Sunday, January 21, 2024

A History of Composition in Art, Abstract "Covers" Paintings (M. S. Brandl)

This is a sub-section of my 500+ "Covers" artworks created from 2001 until 2023. These are paintings or drawings in oil, acrylic, gouache, and ink on paper, canvas or board in various sizes, often not far from letter size, but from half that up to a few feet /meters in size. They recognizably utilize the structure of comic-book covers, or Show-Card lettering posters, with title, bold lettering, price, date, numbering, image and so on. They have been usually exhibited in groups, as installations and as "footnotes" to my large painting-installations.

 The whole group is on Blogger here (http://brandlcovers.blogspot.com/) or Facebook here (https://www.facebook.com/share/1PxS2QfphgenLbih/)
 
This group is one of man sub-sets within the whole group, each made for very specific contexts and shows. This one is 'The History of Composition in Art in Abstract Comic "Covers".' It was made for an exhibition of abstract comics organized by artist, art historian and organizer Andrei Molotiu, who we all pay homage to on this blog!, for a show in 2009-2010 in City University of New York James Gallery titled "Silent Pictures. Special thanks to Andrei and to curator Linda Norden who managed to find a spinner rack to display them in as I prefer. The show was inspired by Molotiu's excellent anthology, 'Abstract Comics' (Fantagraphics Books, 2009). The whole series is meant to be seen as a sequence, and best in a Spinner rack.



































 
 

Friday, April 7, 2023

GetsiVizioN eBooks on Amazon

All seven of my abstract, semi-abstract, wordless, asemic, etc. books are now available in eBook format on Amazon. 

You can purchase them here https://www.amazon.com/author/mikegetsiv


(On some platforms Kindle books are not available using the Amazon app but you can buy them by using your browser and going to Amazon.com)

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Explosive Sweet Freezer Razors

 Hi everyone


I genuinely thought I'd posted here more recently than 2019 but looking back, apparently I haven't. It's been a very busy three years, as I've been working on Explosive Sweet Freezer Razors, and releasing the individual stories from it in a variety of ways, including digital-only to comixology (lost when Amazon gutted that platform) and print-at-home.

A Kickstarter to print the full 244 page collection is going live next week, on the 23rd August (here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grthink/explosive-sweet-freezer-razors). I'd sent it to a couple of publishers but got knocked back because it was a bit too different to be easy to market, so I've picked it up to self-publish.

The content of the book is a series of 10 short stories, all abstract comics, presented with text (some of which is relatively straightforward, some of which is very fractured). The visual style of each story is very different, with common elements in approach and in the text. 

You can read one of the stories, A Hill To Cry Home, here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bUHqDtYRqbk9susYDULvUYC0uTeYOi4_/view

And here are some example pages from the book: