Frontage Tensions | Various abstractions Coloristic awareness Spatial shapes |
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ere is an image informed by three separate art movements: cubism, surrealism, and hyperrealism. It is another of those infrequent instances when I knew I was on to something at the point of capture. I really like opportunities to render an extremely representational scene that embodies characteristics which are also exceptionally abstract. Shape and color relationships dominate, flattening the dimensions which slowly emerge as a street scene with lamp-post shadow and parking-meter detail. This is illusory actuality in the post post-modern world.
“Abstraction and realism work best together.” - Ken Danby
