Modern Metal Wall Art – Teaching Oneself to Embrace the Modern Concepts in Designing
October 26, 2009 by admin
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Alyssa Davis asked:
Styles have changed over time. Some people might have preferred to stick with the old-fashioned designs but it is evident in certain homes and establishment that more and more people go for the trends of the today. Fashion and style has taken a complete 360 degrees turn when compared to the ones people have back in the early 1900s or even before that. Although various common city spots for tourists and other historical structures have not been touched or altered to adapt our modern perspective of art, it is rapidly gaining popularity. It is the commonly applied concept in other structures that are currently built.
The acceptance of these new trends is also a manifestation that their perspective of art has changed. People have embraced the concepts that are unique and strange yet beautiful in many ways. The big and the wooden are currently being replaced by lighter and metallic. New materials have evolved which we have not imagined could be feasible to use when it comes to interior designing. Even irregularities in shapes have become a great tool in making various rooms pleasant to the eye. These modern ideas and concepts have dominated our homes and even offices making them elegant and sophisticated.
A perfect example of this concept is the use of modern metal wall art. Before, our walls are simply decorated with paintings and other keepsakes that we bring home from our various journeys but now, metals are being bended, flexed, melted and hammered to create pieces that you will be priding on once displayed. They are very interesting to look at. No one, who notices it, will fail to pause for a while and admire its beauty. They come in all sizes. Those designs in forms of grilles that are commonly used to provide ventilation on rooms can be mounted on your walls, giving it a contemporary, Tuscany and even an elegant twist on your simple abode. These designs can blend unto almost all types of designs.
You can use these perfect home accents even if you prefer the traditional home designs. Colors on the metals are so lovely that does not make it rigid and stiff to look at. They also come in dimensions so that you can have more texture to your decorations. The use of these pieces in your homes or establishment gives a fresh perspective for your walls. However, you really need to have extra cash on your budget in order to afford this modern metal wall art.
You can make this investment if you are already to embrace the modern world. Whether it is a family home, a single person pad, public establishment or a private firm, can enjoy the beauty of these pieces. You can check out local art gallery for these unique pieces but the best way to shop for them is to look them up online. They can give you better discounts and a whole wide of selection. So if you are ready to make the change in your home, start with your walls and see if you like the feel of it.
Styles have changed over time. Some people might have preferred to stick with the old-fashioned designs but it is evident in certain homes and establishment that more and more people go for the trends of the today. Fashion and style has taken a complete 360 degrees turn when compared to the ones people have back in the early 1900s or even before that. Although various common city spots for tourists and other historical structures have not been touched or altered to adapt our modern perspective of art, it is rapidly gaining popularity. It is the commonly applied concept in other structures that are currently built.
The acceptance of these new trends is also a manifestation that their perspective of art has changed. People have embraced the concepts that are unique and strange yet beautiful in many ways. The big and the wooden are currently being replaced by lighter and metallic. New materials have evolved which we have not imagined could be feasible to use when it comes to interior designing. Even irregularities in shapes have become a great tool in making various rooms pleasant to the eye. These modern ideas and concepts have dominated our homes and even offices making them elegant and sophisticated.
A perfect example of this concept is the use of modern metal wall art. Before, our walls are simply decorated with paintings and other keepsakes that we bring home from our various journeys but now, metals are being bended, flexed, melted and hammered to create pieces that you will be priding on once displayed. They are very interesting to look at. No one, who notices it, will fail to pause for a while and admire its beauty. They come in all sizes. Those designs in forms of grilles that are commonly used to provide ventilation on rooms can be mounted on your walls, giving it a contemporary, Tuscany and even an elegant twist on your simple abode. These designs can blend unto almost all types of designs.
You can use these perfect home accents even if you prefer the traditional home designs. Colors on the metals are so lovely that does not make it rigid and stiff to look at. They also come in dimensions so that you can have more texture to your decorations. The use of these pieces in your homes or establishment gives a fresh perspective for your walls. However, you really need to have extra cash on your budget in order to afford this modern metal wall art.
You can make this investment if you are already to embrace the modern world. Whether it is a family home, a single person pad, public establishment or a private firm, can enjoy the beauty of these pieces. You can check out local art gallery for these unique pieces but the best way to shop for them is to look them up online. They can give you better discounts and a whole wide of selection. So if you are ready to make the change in your home, start with your walls and see if you like the feel of it.
