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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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