Artist Information:
Benjamin Bader
Fairborn, OH
United States
Member Since: Jun 2007
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Artist Statement:
What is Neo-Elegance?
Inspired by French Art
Nouveau, American Art Deco,
the Italian Renaissance, and
the Primary Structure/ABC
movements in art, NEO-Elegance
is an attempt to reinterpret
elements of these movements to
create something new. The “new
elegance.”
Over the past couple of
decades, art has become too
focused on raw emotion and
general abstraction than as a
way of beautifying its
surroundings. Form has become
removed from function. Beauty
has been removed from the
everyday object. The goal of
Neo-Elegance is to allow the
natural beauty of a piece to
captivate a viewer and cause
them to forget about the
relevance of a deeper,
ethereal meaning. The goal of
an artist in this theory
should be to cause the viewer
to stop at a piece, and think
“Wow! That is beautiful,” and
not begin to debate what the
artist was thinking or try to
‘read into’ the piece. The art
will instead speak for itself.
When analyzing neo-elegance,
one must break it down into
its’ core elements and examine
each of them under a
microscope in their own right.
The Italian Renaissance
One prevailing theme
throughout the renaissance
period was of course religion,
though ...
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Inspired by French Art Nouveau, American Art Deco, the Italian Renaissance, and the Primary Structure/ABC movements in art, NEO-Elegance is an attempt to reinterpret elements of these movements to create something new. The “new elegance.”
Over the past couple of decades, art has become too focused on raw emotion and general abstraction than as a way of beautifying its surroundings. Form has become removed from function. Beauty has been removed from the everyday object. The goal of Neo-Elegance is to allow the natural beauty of a piece to captivate a viewer and cause ... |
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