MY Abstract Pointillism

Top painting is "Looden", 2001

Second painting is "Big Round Rock State Park", 2003 which I especially enjoyed painting. So soothing and relaxing to paint each little dot. The process is rather intuitive and at a certain point you can "see the light at the end of the tunnel" and painting starts to feel like a visit with an old friend that must come to an end. (both images are thumbs, click for larger image)

As I said in the earlier post, you just don't hear about abstract pointillism and so it's hard to search for it. You mostly stumble across artists here and there. So I'm doing my part and collecting names. If you know of any others please contact me.

Abstract Pointillism

Andrew Forge

Most anyone, when asked about pointillism will immediately think of the time of the Impressionists. Hardly anyone even wonders if there was or is such a thing as abstract pointillism. Yes there is and it would be a wonderful thing if some Art Museum would do an informative show on it. Several years ago when I first started doing "research" on the net, this is the kind of art I was looking for and it's hard to find; mainly because they just don't describe it as abstract pointillism.

This first image "September” (1995-1996). Oil on canvas. 60” x 48”, is from an informative and insightful article in the Brooklyn Rail .

The next two images; "October" 1993-1995, and "Heavy Hemlocks II", 2000 are from the Betty Cunningham Gallery as posted on Artnet.com - where you'll find additional images.

Please visit the Betty Cunningham Gallery where you can see 22 images of his work. My favorite is "Snow" and "Untitled". Check it out.

Anselm Reyle

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Anselm leans towards Minimal with lots of flash and sparkle. It's great to see his work show up at auction and command top prices. It's always worth the time, to Google Image him, he just keeps on getting better.

The top image is from Kopenhagen

where you'll find the interview with him. Among other things he talks about how and why he uses the PVC-foil in some works

Both of these images are from Artnet.com, where they have 14 examples of his

work and auction results.

Collage & Calligraphy

Just thought I'd post a couple of my paintings.

On the right; "Floxxy", just a quick 1, 2, 3, badda - boom and it was done; nice and light. And it says - Hola, que tal. The T is the brim of her hat and her right cheek, the a is her left cheek and the L is her nose. And there's another T for good measure.

Below is "Evagween". Don't ask where the kitty came from or the square piece of collage. The word Evagween is squirted right out of the tube and has a nice calligraphic effect. To keep that thick paint from shriveling up you have to moisturize it more than a few times while it's drying by lightly brushing it with matte medium.

For quite a while I wondered why I named it Evagween until one day I passed a Chinese take away called Evergreen. Yes it was funny to picture them saying it that way. Isn't it funny how different we all are and all of our little foibles that amuse someone else.

Abstract Pointillism Memories

Was going through some pics of my paintings and came across this and it brought back many fond memories of working on it.

Titled; "Daydream"

click on it for a larger view

"Queen Tut & The Pouty Prince"

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The long story is that I had two, full page ads saved from the NYTimes and once the canvas was gessoed, the above mentioned ads got affixed to it. The first one to get colored with Conti Pencils and pastel was the guy. Did pretty good if I do say so myself. Then started on the girl. Well I can only do realistic for so long . . . . . so I kinda let loose a little on her a little bit.

So I stood back and pondered, and yawned - bore ing. Then an idea struck, I started laughing and grabbed a tube of yellow paint and gave her a crown - right out of the tube. With more laughter I added his neck chain and heart and some more hearts, all straight from the tube. Till I got done doing the moustache and beard and glasses on her I was about doubled up laughing my heart out. That was really fun.

Exhibited it several times, but the reaction seemed to be some questions or negativity. People were trying to read too much into it. Well, our annual Palette Award Show was coming up at the Arnot Art Museum and I thought - if ever there was a place where maybe someone could appreciate this painting it would be there in the Museum, so I entered it in the Show. I got an Honorable mention and more than a few people had a good laugh. It's not the kind of thing that would ever sell in this 3-horse town, so after the show I just gave it away.

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Solar Eclipse

Deputy-Dog.com is back and has some astounding space pics.

This is a pic of what a solar eclipse looks like from space. The people in the shadow area are in darkness.

Please visit his site for other thought provoking pics.

image from Deputy-Dog.com