GUERRE I Painting

To the lay person, what does Writism stand for? The problem with abstract art is well, that is abstract. Which basically means that to most people it means basically nothing? The language of contemporary art is simply the language of contemporary society. Writism's premise is art that speaks the language of common men. And, what language better than language itself -- the written word. Words are so integral to modern life that nothing from mathematical formulas to movie scripts can be expressed without them. Writism (derived from the word "˜write') introduces the written word to painting. Some 60 yrs ago when sound was introduced to silent movies, movies changed forever. Simply because movies with words (dialogues, speech....) could express much more than silent movies. And perhaps, with Writism's introduction of the written word to painting, paintings will change for ever E Q U U S G A Z I N G philosophy Forget the pretty pictures; in fact forget the pictures .This is art as idea. New idea. So new it has just invented a new language. Hieroglyphics was the first major interaction between the written word and art, using images to convey words while writism does exactly the opposite using words to convey images. This isn't the work of a new artist but the full matured portfolio of one who has been working in isolation for over ten years, but is now being launched on to the world art scene. His premise is simple as all great ideas ought to be, away from the styles that are the styles of the day. His isolation has left him uninfluenced by any of the major movements of his time - Hirst, Koons or Judd, Duchamp redux or Jasper Johns. In a sense his work is probably the purest, unadulterated individual expression in art in our time. And probably the first new element introduced in painting since Brunelleschi perfected linear perspective in the 15th century. Sure the 20th century has had its styles,' isms', and new mediums; performance art, video art, light art.....While they were new, none was an invention in painting - "˜the essence of the arts "˜. Not even the collages of Rauschenberg are new inventions - Chinese and Japanese painters have been using them for centuries. Yet on the other hand, Writism's central idea is so primal, so obvious, so why-didn't-I-think-of-it, it exemplifies that Da Vinci quote "˜Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.