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Michel Luc Bellemare's Artist Profile
Michel Luc Bellemare
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Artist's Statement

Artist Statement:

What is abstraction? Abstraction is a thinking and/or a pushing of reality to the Nth degree, where all figuration and concepts become indistinct, blurred, mosaic in nature. Pure abstraction is where all differentiations cease and a totality of colors, i.e. a gray area and/or mosaic, is created capable of multiple meanings and interpretations. This is the essence of pure abstraction painting. The mission, I’ve set out through abstraction is to influence the way people see and think about art and what abstract art consists of. This is a matter of artistic reconfiguration. Through, my artistic practice, i.e. the medium of oil painting, I am reconfiguring the dominant ideas on abstraction, that is the traditional ideas on pure abstraction painting, specifically non-objectivity. An initial breakthrough occurred in 2009 with the publication of my book: Color-Realism, acquired by the National Gallery of Canada for its library. The book’s main thesis is that color is as real as reality gets. Color is the basic language upon which all other languages develop. And it is through pure abstraction painting that this fundamental language of color is put into motion and communicated, as the basic concern in pure abstraction painting is total abstraction, color and how color communicates and is effective at doing things with, both psychologically and physically. Without color there is no form, no concepts or senses as it is color, i.e. the division between colors, that allows basic concepts to develop. For example, one cannot think of a square without color, it is impossible to think of a color-less square, what this means is that color is a precondition to our ability as humans’ to think, our basic concepts of the world around us are based on color, i.e. the divisions of color. And pure abstraction painting reminds us of this fact. Contrary to traditional notions, pure abstraction is about objectivity and not as has been historically stated non-objectivity because pure abstraction is about the factual conditions of basic conceptual thinking, the factual limits of painting, communication and about the factual essence of reality, which is at its base level pure abstraction. Everything is abstract, conceptual to the end; reality, materiality, is but variations in degrees of abstraction founded on the concept of color, hence why I label my artistic style “color-realism” as color is as real as reality gets. In sum, my artistic practice aims to revolutionize the way people see, think and relate to modern abstract painting and the concept of color.

Artistic Style:

My style is a supra-impasto technique in the form of thickly applied paint, the likes of which are totally new. Tom Thomson, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Vincent Van Gogh were all considered impastoist but they never extended the technique. I have expanded on this method of painting and brought it to extreme, where paint is applied so thick on the canvas that it protrudes and swells the canvas surface towards a 3 dimensional abstract image. If abstract art to date is about creating a flat surface without perspective or image, my artwork denies the flat surface of past pure abstraction painting. I deny the flat two-dimensional surface in favor of a rough undulating abstractive surface. My pure abstraction paintings expand outwards from the canvas manifesting a different type of abstraction, a highly textual 3-dimensional pure form of abstraction painting that has never been attempted before in the history of modern painting.
In addition, I utilize a new type of brush stroke that I have come to call the bee sting brushstroke, where paint is applied so thick that it forms a stinger that extends from the canvas surface akin to the stinger of a bumble bee, where the paint appears in a point-like fashion. Moreover, via an added layer of iridescent glitter my paintings radiate, and this added dimension gives my paintings multi-dimensional movement in the sense that as the viewer walks around the painting the colors of the picture actually change, change the lighting and so does the colors of the picture. In this regard, I have moved painting from a static image to that of a dynamic image, which is a first for modern art. With the techniques of color-realism the abstract image is now dynamic and multi-dimensional, rather than static and two-dimensional as previous art has been. Former artists have alluded to the multi-dimensional quality of color and pigment but this was not realized until now; consequently I believe my art-form to be historically important to modern contemporary art.

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