Thomas-Michael
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Home Interior Design: Using Art Abstractly
I want to get into some other things. A destination and some fashion I think. But given that there was art on the blog for the first time yesterday, it only makes sense to look at some examples of art being used in interior design today. Ideas for your home or apartment. I chose these based on rather basic criteria being essentially large, medium, and small. And for this post I'm sticking with a canonical notion of art which is only inclusive of paintings or a framed picture. I'll have to do another post on art which is not art. So, by using art abstractly I mean that the images below aren't otherwise cluttered. In fact they are relatively abstract interior designs. Even minimal in some cases. But the art as an abstract element within those compositions always manages to hold the space together in a very powerful way. It's the first thing your eye sees. You see everything else in the room in reference to it.
Thomas-Michael
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dw.dk Using Art In Home Interior Design. This is obviously very big and powerful. It gives a tremendous amount of gravity to the space, which would otherwise seem floating, anonymous, and ordinary I think.
charlesfaudree.com Using Art In Home Interior Design. Medium now. But this one is so powerful. Maybe it's the scale of the paint strokes that makes it somehow feel bigger than it is. Or like it wants to visually expand out of the frame. It also kind of feels like it's watching or looking out over the room somehow.
maisonad.com Using Art In Home Interior Design. And lastly this one I also love. As it demonstrates so perfectly how even a small and very abstract piece can make an entire space pivot around it. It's like a perspectival vanishing point within this bed frame. Your eye can't help but end up at it.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Contemporary Painting: Elizabeth Schuppe
We haven't talked about art at all yet. But it's only been two months. There's a lot left to get into.
'Rather than creating a recognizable object, I use the elements of painting itself to allow the story to unfold. There is no plan in my painting, yet there is process. I let a color, a line, a shadow dictate what comes next. My best works are the ones that just happen, when I allow myself to be surprised.'
-Elizabeth Schuppe
It's a beautiful description of the creative act. And one I think you can see suspended in the paintings below. I had bumped into these a few days ago, and couldn't stop looking and thinking about them over the weekend. I love the colors. They feel very contemporary, don't they. The latent presence of the act of making. The different ways the paint is applied which gives them a kind of implicit motion texture. How they each seem like a world onto themselves. And how they remind me of de Kooning, Pollock, and Rothko all at once. Even I see Miro in one.
Thomas-Michael
elizabethschuppe.comContemporary Painting, Elizabeth Schuppe, Untitled IV, Acrylic On Canvas, 44"x48", 2008. If you've been following the blog at all, you know I like everything white. This is really soft, tonal, and beautiful. 'Rather than creating a recognizable object, I use the elements of painting itself to allow the story to unfold. There is no plan in my painting, yet there is process. I let a color, a line, a shadow dictate what comes next. My best works are the ones that just happen, when I allow myself to be surprised.'
-Elizabeth Schuppe
It's a beautiful description of the creative act. And one I think you can see suspended in the paintings below. I had bumped into these a few days ago, and couldn't stop looking and thinking about them over the weekend. I love the colors. They feel very contemporary, don't they. The latent presence of the act of making. The different ways the paint is applied which gives them a kind of implicit motion texture. How they each seem like a world onto themselves. And how they remind me of de Kooning, Pollock, and Rothko all at once. Even I see Miro in one.
Thomas-Michael
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Evolution
The most beautiful things to me are the ones which are capable of changing definition within themselves.
This is the Evolution Dresser by Ferruccio Laviani for Emmemobili. And for the above reason alone it's one of my favorite things. You could probably write a thesis about this piece but I'll try to keep it simple. It's a timeline. Morphing from historical to now along itself. In the abstract it's an incredibly, incredibly provocative idea. One which I can imagine being applied to many different fields of design. Or one which will just simply have to be a post in itself one day.
Thomas-Michael
emmemobili.itPost Modern Furniture Design, The Evolution Credenza Dresser By Ferruccio Laviani For Emmemobili.This is the Evolution Dresser by Ferruccio Laviani for Emmemobili. And for the above reason alone it's one of my favorite things. You could probably write a thesis about this piece but I'll try to keep it simple. It's a timeline. Morphing from historical to now along itself. In the abstract it's an incredibly, incredibly provocative idea. One which I can imagine being applied to many different fields of design. Or one which will just simply have to be a post in itself one day.
Thomas-Michael
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