Clifford Singer: The Master Of Geometrical Art
CLIFFORD SINGER Is An American Postwar & Contemporary Artist Who Was Born In Great Neck, New York On May 19, 1955. Having Been An Original New York Soho Based Artist For Most Of His Life Now Lives And Works In Henderson, Nevada. Singer Is A Skilled And Well-Known Artist Who Is Celebrated For His Unique Geometry-Inspired Artworks. He Has Created Paintings, Sculptures, Prints, And Front Covers That Are Inspired By Geometric Thought And Vision In Excess Of 45 Years. Get To Know The Man Behind The Stunning And Monumental Work.
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“Your artworks present a warm, pleasing, well, organized family of forms.”
Roman Verostko , December 2017
JMM 2018, Exhibition Of Mathnematical Art, January 10-13, San Diego Convention Hall
Http://Gallery.Bridgesmathart.Org/Exhibitions/2018-Joint-Mathematics-Meetings/Clifford-Singer
“I Am Fascinated By Your Use Of Differential Geometry And Your Application Of A Mathematical Construction Of Planar Curves And Surface Of Classical Geometry And Graphing Them Linearly.
The Transformation From Math To Beautiful Artworks Of A Topological Landscape Is Truly Magical.” Irene Rousseau,© November 2017
Clifford Singer, Cut Space Series, © 2011,
Installation at Las Vegas studio
“As Models — These Paintings Represent A Space Time Continuum, The Singularity Of Beginning And End Points Are Of An Anomaly. In The Paintings I Suggest The Dynamics Of A Space That Continually Expands The Structural Space And Geometrical Fragmentation In Space-Time From A Big Bang. Line Segments In The Universe Are Interconnected, Even When They Appear To Be Separate From One Another. In Space-Time Curvature The Geometrical Strain Illustrates A Deformation Of Space. In The Art One Can Identify A Time Axis With Our World Line. So, Pursued Through Painting, Works Of Art Is A Structured Space Perceived In Space-Time Yields The Image.” Clifford Singer © 2011
Essay by Stanley Fogel, New York, 2011
Former Financial Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank
“Clifford Singer Specializes In Bringing The Insights Of Advanced Mathematics; Topology And Algebraic Geometry; Into Concrete Artistic Form. In His Latest Work “Cut Space Series # 76″ He Evokes The Form Of The Early Universe As It Explodes Outward In Its First Nanoseconds Of Existence. In This Exploding Infant Universe One Can Almost See The Trajectories Of Subatomic Particles That Are Brought Into Existence As The Symmetry Of Unity Is Broken Into The Four Fundamental Forces. And Yet, Even Then, One Can Envision The Newly Liberated Shards Of Matter Pulling Back On Each Other As Gravity Emerges From Its Primordial Quantum State.” Stanley Fogel © 2011
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Kenneth Snelson
Hi Cliff, Lots of beautiful work. Thanks for letting me know about the videos. Best, Ken
Clifford Singer:
The Master of Geometric Art
Concerning The Geometrical In Art
By Clifford Singer © 2002
It Is The Expanse Of Thought From Earlier Twentieth-Century Modern Art That Has Been In Part An Inspiration To My Recent Painting Entitled, The Blue Rider. There Is History Serving As A Discipline And The Elements That Shape The Boundaries Of Style, Vision, Repetition, Method, And Constraint In Art. This Is The Role Of Suggestibility For Our Perceptions. Expression Is Not Isolated, Limited, Or Confined To A Single Notion, Or Arbitrary Method. To Escape From The Perpetual Forces Of Society, Tradition, And Attitude Would Be To Escape History Itself. Wassily Kandinsky Anvd Franz Marc Who Formed The Blaue Reiter Group Brought The Spiritual And Mystical To Art As An Emphasis Towards A Pure Expression In Modern Painting. Blaue Reiter Having A Main Objective, The Future, Awakening The Realization And Understanding Of The Spiritual Essence Found In All Things. The Members Of The Group Had Held The Position That Colors And Particularly The Color Blue Has An Inward Spiritual Significance. A Process That Is Introspectively Palpable And Its Individuated, Continual, Motivated, Thematic, Imaginative Integration Of Geometrical Configuration With Color Serves As A Vehicle To This Discipline. The Color Blue Serves As A Signature For The Only Major Twentieth-Century Movement To Include A Color As Its Designated Center Of Thought. Color, A Sine Qua Non Of Art, Is The Most Difficult Component Of The Work To Capture. Blue As A Sine Qua Non Color Of Western Twentieth-Century Represents Tranquility And Truth. Platonically, The Color Blue And Geometry Are Equally Abstract To Each Other, Which Are Well Suited For My Visual Device. The Color Blue Itself Is Not Subordinate To Or Bounded By Lines, But Rather Takes On And Describes Its Own Clarity For Congruence. Black And White As Colors Set Extremes Of Color And Discussed By Ludwig Wittgenstein As Being Colors In Themselves Anchor And Balance The Pictorial Field.
