Tempera Paintings (295)

Artists Describing Their Art:

Matei Enric - My art is a combination between easel and wall painting. More pieces which are assembled together, creating a full image, a piece of work. Space, as usual, circumscribes the work, the wall ( the vital space around the picture ) is inserted in the piece of work, becoming in this way an element ( having plastic valences) of the composition. The piece of work, in whose substance is also integrated the wall where it is placed, remindes of the wall painting , having a better comunication with the environment unbeing isolated from it by a frame or a closed shape ( square, rectangle etc). The base of my painting consists of the plastic rhythm ( the whole composition relying on the arrangement of similar elements) and the use of different ways of the elements materialization ( brush-up ) ....

Mary Jane Miller - Icons are traditional images. The mystery they portray has always provoked the viewer. Each aspect of the icon contains symbolic language in image and color. The variety of icons represented here in the gallery are meant to intrigue the viewer and his or her understanding of contemporary icons. I welcome questions and conclusions about God and religion precisely because we are all trying to live and see our world better. ...

Yael Soheme - Painting, dancing and the Celtic myth have nested in me during my childhood in Bretagne for where my parents immigrated to Israel. My 1st theme upon returning to painting after over 25 years of absence is the passion and motion in dancing; this revival series is called eMotions. I was always fascinated by the human body, not only because of its beauty and complexity but also because of the intriguing body language that is unconsciously dominant, maybe even more than verbal expression. Dancers behind the scenes reflect real-life feelings behind the glory. I've painted snap shots of the tedious, yet still colorful moments of rehearsal and pausing in-between, where the figures are pensive and passionate at the same time, each in its own solitude, yet spatially united by abstract patches of color. I enjoy revealing textures and details by using many layers. Layering gives me the feeling of unveiling the obscured - de-layering both the dancers behind the scenes and my own creation process. It is a never ending research for me. This is why I paint from sketches and pictures that I am obsessively shooting; I need to get back to the figures time and again ...