REFUSAL (SMALL PACKAGE) AUGUST 1999 INTRODUCTION With this release I refuse all standards that have previously been established by picture artists and their so good lack of reflection and artistic sense Pictures will always remain pictures nothing else Some say they re anti-fonts well then I m anti-pics and pro-art also which is something picture artists definatly couldn t claim to be True art will be created once people refuse all standards known nowadays We need to create our own standards and keep them to ourself because a post-traditional scene would fall in the same abyss created before Art has no defined rules and it has to remain that way Art does not require talent it requires some creativity! Pretty much everything has been started during the end of February to the end of March During the month of April and the beginning of May I have completed most of the pieces and then finished everything at the beginning of July Final corrections have been made at the beginning of August after taking a two weeks break Every piece has been created using TheDraw except Equilibrium I that has been created using PabloDraw This information file has been created using AcidDraw DESCRIPTION 01 ANS Equilibrium I 02 ANS Untitled 01 This piece demonstrates an certain equilibrium We must remember that true equilibrium is impossible to reach Colors have properties that make impossible the creation of any real equilibrium The binary is based on the late work of Mondrian before the NYC series but tries to go further than what he has done by using different shades of white to give the so called equilibrium more credibility (stability) These different shades of white also create a better contrast with primary colors used It has to be viewed in vga not only for a better understanding but also because it uses the same color technique has the one explained in 02 02 The purpose of this piece is the creation of a rythmic pattern with the use of new colors The color technique that creates these colors is based on the human eye s weakness to recognize shapes at a certain distance It is easier for us to distinguish colors than shapes When standing far away to the piece or when viewed in vga (suggested) colors mix together and create new ones 368 to be exact If viewed in vga it must be at a resolution of 320 x 200 03 ANS Salt 04 ANS Free Coke I 05 ANS Free Coke II 06 ANS Lost Paradise 03 First font of the serie It is somehow based on Constructivism though it strictly uses the horizontal-vertical (opposed to Suprematism) The superposition of blocks creates a multiple layer piece which has five of them including the negative space (the outline of the font itself) Basically the purpose was the creation of a font using quadrilaterals on different layers so it wouldn t be like other two-layers type of fonts (foreground and background) 04 Constructivist font using watercolor-like transparency The purpose of the use of transparency was to give some colors a different aspect Instead of that rigid hard and even spiritual look the 01 loses these aspects to become a fragile color which could be destroyed by touching it Its spirituality is also subdued a lot Same thing goes for the 08 which has normally a deep dark look it now becomes like a touch of light It should be viewed with ice colors 05 Based on the same technique as the two other pieces this one has been created to go further than the previous ones This serie needed another piece to show the evolution of a particular style It could ve gotten even further by using one character wide blocks but there was no real need in doing that 06 Instead of being based on superposition this one uses blocks placed on a single layer It also uses three double lines to enhance some defined places 07 ANS Equalizer 07 This one is totally based on contrasts Shade of colors (normal type of shading) would have destroyer that high contrast created when blue and white meet Sam thing applies with red and white and red and black The contrast looks even better when viewed at a resolution of 320 x 200 and when the original background color of the monitor (black) is really dark 08 ANS Kink 08 The purpose of this piece was the annihilation of the background as known nowadays The foreground as been placed in the background That way there is no real background nor foreground I ve worked more on the negative (positive) space than the outline of the positive (negative) space Once again it was an attempt of destruction of old standards that force people to have their positive space more developped than the negative one When drawing a figurative piece the remaining space that is created between foreground elements becomes a new element When exploited there is no real background anymore That s also what this piece is trying to show FILE_ID DIZ Equilibrium II ID Even though this is the description file of the package I have worked on another equilibrium piece This one is based on the theories of Kandinsky abstract art s greatest theorician