Buddhism (5)

Artists Describing Their Art:

Jill Zylke - My landscapes consist of scenes from my national and international travels. Some were painted on location and some were derived from photographs I took specifically to be used for paintings. They tend toward an impressionistic style. Through them I chronicle the intensity of that moment during which they are captured: the passage of light and atmosphere; the place where I stood painting and quiet while surrounded by the movement of people, breezes through the trees and clouds passing the sun; the rise and fall of the day's heat; the feelings evoked during a rarified time, in a place where I am confronted by vistas or people that are far different from my everyday experience. My portraits of dancers and musicians reflect my ongoing interest in flamenco and is a result of my contemplation of the differences between the ephemerality of music and the concreteness of art. Being a visual person, I find musical people, especially dancers, fascinating. Their ability to take something that is as invisible as a sound and translate it into movement is an endless source of interest for me. ...

Aleix Gordo - Viaje de ida y vuelta Este viaje empezo hace mas de diez anos. La practica de artes marciales y el estudio de la lengua japonesa hicieron acercar el Japon, mas alla de la aficion y el deporte, a mi estudio de pintura cuando, en un momento dado, tome la decision de querer ser pintor. Esa etapa llega a su cuspide en forma de exposicion La Ida En el transcurso de esos primeros anos, y ya no como aficionado a la cultura japonesa, sino como participe creador de ese actualmente conocido lenguaje visual, intente ser fiel a una determinada interpretacion de esos fascinantes clasicos de la pintura japonesa (y mas que pintura, gravado en madera, englobado en lo que ellos llaman el Ukiyoe) de principios del siglo XIX como Hiroshige, Utamaro, Hokusai, Harunobu, entre otros A traves de un lenguaje colorista y una tematica mas bien costumbrista empece realizando una serie de oleos de gran formato. Serie "Amor y Guerra" - los cuadros explican en cuatro imagenes una historia de amor truncada por la guerra, en la que el desenlace queda a la imaginacio...