Transformism - - Art Muse 2.0

What you are looking at is the solar cover on the pool. What you are also seeing is how Tony's adventure with a new camera changed the way he works. I will let him tell you all about it at Art and the Zen of Design.

What I see is that the more he wrote about photography, and the more images he took as he tested the camera, his images began moving further and further away from what the picture started out as and much more toward the art that was within it. This is going way beyond removing information as the Impressionists did, to creating a real transformation.

I like the sound of that. We are going to call this new direction Transformism. We define it as the molding of an image into a shape where it is impossible to tell what the original image actually was. Think of it like a piece of clay that had been the shape of a banana and now we have made into something that is visually interesting but you would never know it had been a banana.

When Jackson Pollock did his abstracts it was not possible to know what was thinking about or what image did he see in his minds eye. Pollock's work is categorized as "abstract".

What Tony is doing is different. It is called Transformism. The technology he uses would allow you to see (if you really wanted to) what was before his eyes when he started. This is Techno-Impressionism pure an simple. The art history books will say that Techno-Impressionism was the first new movement of the 21 century that was enabled by the blending of Art and Technology

We are being to categorize the different paths that Tony takes and therefore Techno-Impressionism takes. Here is Patternism. It differs from Transformism in that you can see the original in it if you look closely, but it has the added dimension of being an optical illusion as well.

Musings of a muse So here I sit, an artist's muse defining an art movement. Wow, this is exciting. Thank you my darling artist for giving me a most incredible life. What a great adventure, working on leaving a mark on the world.

If nothing else, this all will make interesting reading and viewing for Carina. And if we make Tony Karp famous, Carina might be rich because all her grandpa's art belongs to you little one. We love you little angel.

Note: I searched the web for Transformism and here is what I found. "Reduced to simple language, Transformism is the doctrine that an unintelligent, dead, nonvitalized, unimpulsed cosmos, whose particles are driven hither and yon by haphazard chance, can collect itself into the forms of innumerable sub-bodies, not only on our earth, but everywhere else, these sub-bodies on our earth being called animate entities, all of which grow to nobler things, how no one knows, therefore no one can say. It is a theory, an hypothesis. It is, in short, the doctrine that things grow into other things unguided by either innate purpose or inner urge." I thought you might find it interesting. In the context of art, we have defined Transformism to have a very different meaning. That's what makes the world go round. Remember, change can be good. Don't be put off by something just because it is different.

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