My name is Alex Smusiak. I am a 34 year old artist and family man, living in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

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Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944, Russian)

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

T.S Eliot

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519, Italian)

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

Pablo Picasso

Another fresh coat of paint.

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I have revamped my site here on Tumblr, I have big plans for it, check back later.

It’s not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It’s more like you blurt something out and then analyse it.

Robert Motherwell

i12bent:

Great American Modernist artist, Marsden Hartley was born Jan. 4, 1877 (d. 1943)
Marsden Hartley: Berlin Abstraction, 1914–1915 - Oil on canvas (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

i12bent:

Great American Modernist artist, Marsden Hartley was born Jan. 4, 1877 (d. 1943)

Marsden Hartley: Berlin Abstraction, 1914–1915 - Oil on canvas (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

(via artistjournals)

midcenturia:

Viking tapestry, Inger Sarin, 1959. via Bukowskis

midcenturia:

Viking tapestry, Inger Sarin, 1959. via Bukowskis

(via artreats)

justanothermasterpiece:

Robert Motherwell. 

A very strong piece, masterful use of negative space.

justanothermasterpiece:

Robert Motherwell.

A very strong piece, masterful use of negative space.