Links to Michael Demers work:
http://archive.rhizome.org/
http://archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/html_color_codes/
http://michaeldemers.com/colorFieldPaintings_browser/where.htm
Link to original artwork:
http://morrislouis.org/paintings/large/du287
After looking through the rhizome archive or internet-based artwork, I stumbled upon Michael Demers’ website and web art. I found his artwork particularly interesting as it is very simple and visually pleasing. His aesthetic focuses on opening new browsers, each one after the other to create a series of colors that flow together and then disappear after 10 seconds time. I also really enjoyed his artwork as he based it off of Morris Louis’ “Where” painting but created a new style of showing the art. As Demers focused on showing the color schemes of the painting through HTML, CSS and Javascript, I found this very enjoyable and original in re-inventing the original work. The artwork itself inspired me to think of how this style of using HTML, CSS and Javascript can be used as a foreground for other, more in-depth works of web art to convey a deeper message or re-interpret another work of art using the internet.
I really like Michael Demers’ art specifically as it is not too complicated and remains very simplistic. This style of art is almost like modern art in the sense that it can be interpreted in many different ways, despite mimicking Morris Louis’ original work. Although Demers’ work is noticeably similar to Louis’ original art, I thought the way he showed the art without any physical painting was very clever and original. I feel that this situation has inspired me to also think of how I can re-interpret paintings without the need for physical drawing.
Michael Demers website and “Where” Interpretation:
Original Artwork by Morris Louis:
