Saturday, May 3, 2008

Formalism painting


Jon Adam (England 1961) Out of Orange (Around 2000) 90x90cm Oil on canvas

I read, on another website, that he started his carer with outdoor scenery. But later he started creating abstract works in a studio. Jon had a few paintings with similar names, out of something. And I think it was a joke, saying, he used so much that he's out of the color. It's a great example of space. Everything blending together to create one image. The color is great, and it gets lighter and lighter the higher up on the painting. This has the most use of line and shape. Yet all of it is in a free form, flowing way. The lines just bend around a point that everything seems to be going into. I really like the artwork. The blend of colors, as I said, is phenomenal. It's really cool and interesting.

http://www.jon-adam.co.uk/images/gallery/Out-of-Orange.jpg
http://www.jon-adam.co.uk/pages/gallery2.htm

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