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Artition: Interview with Niclas Winters

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The young and extraordinary talent Niclas Winters creates work that is powerful both in texture as well as composition. While you feel rawness in his pieces the progress in his development of different skills and techniques is tremendous and continually increasing. His brand-mark might be the chimpanzee mainly throughout his drawings, which would metaphor his recent artistic status quite well: playful but very clever!

Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?

NW:
My art is an illustration and comment on my surrounding and state of mind. I am bringing my urban environment mixed with my personal comment on the canvas. In various ways I am reflecting my personality and using different characters to represent these factors.

Artition:
What or who inspires you?

NW:
Everyday life inspires me, the street art scene and various artists such as Shepard Fairey (Obey), Takashi Murakami, Sam Flores etc. Everything is an inspiration if you make something out of it.

Artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

NW:
The messages I am trying to make are conflicts in my surrounding and possibly of various other people. Stating the ovious in different forms and styles.

Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

NW:
Artition is a great medium of displaying your art and bringing it out to the people. It is also great to have the possibility to communicate with other artists and view their art works, their styles, their stories.

Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?

NW:
Most inspirational artists which influenced my art a lot are Takashi Murakami, Banksy and Shepard Fairey although various other artists impress me with their work and help me find my own way in my art.

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Artition: Member interview with Moses Foster

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Moses Foster is an artist with complex abilities. His use of colour is very elaborate and he has a certain ’swing’ in his pieces, creating great patterns, as well as figures and shapes. I guess some of his works with white background look great in real. Read more in my interview with him:

Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?

MF:
I´ve been asked this question quite often… at bars, gallery openings, occassional interests from people who meet me on the street…. I´ve come to a conclusion… I don´t worry about the style… I just create and continue creating from the source which is my daily life.

Artition:
What or who inspires you?

MF:
Touch and go…. that´s the type of question this is….
Inspiration for me is also very personal. I´ve been painting since I was 5 years old… long before I beheld the massive paintings of Caravaggio and Reubens in various international museums. Light and shadow inspires me…. How do I portray light and shadow without giving away too much. The subject matter varies….color in my opinion are like piano keys…and I´m still the 5 year old… Playing with the fire of construction in the face of all the hot heads of the university whom I sum up as Nay sayers….

Rebellion inspires me… The fight to get it down on canvas in which ever medium suits the subject.

Artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

MF:
Lately my work is moving at such a rate until I´m not so sure how to answer this question. I try to title the single pieces but sometimes I´m stuck with the mental connection I have with the works… I don´t want to trap my ideas with names or zealous titles anymore… I´ve had enough of trying to communicate on terms of public awareness. I´m making the work…. I´ll let it do the job of communicating with whom it desires. I say this because most times… I get the feeling that when people check out a painting…. they either want more than what´s physically there…or they´re projecting their own fantasies… All fine by me… but I think the only people who really understand the language of babies are mothers. It´s not until the child is at a certain age that it´s able to reach out and take account of its own existence. Translate that to painting and other creative functions !!


Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

MF:
I woke up this morning and found this interview in my inbox….
I like that. I´ve been so busy and wanted to put it to the side…but I decided.. it´s for my future that I sit here and answer these questions as best I can…

Artition:
Who would you like to change life with for one day?

MF:
I would never consider this.

Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?

MF:
Nature

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Artition: Member interview with Vladimir Hristov

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Vladimir Hristov joint us recently and instantly caught our attention with his provocative works, that are in the same way so harmoniously and illustrative. The compositions, the colors and his attempt to create abstract atmosphere will define him as an expressionist, such as Macke or Chagall; but by modern influences in beauty as well as bloodiness he defines himself as a contemporary expressionist, absorbing our daily nature into an aesthetic matter.

Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?

VH:
Mix of traditional methods with contemporary and modern way of painting. On a contrary of being afraid of heaving different styles in one painting, I love having all those diametrically contrasted genres mixed up in one piece. What really matters is which emotion and/or which visual impression the work evokes in the viewers minds.

Artition:
What or who inspires you?

VH:
Mix of: Botticelli and Kandinsky with Nick Cave & Sonic Youth, that might be about where I want to go…
Starting with Byzantine and Renaissance art, going forward through: Klimt & Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and Chagall, plus Russian Avantgarde & Pop Art altogether with music & PoP Culture. There are many sources from where I feed my inspiration.

Artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

VH:
Sex & religion… death, love, hope, fear, serial killers & guns, gods and angels… are, among others, the objectives that I am fascinated with. My paintings are not made in representational manner. Instead of putting up one image that represents this or that specific matter I prefer to play with the uncertainty of the forms and the transformations of one shape into another, and the free associations that they might bring up. I try to put all this together in a way that whenever the viewer pays some attention to the painting, he/she will always have some new feelings and new things to discover.
I intent to leave the painting “open” enough for ones perception and translation of its message.

Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

VH:
Since I am new member of artition I am still discovering what this site is offering and until now I am delighted with it’s content.

Artition:
Who would you like to change life with for one day?

VH:
Well this is the far most difficult question to answer… first thing that comes to my mind is to have the chance of being The Art Agent of some most successful artist today and discover the art of Hristov, or just being Silvio Berlusconi for a day and have all the fun…

Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?

VH:
I am hugely impressed with Christian Boltanski lately, I love his work.

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Artition: Interview with Victoria Febrer

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Victoria Febrer is one of our keenest members. Most of her works express a certain angle of perspective towards a landscape, the sky or the composition between an object and a panorama of the ocean, the mountains or any matter that creates the floor of the painting. What I really value in her works is the constant development of skills in exploration with colour or different media. Her recent project “Vistas Y Vinografias II” are works created solely with red wine on paper and reflect her great attitude of experimentation with the goal to underpin feelings and emotions that thrive in her, as well as in all of us, when we get in contact with something familiar.

Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?

VF: My work is an attempt to recreate those spaces which exist only in memory, which take on characteristics of all the places we’ve seen or visited and become something which is paradoxically both unique and universal. Through a simplification of color and form I attempt to return the viewer to these idyllic spaces.

Artition:
What or who inspires you?

VF: The city and the sea.

artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

VF: I am currently more interested in conveying feelings and sensations through my work, rather than explicit messages.

Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

VF: I think artition is a wonderful resource for dialogue among the different participants in the art world. The only change I would suggest would be more fluid categories for medium. The barriers between mediums such as painting, drawing, and printmaking are ever-changing and perhaps a new system for categorizing works is needed.

Artition:
Who would you like to change life with for one day?

VF:
It would be interesting to change with a person visiting New York for the first time, I have never been able to experience my birth place as a newcomer and am curious as to the experience.

Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?

VF:
There are many artists whose work I love to revisit time and again. A few are Goya, Dali, Durer, Hokusai, and Sorolla.

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Artition: Interview with Maria Jose Aguilar

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

I am more than delighted to post an interview with a very great artist on Artition. Maria Jose Aguilar is extremely talented in classical painting. Classical in every sense, as she paints in a style threatened with extinction that she calls symbolic realism. Her works are so impulsive and as they attempt to be so “out of time” they really reflect a complete attendance in our recent world, giving an insight of the life from spanish women covered in beauty and absolutism. Her methods are so traditional, the composures of the bodies, the places, the objects and the light create unique experience of art in a contemporary manner. Read more on what she has to say about it:

Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?

MJA: My works, both creative and technical process is elaborated and reflective. Pictures do not usually result by improvisation, even those that only purpose is to gain attention. The way I try mentally to process and manage the feelings and emotions that I perceive is to take the items carefully for each composition. They act as key elements of an internal language in the play, symbols belonging to a close, everyday reality, which will help decipher the message contained in each work, a message that attempts to go beyond the aesthetic contemplation. Hence the term symbolic realism.

Artition:
What or who inspires you?

MJA: Life, its intensity, with all that entails pain and joy. Sometimes the object
anodyne premonition makes me stop and enclosing a story worth telling.

Artition:

Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

MJA: The creation of a work has a meaning for me always. It is a reflective dialogue with myself about everything that touches my heart. It is not always the same conversation, although on the same page. The viewer, from his own, perceive and recreate the table getting his own message, but if it was provided with the keys you placed in the context that inspired a painting, you qualify to be introduced, if desired, in the world the artist, perhaps giving a broader understanding of the painting.

Artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

MJA: Artition seems to me a wonderful opportunity to raise awareness of artistic diversity. I do not feel qualified to say what should be added or changed.

Artition:
Who would you like to change life with for one day?

