Comments on: Flame Fractals http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/11/05/flame-fractals/ Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:42:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Charley Parker http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/11/05/flame-fractals/#comment-16918 Charley Parker Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:37:17 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/11/05/flame-fractals/#comment-16918 Thanks for the compliments on <em>lines and colors</em>. I am also a great fan of Kirby, and he is definitely on the list for a post (it's a long list). I'm not sure I see a connection to Pollock in the sense of patterns and abstract shapes, I do see a very playful sense of design and the division of space, particularly in his backgrounds and machines. I agree that he certainly is tapping into mythology and archetypal heroes in the creation of his characters. Whether that is also a source of inspitation for his design and drawing style, I don't know. Thanks for the compliments on lines and colors. I am also a great fan of Kirby, and he is definitely on the list for a post (it’s a long list).

I’m not sure I see a connection to Pollock in the sense of patterns and abstract shapes, I do see a very playful sense of design and the division of space, particularly in his backgrounds and machines.

I agree that he certainly is tapping into mythology and archetypal heroes in the creation of his characters. Whether that is also a source of inspitation for his design and drawing style, I don’t know.

]]> By: tomdwayne http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/11/05/flame-fractals/#comment-16859 tomdwayne Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:23:18 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/11/05/flame-fractals/#comment-16859 hello charley, i´ve just started my own blog - which is about appreciation (art, movies, life...), and i already planned on doing something about your site, which has become a site that i visit quite regularly, almost daily. great great site. but i dont just comment to tell you how great the site is, i actually have something to ask: i am a great fan of jack kirby´s art, (i´m still waiting for your say on him), and there´s something that i found fascinating aside of the dynamism and the usual great superhero art - i´m not an art connaisseur, so i don´t know the right terms - but i find his art to have an abstract, almost pollockian feel more than look (action painting indeed) about it, i never could put my fingers on it, but looking at the fractals, especially on the mandelbrot post, i think i´m closer (bearing in mind that i just found an article about the fractal nature of pollocks art) to forming a thought (errr...stupid sentence). thinking of the kirby-dot, his way of drawing rocks (ben grimm and actual rocks or debris or devastated buildings after epic fights), but also the weird faces of monsters and masks or helmets - do you think i´m onto something? instead of going closer, step back and look at his images "from afar". also bear in mind that you said something about cg jung on your mandelbrot post - and kirby´s fascination with the archetypal and mythology. i would like to read your thoughts, or any other commentator on this site, because i can´t really formulate a stringent argument, being an amateur with regard to art in general (comics are another matter entirely). hello charley,
i´ve just started my own blog - which is about appreciation (art, movies, life…), and i already planned on doing something about your site, which has become a site that i visit quite regularly, almost daily. great great site. but i dont just comment to tell you how great the site is, i actually have something to ask: i am a great fan of jack kirby´s art, (i´m still waiting for your say on him), and there´s something that i found fascinating aside of the dynamism and the usual great superhero art - i´m not an art connaisseur, so i don´t know the right terms - but i find his art to have an abstract, almost pollockian feel more than look (action painting indeed) about it, i never could put my fingers on it, but looking at the fractals, especially on the mandelbrot post, i think i´m closer (bearing in mind that i just found an article about the fractal nature of pollocks art) to forming a thought (errr…stupid sentence). thinking of the kirby-dot, his way of drawing rocks (ben grimm and actual rocks or debris or devastated buildings after epic fights), but also the weird faces of monsters and masks or helmets - do you think i´m onto something? instead of going closer, step back and look at his images “from afar”. also bear in mind that you said something about cg jung on your mandelbrot post - and kirby´s fascination with the archetypal and mythology.
i would like to read your thoughts, or any other commentator on this site, because i can´t really formulate a stringent argument, being an amateur with regard to art in general (comics are another matter entirely).

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