Baron Yunus granted us a friendship on Facebook, years before, but circumstances of great tribulation, held me like Gandalf from meeting kings. Here’s the brief Facebook review I did for this piece, engendering its selection as the article photo. It’s what got me. I said:
Now I remember why I thought you deserved art review! Will get to you Yunus Yunus Yunus! Start here. This one has the ‘bleed off’ coloration technique you’ve furthered. It is absolutly thought provoking. Also I love these stylized anatomical features, the long thin forelegs of Chinese iconography, these are all gorgeous and we will return to give them full attention. Thanks for being an artist!
I’m reminded of the line from Dune’s second attempted adaptation. Leto says, “My skin is not my own”, all background washes are not created equal! Here Baron Mohammed follows the unwavering cartoon-like outlines, unaltering in thickness, boldly defying that rule! But note it is not art lines atop wash, the wash is the loosest of parcel of the lines, speaking for the whole, adding. That equates to no wash background at all, it would be far too intentional.
It was so hard to pair Le Baron with a great art mind of our past. I chose in the end Winslow Homer! The Prince with his airy color and pictured emotion (quite the trick, in any era) seems entirely perfect in the following selection.
Blotches of explosive oranges reds and yellows stand well for a wild seeded garden at the lakeside cabin, its walls are warm and inviting you to come inside, talk. Well…perhaps not in the current world. Watercolor presents certain opaque challenges, for in general, transparency is its trade. Brightest colors are possible as we are seeing pure white canvas behind a very smooth (possible) wash. This means one very homogeneous yet mature section whose spectrum is automatically raised to white in a chromatic sense. Usually adding more color makes mud, as discussed with acrylics. More is not always desirable in these light infused washes of mono-color. The sun just strikes the plain yellow slat lakehouse in morning, and suddenly it is full of words. It is full of life and welcome to whomever looks upon it. This may not be true, but we enjoy the Homer myth of color. Prince Winslow is able to tackle the other catch to all this toolbox freedom. Bleed of the ink is to be learned, accommodated. Bleed would be the enemy of every student Watercolorist. To have harnessed the beast, well…
Here’s another ‘bleed here bleed stopped there’ from the Master.
These glimpses by no means exhaust the literate criticism of Homer, this would enter into another freedom he maintained of the more spectral uses of the oils box. But here, shall be seen watercolor only. This is some of that green from your memory.
We will return to the mist in your eyes of Prince Winslow Homer. I’ve decided to ignore the normal order of this column and roll out technique driven selections as we seek to peer inside the heart of the artwork by Baron Mohammed Yunus. It took a minute to select this next, over the order seen on his page.
Hardly can I, in my long life’s classical art training, art history, think of another such important example of background wash that is much more than background. Also the outline of the village has the bleeding effect defining plain walls, neon reflecting at night. We should ask Le Baron!
King Elia:
Baron Yunnus, is this a painting of reflected neon lights in a puddle, a village at night?
Mohammed, at first appeared too busy to message me back. His write up says night time, and I decided to release the show so other artists can see him and not just my news team. A few days later he did reply on Messager, he said the following:
“You are great view,s and art’ critics, I not think anyone can be written article and art’ art review on my paintings .. night and Street lights one of abstract vision .. unknown vision or as a dream only … And nothing . Lot of thanks about articles.let me know Please which place and magazines too which country . Welcome .🚴🎶👍🌺🌧️😃🌱🍓💙”
He is now night on wings, enjoy y’all!
I continued to flow in the order he posted them so these delicate stem themes are his very latest offerings. Since the artist offered his friendship during our first communication about doing his show, wouldn’t you think so? Anyway the art world can be joyous over Baron Mohammed right now!
We are told to embrace the bleeding phenomenon, so see inside the red, an aura. If you were this writer, you would ask if acrylic presented the “mud” problem when used in wash. Sister Maria had me try a few things. Of course it is a soluable wash until it dries, and is a permanent wash.
Again, I say the academy views it new territory (Acrylic wash) Baron Emil teaches us that anything can be pigment/base/art. But I prefer that which seems to sing down the halls of color and line. That rhetorical construct I just hit you with is the best brief description ever of what we have discussed much, the Classical Pipeline, and that of art, like Impressionism, is firmly gilded in Paris. Moving on through the wall of Le Baron, let’s go deeper!
Here, Le Baron hath taken on more tools for his materia! (Vague Final Fantasy reference). This time it’s of his lines which we shall ask, if he shall tell. It looks like tech pen, he surely can get various amounts onto the board/paper like that. Listen, this Emag can ask them dear reader, they do not have to answer. It’s still happy art viewing with thoughts by your humble art guy. Let’s dig this one some more! I’m seeing streetlights light as bleed, that’s anti-inky, I’m seeing the singers mic as a light for her to hold, but also that shines on us, the audience.