MJA: In a world where events unfold at breakneck speed in its events that often prevents us from having a space to think, feel, dream, etc.., Would the message of my work they supposed an invitation to reflection.

Artition:
Who is your favourite artist?

MJA: Their are numerous artists that I admire. Some of them:

Spanish Artists: Velázquez, Murillo, Zurbarán, Valdés Leal, Madrazo, Goya, Sorolla, Picasso, Zóbel …

Other: Tiziano, Leonardo Da Vinci, Miguel Ángel, Rafael, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Durero, Ingres, Van Gogh, Degas, Tolouse Lautrec, …

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Artition: Interview with Patricia Shin

Monday, February 1st, 2010

I am delighted to post an interview with the great Artist Patricia Shin. Her way of drawing lines and circles is very sophisticated. She is great in creating patterns in black and white and most of her works really create a 3-dimensional sphere. Read more to understand her works better:

Artition 
How would you describe your work/art/style?

PS: My artwork is mainly music based. I was trained to be a musician from my early childhood, and I later discovered that I could use my musical intuition in my paintings. I try to translate the music into visual images based on the rhythm of the music I hear.

Artition: 
What or who inspires you?

PS: I am inspired by people who pursue their passions and are driven to accomplish their goals in life. I believe that this world is filled with uninspired people who are full of lost potential. It is those who have a passion for something that truly make this world beautiful. 

Artition: 
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art? 

PS: I want to communicate that music is not only something you can hear, but something that you can feel and is visually pleasing.

Artition: 
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

PS: I think artition as a concept is a great idea. I would like to be able to replace flash with html5 on the site. 

Artition: 
Who would you like to change life with for one day?

PS: My 2-year-old nephew. It would be fascinating to see the world in the eyes of a child. 

Artition: 
Who is your favourite artist?

PS: Liubov Popova

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Artition: Interview with Shaun Gribouski

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Starting off this week with Shaun Gribouski and his interview with Artition.

Shaun seems to be fascinated by humans and urban lifestyle in our modern society. He draws with charcoal and pastel and paints with acrylic in a fascinating way. Creating shadow and light is one of his greatest talents and certainly his brand-mark in the works.

Artition: 
How would you describe your work/art/style?

SG: I view my art as a cross between expressionism and realism, created by fusing passion with technical calculation. My work usually focuses on people or some aspect of human society because I believe that they are the most powerful and interesting subjects. Humanity, from its beauty to its brutality, is one thing that any viewer will relate to.

Artition: 
What or who inspires you?

SG: My greatest artistic inspiration is Hip-Hop music. The best Hip-Hop is to me the epitome of that fusion of emotion with the technical. Aside from that, humanity is my inspiration. I draw inspiration from vast and varied sources, some of which directly translate into my art, while others fuel the emotion that drives me to create. A quick list of a few of these many diverse sources: strong and beautiful women, the AK-47, Rio de Janeiro, the legacy of slavery, the Boston Celtics. As you can see, there is little overt connection between all of these things.

Artition: 
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

SG: It can be debilitating to art when the artist focuses too much on the message because it often sacrifices quality in an attempt to say something specific. I might have some idea in mind as I’m making art, but my energy is directed at the process of creation. If a message comes through, so be it, but people can take whatever they want from it. All I hope to communicate is the passion that went into making it, because there is an interconnectedness of all people, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, or any of the other lines we divide ourselves along. I’m not saying that in a “peace on earth”-type way, just that raw feelings are pretty much the same. Anger is anger and joy is joy, regardless of how disparate the triggers of such feelings are.

Artition: 
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

SG: I like that it is designed in an attractive and unpretentious manner and that it is user-friendly. It is excellent as is and at the present time, I don’t see anything that warrants change.

Artition: 
Who would you like to change life with for one day?

SG: It sounds a bit cliché, but I’ve never wanted to be anyone else.

Artition: 
Who is your favourite artist?

SG: My favorite artist is Nasir Jones. He is not a visual artist, but I’ve never felt more moved and inspired by anyone else’s work than I have by his. Nas excels in every aspect of his art. He has every unteachable quality that an artist could ever want. For me personally, his album Illmatic is the single greatest piece of art ever made.

