Fine Art
Art begins with an idea, a concept, a creative process. The outcome and essence of the created object or image communicates.
It attracts and appeals to our sensibilities. The original work contains a message or story, something that can make connections with viewers, generating emotional responses.
After the artwork is produced, additional work is required to find audiences, who can relate and value what is presented.
During the invention and development of photography ‘writing with light’ the slow progressive intentions were to capture and document visible images, taken from the data and information, contained and reflected from rays of light.
New Media
There are difficulties in any attempt to place the traditional roots and methods of the photo process, in the same category as new lens media art, or digital imagery produced through digital software. Photography, fully embraced in central America, is the home of pop art and culture.
During the later half of the twentieth century, after years of debates, re-examination and the evidence of vast volumes of works. Finally, photography was accepted and elevated as a Medium for Creative Fine Arts.
However, the commercial popularity, range of applied use, and simply of modern photographic processes through new technology, undermine the true potential of what may be achieved in the visual arts. Many artists utilising the camera and medium as a tool, vehicle and means for self-expression, do create outstanding, extraordinary visual art works.
Abstract Art Photography
Abstract art is a modern creative discipline and movement, adapted, developed and promoted by painters in America during the 1940s and 50s.
The participating artists deliberately avoided copying nature or making accurate facsimiles of objects. The focus of abstract art are the qualities of concepts, ideas, the level of emotions and feelings embodied in the completed works.
I have been experimenting and making work through abstraction for many years. Without the use of computer software manipulation, I utilise the traditional techniques of drawing, painting, tonal range of light and shadow, including the concepts and ideas of abstraction. Combing all the above together in a synergy, in motion, I create and produce photographic images.
New Photo Arts
I am from a multi-discipline, multi-medium background.
It was not too difficult to work and find ways, bringing together the different art techniques and working methods, in order to produce conceptual imagery.
For now, the results are going very good.
During the presentation of my new photo-works, the hope is not to underestimate the challenges, many fine arts experts may face in their specialist areas, when confronted with what is presented.