Category: Monochromatic

This section showcases monochromatic paintings and drawings. Since the purpose of this website is to archive Amy Ione’s work from the 1970s to the present, both successful and less successful work is displayed. For more information about any of the works, click on the caption below the painting or send an email.

Kandinsky’s Brain: A Monochromatic Improvisation of Yellow-Red-Blue

Monochromatic monoprint by Amy Ione
Kandinsky’s Brain

Monoprint on archival paper.

This monoprint is based on Kandinsky’s Yellow-Red-Blue (1925), now in Paris, at the Centre Georges Pompidou. Unlike the monoprint, Kandinsky’s painting’s geometry, color, flow, and abstract shapes are evocative of grapheme-color synesthesia. Indeed, it seems to suggest a person experiencing vivid ‘synesthetic’ imagery.

 

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Alchemical Rendering #1 (1981)

Ink Painting
Alchemical Rendering, 1981

Alchemical Rending is an evocative composition that explores the intersection of geometry, symbolism, and perceptual inquiry through a tightly composed and meticulously executed ink drawing. The work features a central circular form layered with radial lines, checkerboard textures, and a pyramid-like structure, surrounded by concentric ellipses and rectilinear segments. This central motif is reminiscent of an alchemical diagram, thus the name. Here the central form serves to anchor the composition in a space where perception, pattern, and meaning interlace. Continue reading “Alchemical Rendering #1 (1981)”

Early Black-and-White Process: Ink on Paper

Libra, Unfinished #1 (1984) on paper with black ink.
Libra, Unfinished #1 (1984)

The early sketches for Libra on this page demonstrate how some of my early black-and-white pieces were developed and how I used Koh-i-noor technical pens in sketching them out. These Koh-i-Nor technical pens produce lines in a range of line widths, as shown in the chart that accompanies this entry. They helped guide the perceptual visualization process that aimed to portray a musical dynamic.

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