Video: Paintings on spheres by Dick Termes
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In Dik Termes's world, almost everything is spherical - the sun shining through the morning haze, the tennis ball he exercises with before breakfast, and the four geodesic domes in which he lives and works. And most importantly - his paintings. Written on spheres, of course.
For more than thirty years, Dick has avoided traditional flat canvases, creating his paintings on polycarbonate balls, which the artist, playing with his name, calls "Termespheres". The idea came to him in the late 60s, when he was getting his master's degree at the University of Wyoming, and since then painting of spheres became Termes's passion for many years. Since then, the artist has created more than 200 works, and about a third of them to order, his "paintings" have been shown around the world - from Alaska to Japan.
The artist's works were created under the influence of Escher's work and also contain an optical illusion. Each painted ball is a closed world, and when you look at it - being, naturally, outside - you get the feeling that you yourself are inside the sphere. Thermospheres are usually suspended and equipped with electric motors, rotating in front of the spectators' eyes.
At the university, having painted the first ball, Dick was sure that this had already been done before him, "it's so obvious." However, it turned out that he was the first. “Having tried this method of painting, you will never return to flat surfaces,” the artist assures.
“The most important thing in art is to do something original,” says Dick Termes. - Over the thousands of years of human existence, a huge number of paintings have been created, most of them on flat surfaces. A sphere is much more suitable for depicting the real world than a plane, because we live in three-dimensional space."
The artist explains that he chose the sphere for his work, since he needed an endless canvas to realize endless ideas that would spread in the west, east, south, north, as well as up and down. It takes about two months to create one drawing, and once the artist spent nine months on painting the ball!
You can see more of the author's works on the website, and the video allows you to more clearly demonstrate the capabilities of Termespheres.
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