Friday, August 26, 2011

PICTOGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION/ 'On the Cliffs' by Eric Whollem/ A visual fugue of linear ideograms/ CONTEMPORARY ART




On the Cliffs
1985
by Eric Whollem
mixed media on paper
9" x 6"
COLLECTION OF JOHN DMURGIAN
Copyright by the artist

A Visual Fugue

John Sebastian Bach made the fugue famous in music with his
'Die Kunst Der Fugue.'  My painting, 'On the Cliffs,' being a mixed
media work that overlays translucent resist of parafin and gouache
with black India ink ideograms is, in a sense, a two dimensional
approximation of the fugue, which is a muscial form involving
repetitive phrases in different voices.

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NOUMENAL ILLUSIONS/ A figurative pictographic abstraction by Eric Whollem/ CONTEMPORARY ART





Noumenal Illusions
1983
by Eric Whollem
mixed media on  paper
6" x 4"
COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST
Copyright by the artist

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ENCAPSULATIONS/ A pictographic abstraction by Eric Whollem/ Contemporary art based on prehistoric petroglyphs





Encapsulations
1984
by Eric Whollem
mixed media on paper
6" x 9"
COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST
Copyright by the artist

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