Rational Abstract Art

                                             Process Makes the Art Object  Certain activities and tools by their nature lead to attractive results even for inexperienced artists. Cultivation of favorable methods constitutes the process art activity. Besides use in fine art, process art is well received in schools. Student enjoyment in using a process is considered as important as the end result. The student is freed from the pressure of competition or of being compelled to copy along following a teacher’s demonstration.                                    Bernard Frize The contemporary French artist Bernard Frize uses interesting processes that wi...

                                                                   Fluorescent Bulb Art  We display four artworks made with colored bulbs mounted in common hardware store type fluorescent fixtures.                                                                                                  The artist Dan Flavin, who conceived these works, pioneered using an assemblage of fluorescent lights as art.  Please look at his early work from 1963,...

                                                                              Grid Art Part 2                                                                                  Bitterization Please see another painting based on an underlying grid structure done by Robert Otto Epstein. There is so much color closely juxtaposed that you might prefer to look for a few seconds then look away, then come back.                   ...

                                                         Trafalgar Square Rooster             In 2013 a sculpture called Hahn or Cock by the German artist Katharina Fritsch was placed on the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar square in London.  The name Trafalgar relates to a naval battle and the memorial statue of Horatio Nelson on top of a very tall column in the square.            Nelson commanded the British fleet that defeated Napoleon’s combined French and Spanish fleet at the battle of Trafalgar, in the Atlantic, off the Spanish coast in 1805. Nelson was shot by a French sniper and died at the battle but died knowing he had won a great victory.                    ...