I’m very sure just looking at them, that he never set black ever as the bleed du jure. It was the bleed. I say due to the dark red aura caused in the earlier ‘stem and leaf’ mini-series. Almost the ink above, hilining throughout the piece is the antithesis of bleed, though drainers like ink and blood, pool and run leaving very distinct outlines, ‘anti-bleed’. I say all this to say Noble Yunnus is well aware of the bleed of watercolor, and just where and when he wants some! It’s amazing!
Color and Colorism have a vector, a kind of flow from cool to hot or ultraviolet to infrared. The artist combines the goal of the two the ink and the hue. Pen and ink are older even than 5000 year old Japanese Tapestry. Their delicate stems were more real somehow than all the flourished roses of romanticism.
We have learned that anatomy can be ignored and rules can be broken, but in a critical sense they cannot be in the prima fascia, first the tool box of anatomy and thin lines, that of perspective and balance, must be mastered. The use of elegant and complex even difficult to reproduce art techniques, comes usually after academy. The anatomy of a great orchid or very stylized melon flower (even as we encouraged Baroness Patricia), This orang though, ist only to be found in the Baron’s jardin! We shall see more colors like royal pennants.
Returning to the former wash and discreet master, Winslow Homer.
I return here, to the wan palette, narrow as any, broader than most attempted. The morning beach, far from trees far accross, where another lake house is full spectrum, but as tiny specs of bright color in the mist. Her flesh communicates every bit of diurnal sun she endures. Challenges of a watercolorist conquered, partially, and for the true art genius, this appetite is seldom satiated. He seemed so comfortably factual about the toolbox of watercolor. We have other watercolorists in the box of articles to come, well worth your purchase of a key, all of our articles, to be a bit arrogant. Here’s a last glimpse at a new master watercolorist! Notice the thinness and length of th iui s view of the lake.
Let’s look at six more in the latest available, in the bleeding motif discussed:
Even as we speak it here, the Baron delves deeper into the aura that is on all our eye when misty. I never noticed how often our eye sees this aura. We are more focus/distance bound than optical cameras. The statement, ‘let your eyes go out of focus’ says much.
I have an interest to know my chosen artists can see the world clearly, politically. I worry over new artists being so conditioned they are shocked and repulsed by my unconditional activism. Often I am surprised by their courage. Here is indigenous Africa, why would that be a taboo. There are whole cultures I’m not qualified to unpack, or understand how their culture considers, or how beauty is considered from various cultures. On our political plate at DIY is indigenous Africa, and a kind of universal ire for the very old continent.
Eventually any critic of Yunnus must understand this vision of the Earth and its living spirit. For instance I might ask you, what is the relationship between the planet and the living things upon it?
Here, the Baron seeks the rare exploration into abstraction of portraiture. Though the figures as sticks of ink have attitude in its academic definition, at last there is abstract expression. It’s modern, and we don’t know the provenance of his mind, only its colorful destination above, like letting your iris be hypnotized by the neon. I believe neon is how I described his palette at the time. This one brings it all back!
A delicate stem crosses your eye through an endless broad sky, nature seems to glow. You see it when dew clings to fragile webs strung between tiny stems. Very effective trigger of human emotions, the tree stem, newly budding, out the window, looking at spring buds at their tips, as rain casts mist everywhere you look, color-mist.
Again we look at the concept of the curve of the Earth. Whether it’s a port village like the home of Baron Ed Parmiter or a pulled back view canvas of his corner of Paris of Baron Nick Ghafari, something about the great vista from atop a nearby height, looking at the whole instead of being swallowed by the giant, insignificant.
I am wondering if these stenciled looking starkly edged forests and people paintings are a kind of call to see the global south, but probably we are just seeing the artistry of subject choice.
And this would be another with a wonderful afrocentric feel to further my earlier theory of the artists indigenous muse.
Where he comes from, the idea of Angel’s or avatars is so strong. Avatars descend to help the humans. Artists are the prophets of these divine events, but we can be satisfied with the toolbox artifacts of balanced content, line convergence, and color in a narrow laser of a palette. Below a dignitary from our new Earthly guests, in solidarity colour.
How wunderbar orang et gruen! King Elia would shout it! Let us depart from the wonderful realm of watercolor for colorist adventure later, elsewhere!
It can (the tool of watercolor in the hands of Homer) fade the distances to a single inch of mastery over what the ink will do in a very particular situation.
Or define it to definition before a glowing sky behind the treeline! A total control of media, impossible for others, like a Watercolor King. How will you assay the tool?
And a last view, wherein he combines the two. He’s as complete as Rembrandt using what is the most ephemeral media, as in the one above!
And lastly, let us close in appreciation, for recently, he gave this rather oddly relevant self portrait! After all, who are we?Answer painter, and the people say…long may you paint! Absolutly fabulous. Please shop these artists, we will put you in touch! When I saw this “painter” on Facebook, I told him: You are the bleed and the bleed is you.
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