Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Color, Composition, Roundness, Seeing, tagged back and forth, Bruce Hatton Boyer, Untitled VI on August 29, 2016| 7 Comments »
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/black-dot-anthropocentrism/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/untitled-ii-stretch/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/untitled-iii-rack/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/untitled-iv-asperatus-clouds/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/untitled-v-blue-rectangle/
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Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Color, Composition, literalness, Semiotics, tagged blue rectangle, Bruce Hatton Boyer, lips, Untitled V on August 29, 2016| 8 Comments »
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/black-dot-anthropocentrism/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/untitled-ii-stretch/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/untitled-iii-rack/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/untitled-iv-asperatus-clouds/
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Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Color, Composition, Imagination, literalness, Seeing, tagged asperatus clouds, Bruce Hatton Boyer, hour glass on August 29, 2016| 9 Comments »
Or would you title this painting “The Hour Glass?” More likely than Asperatus Clouds. But look how little space the hour glass takes up on the whole canvas! About 2%. Still, because it’s a recognizable shape, it dominates your mind as you look at this turbulent composition.
E.H.Gombrich talks about that in “The Story of Art,” 1950
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/black-dot-anthropocentrism/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/untitled-ii-stretch/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/untitled-iii-rack/
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Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Color, Composition, literalness, tagged Bruce Hatton Boyer, Rack, Untitled III on August 29, 2016| 10 Comments »
You can see the three dots as a progression, (1), (2) and (3). But once you see 
that white dot in the red field as being a head in a strung up body, that view will dominate in your perception. We’ve faced this dominance before, in “Black Dot Anthropocentrism.”
The artist, Bruce Hatton Boyer, may not have seen this anthropomorphism when he placed the three dots. The red field was almost certainly not painted as suggesting a humanoid. But these associations happen in the painting process. And then what!?
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/emergence-of-a-man/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/black-dot-anthropocentrism/
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/untitled-ii-stretch/
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Posted in abstraction, Achievement, Color, Composition, Imagination, literalness, Semiotics, tagged Bruce Boyer, Stretch, Untitled II on August 29, 2016| 11 Comments »
The previous post’s painting might have been titled “Untitled I.” I think all abstract paintings are best left untitled, but we have to catalog them and for that purpose they need an ID. Notice how lame the title “Stretch” is for this painting. Why not “Two Kites” or “Yellow and Blue” or “Two White Lines and Three Black Lines” or “Some Orange Fireworks?” All equally lame. Attempts at metaphysics would lead to titles like “Inner Conflict” or “Revelations” or “Finding My Way.” Even worse!
The reason titles that try to be descriptive are so bad is that the painting is not descriptive of anything. The painter is not trying to describe or illustrate anything.
In naming my own paintings I have taken an absurd route, determined to avoid descriptive lameness.
http://katherinehilden.com. In a section called Notes, I explain how I arrived at those forgettable titles:
http://katherinehilden.com/notes.html. The result is that I cannot remember the titles of my own paintings, which is what I want. I have to remember them visually.
This is the second of twelve consecutive posts featuring the work of Bruce Boyer. I want everyone to be able to scroll down and see this work as uninterrupted by verbiage as possible. I’ll comment occasionally, but sometimes not at all. Let this simulate a gallery experience.
All paintings are 30”x40” and were produced earlier this year, from January to May, but will not be posted in the order of their production.
https://artamaze.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/black-dot-anthropocentrism/
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Portrait of the artist with art, Evanston Art Center benefit, 2010
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