Artists Describing Their Art:
Sara Diciero - Her philosophy: "The light, joy, optimism, hope, dreams, colors and music are my guide, my way, your way, that if you want we can share together ... looking at my artworks! " Her painting is part of Abstract Expressionism; image tends toward nature and conveys strong emotions. She captures from a point so far from Earth, another point on the earth as usual, so infinitesimal as close as observed under a microscope. In this way, you can see in her paintings from microorganisms to mountains, plowed fields, large trees, volcanoes, forest fires, remote villages, and coasts, rivers. And of course land of fantasy landscapes. Sara works the oil diluted with own inventive visual textures that puts on the canvas in each new proposal for enhancing the work, with intense color, energy and passion that invite the imagination to travel to places undreamed. ...
Giovanni Miucci - Giovanni Miucci bekennt sich innerhalb seiner Malerei zu realistischen Bildwelten. Hierbei treten in den klein- wie grossformatigen Arbeiten die Figur und der Bildraum in eine geordnete Wechselbeziehung zur Wirklichkeit. Figurativer Realismus wird umgeben von einer verzerrten Wirklichkeit des Bildraumes, der gegenstandslos, abstrakt erscheint. Diese Bilddarstellungen rekrutieren aus seiner alltaglichen Wahrnehmung: der Mensch, seine intime Umgebung, spezifische Landschaften und sozialer wie urbaner Raum werden bildhaft thematisiert. In der einzelnen Bildorganisation ergibt sich daraus ein Situations- und Handlungsbild, dass in seiner Deutung stark durch die Figur als Akteur gelenkt wird: Korperhaltung, Bewegung, Blick und Gesichtsausdruck psychologisieren die Bildaussage. Figurationen verweisen dabei auf klassisch-typisierte Genres kunsthistorischer- und kunstgeschichtlicher menschlicher Darstellungsmuster. ...
Richard Donagrandi - My works are abstract landscapes built around the idea that most folk aren't very aware of their surroundings or place in the world. I am inspired by the ancient Hindu practice of seeing without seeing; being without being; and the Buddhist practices of contemplation, cognition, and awareness. To express these ideas, I choose to paint landscapes blurred out to give only the impression of color and pattern. The color, pattern, and light become the details. Born from more of a complete non-objective style, I've begun to focus more on real landscape locations ranging from urban to rural from places I've lived or traveled. Blurring the image, to me, becomes a contemplation on the impermanence of the original image; embodying a buddhist meditation technique of imaging everyone you know and everywhere you've been, has passed away....
Julie Van Wyk - ARTIST STATEMENT I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED AND ADMIRED IMPRESIONIST PAINTERS OF THE PAST AND WANTED TO PAINT LIKE THEM. MY FAVORITE PAINTER IS CLAUDE MONET. I WORK IN WATERCOLOR,, ACRYLIC, OIL AND PASTEL. MY FAVORITE MEDIUM IS ACRYLIC. I LIKE TO PAINT QUICKLY SO THAT THE PAINTING RETAINS ITS FRESHNESS, AND ACRYLIC ALLOWS ME TO DO THIS ...
Ken Hillberry - In art and in life, dynamics of balance, integrity and tolerant interaction of all elements or participants ought to be see, experienced and maintained. At the same time, the challenge of affecting this balance is creatively encountering all changes and adapt accordingly. For some, the destination or pre-determined outcomes are sought more often than not. Then there are some who savor the journey, thus witnessing and enjoying developments along the way. I fall into the latter category. It's like watching the film develop in a darkroom. the image takes form a little at a time right before my eyes. The creative process, for me, is void of pressure and timeless. The ability and practice and discipline are central in my approach. My creative intent is to engage a viewer in thought and emotion, as well as, with their eyes. Using imagination, retrospect or model, my range of composition can be conceptual, perhaps impressionistic or abstract in application, but always developed to evoke an awareness and appreciation for the relative conditions in life experience and art form as I incisively or playfully interpret my experiences along the way. ...
Lynda Stevens - I see my creative path as being one with no absolute destination aEUR" the process of creation is as important to me as the result. In my work I often like to explore the tensions between chaos and form aEUR" and how chaos can break up stagnant forms into something more dynamic, or how form can bring beauty out of what was inchoate. Thus, sources of inspiration might include city encroaching on country and vice-versa, the dynamism of volcanoes, oceanic tides and so on. However, as the creative process for me mainly comes about via a process of psychic automatism, so that it is guided by an ebb and flow of subconscious impressions, both inner and outer landscapes tend to be superimposed upon each other in any given composition. My pieces may be layered, worked and reworked again, so that an inner alchemical process runs through as a theme in all my works. This means that each piece is further altered and refined into something very different from what it might have been in the first place. I have sometimes used materials that might otherwise be perceived as rubbish aEUR" glass crystals from broken carsbuildings, gypsum, melted polystyrene and so on. More ...
Martha Hayden - My painting is both realistic and abstract, it is on that elusive edge between there and not there. On first look everything is in place, then all dissolves. I want realism and abstraction to take turns. I want a painting sometimes very evocative of time and place, sometimes overwhelming in abstract, structural logic. I look for a surprise, a drama, a different way of seeing. I try not to see anything for itself alone, but as a part of the whole. In this context, my subjects take on meanings other than the accustomed ones. They are more than still life and landscape; they are comments on thinking and seeing. ...
