"The work is quite professional in that the artist knows what he is doing with paint, makes a composition with a visual idea in it, and executes it well."
Prof. Peter Plagens, Hofstra, Newsweek art critic; 2008.
AEQAI.com, Dustin Pike; Jan. 2012.
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| ZipLine C.T. Rasmuss, Acrylic (2012). |
"...“contained chaos”, small (8”X12”), mosaic-like works…Probably a dozen colors, glitter and strings of tiny black and white dots swirl in what looks like a bubbling pool of matter from which all life will spring."
City Beat, Kathy Swartz; Jan. 2012, (11-17).
"...much of his work
is abstract; sometimes viewers see shapes or patterns not seen by
Rasmuss, leading to further discussion and interpretation."
Cincinnati Enquirer, Sue Kiesewetter; Aug. 7 2012.
Cincinnati Enquirer, Sue Kiesewetter; Aug. 7 2012.
good reviews. peter plagens a respected reviewer. and a friend of your from hofstra, good! other reviews goods as well.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the response, glad to hear you know of him, actually I never met him, he reviewed my work via, pjasmfineart.com; a fellow grad student I worked with was taking his class at the time, she suggested he take a look and the results came back positive for the most part:) I e-mailed him since then to try and establish some sort of contact, but who am I in the grand scheme of things, lol! jk..one compliment at a time for all of us i guess, hard not to go fishin when the lake or ocean is callin!
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ReplyDeletei have just joined a new companey where i will travel the western states, i like photography for fun to see what i can come up with....any tips from anyone to help capture the best from desert photos
1st of all thanks for joinin my blog finally Rob!! hope you can meet some people with common interest through it down the road. for now I suggest take a look at Georgia O'keefe's desert paintings and her relationship with Alfred Steiglitz the photographer. Also check out some books of black and white pictures of desert plains of Western America and try drawing them, this will help you understand basic compostion in my experience. p.s. one big tip is to capture the meeting of the horizon where the sky meets the landscape and the light which affects this relationship in various ways, hope this helps. I'm also posting a black and white painting I rendered from photograph to give you a better idea of this method...notice the driftwood reaching into the sky especially and the way the painting technique describes it.
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