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Artists Describing Their Art:

Don Dougan - My work comprises both abstracted and figurative imagery executed in a variety of mixed materials, with stone being the predominate medium. Other materials used (usually in conjunction with stone) include foundry cast metals, carved and joined wood, cast and fabricated plastics, cold-worked and kiln-formed glass, cast and carved hydraulic cements, cast/formed paper, welded/fabricated metals, gilding, and found/assembled objects. The more abstracted imagery is worked in pedestal pieces, large freestanding sculptures, and in wall-mounted relief sculptures. The figurative lip series is usually presented in wall-mounted reliefs, deep shadowbox framing, and occasionally as either a pedestal piece or a large freestanding work. The most recently begun series of work comprises pedestal-sized pieces using the imagery of the ship or the boat hull. Each series or each type of work allows me to express aspects of the human condition - the more abstracted works tend to reveal a more universal emotional/rational characterization of subject matter, the lip series tends to allow sensuality, humor, and more visceral expressions, while the ship series delves into personal/cultural memories and emotional journeys. For more images and information on myself, my work, and my working methods please visit my ...

Hisham Zreiq - My art is a private perspective on life, private pains and disappointments, society, Death and a philosophical look at life. Death is the source for creation and the motor of life. Crucifixion a symbol for pain, pain caused by social, political and religious systems. I think that art is another way to communicate, to express my ideas , for me art should have a message of a sort. This is the way I saw art when I was a little boy trying to express his Ideas with simple drawings, and this is the way I see art when working on my digital art or writing poetry today. Some times I ask myself, if we can reach people through "reason"! but I think its better to get to people's hearts through emotions, through ART, and from there we might get to their reason. Or maybe use extremes in art - and that is what I usually try - in order to make people think and ponder after their emotions become tens. Then their analyses might bring with it reasoning. ...

T. Smith - Hunting PLC has announced the finalists for their prestigious annual competition, The Hunting Art Prize 2009, which awards $50,000 to one distinguished artist. Included as one of the 134 finalists was T. Smith's oil painting "A Palace and a Prison".The Hunting Art Prize is the most generous annual art prize in the U.S., intended to help the reputations, raise the profiles, and support the careers of distinguished artists. In April, a second panel of jurors will make their decision. On May 2, the prize will be awarded, and the art will be exhibited at a gala held at the Decorative Center in Houston. Legal Disclaimer The following website contains adult content. If you are under 18 years of age, offended by adult material in art, or if it is illegal in your community or country to view adult material, please leave now. By proceeding you agree to be exposed to these materials. Continuing means that you understand and accept responsibility for your own actions, thus releasing the owner of this web site from any and all liability. All material on this web site is copyrighted. This copyrighted material cannot be reproduced or posted without written permission ...

Armando Bettencourt - Armando A. Bettencourt a Musician, Song Writer, Graphic Designer and Fine Artist. Born in the Azores Portugal and moved to Massachusetts at the age of 2. He is a graduate of The New England School of Art & Design (at Suffolk University). He has been a Graphic Designer/Art Director all of his working career and now just recently decided to pursue his dream of integrating visual arts with original music. In his search for life-truth, he combines spiritual-theological, conscious and subconscious themes into surreal visual imagery. In his recent series "The 7 Ages", oil paintings are accompanied each with an original song from his latest CD album also called "The 7 Ages". Through his passions of visual art, song and poetry, he exposes hidden societal elitist spins that have been subconsciously dead and buried to enslaved sheepled masses. Then through a spiritual rebirth made alive to conscious truth. A unique renaissance original in a troubled modern end of days. He's soon to begin 2 new series of paintings that will accompany themes from his CD albums, "Charlie's Parade" and "World Crying". ...Stay Tuned Folks....

