Artists Describing Their Art:
Chad A. Carino - A quality which defines the life of any urban artist is the visible entropy surrounding us in the form of decay and despoilation of the desolation defining post-industrial urban America. Simply put, we live in darkness. This quality bends and controls me, defining my work, decaying into darkness and chaos. A solid idea will find itself dissolving into a series of dark scribbles, and a simple concept will belie its ultimate complexity. These images find themselves hovering between unconsiousness and depression; ultimately, cold, dark, and dead, like any planet or person....
Hampton Olfus - ARTIST STATEMENT Over the past twelve years, IaEURtmve been working in acrylic paint, ink, pencil and mixed media. During this time period, I was inspired by an assortment of topics, while repeating one of my mainstay topics, music, and culture. Creating in the moment, allows the intuitive sensibilities too be part of the process. I bring an eclectic aesthetics with me into the studio, which I transfer into what I create. My true emotions, is what I aspire to transfer, visually to the viewer, through the media. Hampton R. Olfus, Jr. Artist ...
Pasquale Petrucci - LaEURtmarte di Petrucci puA2 essere definita polivalente. Attualmente la sua produzione artistica A" composta da fotografie contemporanee, pitture a olio su tela e arte digitale. Le fotografie contemporanee sono composte da diversi cicli operativi la fotografia informale A" stata realizzata con i soggetti di vecchi graffiti metropolitani che sono risultati invecchiati con interventi-espressivi-visivi di diverse tematiche, sbianchiti e in parte cancellati. La presenza di una iconografia informale aEUR" materica riesce a trasportare la memoria visiva ai capolavori della pittura informale. la fotografia di decollage A" stata realizzata con i soggetti di manifesti pubblicitari disfatti dalle intemperie atmosferiche che involontariamente compongono indicazioni incomprensibili da un punto di vista pubblicitario. Ma si evidenzia una reale iconografia estetica che anagraficamente appartiene al paesaggio urbano. Le foto con il realismo contemporaneo A" stato realizzato da scene urbane che appartengono alla nostra quotidianitA , assemblate con disinvoltura dalla mano dellaEURtmuomo, dalle situazioni atmosferiche, o dalla usura del tempo. Le foto con il dinamismo cromatico sono un ciclo di fotografie che hanno un riferimento alla fotodinamica dellaEURtmarte futurista del fotografo-artista Anton Giulio Bragaglia. Le pitture a olio su tela per predisporre nuove tematiche espressive e per un sempre maggiore potenziale creativo sono state inserite nelle pitture ...
Russell Saunders - My influences are diverse. I love all forms of expressionism through art. I have learned that life is a constant changing force and I try to illustrate that through my art. ItaEURtms one of the reasons that abstract is my favorite art form. I have always been fascinated by the ephemeral nature of the moment. Life itself is a wonderful piece of abstract art, its beauty and message are different for each viewer. Dependent on what lens is chosen, it can change each time it is viewed. That is the beauty of life, art, and creativity. Constant flow and energy creating a different journey for every participant. In abstract art and life, you can look for hidden meaning and deep thought-provoking messages, or simply bask in the color and movement. The choice is always there for the viewer to make. I absolutely love that about art When I paint, as clichA(c) as it sounds, I let the piece decide what it will become. At times I may have a definite vision of what I want to paint but I am never afraid to change course if the piece is disagreeable. I love it when I hear people discussing ...
Smith Olaoluwa - Smith Olaoluwa Martins, a native of Lagos state Nigeria was born on the Jan 28 in Lagos state Nigeria,He has a bachelor of art degree in graphic art,he was trained in fine and applied art/painting under the foremost artist of great university of Benin edo state Nigeria, namely are professor El-dragg Leonard okwoju,T-oboite,Austine bardi,and others,He is an experimental artist and exposed to the use of different media, such as:painting,printmaking,drawing, photography,lino-cut,screen printing,i have participated in several exhibition both jury online and open air exhibition, e.g sos children's village motif and painting exhibition,national association of fine and applied art student exhibition university of benin Edo state Nigeria upstream jury online exhibition Nebraska u.s.a,colorado mesa university charity legacy exhibition 2012,smith is about reading is master degree soonest,He is also a new member of society of Nigerian artists SNA,check for detail of my artworks www.smith-ola-martins.fineartamerica.com or www.artwanted.com/olaoluwa happy viewing Smitholas artworks, My images do not belong to the public domain. All of my art pieces are registered copyright with all rights...
Max Tolentino - I do not think of art as a rationalization of an artistic thought or perhaps I am not still able to think this way. What fascinates me is the exercise of art; it is doing something that can express my personal point of view of things and the perception and the expression of the world as I see. Anything that carries human significance may cause me an emotion with the same intensity that I see at any museum in the world. Art is an emotional and intellectual product to me. Since my late starting in arts I have been sculpting my way in the artistic scenario with a differenced curiosity so that my overture to this environment gives me a privileged position. Doubts - no doubt - will arise, as my works transit between the formalism and the concept, between the beautiful and the political in art. But the doubts belong more to the one who sees then to me. Maybe I want to go further than the cultural concepts i?1/2 not that I pay much attention to it - but perhaps one day appreciating from outside I may glimpse a chance to be inside thus contributing in a certain way to this world ...
Margaret Thompson - Nothing is what it seems. I am fascinated by the mystery and ambiguity that can come from working with collaged painted papers, and multi-plate printmaking. The initial layering process is usually one of spontaneity and serendipity, and, only later, when the painting starts to take on a life of its own, do I think more consciously about its meaning, the composition, its form and colour. The title is only one way in to reading my pictures, and is merely a proposal: the most interesting aspect to me is what the viewer brings to the understanding of the work.I have a great admiration for Kurt Schwitters, the master of collage, Helen Frankenthaler, master of colour and subtlety, Kandinsky and Miro. I regularly exhibit in London, France and the US....
Margaret Thompson -