Hello, I’m Jim. I’m the artist of this website. I feel great about it, I consider it my “den” as it were. My boyfriend set it up for me. He’s totally spoiling me. Anyway, I suppose I should start out by explaining my style and where I am going with it.
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Studies
I’m a student at UC Davis majoring in Art Studio and Chemistry. People have told me that this is an odd combination of studies, but what they don’t realize is that the two are quite synergeous with each other. Art allows scienists to think outside the box and think up unexpected and innovative solutions and increases their flexibility by allowing them to think on their feet. Science gives the artist more control over his medium – understanding of the chemical composition, physical attributes, and engineering allow sculptors and painters alike to pull of tricks and abilites that are beyond the pure artist’s abilites.
It seems that art derives from instinct and intuition, and becoming more in touch with the inside of your mind. Science derives from practice and gives structure to thoughts and processes. Scientific approaches to art studies allow the artist to progress much more quickly and intelligently with his studies.
I believe that a scientist can be artistcally enhanced while an artist can be scientifically enhanced.
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Style
My style is based off of early twentieth century artists. Many of my peers may find me old fashioned, and I feel a certain amount of anxiety about the path I have chosen, but I remain resolute. My chief genra is Surrealism. Salvador Dali is perhaps the closest thing I have to a roll model. I look up to his mastery of the double images and texture, as demonstrated in The Great Paranoiac and Autumn Cannibalism (although his lifestyle and physical appearance are frowned upon). His smooth and rough contrasts both amaze and please me aesthetically. Many people look at my art and tell me it relates greatly to Dali’s. I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Although I do like taking after him, I still want to make a name for myself and have work that makes people think of me rather than Dali.
MC Escher is another one of my favorite artists. The bulk of his work seemed to be tessalations but now and then he created pictures of these fantastic scenes that couldn’t possibly exist in the real world. Examples are: Ascending, Waterfall, Reletivity.
John Pitre demonstrates great gesture and texture to tell a story in his picutre Restrictions.
Finally, for sculptors Frederick Hart demostrates great gestures in Ex Nihilo. His scientific strategy inspired my career path – he invented and copywrited a technique for casting structures in acrylic resign. The copywrite was set to expire with him. When he expired and his copywrite along with him, artist could finally make scuptures with his technique, scuptures that weren’t possible before.
-Jim
(Originally posted 28 February 2007. Comment here)
