Robert Flinkman
Robert Flinkman
Quartet : 4 Aspects of Myself
lino block print on paper
each block 7" X 5"
1999
copyright 1999 Robert Flinkman
June 27th, 1999 Sunday
.......I'm almost done with my lino block series - 4 7" X 5" lino blocks entitled, Quartet : 4 Aspects of Myself. I've finished the first three movements, and I'll soon begin the last, a self-portrait.
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Robert Flinkman
Jemez Landscape
oil pastel on paper
24" X 18"
2000
copyright 2000 Robert Flinkman
August 27, 2000 Sunday
I headed up to the Jemez today as I did yesterday to work on the oil pastel. I'm doing an arroyo I explored recently. The oil pastel is coming along nicely, I'm pleased with the results.....I'm pleased to see I'm working more abstractly now, working with the color concepts and abstracted forms of what I'm seeing. I love that far left area of this oil pastel, the area with the long red vertical line which encompasses the upper pink area on the top, down past the the orange, purple and blue areas, down to where the red and dark blue meet to create square lines ending with the small red circle at the bottom. That whole area was done in one moment. In some ways these two oil pastels done in the Jemez remind me of Beethoven's late string quartets - working with strong abstract concepts, harmony and balance in tones and colors. Great work here!