Spin Art - Fine Art

Fine Art

Since the 1960s spin art can be seen in the works of certain contemporary artists. The artists using this technique often reconfigure their own machines by incorporating a more powerful engine than those belonging to schools. The variety of results that this technique produces gives us a good idea of the infinite possibilities.

Professional artists:

Alfons Schilling

During the 1960s Alfons Schilling was one of the first artists to become interested in spin art. action painting also had a large influence on his work and added to its originality. Instead of installing it vertically he did it horizontally.

Annick Gendron

From 1968 to 1973 the French artist Annick Gendron used industrial wheels to spin paint on plexiglas. At the end of the 1960s she was one of the first artist to use centrifugal force to produce large-sized artworks. Inspired by children's games : spin art, spin painting, her goal was to transcend this modest use to get the most spectacular effects from it. Damien Hirst got the same idea in the 1990s, as her he transcends the original practice, by the use of more spectacular materials, sizes, shapes, and skill improvement. Her work has been shown at the Raymond Duncan Gallery, at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, at the Salon des Indépendants and Surindependant at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, at the Salon des Artistes Français at the Grand Palais and the Salon d'Automne in Paris.

Damien Hirst

From 1995 the British artist Damien Hirst started a series of spin paintings. His finished pieces are circular in shape and mounted onto steel frames. This is a series of original works of art and screen prints. He was inspired by memories of the technique of spin painting which he saw as a child on the BBC's Blue Peter.

Mark Chadwick

Mark Chadwick's art is concerned by the use of machines in a production of an artwork, questioning what happens to an artwork once a machine has been used in its production. Chadwick often creates paintings using the spinning technique to introduce the element of chance and questioning the control of the artist. He consistently changes the method and considers all types of aspects to create different works.

Lawrence Stafford

During the late 1960s developed a spinning rotating machine on which he attached raw canvas and sprayed acrylic paint while the drum spun. He exhibited those abstract paintings in the United States and in Germany in 1968-1969. Several are in important museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Abraham De La Torre

Abraham De La Torre a self taught artist from the USA has developed spin painting using different techniques. Rather than randomly throwing paint at a spinning canvas he methodically places paint in specific places on the canvas and then spins the canvas so producing dramatically different results.

Brian Schumacher - Spinmaster "B"

Brian Schumacher has developed a free style of Spin Art that has been exciting people all over the USA and Europe. By applying paint to a spinning canvas in a calculated manner, he produces beautiful pieces of art.

Soren James

London based artist Soren James uses numerous innovative techniques to create spin paintings. His unique processes include two-sided spins, transparent spins, multi-layered, and highly textural spins; as well as developing various patterning techniques in spin painting. These processes in combination have created a more complex and multifaceted type of spin art.