THE MAN OF THE WARP
digital painting
2015
Eric Whollem
copyright by the artist
CYBERPLASTIC EXPRESSIONISM
It is well known that the 'plastic arts' have nothing to do with that 'plastic' that is a product derived from the refining of oil and used commonly in our culture to wrap vegetables or provide the substance that comprises the body of many of our appliances, toys, etc.
'Plastic' as it is used in the arts, refers to the quality of the relation of space and the relation of form
derived from art materials or shapes that are modified by the artist for an aesthetic end. Sculpture as well as painting are thus parcel of the plastic arts.
However in recent years digital painting has appeared. The cybernetic medium, through various photoshop programs has become part of the plastic arts today. The term 'cyberplastic expressionism' is a term suggested to describe a few of the things done by digital artists.
Here we saturate, emboss, posterize and run elements of our digital paintings through many filters.
'Cyber plastic' is an unrelated term that includes such modern products as hair styling creams an automobile parts. But these material products are unrelated to the 'cybernetic expressionism' that describes the virtual space of our digital art creations.
Cyberplasic expressionism concerns itself with the mood and ambience of the works conceived in the digital medium, but only as the quality of the shapes and colors affect our mood, or stand as a symbol of the artist's creative intent.
