21st century art: abstract paintings, collage&drawings
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 | | small canvases 20"x20" or smaller. Acrylic, papers and epoxy
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 | | acrylic paints &mediums, shellacs,epoxy on paper on hd stretcher
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 | | acrylics, shellacs, charcoal&etc on paper on lw stretcher 22x24x2"
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 | | acrylic paint &mediums, shellacs on canvas ea 20x20"
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 | | acrylic, shellac on canvas. Each panel 20x20"; each diptych 20x40" |
 | | acrylic paint &mediums, shellacs on canvas 20x20" 2009
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 | | acrylic paint &mediums, shellacs on wood panels, each 20x20"
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 | | acrylics on linen each 50x50"
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 | | acrylic paint &mediums on wood panels each 20"x20" |
 | | pencil, knives, fire, acrylics/22x22/paper |
 | | 7 items |
| | zhibit.org/kjeldtidemand
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Nyack, NY 10960
United States
| The intent in my work is to push abstract paintings as far into new domains as possible. That's essential, and is at the core of the Western tradition. I don't see abstraction as a negation of realism. It's a style of painting expressing ideas in psychology, philosophy and spirituality in a unique way. Abstract art has ancient roots and I think that it needs to be re-invented again and again. All great art is abstract, rigorous and deeply felt.
I'm working with free-form naturalism, letting the materials dictate much of how the images are arrived at in my paintings. I like to use paint like clay, to form three-dimensional surfaces that express the earth's most extraordinary physical traits; its fissures, eruptions and the remains of catastrophic geological events. My palette consists of earth colors, but sometimes acid, almost chemical colors can be indicative of psychological degradation. I'm inspired by the motions of liquids and solids, with the sinewy lines in between. I see an... |
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