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AndreaBenetti

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Pittura Neorupestre

All'alba dell'umanità, ancor prima di inventare la scrittura, l'uomo sentì la necessità di comunicare, di lasciare una traccia di sé nel mondo; tutto ciò lo fece mediante la pittura. Quell'uomo si rapportava ogni giorno con il sole, con la terra, con l'acqua, con il cielo... integrandosi armonicamente con la natura; e quand'anche la natura non rappresentasse una minaccia, egli la rispettava, con il rispetto che si deve ad una divinità, consapevole dei propri limiti. L'uomo contemporaneo ha rinnegato quei limiti e calpestato quel rispetto, ponendosi al centro del mondo e mettendo al primo posto le proprie esigenze, il proprio egoismo. Così facendo, ha stupidamente “fracassato” un incantesimo e profanato la sacralità della natura, quindi anche della vita. Allora, facciamo un passo indietro. Azzeriamo e ripartiamo da quel doveroso rispetto per la natura e per l'essere umano; l'arte, deve azzerare e ripartire dalla prima forma artistica, ovvero l'arte rupestre. Noi dobbiamo ripartire dagli albori dell'uomo e dalla sua arte primigenia, per ricostruire un nuovo mondo, in cui il rispetto per la natura e per la dignità umana siano finalmente al centro del volere dell'uomo. Solo così riaffermeremo la sacralità della vita, ormai perduta in cambio di un “miope e smaliziato stile di vita”, che sta portando ogni cosa all'autodistruzione. Ricreiamo le condizioni per “avvolgere” il mondo di amore e di pace. Ripartiamo da quella pittura rupestre, che l'uomo primitivo, molto più saggio di noi, realizzava sulle pareti rocciose, ingraziandosi il volere delle forze sovrannaturali. Per la propria parte, questo è ciò che l'arte può fare. È certamente una partenza simbolica, ma spesso i simboli posseggono una forza pari soltanto alla forza della natura; quella stessa natura che noi dobbiamo ricominciare a rispettare e ad amare.

Andrea Benetti


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artroger

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w/c and oil painting


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cd1mixedmediaabstracts

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Form, shape, composition, color is the idiomatic abstract language of all our sensory experience. In essence, all art is abstract in te literal sense being metaphorical or allegorical context as an artist experiencing self as object of creating experience. Then if and only when personified to some object text of conveyance, we as audience become the artist of our artistic experience of self in context to our sensory relationship to the object of art (the creators text). then we become the creator of the object as a reflection of self. What is art apart from any other object is a paradox to discepher. Our human legacy is personified in tool form and other functional object crafting that evolved ever more connective to evoloved agility and brain composition. To suggest this legacy of object artifacts are all reflective of dynamic cognitive acts of artistic expressisons by intent finds no support. The sudden quantum leap in astologocal measure suggesting qualitative and quantitative evidence of ars gratia artist arising in our consciousness of being an identity of self outside of group context in expressive form (Imaging, speech, sounds, dance...)symbolic text remains the most perplexing enigmatic hallmark character of humankind unequaled by any other known life form in our universe of consciousness. That we may euphemistically say of a spiders web spun is art or nature makes art but it is our poetry that makes it so. A an abstract artist my work is exploring and testing the elementary context of what causes us to to make emotional text out of object context. I am exploring myself as an abstract and the objects are my text adressing that. The object invites the audience to explore the text and their context of self in relationship to that experience. The abstract work as an object is finite, but my relationship to it or an audience rsponse to it can be infinite. It's a world of texture to which we relate more than the literal we suppose.




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chuck

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Tattoo







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cupidgurl2

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it expresses my inner emotions




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Daniela

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Psychedelic art


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darkangel17

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its all hand drawn


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delabarra

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Original dream


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dennis kenney

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DorianSnore

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Speaks for itself.






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Erebus

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See Above



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jamie

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all my dreams


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Larissa

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odking

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varied is art


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paogm

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Original, energetic and colorful






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pepe

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can paint eny subject




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plukyanenko

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Conceptual art. Conceptualism by Petr Lukyanenko is a combination of fluency in oil painting and conceptual approach that ideas are main things in art.

In publicistic pictures the artist states his attitude towards important social issues of his time. So, publicistic works of the Soviet period show deep contrast between official socialistic ideology and real life. In latest pictures the artist comprehends dramatic changes happening in post-communist societies.

Important place in Petr Lukyanenko's painting is taken by woman portrait. Showing a certain person, the artist at the same time creates aggregated image reflecting complex character of modern women.

In his art Petr Lukyanenko also comes to genres of landscape and still-life. The artist tenderly catches and reflect the beauty of the outside world. It is not necessary for him to create on canvas an exact copy of the things he has seen, the most important is to reflect arising emotions and impressions.



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randel141

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i paint in oil and acrylic.



