Summer Breeze Painting

Robert Shirk's figurative paintings are created on multiple sheets of layered plexiglass. Each sheet of clear plexiglass contains a part of the final image. The effect creates a 3 dimensional kinetic painting that moves and changes as the viewer’s perspective changes. He's been influenced by the 1960’s optical and kinetic art of Israeli artist Yaacov Agam. Also the French Pointillist painters of the 1880’s, American photorealist painter Chuck Close, and the dramatic lighting of Dutch master Rembrandt van Ryan. Mr. Shirk creates 3 dimensional kinetic paintings of drama, beauty and sensuality. Paintings that are fun to view with unexpected surprises. He loves watching the dance and delight of the viewers eyes wile discovering the movement, harmony and depth created by layer upon layer of images in his paintings.