Artist Eugene J. Martin's 2003-04 Acrylic Paintings on Canvas

This compilation includes reproductions of forty-seven abstract acrylic paintings (and close-ups) on canvas created by visual artist Eugene James Martin in his studio in Lafayette Louisiana in 2003 and 2004. These paintings represent Martin’s final body of work before his death on January 1 2005. . No matter a particular stylistic expression Eugene’s creations would always go beyond always dig further always burst out of its accepted boundaries. When viewing Eugene’s works in isolation one may at first not understand the common thread that links his entire oeuvre. His output is just so enormous so all-encompassing. But when one takes the time to look to see to understand then the more one looks the more one sees the more one becomes convinced that Eugene’s creations have a language all of their own. That he was a true original a genius. That as an artist he did things one is not supposed to do. That he mixed that he juxtaposed soft-edged and free-flowing organic forms alongside hard-edged geometric structures all the while making both states intrinsically relate to and complement one another. That Eugene’s art was thus all about poetry. Poetry in the metaphysical sense the one that captures the essence of André Breton’s great text the one in which Everything leads to the belief that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death the real and the imaginary the past and the future the communicable and the incommunicable the high and the low cease to be perceived as contradictions. If I can sum up what Eugene’s art was all about it is about such poetry so brilliantly expressed in the Second Manifesto of Surrealism. (Adapted from qi peng’s 2009 ”INTERVIEW: Suzanne Fredericq Biologist and Spouse of Eugene James Martin Artist.” Salt Lake City Examiner.com June 1 2009.)