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The free-form art style can only be created when I am in the "two year old mode"... when people, places and things are not on my mind. Only pure color and form and the joy of the creating art. Just observe a two year old child painting sometime soon and you will understand what I mean. Better yet, you go ahead and try painting like a child once again to re-experience the joy of playing with pure color and form. The abstract-geometric minimal art style is the record of the visions that I have had from waking-dream or meditative states in which an image appears, usually in linear form. I then draw a quick sketch, at a later date I draw a more precise, detailed line drawing exactly proportioned to the vision I had previously. Then, after staring at the line drawing the color scheme unfolds... usually within a few minutes the color is set. Then I go ahead and paint a full color sketch. This painting is "exactly" as I saw it in a waking-dream state. I will select one out of dozen or so to create on a much larger scale, usually in the square format: 12x12, 24x24, 36x36, 48x48 or 72x72. The sculpture comes into being via the waking-dream or meditative state as well. First the vision, then the line drawing, followed by computer aided design, and finally the real thing in painted steel or wood. -Bo von Hohenlohe, July 1995Santa Barbara, California USA |