Back to Basics–A Search for Primitve in Art
July 1, 2009 by admin
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viktor vijay Kumar asked:
Back to Basics–A Search for Primitve in Art
In 1997 I spent days in National Museum Delhi exploring the Indian section of the landmark exhibition Enduring Image brought from British Museum. I found irresistible attraction to Egyptian art as well there was a primeval force in the African exhibits. The raw energy cascading from the sculptures rendered in wood and iron by African tribal artists overwhelmed the sensibilities. (A similar experience awaited me when I visited The Met in New York early this year.) A totemic wooden sculpture of a man his phallus hanging down to ground made many a viewer cast furtive glances and slide on. That was 1997-1998 India. For me and for many an artist friend it was the confrontation between what was learnt in art colleges as ‘high art’ and the Primitive art. We in 1997 were travelling but rarely to museums of Europe and U.S A. It was a rare scholarship to West that artists could see the global art. The world has changed much since for good or the bad. You may travel or surf without water and you can reach all the corners of the world and view all the art that is/was created from the confines of your computer room. You may rehash anything you desire merely by using the right software. But what is important is that with India arriving on world scene some of us can with greater faith and confidence look to our own treasures of art to fall back on for fresh inspiration. The primitive/ tribal art offers an important vignette in the minds and spirit of prehistoric Man.
Primitivising
The primitive art from African and Asian cultures attracted the artists in West. While all European countries, thanks to superior fire power and big sailing ships could subjugate very rich cultures in rest of the world. They called them savage, pagan. The modernist artists in West were attracted to the primitive art especially from Africa. Matisse travelled to Africa and was impressed by pure resonant colours. He along with Fauvists appropriated the colour elements of these cultures. Paul Gaugin lived in Tahiti to paint and to be part of the local primitive culture. Picasso though did not travel but had African sculptures and masks in his studio. His landmark Les Demoiselles d’Avignon used the image of the sitting woman in cubist style that he derived from African sculptures. Paul Klee Joan Miro’ and Salvador Dali used “primitivism of the subconscious” according to Professor Robert Goldwater in his seminal Primitivism in Modern Art.
Manoj Mantra the young acolyte of art from Lucknow college of art has charted his course of art journey not through imbuing expensiveness by studding platinum replicas of skulls with diamonds (I understand an artist from India is following the same path of using gold to make his art work important as art!) or pickling a shark to teach us about the ephemeral or the blind use of digital camera to produce paintings. This is the darker side of globalisation and laptops for art! I am sure as Indian collectors mature they will understand the difference. One needs to see a Ram Kinkar Baij, a Somnath **** or an Anis Kapoor or Richard Serra’s steel sculptures to understand the deep spiritual and societal feel of their art.
Manoj Mantra has freed himself from the demons that haunt present day art. He has tried to look not on materials or their expensiveness or some other gimmick to find his rudders. He works on paper and does drawings only. Not very impressive? But does it matter. He has confronted the primitive inside him and has created an impressive array of very powerful works.
When I look at Mantra’s drawings I am in the land of dualities—of raw primitiveness and modern factotum. His human figure is more a totemic image with uneven reed like teeth imposing a foreboding, a fear and imminence. It reminds one of the Francis Bacon’s open mouth figures or the angry tribal gods… Elements that connect us back to civilisation proliferate in his works. There are phalli like elongated forms resembling a sitar or a harpsichord which has in place of strings human ribs, hatted figures, belts around pumpkin waists or around necks, bulbs lighted from un-anatomical apertures in body. His art is quirkish beyond the pale of logic or rationality of known forms. His forms are less of humans that we recognize and more like forebodings of unknown in the vein of Inferno of Dante Alighieri—
Inferno
Canto-I A Dark Wood
1 MIDWAY upon the journey of our life
2 I found myself within a forest dark,
3 For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
4 Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
5 What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
6 Which in the very thought renews the fear.
7 So bitter is it, death is little more;
8 But of the good to treat, which there I found,
9 Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
Mantra’s is world of loss, of dark woods where logic, rationality love are seduced by primal forms and savagery of being. His is a world of substantial loss of civilisational memory. Some remnants of the humanity persist. It reminds me of Rameshwar Broota’s paintings from eighties and early nineties where the human/ape exist in the midst of crumbling edifices, mayhem and destruction. Mantra’s expression akin to the Inferno has a narrative style. But the narration is not linear or logical. It is neither magic realism nor surrealism a la Salvador Dali. His narrative is soul’s winter; his narrative is raw libido, the crude nightmares of being.
