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About Me Member General Addict dljamesMale/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 3 Years
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eidetic expressionist manifesto

Fri Oct 13, 2006, 4:02 PM
I am part of an art group. We call ourselves eidetic expressionists. Our lineage stretches back to Paleolithic Man: those first artists, men who painted the caves of Lascaux, practicing magic in the earth’s bowels; to Da Vinci, who studied stained walls to discover fantastic landscapes and to awaken hidden demons; to Alexander Cozens, the famed “Blot-Master” and his “Method”; to Victor Hugo and his stencils; to Chaim Soutine and his carcasses; to Max Ernst and his transfers; to Jean Dubuffet and his primitive impasto; to all outsider artists of the visionary type. Our origins lie in childhood experiences: day dreaming on clouds, gazing into burning embers, staring into the eyes of wood grain, and viewing the interior lantern show projected onto the backdrop of closed eyes. The name of our movement is inspired by Alan Watts’ lecture, the Psychedelic Explosion, particularly his discussion on eidetic thinking and the power of projection. We encourage you to look deep into our paintings. What you see is your mind and soul reflected back at you: a Rorschach Ink Blot. Our work is diverse in style and method. We employ experimental techniques, such as decalcomania, frottage, flottage, depouillage, coulage, eclaboussage, and grattage, yet still use traditional methods, including the ancient art of encaustic, or hot wax. We invite chance occurrences to determine the mood and direction of our paintings. We use found objects, such as fabric, rocks, sand, crystals, hair, and coffee grounds, and we paint with the newest pigments, with interferences and iridescences, with beeswax and oils, gels, mediums, plaster of Paris, industrial and spray paint. Our art plays with light, contains optical illusions, is multi-layered, and derives from the world of dreams and ecstatic experience. Our group is small now, but we plan expansion and future collaboration with like-minded artists.

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ye man, Ernst in my opinion was king of surrealist.s. he chased every option to great detail.At every chance he followed chance. ha. ye decalc is mental i once thought i had invented it but how wrong i was.its the process as well i loved just watching the veins of touch . mesmerizing. so did you invent what went in yours or jus paint what you see. i go both ways but prefer to stay organic to what tthe paint itself is actually showing me;. yuj
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when i start i have no idea what will surface. i only bring out what is already there, what emerges from the bottom and forms on the top. I liken myself to the cave painting shamans who saw the animals in the rock using eidetic vision. Chance effects are what i'm after.
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