Dat N Luu

Luudat Symbiosis Painting Dat N Luu

LuuDat Painting is "abstract art", created at the opposite of the concrete and figurative, or "realism." LuuDat does not try to imitate nature, but to use nature as a starting off point. Color, line, and form are more important to him than the details of the actual subject matter. He wants to give a sense or feel for the subject rather than an exact replication. LuuDat Painting is thus the visualization of emotional structures and processes. It reduces specific objects and events to their universal elements: rhythm, movement, texture, color, eliciting an emotional engagement through the strength of its composition and conveying the shifting of psychological states. In his abstractions, LuuDat has been particularly interested in the relationship between line and form, a relationship that parallels those of the perceived world: movement and stillness, action and thought, dynamism and placidity. Integrated colors have been chosen for their particular emotional content to reflect the shifting strengths of these elements within the world of the composition, where abstract spaces are combined with cosmic landscapes and creative myths of ancient civilizations: Celestial Ocean, Angel Fire, Mekong Green, Black Sun, Aeolus, Metamorphosis, and other evocative titles are situated within this significant plastic emergence... The obsessional presence of the universe in LuuDat Painting is condensed in a maze of moving cells on prismatic changes and fixations, by which the abstract integration of color and form becomes a creative vision with mythical undertones always in metamorphosis. LuuDat Painting is also communication, a shifting of emotional context to the viewers' own interpretation of the plastic event. A new painting emerges from the discovery and imagination of the onlookers who become instantly co-authors of the art work in contemplation. The viewers are free to name differently the same art work, being co-creatively responsible for the painting, in new and different ways of appreciation and integration.