What is painting…
… if not the quasi desperate act of the artist to arrest entropy and secure his or her vision to a surface through, but not limited to, the use of pigments?
To put it succinctly, painting is the act of framing the chaos from outside and/or within the artist.
In a word:
Alpha to Omega, beginning to end, bracketed by known unknowns. Or is it unknown knowns? X stands in for both.
The act of interacting with a painting is, of course, not static at all. The viewer constantly moves in time-space around the object of art, lighting conditions change throughout the day and over the seasons, the eye itself adjusts left and right, up and down, far to close.
Moreover, any person’s state of mind constantly meanders through a host of intellectual and emotional dispositions. If ‘seeing is believing’, then viewing is a process involving not just passive perceptions but actively processing them as ‘understanding’.
The ‘framedchaos’ online gallery dispenses with superfluous verbiage. Artist biographies, interviews, and ruminations are considered irrelevant. Instead, it focuses on the work of art.
Each painting has its own dedicated web page.
To access any of the artwork, scroll up this page and click on the icon in the right corner of the menu bar.
