Robert Glen Ginder
MURAL
"HOUSE" mural commissioned by the La Jolla Community Foundation, La Jolla, California.
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MUSEUM EXHIBITION: March,2012
Vienna Austria, Belvedere Castle & Museum,"GOLD" a historical survey of the use of gold in art including Avant Guard and Contemporary Art.
19th Century & Earlier
I've come to rely on certain things simplicity for one clarity for another. It’s clarity and freedom of investigation that gives contemporary art its light. It doesn’t give answers but can sometimes shed light on things. I think It’s true that Modernism and Conventionalism can be in the same thing at the same time. I feel just at home painting a 19th century style scene of Florence Italy shown here as the abstraction below. Passion and Romanticism can be blended with the clarity of objective thought. This leaves room for both sentimentality and science. Therefore I can make paintings of everyday contemporary life in a 14th - 15th century sanctifying style etc.
Modernism
Modernism has for me an essential spirit of organization to it. Especially in some forms of abstraction. Because it is abstract and not depicting any outside thing it is an art of essences. It depicts these essences in relation to each other. Minimalism is an exercise in essences in order to examine some fundamentals. The thematic minimalism I am practicing has this same objective, but in addition to formal concerns there are emotional ones as well.
Poem Sculptures
These are assemblages made from coded and disassembled poetry in order to place the poems in a conjectural state to free the text and leave the writing in a pure state. The viewer is a participant in that their conjecture as to what the poem is creates a poetic state
Kindness
The "Kindness" print was conceived to be an attempt at a contemporary icon, mass produced and distributed at a reasonable price with the goal of making "Art" available to everyone. In the spirit of the Pop Art multiples and editions that took Art out of the museums and brought it to people who could not ordinarily afford to collect "Art "with a capitol "A" the open ended edition has become part of the "People's Art" with thousands of copies in homes, restaurants, offices, and hotels all over.
If you own a "Kindness" print and would like it signed by the artist please use the contact address to arrange it. There is no fee just the your shipping costs to have it inscribed.
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