Artists Describing Their Art:
Edward Tabachnik - Edward Tabachnik Through all my works you will find that my attitude toward color and light combines tradition of impressionism with various surrealistic situations. Working on illustrations for Kafka's novels, I was looking for a symbolic image of a mystical town. I found it in Gaudi's "Sagrada Familia". Almost on each of my paintings you can see my "signature"- flying phantasmagoria tower, which has become for me a living entity, procreating itself, connecting The Past with The Future. Fascinated with the theory of Black Holes and the origin of The World is also reflected in many paintings in the form of "Singularity", through which Time passes, connecting The Past with The Future. I was always attracted to mystery of Kabbalah, and to other Jewish teachings. Many of my works are related to these themes. After seeing the destroyed Synagogue in Berlin, I've "recreated" it in my painting, and also dedicated a number of my works to Jewish History. In my works I try to blend my fantasy with sometimes well known, sometimes created architectural details. My schooling was both - in architecture and painting. My love for architecture can be seen through many of my works. There is ...
Theo Radic - Everyone experiences drawing and painting as children. I was perhaps one year old therefore when I was first initiated into the painter's craft. I continued these universal beginnings throughout my school years and sporadic courses in college (which gave me few insights into this art). [...] I had only myself as a teacher in the art of painting. My evolution as a painter paralleled that of art history in general, beginning with my prehistoric period as a one-year-old-clutcher-of-crayolas, groping through Egyptian and Greek periods; a Renaissance period; and then neo-classicism, romanticism and naturalism; impressionism and fauvism; cubism and abstract expressionism. At nineteen I went to Europe, thirsty for scope and depth in Art which America lacks. Having established myself in the south of France, I absorbed the emanations of the modern masters who had lived and painted there. I was profoundly moved by the bizarre snow storm over La Cote d'Azur on the night of Picasso's death. No such storm had ever been seen before in April, as old-timers in Nice told me. [...] Fully acknowledging my debt to 'abstract expressionism', I nonetheless do not consider my art'abstract' - a word ...
Winnie Davies - I started my initial art training with traditional Chinese painting and Chinese Calligraphy. I've found that the traditional art training gave me a good foundation for my further development of art, even in oil painting and sculpture. I love art of all forms and all media, art shouldn't have any limitation....
Elio Lopez - Expressionism through color, depth, and the deconstruction of form Sight. Seeing. How do we see? Is it simply through optic sensations that we view and judge the world around us? Our circumstances? Or is there some deeper, psychological process we are/are not aware of at play? To what extent of what we see is colored by our own personal psychology? The psychology of our environment? Our society? What I ultimately love most about painting over all other mediums, is the flexibility allowed the artist. While the same may be said of other mediums, for me, this is especially true with painting. Recent technological developments in materials has decreased the medium's limitations. Now more than ever a wide variety of possibilities to express oneself exists. Currently the images I'm working with come from a long tradition in European (especially Spanish) painting. By searching for new ways to approach and create these archaic images, I seek to find a new way of self-expression. I believe that most, if not all, great art is born of struggle between the things that limit us, that stand between what we want and what we can control. Each attempt at deconstructing the ...
Jerry Sauls - As I see it, the challenge to me as an artist, is not only to paint nature in all her glory and diversity, but also to capture the emotion a scene evokes and incorporate that emotion into the mixing of paint on my palette and into my brushstrokes as the paint is applied to the canvas. Detail, color and texture are as important to my work, as light and the elements are to nature. When planning a new work of art, I like to think about something I have experienced, and how the image can be influenced by natural elements like light and weather. Often, I will begin working with a particular image in my mind, and as I progress, wonderful things seem to happen, transforming my visual image as it is passed onto the canvas. As a result, the completed work is sometimes very different from my original vision. ...
Carole Wilson - The inspiration for my images comes from meditation, dreams, and hypnogogic imagery; creating a healing, helpful presence wherever the art is placed is my goal. To that end, my intention is to create art that is visually stimulating, both overtly and on a subtle energetic level. As colors and shapes affect mood in powerful ways, I seek to evoke a joyful, uplifting response in the viewer. There is an underlying pure and positive force that can be expressed through the visual medium of painting, that is at once mysterious and yet accessible to human consciousness. Channeling this energy through paint and canvas is the purpose behind my work....
Georgia Papamichail - Where peace around herself big circles makes Where soul,in closed eyes,funds love in mind.... The fantasy is enough to make the form... Looks like fream the state of my thought... Sleeping and awake I am... In silence I'm touching the memory... Images for the longing of the heart... Tiny words I make for eyes... Don't you hear the echo ot my eyes? ...
