Artists Describing Their Art:

Sanjay Sen Gupta - The Aesthetic Gesture my attitude towards art _______________________ 1. Life is a splendor. This splendor is manifested through various dimensions all around us, as well as within our self. It is an eternal continuity of harmony - a variable balance between all the contradictions and diversities. It's a journey from the beginning of the end towards the end of the beginning. And we are the blessed, the chosen ones; and life goes on - with and/or without. 2. When we think or/and speak of our 'self', the 'self' becomes highlighted, focused to our consciousness. And thus everything else defuse into a sense of nonexistence, a sense of nothingness, a sense of 'void'. Contrarily, when we think or/and talk about anything else, i.e. the 'sense of other', the 'self' defuses into the whole and becomes a part of the 'void'. And when we focus on 'everything', the 'self' and the 'other' loose their viability and defuse into the whole. Thus the focus gets split and 'everything' becomes synonymous to 'nothingness', the 'void'. Each and every moment, in each and every act that we perform - knowingly or unknowingly - our sense of being keep changing sides. The 'self', the 'other' ...

Timothy King - ARTIST STATEMENT and BIOGRAPHY STATEMENT I find painting goes beyond the notion that painted reality is "nothing but " a precursor to a photographic realism. Painting is a phenomenological experiment. There is a synthesis between the visual and the kinesthetic that forms a powerful third range of human perception. Human space and form are not purely optical manifestations. The painting of mass and line can provoke a muscle sense, a physical ness between viewer and the painted relationships. Hans Hoffman called this "Push-Pull". Matisse referred to this as the convexity of pictorial space. In this "meta-vision" or "minds-eye" the painter is not freed from the experience of perspective and local color and the naturalistic geometry of the objects and scenes. Rather, the painter can be liberated by the experience and knowledge of the defining aspects of human reality. Vision encompasses the obvious factors of sight along with other less obvious paths to sensing reality. Human vision is based on a plasticity of structures that tell us more than what a photograph can convey. The visual system, governed by layers of logical relationships, goes much further than a photo interpretation of reality. Painters like Courbet and Cezanne understood ...

Richard Olmstead - Influenced by my art, design, and architecture background of the 50's-60's many of my works incorporate a modern style. Creating good design out of materials that were readily available was and remains a priority. Form, function, and appearance are important considerations of my work, which includes: buildings, paintings, furniture, jewelry, lighting, sculpture, set design, pottery, custom automobiles, and other applications. I believe in paying careful attention to the slightest detail and striving for perfection. Applying skills, talent, and imagination to materials transforms them to art. ...

Youri Messen-Jaschin - Youri Messen-Jaschin is an artist of Latvian origin, he was born in Arosa-Switzerland. His artistic studies brought him to the "Ecole Superieur Nationale des Beaux-Arts". He was a pupil of professor and master Robert Cami and also attended the Hautes Etudes of the Sorbonne University, which included, History of Art, with professor Pierre Francastel from the Ecole Pratique, in Paris. From 1962 to 1965 he returned to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, where he worked with the engraver and painter Ernest Pizzotti. He debuted his creations at the Lausanne EXPO, in 1964 (Swiss fair), where he presented his kinetic sculptures of glass and acrylic resin. Youri was searching for new forms of art. He worked two years in "The Center of Contemporary Engraving" in Geneva. But it was in Zurich that he expanded his pictorial perspective with the experience of the circle above the face, influenced by the Swiss painter Friederick Kuhn. From 1968 to 1970, he studied at the University of Hogskolan for design & Konsthantwerk of Gothenburg, where he made kinetic objects of textiles. In 1967, he met Jesus-Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Julio Le Parc during an ...

Tapan Kar - Born in 1954. Tapan Kar is an Indian artist who lives and works in Kolkata. He graduated from the Govt. College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata and pursuaded an MA in Bengali in the University of Calcutta. Tapan's favourite medium of work is Tempera, a less used medium of the present time. The matte finish of tempera gives his works a special dimension which reflects the true meaning of his thought.... and the life....

Rebecca Merry - Rebecca takes her inspiration from images of sacred art: primarily Islamic geometry, Christian Orthodox Icons, Indian and Western miniatures and illuminations, and early Italian Renaissance painting. More recently she has been drawing inspiration from Russian folk art, and Art Nouveau. She works primarily in egg tempera and is a member of the Society of Tempera Painters. Tempera is a traditional paint medium still used by the Orthodox Church which combines egg yolk and pigments to make a bright durable paint which is painted on gesso panels. She also makes her own gouache paint from pigments for her works on paper, as used in Indian miniature painting, and some collage work and etchings. The work itself is colourful, intense and with a strong narrative content. All of it depicts an archetypal, symbolic world where the ideals of things exist. To this end, all the pictures are based on geometric patterns that give them their innate harmonious quality. The colours too are carefully chosen, to give a sense of musical composition, an idea drawn from Indian miniature painting, where images are often painted as a mirror of a musical mode. ...

Rebecca Merry - Rebecca Merry - Patrick Gysemberg - If, at the end of your life, someone would ask you if you had done something to contribute to the world peace, would you be able to say : "yes, I did?" I, at least, will be able to say so, that I used all my means possible to do so, I would be able to say that I have tried, even if I did not succeed I have a feeling inside that tells me that I have to do this, even if this brings me being laughed at and sneer...patrick 08/08/2005 *Nautical and Arctic action painting impressions-a new painting series After a journey of seven times towards the arctic sea world around Island, Svalbard and Norway, it came clear to me that i have to share these rare and exquisite moments in time and place with the world, since i have realized that only a few fortunate people are privileged to see this once in their lives. I have seen it seven times...Moreover, seven is a magical number bringing luck and happiness. So I am working now on a painting series of this magnificent piece of the earth to share with you all. I hope ...