And while all of this denial is going on in the viewer’s mind, and you’re scratching your head trying to figure it all out, both Abstraction and Realism are sitting together, like elderly lovers on a park bench, smiling and watching you ponder how the blazes the two of them can be joined on a single canvas. When you couple that idea with the other images that are distinctly abstract works, the abstract qualities of “Shiira” seem to deny the existence of any realism, even while the elements of realism seem to deny the existence of the abstract. But you also have the reflections in the waves that can’t really be representations of reflections on waves they are too geometric on their own without the uniformity that actual reflections would have. You have the waves and the reflections that, like “Vibe,” seem to be representations of water waves, an idea that is confirmed by the impression of the titular fish. Then, along comes “Shiira,” and takes this melding concept to a new level. Fine, but you can’t stop there.Ĭlick on any image to enlarge and view slides. And from that it’s easy to conclude that she’s done the same again with “Shiira:” made an image of concentric circles that resemble circular waves but really are not. From that it’s easy to conclude that these three paintings are mere abstractions that resemble concentric waves in a pond, but aren’t necessarily representations of them at all. And more importantly, in “The Big Spin,” the “reflections” are clearly abstractions of geometric designs rather than actual representations of reflections, so, when you view these images that were all made at about the same time, you see that Zimmer is an abstract artist who frequently uses such “swirls” in her art.
Shiira browsers series#
The second feature is the series of “reflections” in the “waves” that can’t really be reflecting anything they lack consistency and uniformity of reflections. In fact, if you were to turn “Vibe” clockwise onto its side, you would see even more resemblance between it and “Shiira.” Other paintings of Zimmer’s that resemble “Shiira” include “Raspberry Cocoa” and “The Big Spin.” In these paintings, the swirls are made to look familiar enough as the concentric circular waves made from a splash in a body of water, but there are features that make the image also clearly abstract: The first feature is that the concentric circles are too uniform in width from one to the next, while actual waves in the water would get broader as they got larger, moving away from the centre. The painting known as “Vibe” stands as a prime example. Zimmer has painted circular swirls before. But there is so much more to this painting. Superficially, “Shiira” (which, according to the artist, means mahi-mahi in Japanese) is a painting of a fish whose features are obscured by ripples on the water’s surface. Romeo and Juliet, eat your hearts out! Evie Zimmer is the 21 st century’s visual answer to Shakespeare. She has combined oil and water to make them behave like peanut butter and jelly. It is a feat that only an artist of Zimmer’s skill could hope to achieve. artist, Evie Zimmer, called “Shiira” is a marriage of two styles of art that have no business sharing a canvas: Abstraction and Realism.
0 kommentar(er)
