Perry Hall: Paintings [Paperback]

Perry Hall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2008

Painter Perry Hall uses a set of experimental techniques that draw upon the organizing principles found in nature. In his Decalcomania paintings, he uses pressure to shape complex networks of interlocking lines and ridges of paint into organic compositions that evoke the notion of 'growing' a painting. In his Livepaintings (time-based paintings), he stimulates paint with temperature changes, vibration, turbulence, and various substances, transforming paint flows into compositions he captures onto video. In the Sound Drawings, sound waves are channeled into a vessel containing oil or acrylics: Hall paints by changing the qualities of the sound, in effect, 'playing' the paint like a musical instrument. His innovative paintings are a fascinating and beautiful collaboration with "material intelligence" and a meditation on the dynamics found in nature. Over 190 full-color reproductions. For more information and images of Hall's paintings: http://www.lovebrain.net/paintings

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About the Author

Hall's work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Artists Space in New York, The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt (National Design Museum) in New York, The Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts, the Tokyo Art Fair in Tokyo, Japan, and at Pekin Fine Arts in Beijing, China. He has worked as a painter on visual effects in motion pictures including "What Dreams May Come" which won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects of 1998. He creates music on the recording project Lovebrain.

Product Details

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: Wet Media Group (December 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615261590
• ISBN-13: 978-0615261591
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,802,273 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)