition, in the way that music is. It
is about the possibilities in the combination of Elements, from the ground
up; I half jokingly say that ‘I write String Quartet for black line’. In the
manner of our minds teasing out Form, my
Works are if you like, ‘performed’ in the mind, when you look at them, as you
might closely listen to music. That is to say, when you as the viewer,
intelligently reassemble my visual clues and misclues! This is of course what
we do when we recognise or misinterpret anything visual; it is simply the
degree to which I ask you do this, that is fundamental to ’This intelligent
Art’.
The three pictures I am presenting here are good examples of this. They all three use one basic design Idea, and are Developments of it. Namely that a series of Stars ‘skips’ backwards into a space, and a set of reinforcing lines project and define the Form of that ‘Volume’ in multiple or (Poly)-point Perspective. If you are interested in my Work Please visit my website where you will find 30 Galleries, recreating projects and shows; with photo documentary; essays and Articles - www.drowningcircle.com
Images & Text © julian Broadhurst 2OO5