Artists Describing Their Art:
Mike Garibay - Works by this artist consists of random shapes and colors done in oil and oil pastels over large canvases. Other smaller works in oil and canvas/panels represent expressive detail in abstract. The artist Mural size projects are also available as well as very fine portrait detail works. ...
Alex Jobbagy - "Being both a formally and a self educated artist, I have always been interested in social/political issues as the major forces that shape our life, and their effect on the average person's struggle to survive and rise. I had my first solo exhibition at the age of 13. Inspired by the surrealist movement and Salvador Dali, my artistic style of expression is surrealism and symbolism. I am continuously experimenting with different mediums but my favourite remains oil on canvas. As an artist, I feel that it is my duty to reveal the contrast between the harmonious relationship of the individual with nature, as opposed, to the man-made, often artificial, connections developed in the modern society. While my artworks speak for themselves, I want to present these issues from a different, unique angle, hoping to stop viewers and encourage them to think." Visit my blog at:
Oleg Sheludyakov - At the beginning of the creative life within several years I experimented with most various materials and technics: a water color and tempera, gouache and acrylic, a sculpture and ceramics. However as a result I have recognized that the traditional technics of oil painting completely answers to my temperament and allows to solve creative problems interesting to me most adequately. Since then the canvas and oil remain my favourite materials and every year I open in them more and more the latent opportunities. I do not get tired to admire with those plastic and color riches which is concealled in itself this classical art-technics. ...
Sheila Fraga - Woman figure is the main theme of this exhibition entitled "Hope." Woman body has been an inspirational and interest motive for many artists in the Art History. I had intended to take this concept in order to reflect not only the woman beauty and sensuality but also to incorporate my own living experiences within the history frame that my generation had lived. I would like to establish a dialogue between the audience and my paintings to provoke controversy and interest toward concepts of identity, spirituality and love. Characters portray feelings of love, defiance, meditation, hope, and encourage the spectator to dream. Nudity is not used to identify woman figure as a sex symbol but a bearer of feelings, spirituality, expressiveness and determination to pursue happiness and new ideas in the social scenario. The use of celestial settings depicted In the skies and clouds are implemented to reflect spirituality and its interaction with daily life. Techniques such as oil, pastel and cut-out are present in my paintings and drawings as a mean to transmit emotions and expressiveness. It's creativity that strives me to seek new ways of expression to materialize my work. To create multiple scenarios with the only...
Kamal Bhandari - I am a contemporary realist painter based in India. I did three year diploma in Drawing and painting from Kumar College of Fine arts, Ludhiana under the supervision of Director and Senior faculty Mr.Raaz Thakur. Just back after attending Summer 2011 intensive workshop by Florence Academy of Art at Gothenburg Sweden. The instructors were Andreas Birath, Stephen Bauman and Cornelia Hernes, all my favourites. I have a strong desire study under Ted Seth Jacobs, Daniel Graves, John Angel, Jeremy Lipking, Morgan Weistling, Steve Hanks, Anthony Ryder and Jacob Collins. ...
Vasily Zolottsev - There is only one law in art which carries objective character and comes from the very nature, conditional character and illusiveness of art! It is an indispensable condition of creation of an artistic image! It is necessary to judge an artwork by intensity and importance of the image and force of its emotional influence! Style, manner and technique don't have any importance and they are equivalent! The good picture of a primitive artist can be much more valuable in the art sense than a 'competent' picture of a realist and on the contrary! If there is an image, there is a work of art, if there isn't, it's no use crying for the moon! And it is not important which art means it has been reached by! Everyone to his 'own' taste! ...
Laurie Pagels - "I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do" -- Leonardo DaVinci Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition. (Robert Henri)...