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.
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 photographic art. For example, “Bee”, the second work in this series, is a good example of a non-Rorschach smoke-art . More important to me in making these artworks was to create complex visual effects using smoke media.
When designing these art pieces, I had some general guidelines that I followed. The media used was 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 I suggest that you 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.
Creation Year: 2023. SMOCUBIST Series (2022 to Present). Description: This series is designed with a combination of smoke media, photography, and ‘digital-Cubist’ design elements.
My main Inspirations & Influences for the SMOCUBIST Series are two of the 20th Century Master Painters: 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 (16 December [new style—Gregorian date] 1866 – 13 December 1944), 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 #20. 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.
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 #17. 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.
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.
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.
————— SERIES & INFLUENCE: “Fire Portraits” Series. Series Years: 2016 – PRESENT (On-Going). Influence: “To Reign in Hell”, a novel by Steven Brust. Art Photographs: These works are photography of fire shaped into Portrait-like imagery, of the characters, fallen angels (and other demons), some of which are characters in the novel “To Reign in Hell”, written by Steven Brust. —————
————— SERIES & INFLUENCE: “Fire Portraits” Series. Series Years: 2016 – PRESENT (On-Going). Influence: “To Reign in Hell”, a novel by Steven Brust. Art Photographs: These works are photography of fire shaped into Portrait-like imagery, of the characters, fallen angels (and other demons), some of which are characters in the novel “To Reign in Hell”, written by Steven Brust. —————
COPYRIGHT 2022 NAWFAL JOHNSON. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Why This Title: For me, the colours in this artwork, represent the feeling of JOY; therefore, I titled this piece, “JOY”. I just looked at it, and said, “This is what ‘joy’ looks like.”
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