MUSEO ASTRATTO

My global website consists of selected folio collections of fine art, astratto (abstract) drawings, collages, and poetics that reveal in each viewer a unique and personal “avid for art” response, by means of each viewer’s intuition and insight.

 

In the 19th century, at the age of 22, the writer Henry James visited Italy for the first time to bathe in its renaissance and artistic riches. James intimated that art, itself, is the one corner of human life where we may take our ease, whereas our other neighborly associations lead to our captive, fractious discussions.

 

In 2019, my wife, Linda, and I visited Milan and Florence to salve the worries of the world in our own balm of contemplative calm. Avid for art, we noted that the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death in 1519 was being remembered in 2019. One of his telling remarks was “the simplest things have the greatest sophistication”.

 

This trip to Italy inspired me to question what the artistic follow-on for art would be in the next 500 years. My answer was “Astratto!”

 

My technique and constant practice is to draw with pen and ink on cut paper to create astratto images on many themes that have three main attributes in their potential engagement with all viewers, namely:
A retinal sensation (eyes)
A tentacular attraction (lines) and
A spectacular impulse (imaginations)

 

The viewing results that emanated from this “avid for art” experience in 2019 were amply and ably demonstrated both in New York City and in Florence Italy. Each person viewing the astratto image had a different, unique, observed meaning appropriate to their conscious state, their conscientiousness to search the image, and their rapt exercise of conscience to stand alone by the lights of their own personal interpretation.​