Mantra is not alone among Indian artists to explore the ‘The Dark Wood’ of unknown subconscious. He has the esteemed company of likes of K. Ramajunam whose dense drawings emerged from the deep recesses of the primitive id. Laxma Gaud shares with Mantra the physical elements of sexuality in his art. While Laxma is rooted in time and space Mantra transforms his dramatis persona into fantasized forms often merging the imagery animals into humans. This is a quality of prehistoric cultures which Mantra alongside Picasso has appropriated in his expression. Mantra’s forms always have stylised human feet irrespective of whether they are animal, bird or an engineered form. These forms while in twosome or a group pile upon each other in near impossible acrobatic feats. The romantic or funny **** or a bird or tubular bud flower jutting out of a gash in body are evident in many of his drawings. This adumbrates Purush and Prakriti —the male and female principles of life symbolically represented. While I talk of Mantra’s fascination with the primitive I cannot ignore the strident works of J. Sultan Ali who worked with the tribal spirit of expression and evolved a personalised art. His first solo exhibition in 1963 in Delhi at Kumar gallery stands out as a landmark of pure tribal/primitive spirit and symbolism. While Sultan Ali used a line more linear in shape Mantra uses a shaky line. He creates interesting visual play by building single line space and fertilising it with dense linear hatching. Mantra’s preoccupation with the primitive id resonates with K. Ramanujam who built a magical world from the bricks and mortar of his personal fantasies, elements of reality and cultural myths.
My analysis of Mantra’s art will not be complete without mentioning his innate sense of humour. If Picasso’s weeping woman had a boat in place of eye Mantra has an incandescent bulb instead. Even the funny postures of the figures and apples on the head remind one of William Tell’s arrow shooting skills in hilarious way. Thus he leads his fantasized prmitivising art without a stranglehold of too much mind and overt thought.
Victor Vijay
Painter, Assemblage artist
Back to Basics–A Search for Primitve in Art
In 1997 I spent days in National Museum Delhi exploring the Indian section of the landmark exhibition Enduring Image brought from British Museum. I found irresistible attraction to Egyptian art as well there was a primeval force in the African exhibits. The raw energy cascading from the sculptures rendered in wood and iron by African tribal artists overwhelmed the sensibilities. (A similar experience awaited me when I visited The Met in New York early this year.) A totemic wooden sculpture of a man his phallus hanging down to ground made many a viewer cast furtive glances and slide on. That was 1997-1998 India. For me and for many an artist friend it was the confrontation between what was learnt in art colleges as ‘high art’ and the Primitive art. We in 1997 were travelling but rarely to museums of Europe and U.S A. It was a rare scholarship to West that artists could see the global art. The world has changed much since for good or the bad. You may travel or surf without water and you can reach all the corners of the world and view all the art that is/was created from the confines of your computer room. You may rehash anything you desire merely by using the right software. But what is important is that with India arriving on world scene some of us can with greater faith and confidence look to our own treasures of art to fall back on for fresh inspiration. The primitive/ tribal art offers an important vignette in the minds and spirit of prehistoric Man.
Primitivising
The primitive art from African and Asian cultures attracted the artists in West. While all European countries, thanks to superior fire power and big sailing ships could subjugate very rich cultures in rest of the world. They called them savage, pagan. The modernist artists in West were attracted to the primitive art especially from Africa. Matisse travelled to Africa and was impressed by pure resonant colours. He along with Fauvists appropriated the colour elements of these cultures. Paul Gaugin lived in Tahiti to paint and to be part of the local primitive culture. Picasso though did not travel but had African sculptures and masks in his studio. His landmark Les Demoiselles d’Avignon used the image of the sitting woman in cubist style that he derived from African sculptures. Paul Klee Joan Miro’ and Salvador Dali used “primitivism of the subconscious” according to Professor Robert Goldwater in his seminal Primitivism in Modern Art.
Manoj Mantra the young acolyte of art from Lucknow college of art has charted his course of art journey not through imbuing expensiveness by studding platinum replicas of skulls with diamonds (I understand an artist from India is following the same path of using gold to make his art work important as art!) or pickling a shark to teach us about the ephemeral or the blind use of digital camera to produce paintings. This is the darker side of globalisation and laptops for art! I am sure as Indian collectors mature they will understand the difference. One needs to see a Ram Kinkar Baij, a Somnath **** or an Anis Kapoor or Richard Serra’s steel sculptures to understand the deep spiritual and societal feel of their art.
