Stretching Driftwood B/W Painting from Photograph by C.T. Rasmuss

"Stretching Driftwood" in acrylic, 2005; by C.T. Rasmussen.

A good way to handle desert photographs, is perhaps to start in black and white, void of any color, then start by rendering it through a drawing, then paint via gray scale.  I find this sort of effort, a great way to be able to understand the composition in horizon; a meeting between earth and sky...

C.T. Rasmuss

Art Reviews of C.T. Rasmuss

"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.

"They were hypnotic...The surface detail of each piece is organic and colorful, starring at them one at a time gave me the impression that I was viewing microscopic divisions of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory."  

                      AEQAI.com, Dustin Pike; Jan. 2012. 
                                                             

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.

 

UNIVERSAL THINKER  -  Art by: C.T. Rasmussen

Opening Reception:  Friday; August 17, 2012 (6-8pm)

The FCAC Art Gallery will  provide free hors

d’oeuvres and non-alcoholic drinks, a cash bar

will also be provided for wine and beer.

Artist’s Statement:

I wish to inspire mankind’s imagination, to take culture itself beyond our knowledge of science & technology, in which we all can better live in peace. I approach it by using: neo-modernist and abstract expressionist concentrations; through the use of proven, new and mine own experimental techniques.  http://www.pjasmfineart.com/

Exhibition runs from 8/18/12 to 9/29/12;

Days open: Mon.-Fri 8a-8p, Sat. 9a-1p;

Closed Sundays.

This event will be held at the:
Fairfield Community Arts Center. 

411 Wessel Dr.

Fairfield, OH 45014

Ph. 513-867-5348

A Time and Place for Everything; New Modern Times.

                                            New Modern Times C.T. Rasmuss, acrylic (2013).

I see it turning around for us starving artists, sooner than later; as the great Modernist movement was built in & out of the turmoil throughout the 1st half of the 20th century(particularly WWI and II), it is now our time in the beginning of the 21st century.

There always seems to come a time, throughout all eras of history, when we(as a whole) must finally wake up!   Today it happens to be the hyper reality we've built around us, and it's harmful by-products (ie: Industrial revolution greatly led up to problems in early 20th century).

Art can help reveal to the public, both the good and the bad; allowing its viewers and artists alike to discern between the opposing forces, forged outta the newer, overlooked present & also the past.  Visual art is the simple truth in which I believe must reveal itself evident and pure; it's time for us to take a leap of faith together with our best collective foot forward, as well as keeping our individual cadences..

Art; According to Aristotle

"Philosophy makes plain by many reasons...how of all Nature,-her laws, her fruits, her seasons,-springs from the Ultimate Intellect and Its art: and if you read your Physics with due care, you will note, not many pages from the start, that Art strives after her by imitation, as the disciple imitates the master; Art, as it were, is the Grandchild of Creation. 

 'The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri; The Inferno: Canto XI, 97'
                      

                                                 Solar Flower, C.T.Rasmuss; liquid mosaic (2011)