Figurative Art For Sale

Artists Describing Their Art:

Peter Alan - p e t e r a l a n p a i n t i n g s peteralanart.com Painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and sculpture all come together into one application. For Alan's style, it's tricky to box-in defining what is a painting -- or a drawing. On paper, a plywood panel, or on something other than, his wide-range of content goes through a vigorous and rigorous process; for his process develops unique textured surfaces of engaging composed imagery. Layering ink-jet printed images with oil and plaster, these works have a wondrous sensibility. Subsequently Alan's work exemplifies unconventionality and experimentation from beguiling non-replicable affects. In Alan's more recent "space" series, he appropriates images of his personal and virtual female acquaintances. These images launch inspiration for him to move his processes throughout additive and reductive techniques of exploration and invention. From multi-layering content along with sanding, scraping and wiping, many of the images do not survive for legibility. For him, it's ok; for it's a set up for the surfaces' development. One of several underlying metaphors: media facts and information often get filtered, favoritism, covered and/or lost. With the ...

Larsen Lena - At the vanity, chasing the dream that is often just a mirage, tired with stress and permanent search, at the stream of rushing days and years we sometimes stand motionless for a while seeing something beautiful: open flower, spring dusk, the picture that suddenly attracted our attention. It is possible that such abstractions and revelations are the main meaning of art. After all, the artist's brush can really fix the time, place, and mood, and capture for a moment our mind, tossing between past and future, and thus awake our feelings and thoughts......

Laura Schoonover - I am an artist because I have always been driven to work with my hands - driven to create objects of art, utility, culinary delight or botanical beauty. I am happiest when I am creating and embellishing life. My artwork is an exploration of themes in history, symbolism, music, dance, spirituality, feminism and self. Each piece becomes a fusion of what I feel, think, read and experience transformed into the tangible. ...

William Bernard Brooks - The photographer William Bernard Brooks creates images of shamanic interludes. Meditations in the forests and near hidden lakes in the Rocky Mountains in Montana provide an opportunity to align with energies that are still communicating with us. In those moments, when form and intent, desire and surrender, knowledge and manifestation coalesce into joyful bliss, we find that gratitude is the noblest of expressions. The artist creates a variety of motives in a series of eight signed and numbered carbon pigment prints. Printed on famed Hahnemuehle Fine Art Paper: German Etching 310 gsm approx . 13 x 19 inches Price: 1,200.00 US dollars per print The book "SOUL CALLER" with images and instructions for meditations will was published in 2007. William Bernard Brooks is an artist whose work is shown in Europe and the United States in various galleries and publications. He lives in Montana and dedicates his attention to the harmonious interaction of indigenous cultures, nature and the resulting applications in modern life. ...

Javier Cañete - My name is Javier Canete. I'm from Argentina. My art is developed through the batik, acrylic painting and photography. In that I develop my restlessness and convictions, always treating that the beauty prevails. At the moment I expose my works in Buenos Aires but my art is in many places of the world. That is something that honors me and full with happiness....

Vaidotas Bakutis - For me, painting was a natural state, something I did not really choose but which came automatically because, that was what I needed. You can't learn it; it's not a craft you need a diploma for. I believe art is a subconscious expression of self - is the vehicle for bringing the subconscious to a conscious parallel. Painting is always for me about exploring the depths of my own imagination. Painting is irresistible if you can see clearly, that it's paint what you are looking to and at the same time your eye shows you, as through a window, another world. My work is a result of a fragmented view of the world, which gives it a surreal quality -here and beyond - present and past. ...

Theodhoraq Napoloni - Artistic Practice My artistic practice generally is oriented towards painting. In essence the paintings portray theatrical situations created by objects, and for a formal and aesthetic appearance the image that is represented has the quality and attributes of''FICTION REALISM''. What interests me most is the expressing of situations that deal with the unconsciousness, and it is exactly this unconsciouss that gives a lot of importance to the instinctive side and pushes me toward certain actions or pulls my attention towards something. During the realization phase of painting, this''special interest'' becomes more stronger and gives the image more apparent clearness with all the details and characteristics of the object. For me, the content I select to represent is very important. It is a selection that follows intuition primarily, and the psychological stains, putting them all together towards a real ending, that in fact, is an invisible reality whose imprints are hidden deep into fragmentilized moments of our history. All this process for me is the best tool to bring it in surface the deepest content of the truth, and the aesthetic dimension. The nature of the objects that become part of the painting is different. Sometimes the definitive images ...

Jose Miguel Perez Hernandez - There is in the paintings of Jose Miguel a cheerful vital force that propose to give us the nature to full hands, but not with that regularity that we would call realism, but to the way of a supplier that he wants to transform everything into painting. Of there their elaboration, their colors, their light. Everything has the time of the immediate. Their compositions separate from all complexity, they are solved in few directions. The space is reduced, the images pass to a first plane as to be more near us. And when we are with her, it seems as if they were waiting for us with a smile in the lips. They are as greetings, friendly words, a magnificent song and they are appreciated. Antonio Alejo It is certain that in their sincere art there is a chromatic energy that it speaks of an encounter with the poetry of the new life. We perceive their lyricism because the artist gives us the reality through her interior being that is of optimism, evocation, simplicity and a vital force that it comes from the identification with a pure art, without skillful deceits. Hilda Ora The plastic world of Jose Miguel Perez ...

Jacques Bodin - Jacques Bodin is a French hyperrealist painter. His work accentuates photographic deviations from reality (depth of field, wide angle, lighting, and focus anomalies) to create a hyperrealism reference. Subject matter includes extreme closeup views of exacting images cast in shadow through reflective lighting. His paintings, generally of extremely large dimensions, are executed from photos projected on the canvas from an episcope or videoprojector. He works in diverse subject themes such as grass, fruits, hair, trees and vegetation and is exceptionally organized in the manner in which he captures his subjects and depicts them with meticulous attention. Approaching minimalism, some of his works embark on a conceptual aspect of hyperreality....

Jessica Burke - Artist Statement Jessica Burke "I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it." -Keith Harring My paintings are a means of communication. I believe we are a visual culture and our identity is defined by the images we create. My work operates as a documentation of the experience of being human. These images function as the vehicle for the assertion of this cultural identity. I believe there is an inherent power within an image that allows people to relate to each other, themselves and their world through the sharing of a universal visual vocabulary. ...

Daniel Janssens - "It is the woman's beauty and mystery that have made me paint and sculpt in the first place." The artist, who previously painted only one human figure per painting, has recently begun to represent several figures, and these figures are no longer exclusively women. In sculpture also, the single human figures of the beginning are gradually replaced by intertwined figures, that go by two, by couple, or even by trio or quartet. "Previously, it was the individual that questioned me. Now, increasingly, I paint and sculpt attitudes and relationships." Painting and sculpture are based on different relationships: that between the sculptor-painter and his painting or sculpture, that between colors and shapes, that between the spectator and the work of art, and finally, the possible relationship between the different spectators. "However, I have not become a narrative artist, even if the spectator can invent stories about the human figures they see depicted." - But why only one subject? - Because the more one concentrates on one - and only one - subject, the deeper one can go, and the more style and technique can speak freely. If one always seeks to change subjects, it becomes difficult to specialize in it." It is the...

Mario Cossu - I believe that another reality exists and that we can see it only with the eyes of the child who is inside of us. So I set free my mind and let the brush go on the canvas, translating my dreams, allucinations, mysterious presences, images of subconscious into oil paintings....