For me, art is a voyage of discovery. I am as surprised by the art I create as anyone else who views it. Though I constantly strive to improve my skills, I am much more interested in creating something new (and hopefully beautiful) under the sun than in craftsmanship. I feel that photography has superseded other forms of art when it comes to reproducing the external world -it is the interior landscape that I strive to explore and reveal.
BIO
Born in Paris, France in 1950. Moved to New York when I was 5 years old. From an early age, developed an (unhealthy? obsessive?) interest in fantasy, science fiction, surrealism and anything that was beautiful and mysterious. My parents called me "Jean de la Lune" because I was often distracted by things that they couldn't understand. Also had an aptitude for drawing from an early age, but never really pursued it seriously back then. Went away to college in 1967, at the time that the psychedelic zeitgeist was reaching critical mass & got swept up in the maelstrom. Ego disintegrated & a new one rose like a phoenix from the ashes. Began drawing & painting in a stream-of-consciousness mode, bypassing the rational mind. Fell in love, moved to Berkeley, California, and had a son. Took art classes (illustration, figure drawing, portraiture, color theory, etc.). In the late 70's, began playing with computers. Learned to program & wrote simple applications for generating visual patterns. Having no real aptitude for marketing my artwork, I instead embarked on a career in information technology, which lasted 22 years, at which time I quit (in May of 2003). My current incarnation as a digital artist began with the first release of Fractal Design Painter. I experienced a breakthrough with the first release of Bryce, which was the medium that enabled me to finally satisfy my creative impulses. I use many other supporting pieces of software (Amorphium, Poser, & several others), but they only provide me with input for Bryce. All of my images are rendered only in Bryce, with no post-processing at all. Each of them starts with a bare-bones idea or model or texture which I then attempt to allow to evolve in whatever direction "it" decides & which I have never been able to predict. I obsessively tweak shapes, colors, textures, & visual relationships until the image seems "right". If the final result is somewhat disturbing and disorienting, yet at the same time beautiful, then I have succeeded...
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Comments (12)
luoyx2008
Outstanding! :)
peedy
Gorgeous! Lovely coors. Corrie
hewee
Even better then the last one.
jonesteed
Miam, il a l'air drolement bon ce gateau...
Bossie_Boots
This is awesome !!
FloydianSlip
Absolutely beautiful!!! :)
TwoPynts
Seriously one you can lose yourself in...
cvrad
nice very intrguing shapes and colors
zoren
nice work, great colors, clarity, movement and ability to pull one in..
paul leatham
That is a thing of great beauty.
thelordofdragons
Now this is pretty, gorgeous balance of colours.
anahata.c
jumped in. Some of your mandalas seem to be made of pure forms; some are made of what appear to be objects of one's day which you've assembled 'into' a mandala. I can't name these objects, they just feel like things we'd all find in our homes and cabinets, etc. All those round objects, some with lights inside, and some---the big red circles alternating around the rim---with "bowls" inside, and surrounded by pearls. The center is like a big eye, something from an old sci fi vision of computers (as in "2001") with beautiful blues and crimsons. And the eye "ball"---along with the lights along the rim---has stringy lines in it, like vines or even calligraphy. (At first I thought it was some Sanskrit prayer, like the traditional "OM"s that are written all over some Indian art.) And an inner band---ie, the band around the 'eye'---which seems very complexly carved. And all of it sits on some undulating fabric, end-paper, etc. Your mandalas are very rich, and with fascinating parts; and I find them constantly compelling and calling. I'll be back for more; this is a terrific gallery, Claude. (And btw, you wrote "buttered sunlight" in a recent comment. Great phrase! I'd love to buy some as art media, or spread it over toast or vegetables!)