05-01-2011, 12:00 AM
This friend was actually the sister of old bf, and she attended and taught at the Chicago Institute of Art, so she knew about more obscure art movements that mainstream does not document, and she gave me that name for the art movement but I'm not sure how its spelled. The closest I found to it is here:
Since the late 18th century, silhouette artists have also made small
scenes cut from card and mounted on a contrasting background like the
portraits. These pictures, known as "paper cuts", were often, but not
necessarily, silhouette images.[13]
So 'Chimasery' as I understood it explained to me is taking silhouette art and making the objects float in space and then adding a background. Such as my artists friend did, she would have a picture of say two English women having tea, and there are chairs and a table and then a tuft of land the table and chairs are resting on but they are then floating in space and behind them she'd put tissue paper and it was real colorful, rainbow colors. She could have painted the background too, but at the time she was pasting on the tissue paper and then painting in black ink the foreground figures in silhouette. It really fascinated me to view this. Not at first when she showed me it, but later. She let me have on of her artworks as a gift, and let me choose which one, I choose an 18th century English guy holding an umbrella walking up an incline on a land patch with some trees and shrubs growing on it, it floated in space and behind was a striped tissue paper pattern, I don't know why I chose that one, but I still have it and its in storage in the states, wish I had a picture of it though. The closest thus far I can find that reminds me of it is this by artist Jan Pienkowski who is a modern artist:
This is not like my friend's becasue my friends had figures floating, so that made it more surreal. I'm pretty sure she moved on to other styles after experimenting with that one, but for me, that stayed with me and its what I want to explore doing. I felt she did not exhaust the possibilities with it, but I liked very much where she was headed with it, the floating and expansive space for me evokes infinity, which is what I like about it, the dreamlike quality. Again, wish I had a better example.
Since the late 18th century, silhouette artists have also made small
scenes cut from card and mounted on a contrasting background like the
portraits. These pictures, known as "paper cuts", were often, but not
necessarily, silhouette images.[13]
So 'Chimasery' as I understood it explained to me is taking silhouette art and making the objects float in space and then adding a background. Such as my artists friend did, she would have a picture of say two English women having tea, and there are chairs and a table and then a tuft of land the table and chairs are resting on but they are then floating in space and behind them she'd put tissue paper and it was real colorful, rainbow colors. She could have painted the background too, but at the time she was pasting on the tissue paper and then painting in black ink the foreground figures in silhouette. It really fascinated me to view this. Not at first when she showed me it, but later. She let me have on of her artworks as a gift, and let me choose which one, I choose an 18th century English guy holding an umbrella walking up an incline on a land patch with some trees and shrubs growing on it, it floated in space and behind was a striped tissue paper pattern, I don't know why I chose that one, but I still have it and its in storage in the states, wish I had a picture of it though. The closest thus far I can find that reminds me of it is this by artist Jan Pienkowski who is a modern artist:
This is not like my friend's becasue my friends had figures floating, so that made it more surreal. I'm pretty sure she moved on to other styles after experimenting with that one, but for me, that stayed with me and its what I want to explore doing. I felt she did not exhaust the possibilities with it, but I liked very much where she was headed with it, the floating and expansive space for me evokes infinity, which is what I like about it, the dreamlike quality. Again, wish I had a better example.