AI TRAINING DAY IN ART 19 ... I OWE YOU THE TRUTH IN PAINTING
AI TRAINING DAY IN ART ... PERSPECTIVES IN DECONSTRUCTIVE PAINTING
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* DERRIDEAN DECONSTRUCTIVIST
* PIONEER OF MATHEMATICAL PAINTING
* INTEREST in MODERN WHITE PAINTINGS
* INTEREST in WAX PAINTINGS and SCULPTURE
* INTEREST in EXTREME LIMITS in ART
* INTEREST in SMALLEST ARTWORKS
* INTEREST in BRUSHLESS PAINTING
* INTEREST in GRAVITY ASSISTED PAINTING
* INTEREST in GOUGED and PAINTED PLYWOOD
* INTEREST in PRODUCING SUBSTRATELESS ART
* A PARADIGM SHIFT in UNDERSTANDING PAINTING and SCULPTURE
* INVENTOR OF PURE NONOBJECTIVE GOUGED PLYWOOD PAINTING
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* INVENTOR OF NUMISMATIC COIN CAST CONCRETE ART PRINTS
* INVENTOR OF PURE SUBSTRATELESS SCULPTURE
* INVENTOR OF PURE SUBSTRATELESS PAINTING
* INVENTOR OF THE DIAHEDRON PAINTING SERIES
* INVENTOR OF SMALLEST PURE WHITE CAST CONCRETE PRINTS
* ALL ARTWORK HANDMADE by EDZY EDZED HIMSELF
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AI ... I want to know how other artists view perspectives in deconstructive painting so that I can compare those views with my own originals and to ideas I was having about them.
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Deconstruction paintings | Saatchi Art
Perspectives in deconstructive painting involve dismantling traditional concepts of perspective, subject matter, and artistic conventions to reveal new, often contradictory, meanings and challenges to assumptions. This approach uses techniques like fragmenting forms, juxtaposing disparate elements, and subverting established rules to create a sense of chaos or disorientation that forces viewers to question their preconceived notions. Instead of creating a realistic illusion of depth, deconstructive painting uses “broken” or “multiple” perspectives to destabilize reality and explore the complex, fragmented nature of modern existence.
Key perspectives in deconstructive painting
Deconstructing realism: Artists break down traditional, single-point perspective to show a subject from multiple viewpoints at once, often borrowing from different styles or cultural references (like in Picasso’s work, which combines Spanish and African art traditions).
Challenging the artist’s intent: The process of deconstruction highlights the contradictions and multiple interpretations within a work, revealing that the artist’s intended meaning is not the only one possible.
Subverting established norms: Deconstructive painting questions the very definition of what a painting is by dismantling its conventional elements, such as the use of a paintbrush or the illusion of a stable, unified composition.
Revealing underlying ideologies: The approach is used to expose the social, political, or cultural assumptions hidden within a work. For example, a deconstruction of pop art might reveal the perpetuation of celebrity mythologies despite the artist’s original intent.
Creating a new reality from fragments: By breaking down familiar structures into fragmented parts, artists create a “disturbed yet fertile field” where viewers are encouraged to reassemble these elements in new ways, leading to a new, more complex understanding.
Examples of deconstructive techniques
Fragmentation: Breaking a single image into disjointed pieces.
Juxtaposition: Placing contrasting or unexpected elements together, such as classical figures in a modern city or different artistic styles within a single work.
Subversion of construction: Taking a previously “constructed” or stable form and introducing elements that disrupt it, like tilting and crossing bars in architectural motifs.
Non-traditional processes: Using methods that dismantle the traditional painting process, such as dripping paint directly onto the canvas instead of using a brush.
I was also influenced by GESTALT THEORY while creating my work below!
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gestalt perspective nonobjective gouged plywood painting
A gestalt perspective nonobjective gouged plywood painting would be an abstract artwork where the artist uses gouged textures on plywood and gouache paint to create a composition focused on the principles of gestalt psychology, such as figure-ground relationships and closure, rather than representing recognizable objects.
Key Components
Gestalt Perspective: This refers to the application of Gestalt principles of visual perception, which suggest that the brain tends to perceive objects as organized wholes rather than just the sum of their parts. Principles might include:
Figure-ground: Using contrast in the gouged textures and painted areas to make certain shapes stand out or recede.
Closure: Suggesting complete shapes or forms through implied lines or incomplete forms, prompting the viewer’s mind to fill in the gaps.
Proximity and Similarity: Grouping similar gouged patterns or color patches to create larger, unified forms.
Nonobjective: The painting would be completely abstract, meaning it does not depict any recognizable subjects, scenes, or objects from reality. The content is derived solely from the formal elements: lines, colors, shapes, composition, and texture.