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SDDonnini

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Artist Statement Mythology has emerged as a major theme in my art. Indio Woman in the rainforest, White Rhino and Hindu Rhada are a few examples. Everywhere I look I see the world altering in cultural ways. The painting titled “The Venus of Guadalupe” is an composite of iconic images of The Birth of Venus by Botticelli and the Virgin of The Guadalupe. Here the cultural iconic sensibilities of the Renaissance in Europe meet the Central Catholic icon of The Virgin of Guadalupe to create an expression of the clash of culture which I experienced when filming a film for the Vatican in Dallas, Texas. My painting “The Venus of Guadalupe” expresses the unfolding conflict of clashing cultures in the American Southwest. Cultural and religious sensibilities collide to create a new cultural energy. I have always focused on my fine art as a pure expression of my experiences and the film assignments paid the bills. In this way I have avoided the pressure of making art to please a mass market. Many of my oil paintings have short stories with the same titles like my oil painting on canvas titled “Humpback Creeper” is about life on a carnival a American traveling show. The image is a clown hiding behind a midway tent. My grandfather owned a traveling show from the 1940 until his death in 1961. As a youngster, I would travel with him during the summer where I learned about what happens on the midway and how the games are set up as "Flat Stores" to flat take your money. The paintings deal mostly with mortality, rituals, culture, religions, sex, mythology and extinction. These subjects reflect the conflict of values and aspirations that shape our worldly experience. The near extinction of these small town traveling shows is a great loss to our culture which has been replaced by video games and other more readily available entertainment. In 1955, I was a small boy playing in my father’s studio, I loved all the astonishing things he had to work with. The brushes of sable and camel hair were my favorites, because they felt so good to the touch. It took many years to discover the real value of those brushes. Fifty years later, I have some of his tubes of oil paint that have long ago turned dense. His fingerprints are still visible on the tubes. He demonstrated, that to be a successful artist, one needed to be technically masterful, live an interesting life, work harder than most and be willing to promote the art. I keep a few of his oil paintings and drawings in my studio as a reminder. My paintings tell a story about the subject that is in my unconscious that combines with my way of perceiving the world. You may find them disturbing, playful or even comforting. My intention is to release the viewer to a new consciousness, a different reality. Much of what happens in painting is the joy of working with oil paint that involves my reverence for light, shape and color. Each painting may take as long as 4 months to accomplish. This happens as a result of the time it takes for study drawings, under painting and for layers of oil paint to dry. I rarely use anything but primary colors. Every mixed color has a small percent of every other color in it. This brings a harmonious conglomeration that becomes it’s own reality. One important aspect of my art is the relationship to the art collector. I believe I must promote the value and quality of my art, so that collectors will see it as a good investment. In the art marketplace, art is worth whatever the potential future value may be, not always what it is valued at, at the moment. That’s why I spend time to cultivate the growing value of my art for the collectors and a vision of life that is unique through the art. In the end its all about ones experience with the art. Life emerges from art, art emerges from life.








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spencer

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Artist Statement: Life is a game. Play along. In the Grand Scheme of it all, we may very well be experiencing different realities. These are definitely wacky times. We live in an age of orange newscasters and Burger King memorabilia. I stepped off the deep end a long time ago and have been dogpaddling for dear life ever since. Nobody taught me to run from my problems. I had to learn that one on my own. I give myself over to That Which Governs. I know Someone or Something is watching after me, keeping vigil. Every day I thank my lucky stars and the Powers That Be that there are art collectors in this world. "Thank you," to everyone who owns and all future owners of these paintings. You are wonderful people, allowing me to continue painting and giving me great satisfaction. If you're ever in Los Angeles, please look me up. I'll buy you some lunch. Every canvas has an agenda--a life of its own separate from its maker, separate from thought or logic or reason--and to plot its course is only to interfere. To plan is to destroy. Let it paint. Trust the mess. All marks are good. Oh, but the mutiny of scrutiny . . . if we could only leave it alone. The self-taught artist has a great chance to be unique. Without knowledge of "rules" to hinder the hand or an instructor's style to imitate, what results is pure, entirely his own. Contrary to popular belief, abstract art is "meaningful" on a parallel with representational art. Each of us sees differently, and individual responses to an abstract work of art are varied. An abstract work's "meaning" is oftentimes stronger and more personal for the viewer than it is in purely representational art where the subject matter is obvious and can only evoke a limited range of emotions. Nowhere else in this existence have I found the freedom and exhilaration that oil painting affords. Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Welcome words to a daydreamer like me. "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." Francis Bacon Being gay is a gift, a variation on a theme. Love is too powerful to be shaped or confined. At the moment, I'm loving the paintings of Cecily Brown, Raimonds Staprans and Paul Balmer. My all-time favorites are Max Beckmann, Milton Avery, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Joan Mitchell, Richard Diebenkorn, Egon Schiele, Helen Frankenthaler and Lucien Freud.




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Statik66

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comic andcomic book art



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