Professor Joel Castellanos, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Director Of Noneuclid At Rice University, Has Stated, “I Am Especially Drawn To [Clifford Singer’s Painting Entitled] The Blue Rider. The Lines Move Me In And Around And Are Suggestive Of So Many Different Things And Actions, Yet Never Settle Anywhere.”
Clifford Singer, The Blue Rider © 2001, Acrylic On Plexiglas, 25 X 42 Inches
Clifford Singer, The Blue Rider © 2001, Acrylic On Plexiglas, 25 X 42 Inches
Concerning The Geometrical In Art
By Clifford Singer © 2002
It Is The Expanse Of Thought From Earlier Twentieth-Century Modern Art That Has Been In Part An Inspiration To My Recent Painting Entitled, The Blue Rider. There Is History Serving As A Discipline And The Elements That Shape The Boundaries Of Style, Vision, Repetition, Method, And Constraint In Art. This Is The Role Of Suggestibility For Our Perceptions. Expression Is Not Isolated, Limited, Or Confined To A Single Notion, Or Arbitrary Method. To Escape From The Perpetual Forces Of Society, Tradition, And Attitude Would Be To Escape History Itself. Wassily Kandinsky Anvd Franz Marc Who Formed The Blaue Reiter Group Brought The Spiritual And Mystical To Art As An Emphasis Towards A Pure Expression In Modern Painting. Blaue Reiter Having A Main Objective, The Future, Awakening The Realization And Understanding Of The Spiritual Essence Found In All Things. The Members Of The Group Had Held The Position That Colors And Particularly The Color Blue Has An Inward Spiritual Significance. A Process That Is Introspectively Palpable And Its Individuated, Continual, Motivated, Thematic, Imaginative Integration Of Geometrical Configuration With Color Serves As A Vehicle To This Discipline. The Color Blue Serves As A Signature For The Only Major Twentieth-Century Movement To Include A Color As Its Designated Center Of Thought. Color, A Sine Qua Non Of Art, Is The Most Difficult Component Of The Work To Capture. Blue As A Sine Qua Non Color Of Western Twentieth-Century Represents Tranquility And Truth. Platonically, The Color Blue And Geometry Are Equally Abstract To Each Other, Which Are Well Suited For My Visual Device. The Color Blue Itself Is Not Subordinate To Or Bounded By Lines, But Rather Takes On And Describes Its Own Clarity For Congruence. Black And White As Colors Set Extremes Of Color And Discussed By Ludwig Wittgenstein As Being Colors In Themselves Anchor And Balance The Pictorial Field.
Professor Joel Castellanos, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Director Of Noneuclid At Rice University, Has Stated, “I Am Especially Drawn To [Clifford Singer’s Painting Entitled] The Blue Rider. The Lines Move Me In And Around And Are Suggestive Of So Many Different Things And Actions, Yet Never Settle Anywhere.”
