Artists Describing Their Art:
Danko Merin - Danko Merin, an artist that originates from a determined type of new figuration, from the echos of expressionist realism, expresses in his paintings stratified, complex structures of his individual experience, far from the mere description or explanation. In front of his work, an observer penetrates and directly explores the impersonal and sterilized purity of the artistic syntax. It is stimulating, it can refresh and humanize. Movements in these pictures represent the transmission of vibrating energy. They are like the waves of light in the center of a man they meet at the subtle point where mans physical shape and nature meet. It is a force from which man sometimes gently moves away, but soon after, desperately wishing to come back, dives into it again. If you asked an artist which themes and motifs are found in their works, their most common answer would be a self-portrait. Through the scenes of landscapes, flowers, and historic scenes, painting is just another way of keeping a diary. A personal diary where yesterday is a reflection of todays memory and todays dream becomes a nuance for tomorrow. Thus, art becomes a way of remembering past experiences and events and shares them as personal ...
Jeff Turner - Hi, My name is Jeff Turner. I am 62 years old and living in Bexley, Ohio, USA. I recently retired from a career in information technology. You see, after getting a couple college degrees in fine arts from The Ohio State University, I couldnt find a job but fell into the computer field through adult education. Long story and my resume can be found on linkedin.com. I have been drawing and painting since High School. Most recently my work has taken a political theme. Since Donald Trump became president, I feel compelled to make political statements with my work. Although there are no drawings on this site, you can see some at www.jeffturnerart.com. However you got to this page, I hope you like my work. Peace....
Casper Waldner - Hi, I am Casper Waldner, my artist name is Fritz or FritsendeFritz I come from The Netherlands, Europe. My background is Dutch and English from my mothers side. Making sculptures, with wood, steel and clay for 15 years now. Mostly sculpture with polymer clay. I also do castings with molds. My mission is to make beautiful sculptures and make every sculpture better than the other one. I love to just work with my hands. I like to feel the woodgrain or see a sculpture get into the form I want. It just gives met the feeling that I am alive. When I am 90 and sitting in my rocking chair on my back porch, I want to have the feeling I will leave this world a prettier place than I found it. To make somebody smile when looking at my sculptures or in awe of the detail. And that the sculptures have a special place in their home. That is my mission in live, to give love and light to all the people in the world FritZ ...
Anh Tran - My sculpture addresses a symbolic language: visually - Symbol, Material, and Fragment as metaphor to represent on human value of legend, history, culture, and myth. It is an interaction sculpture space in which the viewers are invited to actively engage as a means of completing the artwork. My work mainly is the installation and concept work inheriting value of traditional sculptures. Currently, I pay attention on human relationships - the main subject matter that presents in work at different levels from the relationship of people to people; between human beings to nature; the bond of people to God in timeless. Men of all ages experience the same knotty relationship that comes from the endless struggle for life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. On my experience I think that each person lives in a knot of relationships, bearing the traces of successes and failures, love and loss, generosity and vileness, pleasure and pain, happiness and misfortune, in an ever changing, yet repetitious cycle. Relationships are continually changing -- expanding and contracting as they are being formed, challenged, mended, healed, maintained, and even ended in both time and space. In general, I think of human life and relationships as being fragmented forms as well. ...
Heng Tan - Education Professional Work Graduated with BA from NUS of Singapore in 1965 Hobbies Poetry, Art,Erhu(Chinese MusicalInstrument),Swimming Chinese Martial Art Favourite Medium Chinese Ink & watercolor on paper, Painting Acrylic on canvas. Favorite Artists Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt Favorite Works of Art Landscapes, Flowers. Inspiration mostly comes from the sufferings or joy of life. ...
Javier Felix - JAVIER FELIX The core of my work is the human body, sometimes insinuated, as a fragment or metamorphosed it is at the same time sensitive field and of plastic experimentation. The figuration serves as a pivot to establish dialogues and conversations with dissimilar elements and in some cases polar realities At these intersections, both aesthetic and conceptual and, often, transcultural mixtures and syncretisms are produced. I pay special attention to the transition between the graphic, the pictorial and the sculptural to the interaction of the three and the two dimensions in the same body of work. Digital graphics and photography often play a catalytic role in the game of absence and presence of the object, although most of my works are formed as a mixture of one or more techniques. In my work, the existential and the comic are conjugated in a hybrid language that is above all experimental and playful. ...
Markus Leitner - What could be more boring than the self-adulation of someone who just takes paint on a canvas? I live and work in Bremen (Germany), paint and draw since my early youth. I don't like the distinction between high culture and popular culture. Once a person creates something, it is a creative act, and thus also an art form. Then everyone is free to like the results of this work or not....