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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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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