Dmitry Rakov - Impossible reality (All new artworks and largerview at www.rakov.de and

Mark Struzynski - Mark Struzynski Certain Relationships develop in our minds, between quite dissimilar objects, ideas, smells, etc.. These relationships are abstract, often unconscious, and unclear. Mark Struzynski was born in Chicago, IL. in 1957. He became immersed in art while living in Copenhagen, being befriended by students, graduates and Professors at The Art Academy of Copenhagen. He attended lectures and read every art book in the Art Library, as his 'art education'. At the time, that he was living in, Copenhagen he was involved with the Photographic process, how photographs are thought of as being direct transfers of reality, but actually remove or miss a certain amount of detail and the effect of these 'mistakes'. These musings led him to working with Photo-emulsion canvass, developing photos of drawings, which were derived from both found and self-taken photographs onto the Photo-Canvass9see web-site www.markart.org for examples). Upon returning to his hometown Chicago, he returned to painting working with different layers both physically (textured paint and images on top of each other) and mentally, (the different layers of dreams). These paintings seem to develop into a series, which was named Untitled Box Series (see web-site www.markart.org). ...

Matthew Morpheus Serhii Matveichenko - List of my application. Participation in contests and exhibitions. Awards GRANT UART 2014 Ukraine aEUR" Finalist Four Points Contemporary 4th Biannual Juried Online International Art Exhibition 2014 USA New-York Realism Fine Art Gallery 2014 USA aEUR" 1st place in the Abstract Category Exhibeo Art Magazine 2015 USA National Literary Prize Heritage 2015 Russia - Nominee London International Creative Competition 2015 Great Britain National Literary Prize Writer Of The Year 2015, 2017 Russia - Nominee 2015, 2017 Special Digital Exhibition Art Takes Miami 2015 USA The World Art Forum Art Geography Award 2017 Russia aEUR" 1st place in Abstract Category Luxembourg Art Prize 2017 Luxembourg 1Aa Open Art Miami International Contemporary Art Competition 2017 USA ArtSlant Showcase Competition 2015, 2017 USA - Winner in the Abstract Category 2017 Competition Young Ukrainian Artists A<> 2017 Ukraine Competition Graphics For The Portal Of Independent Artists 2017 Ukraine - Peoples Choice Award American Art Awards 2017, 2023 USA Ruminates Kalos Art Prize Prize 2017 USA Scene 360 Award 2017 USA Art Weeks In China 2017 China aEUR" 1st place in the Abstract Category Artist Portfolio Magazines Q4 Art Compatition 2017 USA Blooom Award by Warsteiner 2017, 2018 Germany CAGOaEURtms 4th Annual aEURoeALL AbstractionaEUR Art Exhibition Competition 2017 USA - Competition Winner ...

Alan Soffer - Alan Soffer began studying sculpture and clay in 1973 transitioning to abstract painting in 1985, through a breakthrough program at Bennington College with Sandy Stone. His abstractions have been in the pursuit of the unknown, unique, and personal depths of the unconscious. Rather than confining his energies to a single medium, he sensitively chooses materials that accommodate the concepts at hand. Early constructions were in clay and found objects, then discovering printmaking and photography, which he learned on his own. Finally, focusing on painting with acrylic, oil, and wax. Encaustics allowed him to marry a sculptural component to his painterly approach, following his studies at Ringling School in 1998. The hot, pigmented wax's inherent translucency perfectly supports his vocabulary for expressing space from the microscopic to the galactic. Whatever the direction, the work is always influenced by Joseph Campbell, the noted mythologist, who Soffer considers his mentor. He organized the first national encaustic conference in the US in 2005 and continues teaching encaustic technique as well as abstract painting primarily through workshops. Major one person shows have been presented at: DCCA, Wilmington DE; Borowsky Gallery, Phila.; Rosenfeld Gallery, Phila.; Widener U., Chester PA; Atlantic City Art Center; Robert Roman ...

Alexander Donskoi - BioStatement Alexander Donskoi- Visual Artist, Toronto Canada www.alexanderdonskoi.com

Yaroslav Kurbanov - Interview with artist Yaroslav Kurbanov 2011 How do you define what is art for you and what is not My attitude towards art in general and my art in particular is defined by the following points Firstly - A work of art has to have an idea, whether its current or already in the context of history. The main thing is that it should excite the viewer, awaken his senses and invite reflection. These days, artists often try to replace the whole palette of emotions that art is meant to evoke with plain shock and rejection. Secondly - The artist must find the right material, as well as the right technique and form, to express his idea in the best possible way. One should not stick blindly to any style, especially if it does not meet the objectives that the artist has set out to achieve. The work of art must come first, not the personality of the artist. And a work of art has to work even without the context of the person who created it. We may not know about the life of the artist, the travails of his artwork or his path, but the artwork must still impress us. ...