Posts Tagged ‘interview’
The Fertile Ground of New York City Oil Painter Martin Wittfooth
“I’m exploring allegories of rebirth: the notion that we often have to let something die (metaphorically speaking) for something else to be allowed to be realized and flourish.”
Read MoreArt As Therapy for the Unsatisfied Man: Interview with Argentine painter, Martin Llamedo
“Making a man happy, for more than a few seconds after consumption, is not very interesting to a consumer society; for them an unsatisfied man is preferable. Beauty and art, therefore, is fundamental therapy today.”
Read MoreThe Natural Tension Between Creativity and Constraints
“Math is inseparable from nature, from us; and, as the search for numbers went on for thousands of years, numbers represent the human search for knowledge. “
Read MoreA Cold Story On a Warm Night: The Mischief-Making of Pamela Wilson
“I like the juxtaposition of a cold story in a warm light. It creates confusion and room to explore.”
Read MoreFor Beauty’s Sake: Interview with Croatian-American Figurative Painter Stanka Kordic
“Many people see
‘reality’ as one-dimensional, and believe that mysticism and light can only exist in some dream-world existence. But who’s to say what is real? Is reality only what we see right before us? I wonder about that.”
And Down Came the Spiders: Narrative Figurative Painter, Katie O’Hagan
“My usual coping mechanism during stressful times is to detach a bit emotionally and power through, but I guess there are always cracks in the armor, and these images seem to slip out unbidden.”
Read MoreAccess to Incandescence: The Paintings of Conor Walton
“I want to paint images that are, in some sense, ‘icons,’ that represent something I feel I can believe in. I want my pictures to carry conviction beyond technical competence.”
Read MoreFrancoise de Felice, France: “My mother and the difficult relationship I had with her are what guide my work”
“My canvas portrays the different faces of the same woman. Fairy and witch are juxtaposed, there’s a duel. I use women as a springboard to show that internal struggle within all of us, wrestling with feelings of happiness and yet unhappiness.”
Read MoreVincent Xeus: “I Was the First to Fall In Love”
“Growing up, I was most often the first kid to fall in love with something. I felt deep compassion for what was happening around me, empathy for the emotions of others. This became one of the biggest influences on how I developed as an artist.”
Read MoreLaura Krifka: Of Predator and Prey
“Ultimately, I think the paintings are about the push and pull of predator and prey, and the way we encompass those roles within ourselves. This relates to sex, but also religion and history. The ways we justify or do not justify our own agendas to the world and to ourselves.”
Read MoreTo Remain Astonished: Interview with Concert Pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi
“There is nothing more astonishing, and rewarding, than to play through a work you’ve played hundreds of times, and all of a sudden discover a new hidden line…”
Read MoreVangelis Rinas, Greece: “The artist is born to suffer from incurable romance. No matter how hard reality becomes, he always believes that his work may change the world.”
“Don’t forget that we are born of the same land as Ulysses, made for travels and adventures, captains and fighters and explorers at the same time. Even when events don’t provoke us, we provoke events to happen. The artist, from wherever he comes, is born much like Ulysses.”
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