Artist Information:
Norman Gorbaty
Great Neck, NY
United States
Member Since: Oct 2006
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Artist Statement:
Le but n`est rien; le chemin,
c`est tout. -Jules Michelet
When I think of my work two
words come to mind: Movement
and Drawing. These concepts
are recurring themes that I
continue to understand, study
and explore. When I refer to
“drawing” I don’t just mean
the physical works on paper or
the finished picture. I am
also referring to the process
I use in the actual “doing” of
the art. Both Joseph Albers
and Louis Kahn greatly
influenced this approach while
I was at Yale. I make a mark.
That mark tells me where the
next mark should go and so on
until the image begins to have
a life of its own. It begins
to tell me what it wants to
be. It is for me to recognize
what it wants to be and help
it to become that. Sometimes I
don’t give in and instead
force a different direction,
but again the piece begins to
tell me what it wants to be
and so on. It is this “doing”
of pictures that I am about. I
am fascinated by the motion
around us and often try to
capture this in my work. There
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Norman Gorbaty's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Norman Gorbaty's Portfolio.
Le but n`est rien; le chemin, c`est tout. -Jules Michelet
When I think of my work two words come to mind: Movement and Drawing. These concepts are recurring themes that I continue to understand, study and explore. When I refer to “drawing” I don’t just mean the physical works on paper or the finished picture. I am also referring to the process I use in the actual “doing” of the art. Both Joseph Albers and Louis Kahn greatly influenced this approach while I was at Yale. I make a mark. That mark tells me where the next mark should go and so on until the image begins to have a life of its own. It begins to tell me what it wants to be. It is for me to recognize what it wants to be and help it to become that. Sometimes I don’t give in and instead force a different direction, but again the piece begins to tell me what it wants to be and so on. It is this “doing” of pictures that I am about. I am fascinated by the motion around us and often try to capture this in my work. There ... |
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