Artist Statement & Explanation of the Body of Work Mr. Kelly’s drawings, and paintings, reflect extensively on how he has defined and created the art of abstract and expression into a form of art. Mr. Kelly’s art draws on his individual experiences to paint a complex, multi-dimensional image with the use of bold lines and abstract images. In creation of this art form, Kelly’s creative cadence detours from the sheer pursuit of beauty and celebrates a conscious engagement with social realism and political expressions. In ways never clearly explained before now, Kelly’s artistry, seen as a type of satire or parody, is inevitably tied to abstract and expressionism, and the elevation of the spirits of humankind. His art form developed over five decades is called ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM My work addresses space assignment, the fragility of line dynamics, space relations to subject matter and the underlying threads of form and shape that is expected. Often times these themes are combined into art that feature strong facial expressions and objects. The aim of my project is to paint expressionistic portraits
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in an abstract style, and with non-realistic colors and shapes. I set out to paint portraits that convey personality, imagination and emotion through the use of paints and pastels. I picked up my first pencil when I was 4. That’s when my passion for art began. I immediately fell in love with all the details that go into creating a portrait: composition, lighting, contrast between my subjects and the background. Portraiture has always been my specialty, especially historical moments and personalities. It is truly a pleasure to capture the bond between bold lines, the love between colors and shapes, and the excitement of expression.
My images are fundamentally about form and revealing the visual eloquence that I see in all things. This eloquence is often expressed in the expressions and abstractions of the object. For this reason I have taken the name abstract expressionist because it characterizes my work so perfectly – taking the emotion to represent the whole, finding the spiritual connection through forms and objects.
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Forms manifest in the resonance of a curve, the rhythm of a pattern, the dichotomy of light and shadow. They abound everywhere in abstract and expression: the boldness of the line, the overlap of color chasing the shape, the symmetry of a tranquil thought. We emulate them in everyday living: the arch of an eye brow, the movement of sternness. The works of art you will see in this series called “SPACES AND PLACES ” are drawings and new paintings of this year of exploring the mystery of color, art and design and the exploration of my impressions and expressions of how I interpret my feelings and emotions. THE CAROLINA TIMES NEWSPAPER
Eric Kelly III is an Artist, historian, singer, and poet, in his work you’ll explore how an art satirists manipulate themes and also use parody as a form of expression in his content. While some artist uses a serious tone to persuade their audiences to accept their perspective on various issues. Eric uses abstract and expressions to convey his feeling of lines, shapes and the freedom of space to express his feelings.
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He uses themes that are sometimes a parody or satire to depict his emotions in his artistic creations. Eric Kelly III quite frankly is art satirist who also uses parody in his art. He uses abstract and expressionism forms of art together as a direct visual persuasion to draw emotional conclusions form his audiences.
Kelly’s Art uses concepts, color, and sometimes lines to expose humanity’s vices and foibles, giving impetus, or momentum, to change or reform through ridicule, through the use of abstract and expression.
It is this manner of drawing that mixes a critical attitude with wit and humor in an effort to improve mankind in the way they view subjects and themes. . Mr. Kelly's His parodies in his art are an satire or parody art mocks imitation of an image that he prominent individuals and subjects sees with the idea of themes that he draws. His work exploits and gives him artistic freedom. The the peculiarities of an image or satiric impulse, and its ritualized expressions, carry out the function the persons expressions—the of resolving social tensions, propensity to use eyes that stares, over the top emotions or creating his unique art form called abstract expressionism. facial expressions, the use of certain movements, or other elements of images in his themes. While art satire of everyday life is beautiful and complicated he also uses parody art images to express his inner turmoil for American expression.
To create my paintings I mix realism, expressionism and abstract art in a combined form using colors to give my art a sense of vibrancy and movement. Some of my pastels have more apparent strokes than others, which I really enjoy to show a sort of texture of surface of an object. I choose to use large-scale paintings to overwhelm an audience just as an expression overwhelms a person when emotion takes over. The approach I took for the first several paintings was that I painted the subject in random thought sequences and placed them in an order that followed the president’s race. I would draw certain likeness of portraits and place an overriding theme so that there was balance throughout my show and composition. My work is inspired by life its’ ever changing moments, growth and the imagination of inner thoughts. I create large-scale paintings with imagery that overwhelms the audiences to the point of the exhaustion. Many of my paintings deal with expression and abstract emotions and they give the viewer much to think about. This I enjoy, I want my audience to think beyond my imagery and imagine the image
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unifies the objects in each image; the lines provide clues to content and interpretation. Every line or shape does not need to represent some specific thing. Instead, the line or shape is merely My paintings are about history, something that belongs to a greater cause, something that pride, gratefulness and enhances or disrupts the end result ultimately happiness. It is of my expression. These forms I evident that these paintings discover through drawing and speak volumes about who I painting abstract and expression of am. When my artwork is viewed, I would like to give the the human drama. Abstract Expressionism, an idea viewer a sense of created created in emotional thought, that energy. I would like them to also has physical existence of color, investigate, explore, struggle bold lines and nontraditional with, and enjoy my creation. From these paintings I want my shapes that depict the human experience. audience to appreciate and capture the joy of their inner “My passion is the exploration of emotions while viewing the inner thought of the paintings. abstract and expressionism techniques to combine them, The black line establishes a which have led to vast amounts of dynamic surreal quality, suggests notions of excitement knowledge and continue to direct me towards my art solutions.” and freedom, and formally Eric Kelly III www.kellyworldwide.com that is crop with my mats. The mats themselves are a part of my art as they represent the borders of a snapshot that has just been taken by a camera.