Clifford Singer, The Blue Rider © 2001, Acrylic On Plexiglas, 25 X 42 Inches
Clifford Singer, The Blue Rider © 2001, Acrylic On Plexiglas, 25 X 42 Inches
Concerning The Geometrical In Art
By Clifford Singer © 2002
It Is The Expanse Of Thought From Earlier Twentieth-Century Modern Art That Has Been In Part An Inspiration To My Recent Painting Entitled, The Blue Rider. There Is History Serving As A Discipline And The Elements That Shape The Boundaries Of Style, Vision, Repetition, Method, And Constraint In Art. This Is The Role Of Suggestibility For Our Perceptions. Expression Is Not Isolated, Limited, Or Confined To A Single Notion, Or Arbitrary Method. To Escape From The Perpetual Forces Of Society, Tradition, And Attitude Would Be To Escape History Itself. Wassily Kandinsky Anvd Franz Marc Who Formed The Blaue Reiter Group Brought The Spiritual And Mystical To Art As An Emphasis Towards A Pure Expression In Modern Painting. Blaue Reiter Having A Main Objective, The Future, Awakening The Realization And Understanding Of The Spiritual Essence Found In All Things. The Members Of The Group Had Held The Position That Colors And Particularly The Color Blue Has An Inward Spiritual Significance. A Process That Is Introspectively Palpable And Its Individuated, Continual, Motivated, Thematic, Imaginative Integration Of Geometrical Configuration With Color Serves As A Vehicle To This Discipline. The Color Blue Serves As A Signature For The Only Major Twentieth-Century Movement To Include A Color As Its Designated Center Of Thought. Color, A Sine Qua Non Of Art, Is The Most Difficult Component Of The Work To Capture. Blue As A Sine Qua Non Color Of Western Twentieth-Century Represents Tranquility And Truth. Platonically, The Color Blue And Geometry Are Equally Abstract To Each Other, Which Are Well Suited For My Visual Device. The Color Blue Itself Is Not Subordinate To Or Bounded By Lines, But Rather Takes On And Describes Its Own Clarity For Congruence. Black And White As Colors Set Extremes Of Color And Discussed By Ludwig Wittgenstein As Being Colors In Themselves Anchor And Balance The Pictorial Field.
Professor Joel Castellanos, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Director Of Noneuclid At Rice University, Has Stated, “I Am Especially Drawn To [Clifford Singer’s Painting Entitled] The Blue Rider. The Lines Move Me In And Around And Are Suggestive Of So Many Different Things And Actions, Yet Never Settle Anywhere.”
Clifford Singer, The Blue Rider © 2001, Acrylic On Plexiglas, 25 X 42 Inches
Clifford Singer, The Blue Rider © 2001, Acrylic On Plexiglas, 25 X 42 Inches
Clifford Singer:
The Master of Geometric Art
Concerning The Geometrical In Art
By Clifford Singer © 2002
It Is The Expanse Of Thought From Earlier Twentieth-Century Modern Art That Has Been In Part An Inspiration To My Recent Painting Entitled, The Blue Rider. There Is History Serving As A Discipline And The Elements That Shape The Boundaries Of Style, Vision, Repetition, Method, And Constraint In Art. This Is The Role Of Suggestibility For Our Perceptions. Expression Is Not Isolated, Limited, Or Confined To A Single Notion, Or Arbitrary Method. To Escape From The Perpetual Forces Of Society, Tradition, And Attitude Would Be To Escape History Itself. Wassily Kandinsky Anvd Franz Marc Who Formed The Blaue Reiter Group Brought The Spiritual And Mystical To Art As An Emphasis Towards A Pure Expression In Modern Painting. Blaue Reiter Having A Main Objective, The Future, Awakening The Realization And Understanding Of The Spiritual Essence Found In All Things. The Members Of The Group Had Held The Position That Colors And Particularly The Color Blue Has An Inward Spiritual Significance. A Process That Is Introspectively Palpable And Its Individuated, Continual, Motivated, Thematic, Imaginative Integration Of Geometrical Configuration With Color Serves As A Vehicle To This Discipline. The Color Blue Serves As A Signature For The Only Major Twentieth-Century Movement To Include A Color As Its Designated Center Of Thought. Color, A Sine Qua Non Of Art, Is The Most Difficult Component Of The Work To Capture. Blue As A Sine Qua Non Color Of Western Twentieth-Century Represents Tranquility And Truth. Platonically, The Color Blue And Geometry Are Equally Abstract To Each Other, Which Are Well Suited For My Visual Device. The Color Blue Itself Is Not Subordinate To Or Bounded By Lines, But Rather Takes On And Describes Its Own Clarity For Congruence. Black And White As Colors Set Extremes Of Color And Discussed By Ludwig Wittgenstein As Being Colors In Themselves Anchor And Balance The Pictorial Field.
