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The horizon, the hills and valleys, the flow of water, the shape of rocks, plants and animals, and the human figure are composed of curves. Nature is curved with few exceptions. The straight lined, angular, man-made world sharply contrasts with the natural world.
Curvism seeks to move out of the square, rectangular, cubed world and into the sphere of the curved line, the circle and the ellipse.
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On Metamodernism and Curvism
Curvism is the word I have been using for over forty years to describe an art concept that takes us into a more hopeful future. Like metamodernism, Curvism is a reaction to both modernism and postmodernism. Curvism, however, goes further back to include an understanding of premodern times, not fully accounted for by metamodernism.
Cubism to Curvism
Landscapes (Wood)
Curvism: The Curved Worldview
The art and philosophy of Curvism creates a conceptual framework and model to identify and explain the problems of world history and what seems to be missing. Curvism points the direction for moving forward into a more hopeful future.
Alaska Drawings 2016
Shadow Selfies 2005-2015
A Show of Art
I make art for the fun of it not for the funds from it. I make art to change my world. I’ve given up on the idea of making a living from my art. I still however hold on to the wish to change the world with my art.
Curvism: Beyond Postmodernism
Postmodernism killed and replaced Modernism in the mid-1960s. Postmodernism has been dying since the turn of the century. What comes next? What best describes the changes that are taking place in art and culture?
Drawings 2010-2012
Winter 2011
I am an artist. There are many other things that I am but my main source of adult identity has come from being an artist. But what is an artist and who determines who is an artist?
Mixed Media 2010
Biography
I was born in 1954 during the great American baby boom. I grew up in Blue Earth, Minnesota, on the gently rolling plains in the south central part of the state. I was deeply affected by the vast expanse of ever changing earth and sky.