Artists Describing Their Art:
Rafael Arrieta-Eskarzaga - "Through my art I endeavor to represent by various methods the world in which we live. Thus, I may express the duality of life by contrasting light and dark in my paintings while I juxtapose organic and geometric forms in my sculptures. Independently of the theme of an individual piece, my work is a reminder to the observer of the ethereal quality and mutability of our seemingly solid physical reality." Arrieta-Eskarzaga...
Israel Tsvaygenbaum - I believe that art is as necessary as the air we breathe; it is what makes us human. As an artist, my role is to help people fulfill this need. My medium is oil on canvas. I like the roughness, the vibrancy of oil. Through oil, I can best express myself. I love the process of painting. When I'm painting, I don't think about the finished product or the viewer; I just focus on being true to the process. Before I ever touch the canvas, or begin to sketch, I let the images swirl around in my mind. Then, I begin a series of sketches to translate my thoughts into more concrete images. As the images take shape on the canvas, they begin to change. Sometimes, I myself am surprised at the outcome. What kind of painting do I do? I don't like labels; I prefer to be free to interpret my ideas as they come to me. Some of the themes that have figured in my paintings are my personal past, Jewish history, Biblical themes and nature. A number of my paintings are set in Derbent, a city in the south of Russia where I spent ...
Carola Daireaux - Carola Daireaux was born in Seville (Spain) from an Argentinean family in 1967. She graduated in Fine Arts from the University UFRJ of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 97. With her acrylics on canvas paintings she represents in a colorful & lively way her feelings about everyday experiences. Her art works can be found in private collections in the United States, England, Italy, France, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil & Argentina. ...
Lina Golan - Lina Golan Statement Sounds, colors and shapes have accompanied my journey through life, since the dawn of my childhood. It was clear to me even then,that art would be a way of life for me. I have studied painting, sculpting and music with wonderful teachers ,who helped focus my attention on the fact, that art is predominantly about observing and listening. The essence of my creation is inspired by nature itself, not in the sense of "landscape paintings", but based on events and its mystical qualities: the contrasts, the rhythms, the never-ending transformations, the mystery, the enormous energies - all of which have affected my artistic microcosmos. Being a musician and a painter, I feel there is a wonderful interaction between music and painting where sound can be nourished by color, and a plastic piece can play. ...
Sc Bhattacharya - Plucking Ideas from the boiling Caldron of World Affairs, S.C Bhattacharya is a self effecting Artist of City Beautiful Chandigarh ( INDIA ) was born in Nangal Township on 6/4/1953. He draws Images of Shimmering thought within the Parameters of Poetic Understatement .His large collection of cartoons and Posters, spanning from public health to consumer programmes and world events. A Bengali by birth, he spent his early life at Nangal Township. In 1993 he came to city beautiful chandigarh and started his art work. His cartoons are publishing in the leading Newspaper of India "THE TRIBUNE". His cartoons are also publishing in some other Indian Newspapers. His cartoons are also being telecasted by Zee TV Channel of India in their "Morning Zee" programme from December 2000 to July 2001. His five posters are in the archive of Dansk Plakat Museum ( Danish Poster Museum ), Arhus, Denmark. It is one of the biggest poster museum in the world covering 126 countries in the archive. Dansk Plakat Museum have about 2 lacs posters. ...
Stefan Van Der Ende - My sculptures are Solutions for Non/existing Problems . Now is the time to collect them. They are rare and unique ,and there are not many of them , also due to the big amount of time it takes to make the biggerones in wood and stone . They are made dreaming/thinking and working intensively , whith the intention to be able communicate emotion through their abstract/associative visual appearence which relate to subconcious processes in the human mind .(specialy mine ofcourse ) There are often more pictures of one sculpture , because ,as you know you have to see sculptures from more sides , to get a good impression . Mijn sculpturen zijn oplossingen voor niet /bestaande problemen . het is nu de tijde om ze te gaan verzamelen Ze zijn zeldzaam en speciaal , en er zijn er niet zoveel te koop , ook als gevolg van het feit dat het een grote hoeveelheid tijd kost om ze te maken ( speciaal die in hout en steen ) Ze worden gemaakt in een intensief proces van denken dromen en werken . Met het doel uiteindelijk via hun abstract/associatieve visuele aanwezigheid emoties via abstracte vorm te communiceren via de interpreatie van de beschouwer .door het raken van onderbewuste oude lagen in ...
Silvia Poloto - Artist statement on PROCESS: Private Puzzles 2010 - 2011 I am drawn to the idea of abstraction, where meaning is not absolute but suggestive. Throughout my career I have worked in many different media: drawing, printmaking, painting, photography and sculpture to name a few. My photographic works, at the core, are "equivalents" of reality. That is to say, I create scenes or objects to be photographed, rather than illustrate existential situations. The process is an internal one inspired by personal experiences and imagination. My latest body of work combines processes I have used in the past, expressing the visual vocabulary I have already learned in new contexts. I begin by building plexiglass boxes, filling some of them with resin and others with wax. I then make drawings, which I print on transparent film and build up in layers on top of each box. I repeat this process until I am satisfied with the result and, then, I photograph it. Initially, I wanted to print very large-format photographs on watercolor paper. However, the high cost of printing such large pieces was prohibitive. A fellow photographer, and friend, offered the use of his own printer, but it was smaller than what I...