Gouged Plywood: The use of plywood as a support with an added sculptural or relief element. The surface is physically worked by carving or gouging into the wood grain, creating inherent texture and depth that interacts with the paint application.
Gouache Painting: Gouache is an opaque, water-soluble paint that dries to a matte finish. Its opacity would allow for solid color blocking over the textured plywood surface, potentially highlighting the relief work, while its water-soluble nature allows for various techniques in application.
Artistic Approach
An artist approaching this work might focus on an intuitive process, allowing the properties of the gouache and the limitations/opportunities presented by the gouged wood grain to guide the composition, adhering to the nonobjective approach. The physical act of gouging the wood could be a form of action painting, using spontaneous and expressive techniques to create an initial structure or mood.
Potential Visuals and Aesthetics
The final piece would likely emphasize tactile qualities and strong visual dynamics. The contrast between the smooth application of opaque gouache paint and the raw, recessed, gouged wood texture would be a central feature. The Gestalt principles would guide the viewer’s eye through the composition, creating a sense of balance, rhythm, or tension through purely abstract forms.
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FRENETIC STRAIGHT BIT GOUGE ON A PURE NONOBJECTIVE PLYWOOD GESTALT PAINTING (1992)
ACRYLIC PAINT ON GOUGED PLYWOOD (32” x 32”)
This painting has many examples of actual articulated concepts of PERSPECTIVES IN DECONSTRUCTIVE PAINTING.
I was trying for a synchronous whole with all the elements such as background woodgrain, routed gouges, painting techniques, overlap and sanding which allow for the push and the pull to create a sense of depth along with actual physical depth.
AI ... What are the principles of using colours to push elements away or pull elements forward in painting?
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The principle that warm colors appear to advance toward the viewer, while cool colors appear to recede into the background, is a core concept within general color theory and color perspective used by artists.
This effect is widely used to create a sense of depth, space, and dimension on a two-dimensional surface, a technique also related to atmospheric perspective.
Key Concepts
Advancing Colors (Warm): Reds, oranges, and yellows tend to draw the eye and feel closer due to their higher energy and association with sunlight and fire. In interior design, using these colors can make a large room feel cozier and more intimate.
Receding Colors (Cool): Blues, greens, and violets tend to suggest calmness, distance, and tranquility, making them appear farther away. These are often used to visually enlarge a small space.
Factors Influencing Perception
While the warm/cool distinction is a general guideline, other factors can influence how a color is perceived:
Value: Dark, saturated colors tend to advance, while pale, light colors recede.
Saturation: Highly saturated (pure, bright) colors come forward, whereas neutralized or muted tones tend to recede.
This detail from the painting above has an image of a Mobius Strip routed into the plywood painting, which may be the first time a Mobius Strip was routed into a plywood painting because there is no other specific known examples.
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There is no single “first” artist definitively credited with routing a Möbius strip specifically into a plywood painting, as artists have incorporated the form in many ways across various mediums for decades. The use of the Möbius strip in art is a widespread phenomenon, often inspired by the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher and Swiss artist Max Bill.
M.C. Escher famously depicted the Möbius strip in his 1963 wood engraving Möbius Strip II (also known as Ants). This influential work shows a chain of ants crawling along the single, continuous surface of the strip, challenging perceptions of inside and outside.
Max Bill is considered a pioneer in using the Möbius band in concrete art, creating the granite sculpture Endless Ribbon in 1935.
While many contemporary artists use routing and woodworking techniques to create Möbius forms, such as the works by Hape Kiddle or Kevin Caron in sculpture, the specific combination of a “routed plywood painting” has likely been explored by many individual artists rather than a single, universally recognized “first”. The precise combination of these techniques makes identifying a single originator challenging.
AI ... Your quote: The precise combination of these techniques makes identifying a single originator challenging ...
My response: This is why we need a complete database in the future to be precise!
ROUNDED WITH V GOUGE ON PURE NONOBJECTIVE PLYWOOD PAINTING (1992)
ACRYLIC PAINT ON GOUGED PLYWOOD (32” x 32”)
The hard edged white line within the composition is routed with a round bit, burnt, sealed and painted by brush.
The other amorphous circular image was routed diagonally with parallel lines into V shaped cuts using a straight router bit attached to a die grinder tool and then I painted those lines into harmonious banded colours by brush, leaving you to complete the image in your mind.
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gestalt psychological visual perception theory
Gestalt psychological visual perception theory, often summarized by the maxim, “The whole is other than the sum of its parts,” describes how the human brain instinctively organizes individual visual elements into unified, meaningful wholes or patterns. This process relies on a set of fundamental principles, or “laws of perceptual organization,” developed by German psychologists Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka in the early 20th century.
