As Abstract As It Gets.
As an artist, I draw from these historical art styles that used distorted, abstract, surreal, and sometimes bizarre elements, in mechanical, geometrical, machine-like form. In the formal art world, these different styles are known as Cubism, Abstractism, Constructivism, and Surrealism.
Digital Art is defined as any type of artist inspired method that utilizes digital technology as an essential part of the process.
My use of digital techniques allows for the creation of complex, highly detailed images, and unusual, unexpected combinations of elements. My art conveys emotion, offers high levels of expression and creativity, and provokes thought. And it is all very original.
Clearly my digital abstract art meets the definition of being abstract!
abstract; ăb-străkt′, ăb′străkt″
Adjective.
- Considered apart from concrete existence.
As in, “An abstract concept.”
- Not applied or practical; theoretical.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
My Creative Approach.
As I see it, creating art requires an imagination to go outside the normal boundaries in expressing oneself. Now, by utilizing my special, creative, digital techniques, I can use my imagination and my artistic skills to create very unique abstract art images.
Motivated by my favorite art influences of Cubism, Abstractism, Constructivism, and Surrealism, I use my techniques to create unique images, that I define as Digital Abstract Art.
I also have a particular interest in incorporating sci-fi, futuristic, and modernistic, elements in my abstract art creations. In addition, I like to use superimposition in some of my images. But “weird” and “distorted” always define my work. And I use scientific, chemistry, mathematics, electronics, and coding elements in some of my art – and this is a reflection of my education and professional work.
What results from my creative process are one-of-a kind images – somewhat realistic, yet unrealistic, usually abstract, often in very colorful formats, and yet sometimes in black and white formats.
Stylistically, what I seek to achieve in my art, through intentional distortion, is to remove the exactness from the image, and thereby force the viewer to “think into” the image, in order to “fill in the missing elements”.
My art, then, is always involving in its uniqueness, and it becomes a mental collaboration between me the artist and the viewer. And after all, art should form an immediate and lasting bond with the viewer.
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“From my perspective, in the end, what makes art so interesting, enjoyable, and fun to create, is that unique, odd, strange, bizarre, and weird presentations are inspiring and also fun to look at.”
Scott Hagerman; Machnart Studios
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