Matthew Zedler Modern and High Art
Modern Classic || Modern Advanced || Contemporary || High Art
The human form has been a primary source subject matter since the dawn of painting. Conceived and displayed in infinite ways, in the end it always attempts to depict our strengths, our frailties, – and our mortality. My expanding repertoire of figurative artworks maintains a similar theme as those of the past. Through the use …
Created through the lens of abstraction, chosen life forms are refracted through an artist’s eyes and put down onto canvas. In my bio-abstract works, both in series and individual, I have chosen abstracting life forms from both the micro and macro living worlds. Many of my bio-works are framed within linear-geometric boundaries.
This movement came about during the 1940’s in a rebellious effort to create non-conformist, non-representational art derived directly from the creative DNA of the artist. R.A.E. ( Raw Abstraction Expressive) art attempts to throw out all preconceived academic art notions. The ultimate goal here is to create directly and spontaneously from the soul without any …
Geometric abstraction emerged as a revolutionary modern art genre in the late 1800’s. In many ways, geometric art has the means of relating to the tangible aspects of life and living through the use non-representational shapes and forms. Two of the most notable initiators of this style of work were Wassily Kandinsky and Kazemir Malevich, …
Color field painting is an abstract art style that emerged in the late 1940’s and 1950’s in New York. At that time color left the world of fine art as just an influencing agent, and became the subject matter. As we well know today, the select use of color in art wields great power over …
Fauvism (and Fauvist art) came into the world in the early 1900’s, around 1904. It was a means for the artists of the day to escape the use of the everyday realist and impressionist color palette. By using a far broader (and usually wilder) pigmentation range, the mood and impact of the work was greatly …
Calculated Abstract is similar in some respects to Raw Abstract Expressive art in the fact that the work is non-representational and is in essence uniquely derived from the gut or creative DNA. The main differentiation between this style and R.A.E. art is the element of a conceptual framework prior to creation. Though the art is …
Born in the early 1920’s, the surrealist art movement allowed artists the latitude to take their subconscious and philosophical realities, and blend them with the real. Taking on the everyday, a surrealist artist contorts, skews, and twists the imagery to deliver a new message to the viewer of an altered reality. Like Salvador Dali, one …