Assembly Painting By Pygoya Rodney Chang-Phd

Year:

Medium:

Oil Painting

Size - (USA):

111 W x 69 H x 2 D (inches)

Size - (metric):

281.9 W x 175.3 H x 5.1 D (centimeters)

Theme:

History

Edition:

Original

Artwork ID:

207613

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Artwork Info Sheet (PDF)

Artwork Description:

Pixelism is the artistic intent to create manually made paintings replicating the dot pattern comprising the computer image. Although creating images is quicker and easier for the computer artist, executing the replication in real paint with real brushes CREATES WORK. The first piece, probably to be completed in a full year, is entitled "Assembly." It is currently under production and will consist of over 225,000 hand painted 4x4mm squares(pixels) painted with a small pointed brush. This is probably a heroic feat of craft and patience never again to be replicated in the annuals of painting. I see Pixelism as the computer's analogy to the grain of photography and the dot of Pointillism. It claims its uniqueness in history for the particulate building blocks shaped as squares(pixels) rather than dots. Part of the work's appreciation will be garnered from the sheer effort to complete such a painting. Then there is the mural scale (11'x6') that magnifies the pixel effect of a small monitor to beyond human scale. There is also the different effects of the work that is dependent on distance of spectator to object. One appreciates the pixels up close whereas from afar one impacts with the overall structure of the image, the individual pixels too small to be perceivable.-Rodney Chang,PhD,1987

Artwork Keywords:   Original Painting

Materials:   Oil Paintings