Here is the painting I am trying to recreate. I tried to recreate this painting for a couple of reasons. I am sometimes asked to design a variety of different things working professionally. One day I may be trying to design a lobby of an office building, another day I may need to do create prototype blueprints for a building, another day I may be building a website. The common thing these have in common for me is that it is a painting working with geometric shapes, very modern, which is what I strive for in my recent works. I like that it is & simple embodying the some of the Gestalt principles I recently read about. I am a traditionally trained illustrator, trying to create very detailed complex artworks, so it is nice to get out of my head sometimes to try something different then what I’m used to.
About this painter:
Joe Bradley’s work reconfigures the daunting spectrum of minimalist painting with an endearing sense of humility and pathos. Arranging his canvases in the shapes of absurd and clunky figures, Bradley subverts the subtle grids of Ad Reinhardt and the Pantone hued planes of Ellsworth Kelly, infusing traditional formalism with cartoon humor. Through this merger of abstraction and figuration, Bradley embraces equally the non-objective ideals of 70s art and a contemporary humanist approach to high culture.
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/joe_bradley_titled.htm
These is what I recreated from it:
I will try to post an image of what I created soon. I’m having some trouble with my digital camera.
Between me and my husband we’ve owned a house. But, the last few years I’ve settled down to one idea of design which is minimalist. Why? Because I was happy to discover how well-designed and fun to use the underappreciated (and widely mocked) extravaganza designs are.