Anthony Poon and Me, and maybe Piet Mondrian

Top: Aqueous Waves, 1987 by Anthony Poon

Bottom: Number 8, 1949 by ME

Yes I love my works and I take pride in them. Hence this blog on me and my works. By me. ME.

 I have the very fortunate opportunity to take a look into the future again and I found this very intriguing artist in Asia by the name of Anthony Poon. He reminds me quite strongly of my close friend back at home, Piet Mondrian.

In this painting that I took as an example of his, I see once again the disciplined straight and calculated composition. Except this time, it is even more pronounced than in Piet’s works. The clean and rigid lines of his waves contained within square-like areas look a lot like sine and cosine graphs actually. The controlled and carefully constructed curves are so rigid, making the painting lack emotional and personal input. This irks me so much. >(

I used my ‘Number 8’ as an example to show how different our styles are. In ‘Number 8’, there are lots of curves made distinct by black paint splattered on a light colored background. This would become my basis of comparison, as the curves in my painting are almost the exact opposite of the controlled waves in Poon’s painting. They are almost random and placed haphazardly on the canvas due to the nature of my painting process. They are unrestricted and free in a sense that the splashes are allowed to go where they wanted after leaving my brush, as compared to the controlled way paint is used in Poon’s work.

While Poon may have put an emphasis on the calm, tranquil effect his sleek waves have evoked, I put emphasis in the chaotic, free and provocative effect my work evokes in my viewers’ eye. Our work are polar opposites that are only united under the common title of ART. Freedom rules.