Labyrinth | 2010

Title: Labyrinth
Date: 2010
Material: Digital Art on Board
Size: 78cm x 75cm
Artist: Joe Pollitt
Signed and framed by the artist

Description:

Inspired by the teaching of Hans Hofmann; the Abstract Expressionist teacher in New York City, in the 1960's; with his 'Push and Pull' Theory, here is a work that plays with Hofmann's ideas of shapes and colours whilst tapping into sacred geometrical puzzles from the Greeks.

Championing digital art and using various techniques, the colours are pushed to the maximum, which generates a strained and new light within the work. Although the four pictures are the same, they seem unique against each other. The different colours pointing in various directions, presents the work as distinctive shapes to each square; similar but different. The longer the audience looks at the image, either singularly or as a work as a whole, so they begin to see a new energy and aura. This work is participatory, as it requires some patience from the part of the onlooker and is not to be overlooked or under seen as it plays with the commodity of time and effort in an otherwise manic world.

When observing this piece and relaxing the muscles of the eyes, the viewer starts to gain a sense of weightlessness and seemingly falls into the patterns and into a hypnotic trance-like state in order to see clearly. The work evokes the individual's imagination and so becomes a personal experience for each spectator. The idea behind this work is to play with the elements of Abstract Art at the same time as dipping a toe into an ancient traditional magic of the labyrinth as created by legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos in ancient Greece.