I'm subdividing the larger painted squares, and have gotten the plaid going on the fifth piece. This is where I might add movement to my pieces, leaving rows of stripes between sections of checkerboard or rows of a mix of the two. This subdivision creates "roads" or "channels" and leads the viewer around, or through, the piece. Sometimes the ultimate evenness and balance of my pieces overrides that tension and keeps your eye happily in the center of a piece.
I LOVE THIS EVEN WITHOUT ANYTHING ON IT. THE COLORS, THE COLORS.
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Good Morning Casey, I remember when I lived in Berlin taking my daughter to see a modern art exhibit. We both got to chuckling, most of the canvasses were blank, except for maybe a blue line through the middle, or a yellow square painted in the lower right hand corner. Everyone was looking so seriously at each painting. So the two of us joined in the fun and carried on great discussions of each painting. I never did get that style of art, unless it was for an office decor and you wanted a big bold splash of color. I need color and some meaning in the artwork for it to appeal to me.
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate that you are showing us the steps involved in your work. I'm learning but not sure if I will ever possess the patience it takes.
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Hey everyone...good morning. LOVE watching the process of your art Casey. Is this the type you have always done or did it evolve from something else? It is fascinating. (did you paint flowers on canvases in another lifetime??)
ReplyDeleteAnnie, that is a HOOT! I'm afraid I don't "get" the splash/dot/ slash, whoosh art (whatever they call it!) I always thought...I could just go home and do that (and I am NO artist!!) I would like to have been a little birdie listening to you and your daughter "discuss" the art. What a great memory for you..fun!
Casey, have you ever told us how you came about doing your art in this fashion?? I would love to know..did the layering come later in life...like the layers we get in our "real" life?? Next show you do you will probably blog people from all over storming your doors. :)
have a great day everyone...I think fall is in the air.
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i don't really know if I can explain how I started doing work like this. i can say I have have always been surrounded by old thing. Most of them are in average to below-average condition, if not outright broken or missing pieces. most show the effects of generations, scratches, wear marks. Some have been fixed or repainted through the years, and I find the old paint poking through attractive. So in a way, my pieces are giving other people the chance to live with something that evokes that calming sense of history, in a way. but they're contemporary too.
ReplyDeletei understand conceptual art, and enjoy it and its place in the world. i've grappled with the 'larger meaning' of my pieces, larger in the conceptual sense. i've been called "decorative not collectible" by someone that holds conceptual art in high esteem, not much of a legacy, lol. but, to me, once you 'get' the meaning of a conceptual piece, after you digest the irony, the poke-in-the-eye to the viewer, the slap at history, whatever the anti-hipster's are railing against this season, you're frequently left with a very simplistic piece of art that isn't satisfying on its own. I don't think you should have to understand art to appreciate it and enjoy it. And I think one 'big' idea behind a piece is too simplistic an idea. I like to have a million things in my pieces to jog memories.
Thanks Casey, I think I understand a little more now..do you always layer in photos of people and objects or do you ever do "just" the pattern(quilt) art? Also, am curious if you tape off or just freehand (which I couldn't even fathom) I appreciate your response..
ReplyDeleteJust one other thing...where the heck is everyone today?? This place was hoppin' a couple days ago when I was busy busy and now I think I hear an echo in here! :)
have a great day everyone...
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OH MARE, YOU WHO ARE YOU THERE? I'M LURKING IN AND OUT. I'VE MADE THE ROUNDS TO ALL MY BLOGS ALREADY. ANNIE'S, DR.SWILL'S CASEY'S AND YOURS MARE. PLAYING WITH YOU GUYS KEEPS ME GOING. LIKE I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO.I'D RATHER PLAY THAN WORK,PLUS MY WORK DAYS ARE OVER. IF I COULD DO ANYTHING RIGHT THIS MINUTE,IT WOULD BE TO SIT IN CASEY'S BACK YARD AND GARDEN WITH ALL OF YOU AND HEAR ABOUT YOUR LIVES OR EVEN SIT IN THAT YARD IN THE PICTURE THAT CASEY TOOK ON HIS WALK, THE ONE WITH THE WHITE FENCE. HOW ENJOYABLE TO SIT WITH THE RICH AND FAMOUS. YOU DO KNOW WE ARE ALL RICH AND FAMOUS IN OUR OWN WAY.
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sometimes I'd like to be rich and famous in their way, with actual riches and fame, lol. but i'd still be doing what I'm doing so it doesn't really matter.
ReplyDeleteYUP, IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER. I'VE SPENT TIME WITH THE RICH AND SOME FAMOUS. I'D RATHER BE ME.
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I don't know, I wouldn't mind being Angelina Jolie for a time - doing all that good stuff she does. But not sure I would want to have to have the pain she has suffered, but I guess it's all the little bits that makes her who she is and makes us who we are, right?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty much satisfied with me, but if I could there are a couple of things in my life I would change, you know things that you never had any control of in the first place. But we don't get to pick and choose.
If I really think about it, despite all the mistakes I've made and having some bad times, I still wouldn't want to be anyone else. It's funny how it works out. I don't know if everyone feels that way, but I bet most people do.
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