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These entries are guided walking tours of the occipital diorama. (“Look over there that might be an idea”). The topics address structural and narrative elements that may be found in the paintings.
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Implications of Depth
Regardless of the flatness of a painting’s components, the lack of shading, the absence (or manipulation) of perspective, there is still...
Jul 8, 2021
Freedom in Disparity
Degrees of disparity in subject matter, scale, representation, and style all work to impart some freedom to the viewing experience....
Jun 20, 2021
The Necessity of Text
In the classical sense, painting and text are incompatible. The text or captions intrude on what should be a purely image-based...
May 16, 2021
Multiple Backgrounds
Frequent use of multiple backgrounds is a feature of harmolodic painting. An image, text, or pattern can be super-imposed over more than...
Apr 18, 2021
Non-representational Painting and Text.
Minus the inclusion of an identifiable object, a painting is viewed as non-representational. The presence of text pulls it back from pure...
Jan 14, 2021
Recurring Images
Although many of the image components appear familiar (that is, not exotic) they are original renderings. To employ one of those images...
Dec 18, 2020
Casual Gestures / Flat objects
Isolating a casual gesture and treating it as though it were a pre-meditated, deliberate component is interesting as a route to visual...
Nov 12, 2020
Flat & Deep – Mixing Two and Three Dimensions
When a flatly-depicted two-dimensional object is collaged on a pictorial space that clearly represents depth-of-field, or when a...
Oct 17, 2020
Mixing Abstract Components
The mixing of abstract components can create tangents and pictorial drama. As strong as a gesture or pattern may be, its power is...
Sep 18, 2020
Matching Titles/Captions/Text and Paintings
Texts (which also serve as titles) usually exist as a separate list. When some imagery or patterns are chosen, the list is consulted for...
Aug 30, 2020
Realism and Stylization
The more realistic an image is, the more comparisons can be made; the more we are reminded it is an image, not the depicted object. The...
Jul 12, 2020
A Narrative of Abstract Components
Is a good definition of instrumental composition. Even programmatic music is built of abstract pieces, assembled to impart a sense of the...
Mar 27, 2020
Harmolodic Painting
Any two elements can work together in a painting, depending on the third element introduced. More elements can be added by the same...
Feb 21, 2020
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