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This article was written after an exhibition in New Orleans.
The Vastness of Eve - Past the Landscape
By Sara Deleon
Paintings of Mark Erickson
New Orleans Arts
Traditional art, before the 20th Century, had as its principal goal to reproduce the visible world with the maximum amount of verisimilitude (what the French called vraisemblance) the probability and quality that art can appear real and arrive from
truth. Artists responses were often limited to their subject matter. With the invention of the camera, artists were no longer responsible for replicating their world. At the same time, advances in science and the introduction of psychotherapy revealed to humans the fact that the world consists of a great deal more than we see before us. (Einstein’s 'Theory of Relativity' was introduced in 1905.) Movements, patterns and rhythms are a part of everything in nature, from the microscopic level to the juxtaposition of the planets.
A new visual language was bound to happen and did—most notably with the work of Pablo Picasso discovering the use of assemblage and collage in his work. Around 1912, Picasso went a step further, combining cubism with collage in works like 'Still Life with Chair Caning' in which he affixed an oilcloth--itself printed with an image of chair caning--to his canvas. While it didn’t depict any actual scene in nature, this new vocabulary of painting mixed with collage, balancing tones and
shapes, was so pleasing and instinctively "natural" that it broke through new boundaries of what was accepted in art.
With the beginning of the 20th Century witnessing two cataclysmic wars, the world was reeling from the horrors of human
military conflict and the disillusionment with the promise of the Industrial Revolution. The planet wide hardships brought on by the Depression and shifts in world economics, a time of change was occurring, and one singular event being watched by many was the center of the art world being spotlighted to New York City from Paris. Abstract Expressionism, in which the artist worked out complex communications directly onto the canvas became the order of the day. “The need”, as Robert Motherwell put it, “was for felt experience—intense, immoderate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.”
Those who were beginning to understand this non-literal language of painting were struck at the core. The language of
abstraction was validated and artists were completely freed to develop its vocabulary and explore its possibilities.
The paintings that Mark Erickson offers are interpretations of this same abstract language refined to high eloquence. A mid career, disciplined artist, Erickson offers a different approach to abstraction in his paintings that have the essential elements of harmony, light and contrast.
Besides influences of Willem DeKooning, Mark’s paintings are often inspired by Pierre Matisse. Working in Collioure, in the South of France, Matisse became fascinated with the strong verticals and horizontals created by the bright sun streaming in through the windows bouncing into his studio. His exaggerations of those lines created paintings
magnificent in their structure and divisions of space. Richard Diebenkorn, early in his career was also inspired by these works.
Erickson's large painting studio in Oakland where sunlight pours through windows gives him a chance to experiment with light and paint, casting shadows and similar effects on the walls of the painting area. Playing with reflections and color, mixing paint at random, Erickson captures a static energy in his new works. Mark presents to us a new and exciting group of paintings whose structure, color and form are uninhibitedly direct.
Comments:
johnwalker:
i LOVE your art! large compliments to you!
Posted Mar 24, 2012 11:41am.liaodeming:
Beautiful beautiful! ! !Beautiful beautiful! ! !
Posted Apr 14, 2011 9:03am.liaodeming:
Beautiful beautiful! ! !Beautiful beautiful! ! !
Posted Apr 14, 2011 9:03am.michael amado:
Hello, my dear friend, in 2011 New Year's Day, I sincerely wish you and your family happiness and joy! Greater development of the arts!!! Michael cordial greetings
Posted Dec 31, 2010 9:35pm.lena posner:
my invitation with brasilian artists http://artebrasileira.galeriasvirtuais.com/index.html
Posted Jan 10, 2010 1:41pm.lena posner:
have a nice year and I am sure you are writting the boook of histrory
Posted Dec 25, 2009 2:06pm.Asdren Kapllanaj:
compliment!
Posted Apr 5, 2009 6:02am.Mike McGlothlen:
I have enjoyed looking at your wonderful work, Well done! My best to you, Mike.
Posted Feb 17, 2009 6:50am.Art by Mana:
I wish for you and your loved ones a joyous and prosperous new year. MAY LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPINESS SURROUND YOU. In loving friendship…Grandma Mana
Posted Dec 31, 2008 3:11am.Cortese Federico:
really interesting works. my compliments
Posted Dec 22, 2008 8:44pm.Patricia:
Hi Mark, I really like your artwork!! Best wishes. Patricia
Posted Dec 12, 2008 8:43am.Antonio Hernandez:
Muy buena pintura.
Posted Oct 30, 2008 6:57pm.birgit zartl:
many thanks for your lovely words on 'Depths'!
Posted Oct 30, 2008 1:04pm.phil :
Great portfolio! I like the freedom in your work...
