About: This is the biggest piece I’ve completed in a long time: Without the white matte border, it is 30.72 inches wide, and 10.24 inches high. I really like the look of really wide artworks, but photo printers do not like super-wide images. But cropping, no…you go to all the work only to be forced to remove part of the artwork. Never.
Can you imagine telling Sandro Botticelli to crop his masterpiece, “The Birth of Venus” (c. 1483–1485), which is a wide work of art, at 5’ 8” H x 9’ 2” W: “Hey Botticelli, do us a favour and chop off the ends a bit to make it a more standard format, here’s some garden sheers, that should work!”
I decided to create a white border that is 4:3 aspect ratio. In that way, you can kind of fool the online aspect ratio A.I. tool used by print-on-demand sites to test the compatibility of your artwork’s dimensions, and see if it fits their print compatibility specifications.
This art piece is named for the munchkin that is pulling all the light-strings, and who is sitting in his “Golden Orb of Manipulation”, which is located in the upper center portion of the artwork.
Series Description: Most of the works in this series are Rorschach smoke-art: This style is also known as mirrored art, which is symmetrical in design. Nevertheless, not all of these works are created as mirrored designs; for example, “Bee”, the second work in this series, is a good example of a non-Rorschach smoke-art .
When designing these art pieces, I do have some general guidelines that I follow. The media I use to make these artworks is Smoke. Even though these works are very abstract, I want them to be beautiful: I always aim for ‘objective beauty’ in my creations. What I mean by this is that my color palette is attractive to the eye; the designs are interesting and complex; and the figures imagined in my artworks are thought-provoking. This is as close to ‘objective beauty’ that I can achieve.
If you want to see the OG Masters of Beauty in Art, then you need to study the amazing works of Caravagio, Lucas van Uden, Canaletto, Albert Bierstadt, Monet, Courbet, Camille Pissarro, Ivan Aivazovsky, J.M.W. Turner, Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell, just to name a few masters of objective beauty in their individual styles of painting.
As for the titles, all of these abstract artworks are the letters of the English Alphabet. The titles do not have anything to do with what I see in each artwork. I have been fascinated with Rorschach designs for many years.
Title: “February 11, 2023, Edit R”. Creation Year: 2023. Series: “ABSTRACT PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHIC ART”. Series Year: 2013 – Present (On-Going). Original Artwork Media: Colour Pencil and Acrylic Paint. Style: Mixed Media Abstract, Rorschach Art, and then Photography. Copyright 2023 Nawfal Johnson All Rights Reserved.
Creation Year: 2022. SMOCUBIST Series (2022 to Present). Description: This series is designed with a combination of smoke media, photography, and Cubist design elements.
My main Inspirations & Influences for this Series: 1) “José Victoriano González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris…was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism.” (Source: Wikipedia) 2) Wassily Kandinsky, for his geometric design elements and his beautiful and subtle color structures; for example, his wonderful work, “Yellow-Red-Blue” (1925), is an example of Kandinsky craftsmanship that I am particularly inspired by for my SMOCUBIST Series (2022 to Present).
ALT TEXT: TITLE: SMOCUBIST #18. Copyright 2022 NawfalJohnson. All RightsReserved.
Series Description: SEEING-DEEPLY in these Rorschach Smoke-Art photographs reveals many types of figures, faces, and demons, but you must open your mind to all of the possibilities.
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