Artists Describing Their Art:
Miran Kres - I am not rigid author stuck in my tried and true manner of expression. My interests branched from painting into installation and video and vice versa, because I am exploring the gesture of representation with different "lens." I am finding the way to modernize and rename the formal cognitions of modernism into completely different constellations of meaning. My research on perception and the use of light lead to image spaces where the shades and highlights of colors, blended into each other, create the monochromatic visual effect thus provoking an impression on the observer. Working between those limits and kind of pointing them out is something I enjoy doing because it's not just the fact that you are bringing the cosmos down into the space where you live, but that your perception helps create that as well....
Thom Green - Thom Green is an imaginative muralist, illustrator, and sculptor who is driven by a passion for self-expression through art. His works are often noted for their unique style, elegance, and technique. Over twenty-five years of professional mural painting makes Thom's work an excellent choice for a wide range of projects and purposes. Thom is accomplished in using traditional methods as well as modern technique. His artworks have been featured in museums, galleries, and commercial locations across the nation and abroad. Thom's illustrations have also appeared in children's books and textbooks. Although Thom loves to express his vision through art, he is also adept at creating commercial works and readily communicates the vision of his clientele. ...
Michael Griesgraber - In my recent "X Squared" Series I combine vibrant colors with the ideas espoused by the Color Field "school" artists whose paintings are characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. The Color Field movement placed less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action in favor of an overall consistency of form and process. In this respect the colors are freed from objective context and become the subject itself. I also find, generally speaking, musical notes and colors have a common attribute. Musical notes are as individual as colors. Both have a primitive charm that flows through the brain to inundate our emotions. Colors, like musical notes, stimulate certain moods. Combinations of colors like music can evoke joy, excitement, fear, anger - any number of emotions - while the used of geometry in my paintings provides balance and stability just as music uses structure to create melody and harmony. It should be obvious that the X Squared Series paintings are more akin to jazz than classical music in their construction and composition. As the Hans Hofmann wrote, "The world comes to us through the mystic realm of color. ...
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? ...
Lucjan Kowalewski - Lucjan Kowalewski was born in 1950 in Bia3a in Poland. Although he never studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, art critics quickly recognised his interesting works and in 1981 he was accepted as a member of the Union of Polish (professional) Artists and Designers. He has taken part in several exhibitions of Polish art. Now he is one of the most interesting Polish painters. He also creates sculptures (mainly in bronze), ceramics and does interior decorating. Works in museums, private collections and galleries: Poland, England, Japan, Sweden, Canada, Australia, USA, Italy. It's almost impossible to classify Kowalewski's works. They remind one of abstract art but can't be described with any well - known terms although a connoisseur's eye will notice that his usage of light and colour is similar to the manner of post impressionists (though the paintings themselves have nothing to do with them). Kowalewski is fascinated by older masters, such as Dutch masters of light. This is also seen in the artist's techniques, his precise brushwork, interesting canvas texture and subtle and elaborate lines that sometimes appear on canvas, which are reminiscent of 17th century engravings. He sometimes blends tones and sometimes ...
Michael Tieman - As Michael Tieman sees it, "The role of an artist from the dawn of time has been as a visual storyteller. The stories my paintings and sculpture tell are ones of confidence, strength, passion, playful sophistication and the celebration of life." "I create my bronze sculpture as a three dimensional painting, texture becomes the Impressionistic impasto brushstroke, color is the play of light and shadows across the surfaces, and detail is the impression of movement." ...
Ione Citrin - Ione is an avant garde artist whose artistic expression takes fantastic shape through her diverse oil and watercolor paintings, bronze sculptures, found object collages and mixed media assemblages. Her paintings and sculptures range from abstract to realistic to impressionistic - all visionary interpretations from her imaginative soul. "When I paint, I dip my brush in my soul... Being an Artist is a life force, not a career choice. Each piece represents a fragment of my life's work. I present the world artistically as I see it, as I wish to see it, and occasionally as I once saw it. You see, It is my identity. Without this expression of self, I am nothing. Through my art I give love." Ione uses only one name but a variety of styles to soothe her wild imagination. A native of Chicago, she is a former television star and commercial voice-over artist. Now she wins awards and sells her creativity through her hands instead of through her larynx. Her art is as original as she is - bold, colorful and highly decorative....
Charo Noriega - Art is a way of living, art a way of seeing, a way of finding unexpected things...art is my only urgency at each moment of my life...but Art,(as well as Fate) vanishes when people hear their own name and grow in stature when no one is chasing them behind... ...
Dariya Afanaseva - All my works are dedicated to the themes of relationship and sensation translated on a language of painting. For example, relationship between people. Relationships human about him/her self and to outward things. And some of my works are about memories and thoughts. And also it is interesting for me to reproduce an eluding moment, an impression in a matter of seconds, fragments of life. Just because everything depends on nuance. Three main styles I work in are abstractionism, expressionism and a bit of pop-art. But these styles are not just as they are, it`s always a combination of them. Some of my Abstract works represent things that aren't visual, such an emotion, mood, feeling, sound and so on. These works are very association. My figurative abstractions are simplifications of reality, where detail is eliminated from recognisable objects leaving only the essence or some degree of recognizable form. Some works are expressive. I just let my intuition guide me. Not to thinking, not to be doubt of anything. It is about trusting the process and setting free the instincts. And also I like decorativeness and beauty of coloring. My choice of medium are acrylic and mixed media ...