Within the context of these works of art, we might just as well think about the beginning. Consider the question: What was the first tool of art? That honor probably goes to the humble twig, used in tandem with a small, cleared patch of earth. The artist simply scratched some transitory images into the bare ground. A gust of wind, a shower of rain, and they were gone.

The next tool must have been a raw chunk of charcoal, a cooled remnant of the cave’s campfire. Our minds fly over the enormous spans of time, and we speed beyond the chisels, pigments, oils, brushes, and cameras of the story of art’s evolution, arriving at our present location in time and space. We are now in the era of computer-facilitated art, and Artnewgo is exploring the potential of that medium, and concurrently informing us about its possibilities.

These images are startling, other-worldly. They provide us with the essential ingredients, the critical dimensions of any art which aspires to the level of excellence. They surprise us, and having done that they continue to captivate our attention. We are curious, we wonder. At first view they are improbable, unfamiliar. But if we allow ourselves to explore these images, to experientially stroll among the curves, angles, and the tones of light which they contain, in not-very-long we reach the place of thinking "Yes, of course. This is just right." We have entered the world of Artnewgo’s Geometric Surrealism. It is a creative space, an arena of sensibility in which Dali’s purposeful disregard of conceptual restraint, and Mondrian’s precise geometry converse with each other, producing a new entity. We are contemplating a world in which interplanetary travel is already a specific reality, and the awe-generating images of astronomical bodies are the substance of our perception.

A sense of movement is inherent in these pictures. It takes only the tiniest touch of fantasy to imagine that the objects were in motion only a little while ago, and that they will resume movement momentarily. Not only are they at the edge of animation, but they can be seen, without much difficulty at all, to actually have some purpose. Can a floating sphere have consciousness? It can, as an attribution from us. These masses are not static. Artnewgo's geometric forms are resting only for the moment. Perhaps tomorrow the arrangement will be different. Magic has to do with things we don’t know.

No one should make the error of thinking that these pictures are “computer-generated”. The computer, by itself, generates only randomness. Left unguided to its own pre-programmed logic, it is very nearly as inexpressive as the unseized chunk of charcoal. The artistic products we see come from Artnewgo’s disciplined imagination and his technical mastery of the hard-and-soft ware under his hand. The results are images with which many of us would like to interact on a daily basis. Fortunately, with only a little effort, we can.

Steffano della Ravenna
Santa Cruz, California