“Spirographia” Watercolors by Robert Lansden
I can’t help but think that many of the artists I encounter are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I’m only an armchair psychologist, but the patience and repetition exhibited by some of these folk make me wonder if they aren’t coping with some disturbing inner voice. Demons or not, I’m soothed by the work of artist Robert Lansden who takes no shortcuts while painting these lovely large-scale works. Mesmerizing.
Gallery representation: Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans
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Robert would make an excellent topographic mapmaker.
Reminds me of Vasarey in the geometric precision.
Really spectacular!
Beautiful work. Thanks for posting. I love Roberts exactness and care in regarding these geometries while creating depth and complexity within. Praise to curves! Made from lines!!!
Thank you for the clarification. In any scale the images are quite comforting. I like the metaphors. The building blocks, the circles of life – some intersecting and some alone, the nuances of color (i.e. shades of gray). Looks like an ecosystem. A family tree. A terrarium. Periodic table.
More like a window out to a field with two children playing in the distance.
Madness and genius are divided by a fine line. Sometimes when you show over-sized art you included some ruler or known work that we can compare against the art. That might help here as you describe the art as “large-scale”. Are these paintings the size of a (i) toaster-oven, (ii) refrigerator or (iii) broad side of a barn?
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.”
Top o’ the morning to you…
-Sven