Concerning the Geometrical in Art
Year: 2006 Authors: Clifford Singer
Core claim
Geometrical configuration with color can serve as an introspective artistic discipline shaped by history, repetition, method, and constraint.
Topics
modern art, geometrical composition, color theory, art history
Domains
geometry, painting, abstract art, visual composition
Methods
introspective practice, thematic integration, composition
Media
Acrylic on Plexiglas, Acrylic on Lexan
Paper text
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Abstract
It is the expanse of thought from earlier twentieth-century Modern art that has been in part an inspiration to my recent painting entitled, The Blue Rider. There is History serving as a discipline and the elements that shape the boundaries of style, vision, repetition, method, and constraint in art. This is the role of suggestibility for our perceptions. Expression is not isolated, limited, or confined to a single notion, or arbitrary method. To escape from the perpetual forces of society, tradition, and attitude would be to escape History itself. A process that is introspectively palpable and its individuated, continual, motivated, thematic, imaginative integration of geometrical configuration with color serves as a vehicle to this discipline.
Professor Joel Castellanos, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Director of NonEuclid at Rice University, has stated, “I am especially drawn to [Clifford Singer’s painting entitled] The Blue Rider. The lines move me in and around and are suggestive of so many different things and actions, yet never settle anywhere.”
Clifford Singer, The Blue Rider, 2003©, Acrylic on Plexiglas, 25x42 inches
Clifford Singer, Cut Space Series, Composition # 56, ©2005, Acrylic on Lexan, 36x44 inches
Clifford Singer, Cut Space Series, Composition # 48, ©2005, Acrylic on Lexan, 36x54 inches