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Jugendstil and more … II

26/5/2019

Starting with the sketch of a pepper stalk, I made a series of sketches on beer coasters.
The idea was to create rhythm with repeating patterns and shapes. Observed as stand alone entities the beer coasters do not convey the sense of a narrative, but somehow are related to each other. The eye seeks this narrative...
Much light!

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Jugendstil and more...

19/5/2019

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Hi everybody!
This week's post goes back in time and a bit away from last week's euphory, and is inspired by the Austrian "Jugendstil" era. I was in Vienna during my Easter break and got to know Vienna from its best side: Art.
Vienna is an art lover's paradise.
I had to put ink on paper and do not regret deviating from my usual "non-objective art" posts: I used this sketch I am posting today, to develop a series; which I will show you over the next weeks.
Much light and thank you for your interest!

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Ideas jotted down on paper and their reality

12/5/2019

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Today's post is a repeat!
I am posting it again today, to mark the completion of a cycle of learning, execution and abstraction.
Starting with this sketch, I made and developed at least three series of works that I presented last week to mark the completion of my course of study at the Akademie für Malerei in Berlin.
Several of those works have found new homes now and I am thrilled to be able to observe this cycle of ideas to reality. I am immensely grateful to the Almighty, and to all my teachers and supporters. In my talk I had stressed upon the role of the art lover and the fact that art lovers are the most important players in this scene, next to the artist, and my appeal was heard.
Thank you all for your good wishes!
Much light!

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Aruna Samivelu

I am an artist. I live and work in Berlin.
I started to paint colour fields (very much inspired by Mark Rothko and other American Abstract Expressionists) and now have evolved into an admirer of the Bauhaus Movement. I am still a seeker: minimalist concrete art finds resonance in me, while the rich colours and traditional art forms of my home country that flow in me and breathe in me, also find expression in my work.
My work, I believe is a synthesis of all these influences and seeming contradictions. I am now knocking a dent into concrete art, non objectively so to speak! I work serially and can endlessly look for emerging patterns in my work.
This has been a wonderful journey, and as they say: the path is the destination.
In my blog posts, I am letting you have a peek over my shoulder, into my sketch books and small works, which will someday flow into my big canvases and other works; works that I will actually display or exhibit (or may be not).
My blog posts are more about my process and what motivates me to paint and create.