Manoj Mantra has freed himself from the demons that haunt present day art. He has tried to look not on materials or their expensiveness or some other gimmick to find his rudders. He works on paper and does drawings only. Not very impressive? But does it matter. He has confronted the primitive inside him and has created an impressive array of very powerful works.
When I look at Mantra’s drawings I am in the land of dualities—of raw primitiveness and modern factotum. His human figure is more a totemic image with uneven reed like teeth imposing a foreboding, a fear and imminence. It reminds one of the Francis Bacon’s open mouth figures or the angry tribal gods… Elements that connect us back to civilisation proliferate in his works. There are phalli like elongated forms resembling a sitar or a harpsichord which has in place of strings human ribs, hatted figures, belts around pumpkin waists or around necks, bulbs lighted from un-anatomical apertures in body. His art is quirkish beyond the pale of logic or rationality of known forms. His forms are less of humans that we recognize and more like forebodings of unknown in the vein of Inferno of Dante Alighieri—
Inferno
Canto-I A Dark Wood
1 MIDWAY upon the journey of our life
2 I found myself within a forest dark,
3 For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
4 Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
5 What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
6 Which in the very thought renews the fear.
7 So bitter is it, death is little more;
8 But of the good to treat, which there I found,
9 Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
Mantra’s is world of loss, of dark woods where logic, rationality love are seduced by primal forms and savagery of being. His is a world of substantial loss of civilisational memory. Some remnants of the humanity persist. It reminds me of Rameshwar Broota’s paintings from eighties and early nineties where the human/ape exist in the midst of crumbling edifices, mayhem and destruction. Mantra’s expression akin to the Inferno has a narrative style. But the narration is not linear or logical. It is neither magic realism nor surrealism a la Salvador Dali. His narrative is soul’s winter; his narrative is raw libido, the crude nightmares of being.
Mantra is not alone among Indian artists to explore the ‘The Dark Wood’ of unknown subconscious. He has the esteemed company of likes of K. Ramajunam whose dense drawings emerged from the deep recesses of the primitive id. Laxma Gaud shares with Mantra the physical elements of sexuality in his art. While Laxma is rooted in time and space Mantra transforms his dramatis persona into fantasized forms often merging the imagery animals into humans. This is a quality of prehistoric cultures which Mantra alongside Picasso has appropriated in his expression. Mantra’s forms always have stylised human feet irrespective of whether they are animal, bird or an engineered form. These forms while in twosome or a group pile upon each other in near impossible acrobatic feats. The romantic or funny **** or a bird or tubular bud flower jutting out of a gash in body are evident in many of his drawings. This adumbrates Purush and Prakriti —the male and female principles of life symbolically represented. While I talk of Mantra’s fascination with the primitive I cannot ignore the strident works of J. Sultan Ali who worked with the tribal spirit of expression and evolved a personalised art. His first solo exhibition in 1963 in Delhi at Kumar gallery stands out as a landmark of pure tribal/primitive spirit and symbolism. While Sultan Ali used a line more linear in shape Mantra uses a shaky line. He creates interesting visual play by building single line space and fertilising it with dense linear hatching. Mantra’s preoccupation with the primitive id resonates with K. Ramanujam who built a magical world from the bricks and mortar of his personal fantasies, elements of reality and cultural myths.
My analysis of Mantra’s art will not be complete without mentioning his innate sense of humour. If Picasso’s weeping woman had a boat in place of eye Mantra has an incandescent bulb instead. Even the funny postures of the figures and apples on the head remind one of William Tell’s arrow shooting skills in hilarious way. Thus he leads his fantasized prmitivising art without a stranglehold of too much mind and overt thought.
Victor Vijay
Painter, Assemblage artist
5 Fantastic Types of Wood Wall Art Besides Wood Wall Sculptures
June 29, 2009 by admin
Filed under Art And Entertainment
Jessica Ackerman asked:
Would you prefer wood wall art? When choosing wall art for a particular room in our homes, it is important to consider the particular types of materials available. We might assume that various types of iron (such as wrought iron) would always be an ideal choice. Well, it depends. While iron certainly has some solid benefits, it has some drawbacks. For instance, it can rust, is less flexible than other materials, and tends to have a rigid texture. Meanwhile, manufacturers can use wood to create a wide variety of wall art items:
1. Wall Grille
Traditionally, grilles have functioned as security measures for windows and doors. However, grilles are also available as wall art. These pieces often include intricate patterns, such as rosettes, and are truly amazing works of art! If you want to add an eye-catching focal point to any room in your home, then consider using a grille. Wood grilles retain the complexity of their iron counterparts, while providing more texture than iron wall art pieces do.