Lynette Seiter - The world is full of beautiful sunsets, quiet lakes, majestic mountains, nostalgic streets and interesting people. I love the beauty of nature, the excitement of a city street and the diversity of people. I like to paint the world as it really is. Idealistic painting is pretty but I find beauty in things as they really are: a rock formations with it's cracks and crags, an exposed tree root as it twists in and out of itself. Even man made things are beautiful: buildings, streets, bridges. I love the shape and color of buttons. Flowers and fruit offer a whole array of shapes and colors that dazzle the eye just as they are. I would like to share a little bit of it with others. I would hope that a beautiful or interesting scene will uplift and inspire someone to live better, smile more often and treat our world and other people with care and respect. I would love to share with others what God has so freely given to me. It is my hope that my artwork will bring peace and joy to those who see it and that each will enjoy and be grateful for the beautiful ...
Aurora Mazzoldi - Like every artist I let inspiration grow in me, so I can transmit through my paintings the images, emerging from my subconscious mind as an inexhaustible source of experiences, stories and paths. All that is depicted through objects, faces, expressions, body positions and movements, which describe stories, dreams, hopes, illusions and desires... ...
Giulio Baistrocchi - my work deal with the microcosmos ans macrocosmos.The microcosmos is my subconsciousness, free from rational selfish arrogance.The macrosmos is wild nature, and not the trimmed humanised and rationalised nature. I use the amazon as a symbol of a flamboyant, exuberant yet fragile nature that overgrows everything almost like a green monster, eating and digesting everything. life and death, dance a syncopated samba, like man amd woman(or in ,my case passive man with active man) in a sexual frenzy. THis beautiful green monster is scary because we are afraid of loosing control,yet fragile because as soon as the forest is cultivated it get sterile after a few years.The micro and macro are linked, our obsession with rationaly is destroying ourselves and the amazon, destroying the amazon is the desire of rationality to destroy subconsciousness...
Shefqet Avdush Emini - INTERNATIONAL ARTIST Biography Shefqet Avdush Emini, an internationally recognized artist. He is an academically educated artist who developed his own style. His own aEUR~signatureaEURtm, which made him famous. The list of exhibitions of his artworks in museums and art galleries worldwide is long. Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, China, Austria, Nederland, Washington D.C.U,Switzerland,Germany, Italy, Grot Britannia, Spain, Portugal, France Louver Belgium, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, Brazil, Washington, Kuwait, Slovakia,Poland, Oman, Russia, Palestina,Canada, Algeria, Azerbaijan, India,Tunez. Besides, he is regular invited to join art symposia where local and international artist do come together to create art and get inspired. Shefqet is also connected to the Filarski Academy, a private Academy in The Netherlands founded by the artist Marian Filarski, as a teacher for master classes in painting. Ina Eskes MA of Art history
Irena Tatiboit - My way of painting comes from my experience of movement in dancing; more particularly from a technique I have developed step by step in order to create new movements (gestures) when improvising in dancing. I define this conduct as a reconstruction of a deconstructed movement. Deconstruction is based on the principle of isolation. This principle which can be equally applied to motion, space, plane depth or to the idea of emptiness or of fullness enables to define different elements which I combine together in infinite variations. However this process is always the result of an intentional choice. In order for it to take its full meaning, the mental demands to which it obeys must be submitted to chance. Creation requires some constraints, and in my painting water plays this part. Water permits the conflicting elements of reconstruction to reveal themselves, and to display the premises of representation. Paintings are presented on a piece of wood of variable thickness. They may be square or rectangular, one or two-sided with sliding or mobile elements. The paintings may be hung, laid or handled. Diptychs or triptychs are my favourite shapes. Most of the time I use acrylic paint and cover the edge ...
Claudette Losier - Artistic Statement - Claudette Losier (LosiersArt) "Where Beauty Lies " "The artist knows that even though he has created something beautiful, it can be destroyed. His real and innermost satisfaction is not in the object, but in the subject; that thing within him that penetrates the mystic splendor of Beauty itself." (Ernest Holmes pg 39) One of my bodies of work explores the concept of Paradise as something sought after by modern society. My search centres on gardens--as near as our own backyard and as far away as other continents or the imaginary garden in our consciousness. It has been stated that each garden reflects our longing for spiritual peace--a tie with our primeordal beginnings. It is in the beauty of nature where I find this spiritual peace from a homemade garden to a formal garden, from a tree to the vastness of Grand Canyon, from a rocky coast line to the calmness of a man made pond. In Dr. Wayne Dyer's book "Power of Intention" he quotes from Emily Dickson and John Keats(pg 51): "Beauty is not caused. It is " As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, ...