Professor Joel Castellanos, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Director Of Noneuclid At Rice University, Has Stated, “I Am Especially Drawn To [Clifford Singer’s Painting Entitled] The Blue Rider. The Lines Move Me In And Around And Are Suggestive Of So Many Different Things And Actions, Yet Never Settle Anywhere.”
The Visual Field Is Scientifically Exact As Far As Measure, And As A Universal Platform For Individual Expression That Is Erected As A Whole And Complete Structure For This Creative Enterprise. As A Visual Mathematician I Recognize The Existence Of A Naïve Spirituality Applied Through Creative Process. Where The Process Begins And Ends Is Open For Much Discussion. Geometry Being Empirical Narrows The Framing Of The Image To An Immediate Experience To The Picture Plane. The Science Of Geometry And Its Modern Developments May Be One Of The Most Original Creations Derived From The Human Spirit.
The Language Of Geometry Is Abstract And Formal That I Have Re-Invented For My Artworks. It Has Been Widely Thought That The Certainty Of The Characteristics Of Number, And Structure In Mathematics Is Reason For The Certainty Of Our Geometrical Knowledge Of The Space Of The Physical Universe. The Question Of Geometry As Mathematical Object Remains A Major Concern. Demonstration Of Collinear Points Distinguishes The Visual Format And Formulation For The Basis Of The Work.
Is Geometrical Art An Applied Science? There Reigns A Certain Pre-Established Harmony In Geometry, What Is Required In One Line Of Thought Is Supplied In Another Line, So That There Appears To Be A Logical Necessity, Independent Of Our Individual Disposition. It Is Not In The Formalist’s Mode Of Thought To Deal Mainly With The Skilful Formal Treatment Of A Formal Question To Devise An Algorithm. But, It Is Rather For The Intuitionists Who Give Particular Emphasis And Stress On Geometrical Intuition In General And Not To Give A Complete Account Of A Specific Subject Area. An Additive Construction As A Supplement To A Range Of Mathematical Views That I Find Prevalent Through Geometrical Thinking As To Gain Insight Into The Shape Of Curves As Far As General Classification And An Enumeration Of All Fundamental Forms Are Concerned.
Professor Joel Castellanos, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Director Of Noneuclid At Rice University, Has Stated, “I Am Especially Drawn To [Clifford Singer’s Painting Entitled] The Blue Rider. The Lines Move Me In And Around And Are Suggestive Of So Many Different Things And Actions, Yet Never Settle Anywhere.”