2. Wall Mirror
Wall mirrors are available in a variety of the materials, sizes, and styles. As with wood wall sculptures, regardless of what type of wall mirror you want–you can probably find it. Some wall mirrors include wooden frames. While metal frames can appear natural, wooden frames oftentimes seem more natural, due to their appearance and texture. The wooden frames can exist in various types of wood, though each is sturdy and will last for several years.
3. Wall Plaque
When we think about plaques, we tend to think about awards hanging up in someone’s office, or shiny metal plates that indicate a house’s number. However, we can also use plaques as a decorative piece of wall art in our homes. When used for plaques, wood can create a lovely natural look, due to its texture and rawness. Plaques can include an array of themes, such as trees, plants, and flowers. They are also available in various shapes, including square, rectangular, and round.
4. Wall Vase
While manufacturers construct many wall vases from iron, others are wooden. The wood helps to provide a more “natural” appearance, as well as depth. With these vases, you can add real or faux greenery, to include another dimension to the wall vase. Adding greenery makes it easy to transform such pieces into the focal point of the room. As with wood wall sculptures, wall vases are available in a variety of styles, such as traditional or contemporary.
5. Wall Wine Rack
These pieces of wall art are excellent for storing your favorite variety of wine. They typically can hold 1-3 bottles for your next quiet evening at home, or dinner party. While many wall wine racks are metal, some are wooden. Wooden wall wine racks have a natural appearance, which can link the wines to the rural settings of wineries.
If you want your wall decor to have a natural and robust appearance, then review wood items. If you could choose wood, then you should!
Would you prefer wood wall art? When choosing wall art for a particular room in our homes, it is important to consider the particular types of materials available. We might assume that various types of iron (such as wrought iron) would always be an ideal choice. Well, it depends. While iron certainly has some solid benefits, it has some drawbacks. For instance, it can rust, is less flexible than other materials, and tends to have a rigid texture. Meanwhile, manufacturers can use wood to create a wide variety of wall art items:
1. Wall Grille
Traditionally, grilles have functioned as security measures for windows and doors. However, grilles are also available as wall art. These pieces often include intricate patterns, such as rosettes, and are truly amazing works of art! If you want to add an eye-catching focal point to any room in your home, then consider using a grille. Wood grilles retain the complexity of their iron counterparts, while providing more texture than iron wall art pieces do.
2. Wall Mirror
Wall mirrors are available in a variety of the materials, sizes, and styles. As with wood wall sculptures, regardless of what type of wall mirror you want–you can probably find it. Some wall mirrors include wooden frames. While metal frames can appear natural, wooden frames oftentimes seem more natural, due to their appearance and texture. The wooden frames can exist in various types of wood, though each is sturdy and will last for several years.
3. Wall Plaque
When we think about plaques, we tend to think about awards hanging up in someone’s office, or shiny metal plates that indicate a house’s number. However, we can also use plaques as a decorative piece of wall art in our homes. When used for plaques, wood can create a lovely natural look, due to its texture and rawness. Plaques can include an array of themes, such as trees, plants, and flowers. They are also available in various shapes, including square, rectangular, and round.
4. Wall Vase
While manufacturers construct many wall vases from iron, others are wooden. The wood helps to provide a more “natural” appearance, as well as depth. With these vases, you can add real or faux greenery, to include another dimension to the wall vase. Adding greenery makes it easy to transform such pieces into the focal point of the room. As with wood wall sculptures, wall vases are available in a variety of styles, such as traditional or contemporary.
5. Wall Wine Rack
These pieces of wall art are excellent for storing your favorite variety of wine. They typically can hold 1-3 bottles for your next quiet evening at home, or dinner party. While many wall wine racks are metal, some are wooden. Wooden wall wine racks have a natural appearance, which can link the wines to the rural settings of wineries.
If you want your wall decor to have a natural and robust appearance, then review wood items. If you could choose wood, then you should!
