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Artist Statement:
What is Neo-Elegance?
Inspired by French Art
Nouveau, American Art Deco,
the Italian Renaissance, and
the Primary Structure/ABC
movements in art, NEO-Elegance
is an attempt to reinterpret
elements of these movements to
create something new. The “new
elegance.”
Over the past couple of
decades, art has become too
focused on raw emotion and
general abstraction than as a
way of beautifying its
surroundings. Form has become
removed from function. Beauty
has been removed from the
everyday object. The goal of
Neo-Elegance is to allow the
natural beauty of a piece to
captivate a viewer and cause
them to forget about the
relevance of a deeper,
ethereal meaning. The goal of
an artist in this theory
should be to cause the viewer
to stop at a piece, and think
“Wow! That is beautiful,” and
not begin to debate what the
artist was thinking or try to
‘read into’ the piece. The art
will instead speak for itself.
When analyzing neo-elegance,
one must break it down into
its’ core elements and examine
each of them under a
microscope in their own right.
The Italian Renaissance
One prevailing theme
throughout the renaissance
period was of course religion,
though ...
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Benjamin Bader Biography:
| Biographical information for Benjamin Bader can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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27
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Single
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0
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Other
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Art Nouveau - (1880 - 1910)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Leonardo Da Vinci
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Benjamin Michael Bader was born in the Bluegrass Mountains of Clarksville, Tennessee in April of 1980 the fourth and youngest child of a carpenter / sculptor father and a seamstress / English teacher mother. From the age of four, his family nomadically traveled about the United States from Virginia to as far north as Alaska before settling in Ohio when he was eight. Throughout his youth, Ben engaged in various forms of art ranging from doodling on scraps of paper in church to painting and assisting his father with various woodworking tasks at home and even acting in church and school plays. Home schooled through fifth grade, Ben started into Fairborn city schools in sixth grade and graduated from Fairborn High School in the spring of 1998. Despite various periods of interest in the fields of mathematcs, physics, chemistry, architecture, medicine and astronomy, he realized shortly before graduating that his true passion lay in the creation of art.
While at Fairborn High School, Ben was voted "Most Artistic Male" his senior year after he created a life-size human sculpture for the school, assisted in the a mural project for the cafeteria of a local elementary school, and completed a solo mural in the high school's art room. Upon graduating, he enrolled at Cedarville College (now Cedarville University) to begin a degree in Communications. Unfortunately, after some deliberation, he dropped out after two quarters with the intent of attending a bona fide "art school." It wasn't until the fall of 2002 that Ben returned to college part–time at Sinclair Community College where he began taking art classes once more.
Throughout his hiatus from school and his time at Sinclair his work has been displayed in various places around the Miami Valley. Over the years he has been commissioned for a number of custom tattoo designs, and artwork for local bands and is currently embarking on a tattoo apprenticeship at Bad Dogg Tat2 in Fairborn, OH as well as working on various projects for Sanctuary Merchandise, Lucky Promotions, and Neo Elegance Design in Dayton,OH.
Inspired by a great number of artists spanning several centuries (including but not limited to Leonardo DaVinci, Alphonse Mucha, Rene Lalique, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo de Caravaggio, Filippo Brunelleschi, Norman Rockwell, Alberto Vargas, Boris Valejo, and Andy Warhol), Benjamin Bader's work tends to focus on taking various styles and mediums from the past and blending them with something new and fresh. Anyone who has seen one of his exhibits will know that his work is not limited to one style or medium though he may dabble in one "look" for a time. When others ask what medium he prefers to work in, he often responds with, "Everything. You name the medium and I've either played around with it or want to." George Bernard Shaw once said, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Benjamin's ultimate goal is to be the unreasonable man. |
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