Concerning The Geometrical In Art
By Clifford Singer © 2002
It Is The Expanse Of Thought From Earlier Twentieth-Century Modern Art That Has Been In Part An Inspiration To My Recent Painting Entitled, The Blue Rider. There Is History Serving As A Discipline And The Elements That Shape The Boundaries Of Style, Vision, Repetition, Method, And Constraint In Art. This Is The Role Of Suggestibility For Our Perceptions. Expression Is Not Isolated, Limited, Or Confined To A Single Notion, Or Arbitrary Method. To Escape From The Perpetual Forces Of Society, Tradition, And Attitude Would Be To Escape History Itself. Wassily Kandinsky Anvd Franz Marc Who Formed The Blaue Reiter Group Brought The Spiritual And Mystical To Art As An Emphasis Towards A Pure Expression In Modern Painting. Blaue Reiter Having A Main Objective, The Future, Awakening The Realization And Understanding Of The Spiritual Essence Found In All Things. The Members Of The Group Had Held The Position That Colors And Particularly The Color Blue Has An Inward Spiritual Significance. A Process That Is Introspectively Palpable And Its Individuated, Continual, Motivated, Thematic, Imaginative Integration Of Geometrical Configuration With Color Serves As A Vehicle To This Discipline. The Color Blue Serves As A Signature For The Only Major Twentieth-Century Movement To Include A Color As Its Designated Center Of Thought. Color, A Sine Qua Non Of Art, Is The Most Difficult Component Of The Work To Capture. Blue As A Sine Qua Non Color Of Western Twentieth-Century Represents Tranquility And Truth. Platonically, The Color Blue And Geometry Are Equally Abstract To Each Other, Which Are Well Suited For My Visual Device. The Color Blue Itself Is Not Subordinate To Or Bounded By Lines, But Rather Takes On And Describes Its Own Clarity For Congruence. Black And White As Colors Set Extremes Of Color And Discussed By Ludwig Wittgenstein As Being Colors In Themselves Anchor And Balance The Pictorial Field.
Professor Joel Castellanos, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Director Of Noneuclid At Rice University, Has Stated, “I Am Especially Drawn To [Clifford Singer’s Painting Entitled] The Blue Rider. The Lines Move Me In And Around And Are Suggestive Of So Many Different Things And Actions, Yet Never Settle Anywhere.”
The Visual Field Is Scientifically Exact As Far As Measure, And As A Universal Platform For Individual Expression That Is Erected As A Whole And Complete Structure For This Creative Enterprise. As A Visual Mathematician I Recognize The Existence Of A Naïve Spirituality Applied Through Creative Process. Where The Process Begins And Ends Is Open For Much Discussion. Geometry Being Empirical Narrows The Framing Of The Image To An Immediate Experience To The Picture Plane. The Science Of Geometry And Its Modern Developments May Be One Of The Most Original Creations Derived From The Human Spirit.
The Language Of Geometry Is Abstract And Formal That I Have Re-Invented For My Artworks. It Has Been Widely Thought That The Certainty Of The Characteristics Of Number, And Structure In Mathematics Is Reason For The Certainty Of Our Geometrical Knowledge Of The Space Of The Physical Universe. The Question Of Geometry As Mathematical Object Remains A Major Concern. Demonstration Of Collinear Points Distinguishes The Visual Format And Formulation For The Basis Of The Work.
Is Geometrical Art An Applied Science? There Reigns A Certain Pre-Established Harmony In Geometry, What Is Required In One Line Of Thought Is Supplied In Another Line, So That There Appears To Be A Logical Necessity, Independent Of Our Individual Disposition. It Is Not In The Formalist’s Mode Of Thought To Deal Mainly With The Skilful Formal Treatment Of A Formal Question To Devise An Algorithm. But, It Is Rather For The Intuitionists Who Give Particular Emphasis And Stress On Geometrical Intuition In General And Not To Give A Complete Account Of A Specific Subject Area. An Additive Construction As A Supplement To A Range Of Mathematical Views That I Find Prevalent Through Geometrical Thinking As To Gain Insight Into The Shape Of Curves As Far As General Classification And An Enumeration Of All Fundamental Forms Are Concerned.
Professor Joel Castellanos, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Director Of Noneuclid At Rice University, Has Stated, “I Am Especially Drawn To [Clifford Singer’s Painting Entitled] The Blue Rider. The Lines Move Me In And Around And Are Suggestive Of So Many Different Things And Actions, Yet Never Settle Anywhere.”