Micheline Hadjis - www.michelinehadjis.com Painting has always been a passion. For the longest time I did not want to depart with my artwork.I love to paint everything that is exotic like orchids,tropical flowers, exotic fish...Through the years,I developped my own technique. Liking the fluid effects of watercolors but not the glass, I work on a fabric canvas on which I let liquid acrylic, watercolors and sometimes inks do their work for the background and inspiration for the structured elements in the foreground. The result is one of vibrant colors and stunning contrast.The final artwork does not require a glass.I have been working intensively to build my career for a number of years now. The road is long and arduous. You need a lot of confidence in your work, perseverance and patience to be successful in this business. Communications and exchanges with other artists helped me to situate myself and computer knowledge has brought me international exposure through my Canadian and American website. From these came international exhibitions, stimulating comments, participation to extraordinary events and sale of my paintings around the world. My marine scenes are the most popular. No surprise there as I am one ...
Nebojsa Jovanovic - I want my paintings to give people moments of pleasure, reflection and memories. Every artist approaches their work in a different way. I like to think that my creations are born from a process of creating music that can be seen. I start with an empty and silent stage of white canvas. Then, I gradually introduce and bring to the stage my brushes using them as musical instruments that produce the colors, texture, rhythm and harmony. The process is finished when I hear visual harmony coming from my painting. With a background in still life and landscape painting, I have discovered that I feel true artistic freedom when creating non-objective abstract painting. Now I enjoy the playful dancing back and forth across the boundary lines between representational forms and abstract. My work today can best be described as contemporary abstract that is loosely based on landscape. I am interested in treatment of textural surfaces combined with glazing techniques that brings vibrant colors to my work....
Tara Hutton - My passion for the glamorous Art Deco era of the 1920's & 1930's is reflected in all my artwork. Therefore when you view my artwork you will see definitive lines and geometric shapes. My favorite medium is acrylic. My favorite art period is Art Deco but lately I have been venturing into next era, often referred to as Mid-Century Modern. My love for Architecture and Design is equal to the love I have for Fine Art. I am most attracted to people that are connected to or passionate about the arts. If my arwork pleases you I will be pleased, send me an e-mail, I answer all my art e-mail! Thank you for taking the time to view my Absolute Arts Portfolio. ...
Vladimir Simanovsky - The artistic world of Vladimir Simanovsky is motivated by live but predominantly by music. From his earliest childhood, when he intensely devoted himself to drowing and playing the piano, a tone of colourful vibrations of inner creative imagination has woken up in him. After having finished Secondary Artistic-Industrial School, which provided its graduates with the ABS of creave artistc resources, he carried on with studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University in Bratislava, which raised his rational human thinking. The creative career of Vladimir Simanovsky has been extended by a new dimention, a dimention of space. In the late of 80s he moved to Canada, where he intensily attended to artistic creation. In 1996 he come back to Slovakia,Bratislava. By rational but also subconscious comparing of the human criterion with architectural, constructive with spiritual, real with irreal, he has appealed to painter`s means of expression with a feeling that through them he can most brilliantly express his visual, rational and subconscious statuses he has systematically saved in his live. Linear compositions are,by turbit painting area`s shaped into fine blocks underlined by gentle scale of warm colour tones,sharpen tention among particular colour...
Laurie Vaughn - Primarily, my inspiration is derivitive of the New York School art movement genre of abstract expressionism. Additionally, I incorporate expressionist painting influences, derived from the CoBrA art, German Expressionism, in creating my personal brand, of representational, expressionist painting. Taking formal techniques from the CoBrA and New York School art movement, I blend subliminal nuances emanating from sources of inspiration, that are as diverse as Japanese calligraphy to the tribal art, of the Dogon. Utilizing a layering of abstract expressionist painting applications, I reference the oevres of expressionist artists that includes: Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Willem deKooning, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, and lesser known, abstract expressionism art movement painters. Representational techniques have been strongly influenced by the bold, vibrant, and colorful expressionist painting genre of significant CoBrA art movement icons, including: Cornielle, Karel Appel, Rooskens, Eugene Brands, Lucebert and Asger Jorn.I prefer to work in mixed media, incorporating gesso, tempera, acrylic, enamel and oil on canvas. My goal is to create individual series, dominated by influences from a combination of artists, overlaid with my personal interpretation or social commentary on events that effect us all....
Marty Kalb - Artists important to me Rembrandt,Cezanne and Matisse,because their work got better with age. Klee, because he makes me realize that simple ideas are the most complex and the most rewarding. Kandinsky, because his work was the first to teach me about the levels of meaning in abstraction. Twachtman,because his landscapes are about how to feel about place and process. Church, because his majestic vision is his own creation. Monet, because I see his hand and eye take risks. Hofmann because he controls the mind and frees the spirit. Heartfield and Goya because they do not look away. There are others, but as Hillel said "the rest is commentary" Subjects I return to. Color filled landscape abstractions. Realistic images of local streams, And waterfalls in other places. The Holocaust as the ultimate moral challenge Each is important My paintings explore realistically and abstractly an interest in landscape from my immediate surroundings, distant places of particular natural beauty, seascapes and undersea forms inspired by many visits to the Caribbean and a long standing interest in Asian art. Most of the paintings of realistic waterfalls are of places in Vermont, New York State and Ohio. The abstract waterfalls are inventions, ...