Here are presented duality within a duality: First I compare my Nepsis Foundation art, 1973-2019 with my NEW WORLD works 2013 ff. Then, within the first catagory 1973-2019, I compare more mainstream Abstract Expressionist/Surrealist work with a stream of in-between, segway pieces situated between the 20th Century styles.
Some say these 'in-between,' 'segway' works are my best contribution- See bottom of the page:
Entrance to Frost Studio- April, 2020- Sprung Rhythms
165. [94],
”Who Told You You Were Naked?”
”Who Told You You Were Naked?”
165A. Genius Mundi Appears
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These seven 'Landscape'
/nature images- and the human nude above- are examples of the mainstream of my work consistent with the schools of Art History wherein I was trained as a visual artist:
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In-between
the main series/families of my paintings and sculptures characterized by the Abstract Expressionist/Surreal methods of my training as an artist,
I also made a stream of sprung-rhythm paintings and sculptures as below.
Some say these 'in-between,' 'segway' works are my most unique and best contribution.
Some of these works were generated by my exposure to academic and religious institutions and traditions. Others, just my own eccentric interests.
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FIND NUMBERS, DATES AND CAPTIONS IN THESE ONLINE SITES:
THE NEPSIS FOUNDATION-Visual Arts
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Let's begin with the first odd surprise of idea and image.
1963
MISALANEOUS- MID 1970'S |
| Theotokos, after 8 months with Trappist monks in Utah, 1977. |
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| The Spell 1988 |
1988
1988
1990
1995
c. 2010
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| c. 2005 Alexander at Siwa |
c. 1977
c. 1988
1995-1999
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| 1984-2020 |
'Followers of the Sun,' Plains Indians.
On America's Central Plains a flood of snow and sun. Torn canvas- ...even the rifts that reveal another world become encrusted with traditions, economies.
2010
c. 2017
c. 2018
2020
The comments of three critics prompted the considerations of this blog. :
Melinda Wortz- Director, Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine 1977,
Robert Hartman- Art Professor, University of California, Berkeley. 1995- official review of my art submission as a required appendix/catalog for Ph.D. Dissertation.
Rev. Fr. John Monastero. Diocese of Orange, California. 2020- His recent comments about my art and religion presentations started this NEW WORLD consideration!
While it is my opinion that the composition of the Nepsis Foundation site is my biggest artistic accomplishment- That design is meant to be so justifiably byzantine in its complexity as to challenge even the most mentally hardy in post-graduate research.
It is also meant to be as simple for anyone as a table of contents any part of which might adequately occupy an interested party. I used such simple constructs of style as 'tables of contents,' archival systems of data organization (libraries, museums, gospels...) and the basic vocabularies of grammar, literary style, and aesthetic creativity to carry my explorations of the experience of reality in both this world and the 'other,' to compose this work.
Here, marked by a health pandemic of global proportions and economic crash of 2020, I notice that I have begun a new age, era, epoch in my art. This began with the following works made while I was living in the rectory of a Catholic Church in Dana Point, California.
While that shy beginning commenced in 2013, I was occupied with two other aesthetic projects: One started in 2006 when I procured a house in Oklahoma City in order, among other reasons, to have the space to sort through all my art that I had been creating and hauling around with me as I survived my first 40 adult years in various modern systems of human regulation. That is, as an artist/poet there was little interest in my comings and goings among the mercantile/military powers that dominate modern human organization.
(Church and Academic influences are excellent, moderating, even salvific in this tale. But that is a tale best told elsewhere.)
The second project of recent memory is the realization that my art falls into two categories.
includes the realization that the Old World- my art from 1960 to 2013, heavily influenced by ecclesial and academic institutions- is finished.
Cheers,
The Reverend Stephen Frost Ph.D.
