abstract expressionism
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In configuration 9 the rule I used was that instead of using colour as the positive element dictate the fill, I’d let the traditionally negative elements i.e. white and the background prime colour dictate how the fill is carried out. This comes from how I have begun to read into John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg
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No two coloured tiles are made adjacent in this piece. The colours were applied in a very different method: The main colour of a tile was determined by the number of adjacent tiles it had. This was then blended into from the sides that had an adjacent tile with a colour that corresponded to the
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This piece used the Victoria station photograph as its source but with the harsh clusters of colours found in ‘Configuration: 6’, where I didn’t have the compositional choice I used in ‘Configuration: 5’ and the paintings before, I decided to reintroduce the ‘no adjacent coloured tiles’ rule. The colours were decided by colours randomly
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Acrylic on Canvas. I really like the way this piece turned out. The colours seem to join well together for me (being colourblind I can’t say that this is the same for everyone) and I think the way the drawing was laid out really gives a lot of space and attention to every facet.
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Having all but removed the lines from a painting, this time, I decided to remove the colour and leave the lines to play amongst themselves. This piece uses 4 of the source image which has resulted in the 4 clusters that are visible within the work. The piece itself is sort of reminiscent of
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Acrylic on Paper. Having thought about the use of shape and line within constructivist works, this time I decided to put the drawing underneath a priming layer, also using this as a way of stretching the paper before painting to hopefully reduce the surface distortion that occurs as paper is wetted. This method has really
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Acrylic on Paper. For this piece, I decided to double up the picture of the pins, to make a larger work. Then Instead of having effectively one continuous line, there are 4 separate groups of lines here. Each group has an umbrella colour: Red, blue, green and yellow. I used watercolour so that I could
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Acrylic on Paper. I decided to make this painting having seen all the pins on my noticeboard. The spread was rather interesting, so I took a photograph and then plotted all the points onto a different piece of paper and began to join up the dots rather randomly. Then, starting with the base colour of yellow,
Robin Leverton 