Clarence E. Doskocil, Jr.

Non-Objective Suprematism | Acrylic, Sculpture | Austin, Texas

In a world of progress, movement, transience, and pre-planned obsolescence, I wish to continue and reintroduce Non-Objective Suprematism to the forefront to where it belongs. Though the ephemeral screen is highly important, the physicality of materials and objects should never be de-emphasized.

Oswald Spengler describes in his theories of Faustian Man and the infinite space that demarcates Western Civilization from its predecessors, whereas “the East creates the metaphor, the West actualizes the intangibility.” My paintings and sculptures are not a refinement or improvement on the theories and works of non-Objective Suprematism, but a simple continuation 100 years later. Within Malevich’s infinite white space where color adumbrations force the natural and artificial light to compete for shadows.

Malevich’s additional element that brings about change in the relationship between the conscious mind and the subconscious manifests itself interpretively as did the simply present Metaphysical element in de Chirico’s paintings in which sienna-colored sunsets are similar to the backgrounds of a 6th Century B.C.E. Attic amphorae and icon backgrounds. It draws parallels to Mondrian’s balance of color and line as portrayed by his later works. It exists in the dissonant Armenian textures in Khachaturian’s First Symphony.

The limitations and rules themselves create the parameters for infinite combinations of creativities. The Jungian Sybil releases the precepts of Chiron; Platonic archetypes. Emotion and movement; through color, shape and relationship.

“Nature in the ordered universe was composed of unlimited and limiting elements, and so was the whole universe and all that is therein.” - Philolaus the Pythagorean
470-385 BCE

Clarence Edward Doskocil, Jr. is a classic modern American artist, known for Non-Objective Suprematist paintings and sculpture. Influenced primarily by the Russian/Soviet Avant-Garde (UNOVIS) with a touch of the De Stijl and Bauhaus movements, his primary materials are acrylic, canvas, basswood, and other mixed media. He describes his works as conveying “Emotion and Movement; through Color, Shape, and Relationship.”

Born in 1968 in Mansfield, Texas, United States, he was active in the U.S. Air Force and holds a Bachelor’s degree in both History and Classical Studies. With over fifty works ready and continuing further projects, he's preparing for his first solo exhibition in the near future. He is also a writer, poet, and a self-described Liberal Arts junkie who lives in Austin Texas.