After WWII Francis Bacon was told that artists can’t paint portraits any more. So he decided he was going to paint portraits.
I feel the same way about circles. They are difficult to work with. There are a couple of artists who work with circles. Sonia Delaunay was one, and Hilma Af Klint another. Hilma is famous for inventing abstract painting decades before Wassily Kandinsky (a bloke) did. I got a book about her recently, a facsimile of a sketchbook showing her process. She and her pals were interested in the invisible stuff that had just been invented, like The Id, UV light, magnets. The book is about a scientific way to make art, more interested in electric current than fashion. It might be pareidolia, but it looks very contemporary. Perhaps the shapes remind us of the non-organic visual manifestations delivered to us digitally now.
https://porty.net/st-kilda/levenish.html
https://www.hilmaafklint.se/en/2018/10/20/publikation-hilma-af-klint-notes-and-methods/
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