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Concrete Art

25/11/2018

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Today I present to you a work (Charcoal and Chalk on Wood Veneer 90 x 30 cm) that is (still) evolving from my study of angles. Purists will probably spew fire and brimstone at me, if I claim this work to be part of the "Concrete Art" Genre. Concrete Art develops out of the abstraction of geometric forms and shapes.
In my work I have managed to subdue the harsh lines and to lend my work very earthy tones by my choice of colour.
​Much light!
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Shades of grey

18/11/2018

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I love working in this technique, which I call tippling. Its very meditative, and there are no limits to the range of dark or light intensity that one wants to use.
​Its almost like pointillism which uses coloured dots to convey the picture.
I believe I will still work on this one as I continue to build it up.
​Much light!
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Staying with rhythms and spaces

11/11/2018

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In this week's post I continue to stay with rhythm and space.
This was very fun and very quick to do: I used a zentangle pattern (something I used to do many years ago). By leaving out part of the shapes I had outlined, I have achieved a grade of mystery and the shading in provides areas of high contrast.
While the eye wanders through the random pattern, the brain is trying to figure out what it is, that was left out.
​Much light!
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Rhythmic Movement X

4/11/2018

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Here is another experiment with rhythm. This time with patterns cut out from an Artdeco pattern gift wrap paper. The different shades of grey juxta positioned with the dark and white areas give this paper work (graphite and coal on recycled paper) depth and create spaces.
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. 

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