{"id":373,"date":"2017-04-18T15:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T15:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2017-06-05T03:26:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:26:47","slug":"new-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/18\/new-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yosemite<\/a>
“Yosemite Falls from Sentinel Swinging Bridge,” 30″ x 40,” oil on canvas, framed, $4,250.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I just finished an abstraction of the view of Yosemite Falls from the Sentinel Swinging Bridge. I work with abstractions as often as I do with representational pieces (actually more), but this one was more challenging.<\/p>\n

My abstract forms are usually developed\u00a0through multiple viewpoint perspective (MVP). For those unfamiliar with MVP, it’s an approach where the artist considers their subject matter from, not just a single point of view, but, instead, from all sides, creating images that represent multiple perspectives of the subject at the same time in a single image. The approach was pioneered by Picasso and Braque through their explorations with cubism.<\/p>\n

Anyway,\u00a0MVP depends on the viewer’s knowing what the\u00a0subject matter looks like in its original state, before it’s abstracted, in order to be able to appreciate how it’s been abstracted. In a scene like this one, completely comprised\u00a0of natural organic elements, representing elements from all sides can go unrecognized, so I had to depend on other systems of abstraction. I\u00a0leaned\u00a0heavily on geometric, organic and reductive abstraction here to arrive at my final solution. These methods of abstraction are generally called upon, to some degree, in all my abstractions, but this subject required me to rely on them exclusively.<\/p>\n

Being forced to work without MVP took me out of my comfort zone, making me more insecure, a good thing for an artist.\u00a0An indication that you’re\u00a0exploring new personal territory\u00a0and not relying solely on solutions that have been successful for you\u00a0in the past. I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n

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I just finished an abstraction of the view of Yosemite Falls from the Sentinel Swinging Bridge. I work with abstractions as often as I do with representational pieces (actually more), but this one was more challenging. My abstract forms are usually developed\u00a0through multiple viewpoint perspective (MVP). For those unfamiliar with MVP, it’s an approach where … Continue reading “New Ground”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18,4,19,10,25,17,8,24,11,9,20,22,21,23],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}