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Artist Statement:
PAINTING AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
COLLIDE.
Aesthetics and theoretical
physics “hit it off” in my
"Colour-field Splash"
paintings. The effect is both
attractive and striking. It
uses canvas and paint but no
brush strokes. First several
coats of a single colour are
absorbed into the weave of the
canvas to produce a tranquil
base. The tranquility is then
disturbed by a splash of
paint. At some points the high
velocity of the paint causes
it to split symmetrically on
the canvas to produce a unique
and beautiful effect. It is
through this splitting of the
splash that the observer is
sucked into the multiple
dimensions of the cosmological
space beyond. The action takes
place on a manifold called the
Riemann sphere, a sphere so
large that the curved surface
becomes flat (like walking on
the surface of the Earth but
in effect at the edge of the
universe). The splashes of
paint are “Strings” and the
symmetric split is a
“Hyperfunction” where the
split is between the positive
and the negative, the yin and
the yang. Through the portal
of the split we can delve into
the furthest regions of space,
helped in our journey by
either “String” or “Twistor”
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Mike Bernstein Biography:
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Acrylic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Expressionism - (1940 - 1955)
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Jackson Pollock & Lucio Fontana
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My wife
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
In 2005, the centenary year of Einstein's theory of special relativity, I began to look for a way that art and science could communicate. Was it possible to make art which could engage with cosmology? Color-field splash attempts to find just this; a way into a multi-dimensional universe.
The surface of the canvas is the barrier. A limited view and a boundless horizon, like a view of the night sky. The splash provides stars and nebulae, but it is when the splash divides that the way into the deeply complex universe is possible.
To enrich science with art is a big challenge; a way in is the first step. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
I am a Physics graduate and was teaching maths until 1987. I studied painting, print-making and sculpture in London at the Working Men's College from 1982 to 1987.
From 1987 to 2005 I exhibited and sold my work in Covent Garden, London, at my OXO Tower studio by the River Thames and on my own website. |
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