Concerning The Geometrical In Art
By Clifford Singer © 2002
It Is The Expanse Of Thought From Earlier Twentieth-Century Modern Art That Has Been In Part An Inspiration To My Recent Painting Entitled, The Blue Rider. There Is History Serving As A Discipline And The Elements That Shape The Boundaries Of Style, Vision, Repetition, Method, And Constraint In Art. This Is The Role Of Suggestibility For Our Perceptions. Expression Is Not Isolated, Limited, Or Confined To A Single Notion, Or Arbitrary Method. To Escape From The Perpetual Forces Of Society, Tradition, And Attitude Would Be To Escape History Itself. Wassily Kandinsky Anvd Franz Marc Who Formed The Blaue Reiter Group Brought The Spiritual And Mystical To Art As An Emphasis Towards A Pure Expression In Modern Painting. Blaue Reiter Having A Main Objective, The Future, Awakening The Realization And Understanding Of The Spiritual Essence Found In All Things. The Members Of The Group Had Held The Position That Colors And Particularly The Color Blue Has An Inward Spiritual Significance. A Process That Is Introspectively Palpable And Its Individuated, Continual, Motivated, Thematic, Imaginative Integration Of Geometrical Configuration With Color Serves As A Vehicle To This Discipline. The Color Blue Serves As A Signature For The Only Major Twentieth-Century Movement To Include A Color As Its Designated Center Of Thought. Color, A Sine Qua Non Of Art, Is The Most Difficult Component Of The Work To Capture. Blue As A Sine Qua Non Color Of Western Twentieth-Century Represents Tranquility And Truth. Platonically, The Color Blue And Geometry Are Equally Abstract To Each Other, Which Are Well Suited For My Visual Device. The Color Blue Itself Is Not Subordinate To Or Bounded By Lines, But Rather Takes On And Describes Its Own Clarity For Congruence. Black And White As Colors Set Extremes Of Color And Discussed By Ludwig Wittgenstein As Being Colors In Themselves Anchor And Balance The Pictorial Field.
Professor Joel Castellanos, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Director Of Noneuclid At Rice University, Has Stated, “I Am Especially Drawn To [Clifford Singer’s Painting Entitled] The Blue Rider. The Lines Move Me In And Around And Are Suggestive Of So Many Different Things And Actions, Yet Never Settle Anywhere.”
The Visual Field Is Scientifically Exact As Far As Measure, And As A Universal Platform For Individual Expression That Is Erected As A Whole And Complete Structure For This Creative Enterprise. As A Visual Mathematician I Recognize The Existence Of A Naïve Spirituality Applied Through Creative Process. Where The Process Begins And Ends Is Open For Much Discussion. Geometry Being Empirical Narrows The Framing Of The Image To An Immediate Experience To The Picture Plane. The Science Of Geometry And Its Modern Developments May Be One Of The Most Original Creations Derived From The Human Spirit.
The Language Of Geometry Is Abstract And Formal That I Have Re-Invented For My Artworks. It Has Been Widely Thought That The Certainty Of The Characteristics Of Number, And Structure In Mathematics Is Reason For The Certainty Of Our Geometrical Knowledge Of The Space Of The Physical Universe. The Question Of Geometry As Mathematical Object Remains A Major Concern. Demonstration Of Collinear Points Distinguishes The Visual Format And Formulation For The Basis Of The Work.
Is Geometrical Art An Applied Science? There Reigns A Certain Pre-Established Harmony In Geometry, What Is Required In One Line Of Thought Is Supplied In Another Line, So That There Appears To Be A Logical Necessity, Independent Of Our Individual Disposition. It Is Not In The Formalist’s Mode Of Thought To Deal Mainly With The Skilful Formal Treatment Of A Formal Question To Devise An Algorithm. But, It Is Rather For The Intuitionists Who Give Particular Emphasis And Stress On Geometrical Intuition In General And Not To Give A Complete Account Of A Specific Subject Area. An Additive Construction As A Supplement To A Range Of Mathematical Views That I Find Prevalent Through Geometrical Thinking As To Gain Insight Into The Shape Of Curves As Far As General Classification And An Enumeration Of All Fundamental Forms Are Concerned.
Professor Joel Castellanos, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Director Of Noneuclid At Rice University, Has Stated, “I Am Especially Drawn To [Clifford Singer’s Painting Entitled] The Blue Rider. The Lines Move Me In And Around And Are Suggestive Of So Many Different Things And Actions, Yet Never Settle Anywhere.”
