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Ode to Ad Reinhardt

27/11/2016

This week I would like to present to you a sketch I did of Ad Reinhardt's work. I first came across him as I was researching into Agnes Martin's work. While I was totally taken in with subtlety and sublimity of Martin's work, Reinhardt's work spoke to me in a very immediate and stark manner. I could feel his single minded focus in his works. I know intuitively that my works stem from the legacy of the American Abstract Expressionism and I relate to them in a way that is almost spiritual.
Whither now? Ad Reinhardt!

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Boundaries

20/11/2016

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The more I contemplate the more I am taken in with the idea that life energy flows through us; that life happens within the boundaries defined by our skin, that is, within us. At the cellular level the boundaries that define us are not rigid, but flexible and porous; that we practically are life energy oozing creatures of creation. The life energy inhabiting us is the same inhabiting all life forms.
It is our vanity that keeps us in our beliefs that we are supreme and can reign over all the other life carrying creatures, when in fact we are all one: lets learn to look past our boundaries.

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Spaces

13/11/2016

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I made this sketch in summer during my visit to Stockholm. I was inspired by Stockholm's Art Underground and by the shadows the sun was casting on a tent under which I was sipping my afternoon tea in the tradition of the Swedish Fika.
In this sketch I explore the Spaces created by the bright sun and the shadows cast by the leaves of a shrub: how vast the Spaces of the shadows are!
Much light!

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Space and composition

6/11/2016

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An important lesson I learnt in art class: "Depicted space may be continuous or discontinuous" (Kit White:101 Things to learn in Art School No. 59).
Fractured compositions make room for the observer.
I had fun doing this drawing of a broken lamp with a wire hanging loose from the ceiling.
Have a fantastic Sunday.

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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.