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Artition: Interview with Heather Riccardi

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

After a long break of interviews we decided to focus a bit more on the biggest value in our network again: The artists!
And here is the first interview:

Heather Riccardi has joint our network a few weeks ago and already caught our attention. Her way of playing with color, may it be watercolor or a lot of oil/acrylic, leads always to the outcome she aims for in her works.

Especially her abstract paintings deliver either an illusion or a complete halt, when she paints her authentic “X” on the last layer. All though it seems her works are complete, each one is linked to the other forming an endless ellipse. We asked her some questions:

Artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?


HR: 
I have always been, since a child an Expressionist – in every way really. Expressionism I believe is where I fit in, in my abstract work as well as some of the figurative work I have done.


artition: 
What or who inspires you?

HR: 
My son most certainly is an extraordinary inspiration, he helps open my eyes and mind again with a child’s detail, brightness and really see things again for the first time, giving a perspective and a contrasting simplistic complexity. He is certainly foremost in inspiring me, however many things are inspirational, conversations, light, a drive in the car, walk near the water, music. If one allows themselves to be open, one will be inspired.

artition: 
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

HR: 
There is, however it is up to each of you to interpret it. This is a very strong belief of mine, and I have had this belief from the beginning, when my work began to have a meaning or message. I refuse to force a message onto another person, if I am communicating properly and well, the viewer will understand and feel the message as an emotion. However I also believe that if two people look at one of my paintings and understand something different or feel a different emotion, it is not a testimonial of my lack of communication but of the differences we all have.

artition: 
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

HR: 
I believe Artition has what it needs to be successful. What I enjoy about it the most is it gives artists a genuine opportunity to see the work of and communicate with other artists on a daily basis from all over the world, that is remarkable prospect, a unique opportunity and advantage our generation has from prior generations, technology. It is important for me as an artist to be in contact with not only artists in my own community or locale, but having the ability to be in contact and view current work of artists outside of the States to me is extraordinary, imagine how much we could influence each other or collaborate on a world level instead of locally – possibly a start of artitionism?? Could be an interesting movement in art, involving artists throughout the world. 
What would I suggest as a change? Maybe an easier way to upload and update details of the work. I have not had a chance to thoroughly move around the site to see how it really works, so I may have some other suggestions (or questions more likely) as time goes on.

artition: 
Who would you like to change life with for one day?

HR: 
This is a difficult question, funny thing.. it took me so long to be comfortable with myself, in my own skin, I think I may just want to be myself and sit in Cy Twombly’s studio for a day, having the opportunity to exchange conversation and ideas. If I had been asked this question 10 years ago… the answer probably would have been a little different.

artition: 
Who is your favourite artist?

HR: 
Cy Twombly

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artition: Interview with Marissa Gould

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

We allready featured Marissa Gould in this post http://www.blog.artition.com/featured-artitions/artition-marissa-gould/ now we have her interview available.

artition member interview

artition
How would you describe your work/art/style?

MG: I’m an eccentric, enthusiastic, smart girl with a lot of playful colorful style ideas

artition:
What or who inspires you?

MG: Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock.

artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?

MG: I want my art to inspire people through the importance of brilliant colors.

artition:
How do you like artition and what would you like to be added or changed?

MG: artition is a great networking site for artist to share ideas and communicate thoughts.
I wish it were easier to add someone as your friend on artition.

artition:
Who would you like to change life with for one day?

MG: I would want to change my life for a day with John Lennon.

artition:
Who is your favourite artist?

MG: Andy Warhol

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artition: Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn + interview

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Today we are featuring amazing Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn. She is a amazing photographer from London who I once met on the Foto Stop festival in Leipzig.
Check out her work and the interisting new technique she created.

artition member interview

artition:
How would you describe your work/art/style?
EF:The words aren’t yet there to fully describe the technique.I have recently been
experimenting with digital technology to produce a photographic
cartoon hybrid which documents the world as I see it.

artition:
What or who inspires you?
EF: People, just people in general.People in galleries, I particularly like people in galleries.

artition:
Is there a message you want to communicate with your art?
EF:Yes – there is no magic answer.People are always asking for a ‘message’ I
actually find that very frustrating. I mean what do people expect
when they ask for a message, art in-itself can’t answer questions it
can only ask them.

artition
Why did you join artition?
EF: I like joining things.

artition:
Who would you like to change life with for one day?
EF:My cleaner.

artition:
Who is your favourite artist?
EF: Max Beckmann.

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