Artist Information:
Guy Rushton
Malmesbury,
United Kingdom
Member Since: Sep 2009
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Artist Statement:
Working Statement
Art is about humanity. It is
about our emotions and how we
respond to the world we are
in. Figurative art has the
power to convey emotion in a
way that abstraction does not
because we have learned the
language of the human body and
how it displays emotion from
the very earliest moments of
our lives.
To be effective a sculpture
must live and move;
stylization can help this.
Simplification of the line and
form of the figure does not
invalidate its ability to
communicate. It can enhance it
by removing the artists idea
of the particular, the
original, and letting the
observer find their own
resemblances – allowing them
to identify with it. My
current style, with the
tapering body shape and
exaggerated hands and feet
arose from experience drawing
in public, seated on the
ground. I realized that I
shared the viewpoint of a
small child and I think this
subconscious memory encourages
people to feel positively
about these images.
My most recent work has been
divided between experiments in
life-like portraiture, which
is challenging in the sense of
capturing the spirit of the
sitter as well as a mechanical
likeness, and simplified,
almost caricature ...
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Guy Rushton's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Guy Rushton's Portfolio. Browse Rushton's body of work: Working Statement
Art is about humanity. It is about our emotions and how we respond to the world we are in. Figurative art has the power to convey emotion in a way that abstraction does not because we have learned the language of the human body and how it displays emotion from the very earliest moments of our lives.
To be effective a sculpture must live and move; stylization can help this. Simplification of the line and form of the figure does not invalidate its ability to communicate. It can enhance it by removing the artists idea of the particular, ... |
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