Posted Oct 19, 2008 4:22am.Malgorzata :
Thank you for your comment. Such original works, like your ideas, great technique.
Posted Oct 10, 2008 1:23am.christopher dodds:
What a wonderful collection of art. Bravo. Chris
Posted Sep 27, 2008 1:10pm.José García y Más:
Hi Mark, thanks for the friendship... your artwork is very impressive !!!!!!!!! Greetings, José
Posted Sep 5, 2008 12:14pm.soulard:
Thanks for friendship. I like all your gallery...it's great!
Posted Aug 25, 2008 5:51pm.Enrique Lemus:
Excellent, Congratulations.
Posted Aug 25, 2008 5:48pm.Germania:
Thanks for favourited my Tom Waits painting. I´m honoured. Nice work here.
Posted Aug 15, 2008 3:03am.Luca Batoni:
Hi Mark, I insert your artwork in my gallery: http://www.artbreak.com/gallery/show/22
Posted Aug 13, 2008 7:36pm.Majlinda:
nice!! congratulations I love your art
Posted Aug 12, 2008 9:06pm.souhir:
thank's for your kindly compliment
Posted Aug 10, 2008 10:09pm.sula:
Hi Mark,Nice to meet you.I love you work very much.!!!!!!!
Posted Aug 6, 2008 11:14pm.josmoking:
i love your work
Posted Aug 6, 2008 5:34pm.DeShawn Robinson:
Absolutely love your works!!
Posted Aug 3, 2008 4:11am.nancywest6:
Mark- Love your work! Politician Specs and 22 three why are my three faves! hugs and kisses- Nancy
Posted Aug 1, 2008 12:55pm.Ladan Ghajar:
Thanks for your opinion my friend, but abstraction and surrealism are not far from each other .And I believe, the existence of surrealist idea is still involves with every aspect of our lives. The exploration of our inner reality is our path to unknown infinity. And our journey is to flow like a river.
Posted Aug 1, 2008 2:55am.Ladan Ghajar:
Thanks for friendship.Your work is beautiful.
Posted Jul 29, 2008 4:55am.Art by Mana:
Hello, it's great to meet you. Your art is interesting and really nice. MAY LOVE, PEACE AND COMFORT SURROUND YOU. grandma mana
Posted Jul 28, 2008 6:30pm.leylamurr:
Thanks for the reference to Richard Diebenkorn. I found some more which are in the same vein. Just downloaded them here so have a look. I never really looked close at this artist and it's amazing how close I feel to his work. Thanks Mark
Posted Jun 7, 2008 8:07am.-:
you have a very important portfolio! bravo! elena
Posted Jun 6, 2008 10:47am.Alvarenga Marques (Al.Ma):
Hi! good and solid work!!!!! Regards!
Posted Jun 6, 2008 10:37am.Plata:
Hi Marck Fantastic work,...and world.
Posted May 8, 2008 11:18am.Anett Kilen Kennedy:
great work!
Posted Apr 22, 2008 6:05pm.Stacho St.Szypura:
Thank you for add me to friends. Very especial charme your artworks. I think they lived meanly form there haptical character. I would like to experiencing them in 3 dimension.
Posted Apr 22, 2008 2:13am.Norbert Fleischer:
Thanks for invide me to your friend, very interesting works I like it . It is a lot of good Artworks to see on this forum . Im very glad about.
Posted Apr 21, 2008 4:10pm.-:
thanks dear Mark for your compliment! i like your work too!
Posted Apr 17, 2008 2:34pm.Cecilia August Sand:
I come here and have a look now and then because I enjoy your paintings very much. THanks for painting!
Posted Apr 14, 2008 6:20am.Ridha :
Exellent art works !! so beautiful colors and compositions !!
Posted Apr 13, 2008 11:18pm.birgit zartl:
thank you so much for your lovely comment on 'The Last Man Out' and the favorite! xxx
Posted Mar 21, 2008 6:53am.AEnigmaSoul:
Thanks for stoping by at my gallery! And thanks for good suggestions ;)
Posted Mar 20, 2008 8:04am.Azlan545:
Thank you for being my friend
Posted Mar 17, 2008 9:32pm.birgit zartl:
many thanks for all your kind comments on my paintings :-)
Posted Mar 17, 2008 8:12am.Azlan545:
Good and fascinating works.
Posted Mar 14, 2008 8:56pm.mapeces:
Fascinating plastic expression. Great!
Posted Mar 12, 2008 9:34pm.amber:
Love your work!!!
Posted Mar 12, 2008 1:05am.Cecilia August Sand:
Hi Thanks for the compliment on Highways. I like the wrinkled sky!
Posted Mar 10, 2008 7:56pm.birgit zartl:
ahhh, good to see your beautiful works here!
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