Posts Tagged ‘Paintings’

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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Exhibition recommendation: Otto Dix in New York

Monday, March 29th, 2010

OTTO DIX

March 11-August 30, 2010

This spring, Neue Galerie New York presents “Otto Dix,” the first solo museum exhibition of works by this major German artist ever held in North America. Organized by Olaf Peters, Professor of Modern Art History and Art Theory at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, the show will open at the Neue Galerie, then travel to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

More than almost any other German painter, Otto Dix (1891-1969) and his works have profoundly influenced the popular notion of the Weimar Republic. His paintings were among the most graphic visual representatives of  that period, exposing with unsparing and wicked wit the instability and contradictions of the time.

The exhibition includes more than 100 masterpieces by Otto Dix, and addresses four themes. The first is Dix’s traumatic experiences as a soldier in World War I. The second is portraiture, a genre at which the artist excelled. The third is sexuality, a key theme in the Dix oeuvre. The fourth is religious and allegorical painting. The show includes the work that Dix is best know for—paintings from the so-called “golden Weimar years”—but to contextualize them, it also includes Dix’s work from the early 1920s, as well as his later work, produced as veiled protest against the Third Reich.

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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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