Photograph of Artist THEO RADIC
THEO RADIC
Stockholm, - Sweden



Original Artworks (20)

Theo Radic; Brazil, 2005, Original Printmaking Linoleum, 20 x 15 cm. Artwork description: 241 Hand- printed...
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Original Linoleum Cut, 2005
20 x 15 cm (7.9 x 5.9 inches)
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Theo Radic; The Painters Lyre, 2000, Original Printmaking Linoleum, 15 x 20 cm. Artwork description: 241   15. 0 ...
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Original Linoleum Cut, 2000
15 x 20 cm (5.9 x 7.9 inches)
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Theo Radic; Fete Gallante, 2006, Original Watercolor, 30 x 20 cm. Artwork description: 241   30. 0 ...
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Original Watercolor, 2006
30 x 20 cm (11.8 x 7.9 inches)
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Theo Radic; Kiwi, 2000, Original Printmaking Linoleum, 15 x 20 cm. Artwork description: 241 Hand- printed...
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Original Linoleum Cut, 2000
15 x 20 cm (5.9 x 7.9 inches)
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Theo Radic; Quartet, 1999, Original Printmaking Linoleum, 20 x 15 cm. Artwork description: 241  Red, yellow, blue and black interact as a quartet. Hand- printed. ...
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Original Linoleum Cut, 1999
20 x 15 cm (7.9 x 5.9 inches)
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Theo Radic; Lill Jan Woods, 1991, Original Painting Oil, 130 x 160 cm. Artwork description: 241  Lill- Jan woods is near the artist's studio ion Stockholm. 130. 0 ...
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Original Oil Painting, 1991
130 x 160 cm (51.2 x 63.0 inches)
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Theo Radic; The Nature Of Things, 2008, Original Painting Oil, 130 x 100 cm. Artwork description: 241   130. 0 ...
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Original Oil Painting, 2008
130 x 100 cm (51.2 x 39.4 inches)
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Theo Radic; While Listening To Rodrig..., 1987, Original Painting Oil, 100 x 130 cm. Artwork description: 241   100. 0 ...
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Original Oil Painting, 1987
100 x 130 cm (39.4 x 51.2 inches)
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Theo Radic; Untitled I, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 42 cm. Artwork description: 241   30. 0 ...
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Original Oil Painting, 2007
30 x 42 cm (11.8 x 16.5 inches)
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Theo Radic; Eucalyptus Grove, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 30 x 42 cm. Artwork description: 241   30. 0 ...
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Original Oil Painting, 2007
30 x 42 cm (11.8 x 16.5 inches)
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Theo Radic; Radiance IV, 2008, Original Painting Oil, 100 x 70 inches. Artwork description: 241  Homage to Keith Jarret ( painted while listening to recordings of his
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Original Oil Painting, 2008
100 x 70 inches (254.0 x 177.8 cm)
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Theo Radic; Radiance III, 2008, Original Painting Oil, 100 x 70 inches. Artwork description: 241  Homage to Keith Jarret ( painted while listening to recordings of his
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Original Oil Painting, 2008
100 x 70 inches (254.0 x 177.8 cm)
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Theo Radic; Radiance II, 2008, Original Painting Oil, 70 x 100 cm. Artwork description: 241  Homage to Keith Jarret ( painted while listening to his
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Original Oil Painting, 2008
70 x 100 cm (27.6 x 39.4 inches)
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Theo Radic; Eucalyptus, 2000, Original Printmaking Woodcut, 24 x 18 cm. Artwork description: 241 Woodblock print inspired by eucalyptus trees. Hand printed. ...
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Original Woodcut, 2000
24 x 18 cm (9.4 x 7.1 inches)
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Theo Radic; B Minor, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 42 x 30 cm.
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Original Oil Painting, 2007
42 x 30 cm (16.5 x 11.8 inches)
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Theo Radic; Rainbow Mood, 2005, Original Watercolor, 30 x 21 cm.
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Original Watercolor, 2005
30 x 21 cm (11.8 x 8.3 inches)
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Theo Radic; Astonished, 2005, Original Printmaking Linoleum, 25 x 20 cm. Artwork description: 241   Hand- printed...
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Original Linoleum Cut, 2005
25 x 20 cm (9.8 x 7.9 inches)
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Theo Radic; Fluidity, 1999, Original Watercolor, 15 x 20 cm.
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Original Watercolor, 1999
15 x 20 cm (5.9 x 7.9 inches)
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Theo Radic; Whim, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 42 x 30 cm.
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Original Oil Painting, 2007
42 x 30 cm (16.5 x 11.8 inches)
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Theo Radic; Djinn, 2006, Original Watercolor, 22 x 30 cm.
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Original Watercolor, 2006
22 x 30 cm (8.7 x 11.8 inches)
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Artist Statement

Everyone experiences drawing and painting as children. I was perhaps one year old therefore when I was first initiated into the painter’s craft. I continued these universal beginnings throughout my school years and sporadic courses in college (which gave me few insights into this art). [...] I had only myself as a teacher in the art of painting.

My evolution as a painter paralleled that of art history in general, beginning with my prehistoric period as a one-year-old-clutcher-of-crayolas, groping through Egyptian and Greek periods; a Renaissance period; and then neo-classicism, romanticism and naturalism; impressionism and fauvism; cubism and abstract expressionism.

At nineteen I went to Europe, thirsty for scope and depth in Art which America lacks. Having established myself in the south of France, I absorbed the emanations of the modern masters who had lived and painted there. I was profoundly moved by the bizarre snow storm over La Côte d’Azur on the night of Picasso’s death. No such storm had ever been seen before in April, as old-timers in Nice told me. [...]

Fully acknowledging my debt to
'abstract expressionism', I nonetheless do not consider my art 'abstract' – a word that has been grossly misunderstood when applied to painting. For example, the telescopic blue distance behind the head of the Mona Lisa indeed is abstract, considering that the third dimension of depth is non-existent in the painting. It is illusion, trompe l’oeil. 'Abstract' painting is, on the other hand, not really abstract in the sense of the Mona Lisa, because it does not create an abstract third dimension, but remains a surface holding color and form on it.

Nor can 'non-figurative' be used to denote my painting, another umbrella term used to denote many unrelated styles that have emerged since World War I. All painting depicts figures in one way or another, whether the nudes of Renoir, the squiggles of Kandinsky or the rectangular clouds of Rothko. Painting cannot avoid being
'figurative'.

Painting is a non-verbal art form, and most often the names given to the styles (impressionism, cubism, fauvism, etc.) are derogatory in nature, coined by those who were ignorant of the artist’s aims. The best way to determine a painter’s style is not to name it, but to look at it. Beyond looking lurks that most difficult request made by the painter of the viewer: seeing. (excerpt from Crazy Devil Sweeping)



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