"Alternative Gardens 2" 2024

The "Alternative Gardens" Series is composed of 10 works depicting flowers in similar but different ways through the process of digital and manual manipulations. The series has a beginning point where each finished, numbered piece evolves subtly into the next number in series by manipulating color and composition creating a new iteration.  Additive and subtractive impulses were allowed to change or distort the image just as an oil painter decides to include or omit from the final painting.  Here in this series, RenO illustrates the fluid nature of digital art that replaces the grit and grime of manipulating oil and acrylic and leads us to the questions of the validity of art and it's definitions. More importantly, he's concerned with the question ... Can Art still move our souls when we take away realities of physical paint like texture and impasto? Or is computer derived expression less emotional, less real?  This modern day take of a classical theme can be seen as unique still lifes or a birds- eye view.
 
Size: 16.5 x 13" paper
Frame: 19 x 15.5" solid wood frame
Signed and numbered with certificate