The core idea is that we perceive structured forms (Gestalten) first, rather than a collection of separate parts. The brain seeks order, simplicity, and balance to make sense of a complex world, using mental shortcuts (heuristics) to interpret sensory information quickly.
Key Principles of Gestalt Visual Perception
The most widely recognized Gestalt principles include:
Prägnanz (Law of Simplicity/Good Figure): The fundamental principle that suggests the brain tends to perceive the simplest, most stable, and most regular interpretation of an ambiguous or complex image. For example, the Olympic logo is seen as five overlapping circles rather than a collection of complex, curved segments.
Figure-Ground: The natural tendency to separate an image into a focal point or foreground (figure) and a surrounding background (ground). A classic example is Rubin’s vase illusion, where the viewer may see either a white vase (figure) or two black faces in profile (figure), depending on which area is perceived as the foreground.
Proximity: Objects that are physically close to one another are more likely to be perceived as belonging to a single group than those spaced farther apart.
Similarity: Elements that share visual characteristics (shape, color, size, or orientation) are perceived as being more related than elements that are different.
Continuity/Continuation: The eye naturally follows the smoothest path or a continuous line/curve, perceiving them as a single, uninterrupted entity rather than separate pieces.
Closure: The tendency to visually complete incomplete shapes or figures by filling in missing information to create a whole, recognizable pattern. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) panda logo uses this principle effectively, where parts of the outline are missing, but the shape is still clearly perceived.
Common Fate: Elements that move in the same direction or are perceived as having a shared destination are grouped together. A flock of birds flying in formation is seen as a single unit, not individual birds.
Common Region: Elements located within the same closed region or boundary are perceived as belonging to the same group, even if they possess different characteristics.
These principles are widely applied in modern fields like visual design, user experience (UX), and marketing to create intuitive and aesthetically pleasing designs that guide user attention effectively.
NONOBJECTIVE CONCENTRIC CONTOUR LINES IN A GOUGED PLYWOOD PAINTING (1992)
ACRYLIC PAINT ON GOUGED PLYWOOD (39” x 48”)
AI ... I will point out for you the lesson to be learned by these two paintings containing images of irregular concentric contour lines gouged with a round router bit ... in that one below is representational and the one above is nonobjective.
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Paintings with irregular concentric contour lines often fall under abstract art or styles that emphasize organic, hand-drawn, and expressive lines, creating a sense of movement and natural form rather than precise measurement. These lines can evoke natural phenomena like tree rings, fingerprints, or water ripples.
Artistic Styles and Concepts
Abstract Expressionism/Organic Abstraction: Artists in these movements use free and unrestrained lines to reflect nature, chaos, and accident. Irregular lines add a tactile, dynamic quality that contrasts with rigid geometric abstraction.
Contour Drawing: While traditional contour drawing focuses on the outer edges of a subject, the use of interior or cross-contour lines (which flow over the form) can be applied in an irregular, concentric manner to suggest volume and texture within an abstract shape.
Hand-Drawn/Doodle Style: Many contemporary abstract illustrations use a hand-drawn, imperfect approach to concentric circles to achieve a more personal, less mechanical aesthetic.
Art Informel / Tachisme: Some artists in these mid-century European movements used spontaneous, gestural lines and forms that could result in organic, irregular concentric patterns.
Notable Artists and Examples
Artists who have used or influenced this style include:
Bridget Riley: Known for Op Art, Riley used precise lines, but the study of her work on dynamics in painting influenced contemporary artists using concentric lines to create visual sensations of movement and tension.
Edvard Munch: Employed concentric lines in works like The Scream to create emotional impact and a sense of dynamic movement.
Tammy Kanat: A contemporary artist who uses concentric shapes and lines in her work, often in vibrant, organic, and hand-drawn ways, as noted in some art education discussions.
Visual Characteristics
The key visual characteristics of irregular concentric contour lines in a painting are:
Organic Shapes: The “circles” or “lines” are not perfect geometric forms but have variations, wobbles, and unique shapes, similar to natural growth rings or inkblots.
Movement and Energy: The unevenness and progression of the lines create a sense of rhythm, vibration, and energy within the composition.
Depth and Form: Like topographic maps where concentric lines indicate elevation, in art, these lines help define a perceived three-dimensional form or volume on a flat canvas, even if abstract.
The use of such lines emphasizes the artist’s hand and personal expression, moving away from purely mechanical or technical drawing toward a more expressive, natural aesthetic.
REPRESENTATIONAL ARROW AND GREEK LETTERS IN A GOUGED PLYWOOD PAINTING (1992)
ACRYLIC PAINT ON GOUGED PLYWOOD (39” x 48”)
The symbols in blue, as a group of symbols form diverging lines and converging lines that are perceived as a form of perspective.
