Monday, October 10, 2011

Aaron Siskind

Thought it would nice to give some information on one artist that I have really attached myself to in a way. His work reminds me of my own. Well atleast his one series of Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation; worked on this series for more than 10 years.
Chiarenza write: Levitation, balance, equilibrium, the controlled formal composition: all are pivotal points around which life in all its opposing dualities operates. In a sense the Pleasures and Terrors pictures, abstractions drawn from the leavings of time and human gesture. Here he conveys a sense not of history but of moment of event, existential in its evocation of man's timeless condition, caught between ideals and realities.

Siskind believe that one most study technique and history consciously, as one might train for a race, so that they could gradually become an intuitive part of one's way of working.

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