Sublime Blobs Create Captivating Wall Calendars – 2012 Fluidism Art Photography

July 8, 2011 - PRLog -- Nine, colorful blobs composed of mineral oil and art acrylics form a group of spheroids that line up along one edge of a larger ovoid.  This eye-catching image appears on the front cover of a new wall calendar, FLUIDISM 2012 The Art Of Fluid, just published by Robert G. Kernodle at a well-known, print-on-demand website.  The image is one of twelve, never-before-published, fluidism art photography images that Kernodle includes in the new 2012 calendar, continuing the series of fluidism art wall calendars he started last year.

The name, “fluidism”, refers to a style of close-up art photography that focuses on real liquid mixtures where spontaneous patterns appear as visually stunning, abstract masterpieces for only a short time.  Because these patterns disperse rapidly, they cannot exist in the original media of their origins.  Only a camera can capture such patterns and preserve their impressions in photographic media such as slide film or digital files.

Fluidism photography is an extension of fluidism painting, where the physical process of drying captures fluid patterns in their original, liquid acrylics media.  Since only a limited range of fluid patterns achieve stable wet forms, however, the physics of drying can capture only this limited range of fluid patterns. On the other hand, photography can capture a greater range of fluid patterns that never dry.

The physics of drying is too slow to capture short-lived, fluid dynamics patterns.  In many cases, drying destroys such patterns.  In these cases, photography replaces drying, and photographic media replace the original fluid substrates in Kernodle’s modern extension of his traditional approach to painting.

According to Kernodle, fluidism art photography represents the world’s most active “action paintings”, ... so active, in fact, that these paintings cannot exist as traditional, dried-paint wall hangings.  In fluidism photography, original paintings most certainly exist, Kernodle insists, but here the word, “painting”, means a continuous process with multiple appearances or multiple “aspects”.  This explains why Kernodle labels all his fluidism photography images with the same title, “Aspect”, followed by a number.  Numbers in all titles of his images designate exact film frames (in hundreds of different film frames) where particular
fluidism aspects occur.

Appealing color combinations, pleasing textures, and intriguing shapes are what inspired Kernodle to develop his fluid dynamics art styles.  Through trial and error, in a technique that is part planning and part improvisation, he transforms ephemeral, moving subjects into lasting, stationary designs.  More importantly, he claims (in his own words):

“I reveal the universe expressing its fundamental fluid nature, in miniature frozen moments that allow us to briefly glimpse the infinite, the eternal, the ineffable, and the sublime.”

All fluidism art wall calendars can be previewed in full online by clicking on the following link:

http://www.zazzle.com/fluidism_2012_the_art_of_fluid_larg...