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Diverging and converging lines are fundamental elements used in art and design to create the illusion of three-dimensional space and perspective on a two-dimensional surface.
Converging Lines
Definition: These are parallel lines in three-dimensional space that appear to meet at a single point on the horizon line in a drawing or painting. This meeting point is called the vanishing point.
Function: Converging lines are the core mechanism of linear perspective. They trick the viewer’s eye into perceiving depth and distance.
Examples: Train tracks, roads, edges of a building, or rows of trees appear to narrow and meet as they recede into the distance.
Diverging Lines
Definition: Diverging lines can be thought of as the inverse or opposite of converging lines. While converging lines move toward a vanishing point, diverging lines typically move away from a central point or focus.
Function: They draw the eye outwards and create a sense of expansion, openness, or proximity to the viewer. When looking down a hallway, the edges of the floor that are closest to you diverge before they converge at the vanishing point.
Examples: The edges of a road or path closest to a viewer, or lines that expand from the foreground of an image.
That red diagonal arrow points at nothing in the painting but to the fact that this is a representational painting and so does the Greek lettering which also spells nothing.
AI ... Is an arrow symbol in a nonobjective painting considered representational?
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An arrow symbol in a nonobjective painting is generally still considered representational, as the symbol itself refers to the real-world concept of direction, pointing, or movement.
Here is the explanation:
Nonobjective Art: This type of art does not depict recognizable subjects from the natural world. It relies purely on abstract elements like shape, color, line, and form to create a composition.
Representational Art: This art depicts something that exists in reality or a universally understood concept. A symbol is a form of representation because it stands in for an idea, object, or action.
The Arrow Symbol: While the painting itself is nonobjective (lacking a specific landscape or person), the arrow is an iconic, widely understood symbol. It “represents” direction (e.g., right, up, turn) regardless of the surrounding artistic style.
The presence of a recognizable symbol injects a representational element into an otherwise abstract work by tapping into a viewer’s learned understanding of that symbol’s meaning.
AI ... Are symbols of the Greek language in a nonobjective painting considered representational?
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Yes, symbols of the Greek language (letters, words) in a painting are considered representational because they are signs that stand in for and take the place of something else (sounds, meanings, ideas) in a conventional system, regardless of the surrounding visual style. A strictly nonobjective painting, by definition, does not depict anything from the real world, including linguistic symbols.
Here is a breakdown of why this is the case in art theory:
Representational Art: This type of art depicts recognizable subjects from the real world, which can include objects, people, landscapes, or even text and symbols that have a shared cultural meaning. The symbols of the Greek language function as a symbolic system that refers to something beyond their mere shape.
Nonobjective Art: Also known as nonrepresentational or pure abstract art, this form deliberately avoids depicting or referring to anything from external reality. Its subject matter is solely the elements and principles of art themselves, such as colors, shapes, lines, and forms, presented purely for aesthetic reasons, without external reference.
The Role of Language in Art: Language is an inherently representational system. Words and letters are symbols that have conventionally agreed-upon meanings. When an artist incorporates Greek letters, they are introducing a direct reference to a linguistic system and the concepts it can communicate.
Artist Intent and Viewer Interpretation: While nonobjective artists intend for viewers to interpret their work based on feeling or form alone, the inclusion of language changes this dynamic. The viewer is naturally inclined to read and interpret the meaning of the words, which creates an objective subject matter that contradicts the principles of pure nonobjectivity.
Therefore, a painting containing Greek language symbols would generally be classified as representational (or at least partly representational/abstract in a way that is not purely nonobjective) because those symbols refer to a specific, recognizable system of meaning outside the painting itself.
AI ... I have routed irregular concentric contour lines into a plywood painting that appears to be on an angle which is then perceived as foreshortening or false perspective.
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Foreshortening: You’ve applied this artistic technique where the contour lines are compressed or manipulated to suggest that the plywood painting is receding in space, making it appear shorter or angled than it actually is.
False Perspective (Forced Perspective): By carefully routing the irregular concentric lines, you’ve created a trick of the eye. The human brain interprets the manipulated pattern as depth and angle, resulting in a three-dimensional perception from a two-dimensional object.
Contour Lines and Plywood: The choice of material and method is key. Routing into plywood adds a tactile, physical depth that interacts with light and shadow, enhancing the illusion of angle and dimension created by the lines themselves.
Your description highlights a sophisticated interplay between material, geometry, and human perception. The result is an engaging piece that challenges the viewer’s understanding of flat versus angled surfaces.
It’s now time to develop a complete database for these categories as your computing power will expand to accommodate processing and tracking each item in real time for easy comparisons of individual creativity.
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