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Artists Describing Their Art:

Mark Charles Fox - Photography has often had an identity problem. Over its nearly 200 years, it has won sometimes grudging and other times enthusiastic cultural acceptance. Today, everyone is a photographer. In my view, what I am is an image manipulator. Image manipulating is a daily yoga, I do it for the intrinsically meditative state it induces. In college, oops too late, at the end of my thesis preparation I realized what I should have been doing all along, studying iconography, how we might share wonder and convey the ineffable. This is part of my motivation and a hoped-for result of these externalized meditations. During the past decade or more, IaEURtmve engaged in image manipulating in a dedicated way and have created thousands of them. Each one starts with a photo I have taken and IaEURtmll begin to imagine transforming its shapes and colors. There are just a few rules for instance, never cut and paste, nor combine source images into one, work with one at a time. My preferences extend to the most spaced-out looking images, but I also do ones that might be called aEURoecontemporarily traditionalaEUR. Earlier on, it was all about experimentation, working an image until ...

Rebeca Calvogomez - I needed therapy. All this frustration, anger, sadness and introversion issues I've never been good at expressing my feelings with words, or asking for what I need, or saying no before I explode. And so come painting. No words, just images. Me, alone with my images. A perfect match. Even better, it could all be done with oil painting, so I needed turpentine, with that smell that I love so much maybe it makes me high, who knows. Getting your hands and clothes dirty, listening to the light sound of the brush on a canvas or a piece of wood and submerging myself in the colors and shapes that come to existence in front of me. That's how I find my pleasure. It started with painting images of small details, a tree, a rock, a street daily images that stayed with me because they captured my imagination, made me calm, or frightened me, or brought me back to some cherished memory of a sweet smell, or the wind on my naked body Windows into a world that was out there but come to live inside me. Then come "On Humanity", those abandoned dogs, and cook fights, bull fights, ...

Hengameh Abedin - My painting universe is influence by poem and poetic atmosphere. The universe with advantage of symbols,old and new fashions and compounding of themes. The universe with somnambulism and awakness, coexistence with reality which is sourced from my imagination. My specific point of view to human who is just a component of the main,and again returns to himself. All of my paintings inspired from my mind,spirit and all of it's elements inspired from my historical memory, people and objects, social and cultural platform which i have lived in. My paintings came from abstraction to figurative and conversely....

Isidro Cistare - A<< Painting allows me to live in my own world, where I feel completely happy. A>> Isidro CistarA(c) grew up in a house full of paintings and sculptures, and developed his designing skills first in a jewellery shop, then in his familyaEURtms medal-making company. His energetic paintings contemplate people and places from a distance, accentuating their spirit and encompassing the pure artistic passion heaEURtms carried since boyhood....