Saturday, February 22, 2014

On the Grid:Artist Research

Writing Response: On the Grid: Haleyc

Francois Morellet

       Work (also called grid work) focuses on a relationship between line, light, and movement through paintings, drawings, installation... basically just through art. 
Experiments with grids until he catches on to an idea or concept and then by using that algorithm or mathematical guideline, Morellet creates his works. His work is logical and gives a sense of a larger picture as a result from the use of repetition. 

       Morellet’s art reflects his curiosity for “the behavior of continually expanding systems.” Often times he uses neon lights as a medium, there is a connection between him and the medium and what he is trying to express, “Morellet challenges the rigid notions that govern our perception of the medium's boundaries.”


Narseen Mohamedi

       Mohamedi uses the grid as means to finding truth and clarity. She uses gridded lines to express energies and an almost hidden, yet at the same time very evident rhythm similar in function to the Eastern classical music samples. The work mimics the same feelings found in nature, not because they visually look the the same. Mohamedi is able to see an underlying grid in life and is able to reproduce it to its rawest form, this is how she mimics nature. She provides viewers with the same emotional experience as standing next to the ocean or forest....
       The work holds a divine truth for the artist. Her work reduces to one plane with each line interconnecting to a greater whole. The lines come together in unity and suggest an infinite continuation beyond what is shown on the canvas.


Theo Van Doesburg

      Theo Van Doesburg utilized the grids ability to reveal the relationships of different elements. He targets the organizational aspect of the grid and provides an ultra-sensitivity to balance and placement through composition. The lines and planes are a hidden language through codes of organized abstractions and “formal interrelationships.” Van Doesburg used a wide variety of material: painting, poetry, design, typography, architecture; regardless the material, the grid as a foundation for line kept as the consistent factor in the breath of all he created.
      Van Doesburg was a key figure in finding the De Stijl movement, a proposal for, “ultimate abstraction, simplicity, clarity, harmony, and equilibrium.” The cooperation between elements found in Theo Van Doesburg’s work was an extension of an effort to “usher in a new utopian spirit of cooperation” during a time of disconnect and war. The manifesto doubles in also summing up how Van Doesburg utilized the grid and what he gained from it. Like Mohamedi, he was seeking a certain underlying truth/ capability and brought to it a distinguished level of modernity.

                    



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