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Looking into Bernard’s paintings is a journey into color and perception. the art of drawing and the dominant use of color, recalling the likes
Forms begin to appear, patterns and shapes lead the wandering eye of Michelangelo, Miro, Dali, Picasso, Max Ernst and Jackson Pollock.
into an apparent world of continual Rorschach tests, but the further Yet Bernard’s art is stunningly its own, deeply introspective, floating
one delves one realizes that this is not so. It is in fact a highly technical and lyrical, and knowing him personally one sees the coherence
and free dynamic form of abstractionism composed of flowing oil between his spiritual ideology and deliberate intention to invite the
rivers, laced with varying types of solvents that corrode and mix their viewer’s eye. Reactions may be strong, they may consist of delight
load where allowed. This undulating field is full of electrical charge or incredulity, perhaps fear of personal revelations, yet strangely the
and color fusion all held within a confined area that has a theme. very relationship one has with his art changes as you venture into it.
The resulting painting techniques by Bernard Rangel are a 35-year Bernard’s paintings are enticingly collective, and you feel the urge to
undertaking, evolved from a deep personal relationship he has with populate a space with them. There are neither limits to the types of
his subject matter. His own development as an artist weaves together surfaces he works on nor to the number or scale of his commissions.
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