The Sublime Effect
7 min readOct 16, 2019
Fred Tomaselli is an artist whose work emerged during the modernist stylistic period. Tomaselli believes that art has transformative powers and his goal, as an artist, is to have the viewers transported to a sublime experience (Rubin 27). It is important to know that Tomaselli’s work is a portal in which reality is transported through the imagination (Gelber). The artist creates sublimity through motifs, medium, composition, and techniques.
The Woodpecker is an example of how Tomaselli’s work has progressively developed to gain more depth and an optical illusion aspect and it embodies the…
