Artist Blog Post #2

Tony Robbin

     Tony Robbin is an American artist born in Washington Dc who specializes in sculpture, paintings and Computer visualization. Tony is considered to be part of the Pattern and Decoration art movement. Tony's first art exhibition was in 1974 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and since then has been in over 25 solo exhibitions and over 100 group exhibitions in 12 countries. One interesting fact about Tony Robbin is that he was granted a patent for the application of Quasicrystal geometry to architecture. Tony has also authored several books about architecture and the 4th dimension in his art. Tony Robbin is mainly known for being a pioneer in the computer visualization of four-dimension geometry. His realtime rotation program for 4 dimensional figures has been widely used for getting an intuitive look at 4 dimensional space.

     The first thing that drew my attention to Tony Robbin's work was the fact that there is so much going on in his images. For example, in the piece above the image just has so many layers, lines, and figures your eyes are continually scanning across the image while finding new and interesting details. Upon further researching Tony Robbins i found out that the reason he is well known is because of this sense of depth and a visualization of a 4th-demention. When i look at his work i see a vast assertion of different shapes and intermingled through a random yet some how still uniformed design. When also looking at how he layers his work its almost as though he is showing that things may appear one way but inside could take on a whole new shape or character. Also it also gives off a sense that even though there are many different shapes and objects, they are still connected one way or another. 

     When looking at Tony Robbin's work its hard to determine what was his thought process or reasoning for what he had created. The whole basis and ideology of his work is so abstract that it is hard to get a general idea for what is going on. The upside to this however is in the fact that since it's so abstract that it leaves a huge window open for anyone to create their own scenarios and stories in their head. In addition, looking at the shapes and lines such as in the pictures above one can create their own symbolism. The one thing i would change if i was Robbins would be to try and create more uniformed use of his shapes and edges in order to create an image that can be seen in a more uniformed way as opposed to seeming as through shapes and lines are just thrown into an image.