Jim's ART
What Are Fractals?
The word fractals is probably not familiar to most people unless they are physicists,computer programmers, advanced mathematicians or digital artists. Even within those individual disciplines the word is defined and used differently. The word itself is a relatively new one, what it describes is as old as the earth. Simply defined they are patterns, created by chaos, that occur naturally. Think images in the sky made by cloud formations or patterns made by wind on the water. Those patterns, viewed as images, are a naturally occurring phenomenon and can rightly be called “patterns of chaos.”
Scholars have discovered that patterns and images can be created chaotically by entering complex mathematical formulas into a computer. That’s the sum and substance of my knowledge about computer generated fractals and their use in the world of science.
Because these computer generated fractal images can be visually pleasing certain artists saw an opportunity and jumped on it. If you google on fractal art you will be blown away by the amount of stuff presented as art. Some good, most bad. As a legitimate art form computer generated art has a long way to go.
My art depends heavily but not exclusively on patterns of chaos. I create these patterns by pouring (usually) acrylics onto a substrate of either watercolor paper or PVC sheets and manipulate the color with water or acrylic mediums. I call it pour and pray. I never know what will evolve and I never have any preconceived objectives.What you get is what you get. I let the finished pour suggest a theme and use it as a background for a painting . I make it less threatening for viewers who may not appreciate pure abstraction by adding enough recognizable imagery, usually collage, to tie things together.
The painting on the left A Time of Trouble - A Place of Refuge was born because the pour reminded me of the Everglades, the River of Grass where the Seminole people found refuge after being forced from their native homelands.
My work is an arrangement of line, form and color first and I make use of any incident of it that shall bring about a symmetrical result.
- James McNeil Whistler
Scholars have discovered that patterns and images can be created chaotically by entering complex mathematical formulas into a computer. That’s the sum and substance of my knowledge about computer generated fractals and their use in the world of science.
Because these computer generated fractal images can be visually pleasing certain artists saw an opportunity and jumped on it. If you google on fractal art you will be blown away by the amount of stuff presented as art. Some good, most bad. As a legitimate art form computer generated art has a long way to go.
My art depends heavily but not exclusively on patterns of chaos. I create these patterns by pouring (usually) acrylics onto a substrate of either watercolor paper or PVC sheets and manipulate the color with water or acrylic mediums. I call it pour and pray. I never know what will evolve and I never have any preconceived objectives.What you get is what you get. I let the finished pour suggest a theme and use it as a background for a painting . I make it less threatening for viewers who may not appreciate pure abstraction by adding enough recognizable imagery, usually collage, to tie things together.
The painting on the left A Time of Trouble - A Place of Refuge was born because the pour reminded me of the Everglades, the River of Grass where the Seminole people found refuge after being forced from their native homelands.
My work is an arrangement of line, form and color first and I make use of any incident of it that shall bring about a symmetrical result.
- James McNeil Whistler
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