Tony Robbin

Tony Robbin is a digital media artist, painter, and sculpture from Washington, DC. Robbin's main theme throughout his works is geometric and cubistic shapes. Robbin uses the program Formian and software that he designed himself to create his computer drawings. Tony Robbins first started to show his work in 1974 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since then, Robbin has shown his work in over a hundred shows throughout the world. Robbin also holds the patent for the application of quasicrystal geometry (4-dimensionalism of geometric shapes) to architecture. Tony Robbins has authored several books, papers and articles, including his book Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Cubism, Relativity, and Modern Thought where Robbin discusses the fourth dimension and its application to art. 

Tony Robbin uses different media, such as acrylic on canvas or digital printing in his artwork, but the use of geometric shapes continues throughout all of his artwork. In the painting below, Robbin uses several different lines and geometric shapes in order to create many different planes throughout the piece. 

The prints made from the computer reveal a similar theme. In this piece, the lines are more intricate and sharp, which adds a lot of dimension to the shapes and lines. Robbin used self-made computer programs along with Formian to make this work. The use of the computer allowed him to create several more layers of lines and shapes than he could previously with paint and canvas.

Overall, I find the work of Tony Robbin creative and intellectually stimulating, but all of his work is very similar to the next. Robbin does not name his pieces with anything other than numbers, which makes all of them seem to blend together for me. I enjoy how he uses simple shapes to create a completely new dimension. The colors he used in his computer drawings seem to compliment the work.  The shapes placed on the outer edge of the main box make it seem like the shapes are flying out of the screen into the world in which you currently reside. This arrangement of shapes and colors remind me of being taken into another dimension altogether, like drifting through a space of geometry. I think the work created by Tony Robbins is very effective, but you need only to observe one or two of his pieces in order to understand the main theme of all of his works. 

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