The Pixel as Suprematist/Minimalist Art
During the early-mid 2000s, Chambers began to look at the pixel within the context of Suprematist / Minimalist art. He equated the pixel with the works of non-objective artists like Vasily Kandinsky , Barnett Newman , Mark Rothko , Ad Reinhardt , Kazimir Malevich , Piet Mondrian and others. They generated works to establish an abstract visual language of the sublime, pure color, geometric form, deep contemplation and metaphysical pursuit of the truth. http://tomrchambers.com/pixel_sup_min_art.html The pixels or "Pixelscapes" - as he calls them - conform with many of these non-objective artists' works. They are a revelation for him when compared to these non-objective works generated many years before the pixel and Digital Revolution. It seems that he has managed to do what Kazimir Malevich and other Suprematists (Minimalists) have done through the simple process of magnification and isolation of the pixel(s). JD Jarvis, Art Critic/Artist and coauthor of G