What's shakin’ at Rodzart 11-22-2009

Hi Folks. I hope everyone has had a good week.

We had a pretty good week in the studio. One painting finished, a couple more almost done, and one started. The weather was absolutely beautiful in Valrico this week. I think I only even turned the fan on once. Not too bad at all.

The painting I've finished this week was Composition 962:

The thought behind this painting was simply that, every object in the universe can be depicted using a handful of basic shapes, square, rectangle, cone, cylinder, cube, whatever. So I thought it might be interesting to see what kind of compositions I can make out of these shapes. I had a suggestion that maybe I should repeat this image on a black canvas, which would be interesting, and possible one as a grisalle, which I think might be kinda cool.

It hadn't occurred to me at the time that I was moving into suprematism, but in fact I guess I have. I did a quick check on Kazimir Malevich just to be sure that I'm not inadvertently plagiarizing anything, and so far I don't think I am. But, from what I've seen so far, Suprematism is an interesting movement so I'm going to have a much longer look at it. To be honest, other than Kandinsky, I haven't studied too many Russian artists.

I do look at a lot of artistic movements and genres, I take what I like and leave the rest. So I guess what I come up with in the end is my own unique way of looking at existence. I guess we'll call it Rodzism. I hope, that when people look at my art they do the same thing...take what you like and leave the rest. If you don't like any of it, well that's OK too, the world will keep turning.

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That's about it for this week folks, maybe next week I'll give you my chili recipe,
or maybe not.


Here’s some links to remember:

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I hope everyone has a peaceful and prosperous week.

Thanks!!

Rod