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  copyright ã 2005 Howard R. Barnhart.   All rights reserved.
Composition 2005n04a: Construction 7
acrylic and ground wood on PVC panels     32 x 48 x 4 in. (81 x 122 x 10 cm.)

 

Non-representational artist Howard R. Barnhart unites colorist and Constructivist methods, creating abstract geometric art in several media including digital animations, digital prints and relief constructions.  

 


 copyright ã 2005 Howard R. Barnhart
All rights reserved.
Composition 2005n02a   (construction 2)
acrylic on panels and wood
44 x 26 x 3 in. (112 x 66 x 8cm cm.)


  Copyright ã 2003 Howard R. Barnhart. All rights reserved
Composition 2003n01a
multimedia array (left to right):
construction 1, digital animation (DVD), digital print-set
Studio Gallery, Tenants Harbor, Maine, USA

 

 

 

 
 copyright ã 2005 Howard R. Barnhart.   All rights reserved.
Composition 2005n01a (1985n09b)   (first construction)
acrylic on panels and wood      25 x 44 in. (64 x 112 cm.)

 

 

Nonrepresentational art, also called, non-objective or non-figurative art, is a term used to catagorize various types of abstract art, which neither depict recognizable objects nor refer to identifiable subjects. Movements which have practiced this kind art include Suprematism, Orphism (Synchromism), Constructivism, de Stijl (Neoplasticism), Concrete Art, Bauhaus and Postpainterly Abstraction (Minimalism, Colorfield Painting, Hard-Edge Abstraction, Chromatic Abstraction). Such art focuses solely on relationships between visual elements.

 

   
"Howard R. Barnhart calls his energetic relief constructions 'compositions,' and of all the compositions that come to mind, musical composition is the one most suggested...a marriage of Mondrian and Mozart.  It's the duet of art and life."


panoramic photo, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:  "ORDER(ed)", left to right, works by Burton Kramer, Julie Karabenick, Howard R. Barnhart, Alex Queral, Mark Brown


composite panoramic photos, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:  "ORDER(ed)", left to right, works by Cheryl Goldsleger, Grace DeGennaro, Julie Gross, Marjorie Mikasen, W. C. Richardson, Laurie Fendrich, Joanne Mattera, Tremain Smith


 

    
copyright ã 2005 Howard R. Barnhart.   All rights reserved.
Exhibition,  "Visual Harmonics: Texture and Rhythm in Color"
Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA, USA,  June 2005

 

 

"Howard R. Barnhart’s work is a relief, the shapes cut-out and layered. However, it is the chromatic contrast and interaction that interests him most, the weight and measure of one color against the other that determines the shapes and structural integrity of the construction. Barnhart's "Composition" a joyously colored, interlocked puzzle of pastels, recalls a sculpture as much as a painting..."

 

 

 
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