Saturday 29 June 2024

'The Basin': Art Trail 2 - 'Action Painting' [Draft 1.0]




All Images: Floating Harbour, Bristol,  February 2023



Action Painting’:

For a time, formal muscularity gives way to “an arena in which to act”. The iron-clad underflank has become a designated target for spontaneous ejections, as the bridging function embraces a new entanglement. Decor and physics combine in a fluid exchange, although, in the present case, the surface tension effects are small. The moment has been elongated at a flick, with each line of flight logged prior to accretion. [Note that the formation, motion, and stability of fluid filaments have been vastly studied because of their prominence in a wide range of flow phenomena]. Several regimes are observed: viscous, gravitational, inertio-gravitational, and inertial, and liquid transfer across the board remains the key to this environment.





The historical significance cannot be overestimated, with traditional parameters dissolving into a field of uncertainty. The roots for this style of painting lie at the dawn of Modernism - since when, many artists have used formlessness as a tool for creativity, not to elevate art, but to get it down and dirty. To one notorious thinker, “l’inform” was about destroying categories and knocking art off its metaphorical pedestal. An understanding of the physical conditions at which these patterns were created is important to further art research, and it can be used as a tool in the authentication of paintings. 


A ritual intoxication has leaned back onto a vertical plane now [swivelling on demand towards the most advantageous aspect]. Therefore, it is relevant to compare the surface tension effects with gravitational stretching. At greater elevations, seabirds conduct experiments of their own.







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