Comparing artworks - Geometric Forms

Intro

In this blog post, I intend to compare and contrast two artists' practices and working methods of art. These being Halley’s “Acrylic, metal and Day-Glo acrylic and Roll a Tex on canvas CUSeeMe 1995” and Kandinsky's “Swinging 1925 oil on board” with particular focus on the layout and colour use. I will compare each to my work “TOOLBOT” image.

Peter Halley

Peter Halley was born and works in New York City. He studied at Yale and New Orleans Universities respectively. Since 1980 he has worked in his home town.
Halley held his own exhibitions in most, displaying his work in galleries around the world.
For over twenty five years Peter Halley has been fascinated in the use of geometric shapes to explore social space, in what he descibes as “prisons” and “cells” showing relationships between them. He has been a prolific writer on this subject and art in general, winning an award for his critical writing, which he makes extra money doing for magazines. This is an area I would like to develop as an illustrator studying this topic.

Kandinsky

Kandinsky also explores geometric pattern and is well known as an painter. I am particularly fascinated by the way he responds to music with colour and shape [synesthesia].

Me

I work with geometric shapes and try to create cleverly built imagery in a similar way to Kandinsky - relating to patterns in music but also involves space between griding and layering.

Images



Artist: Peter Halley
Venue: Sammlung Goetz (Goetz Collection)
Medium: Acrylic, Day-Glo and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
Creation Date: 1995



Swinging, 1925
Schaukeln
Kandinsky
Oil on board, Painting
support: 705 x 502 mm frame: 954 x 750 x 80 mm
Purchased 1979



Illustion degree show - Stockport
Tool bot
Card on foamcore, cut and reworked at A1 scale.
James Peters

Compare and contrast

Each of us have used different media and all relate to different topics but what unites them all is shape forms. All however are construted in a simmilar way but have differing moods about them. Peter Halley for instance has emulated a dark structured atmosphere where as Kandinsky has made a dream like atmosphere. This is because mood can be changed by colour and pattern fairly easily.