Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Paris Master - Andre Martins De Barros-Surrealist in Paris.Title: le clown aux nuesSize : 10,5 x 8,5 inch
Artist note:
For a long time I practice a painting that I spent most of my time if not my life. I always imposed a discipline, both from a technical point of view as from an artistic point of view, no border should not inhibit my inspiration or my creativity. For me, life and death are closely related to my subconscious and I find the path that gives access to the creation. I was told complicated and even tortured. So it takes some delirium associated with a mixture of humility and megalomania to tap into this daily inspiration and it is with a very intense fear I seek the differences between beauty and ugliness subjective. Today my experience as my experiences generate fantasies that I would transpose onto a canvas. Each theme is to defy comparison to provoke thought, to get the pleasure. Since my childhood, I have never ceased to devote a great passion for the great masters of the Italian and Flemish masters the great Renaissance, they have always been part of my artistic universe and have created in me this requirement of perfectionist.
courtesy:Gallery of Montmartre
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Mary SibandeTitle: Her Majesty Queen Sophie,Year: 2010. Medium: Digital printSize: 110x80cm.
In Sibande’s practice as an artist, she employs the human form as a vehicle through painting and sculpture, to explore the construction of identity in a postcolonial South African context, but also attempts to critique stereotypical depictions of women, particularly black women in our society.
The body, for Sibande, and particularly the skin, and clothing is the site where history is contested and where fantasies play out. Centrally, she looks at the generational disempowerment of the black woman and in this sense her work is informed by postcolonial theory, through her art making. In her work, the domestic setting acts as a stage where historical psycho-dramas play out.
Sibande's work also highlights how privileged ideals of beauty and femininity aspired to by black women discipline their body through rituals of imitation and reproduction. She inverts the social power indexed by Victorian costumes by reconfiguring it as a domestic worker’s “uniform” complexifying the colonial relationship between “slave” and “master” in a post-apartheid context. The fabric used to produce uniforms for domestic workers is an instantly recognizable sight in domestic spaces in South Africa and by applying it to Victorian dress she attempts to make a comment about history of servitude as it relates to the present in terms of domestic relationships.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Mathew Barney Cremaster 5Cremaster 5 Analysis: The imagery again, was very surreal and abstract, like the doves at the beginning that disappear into holes in the floor of the opera house and then appear in the Gellert Baths on the other side. I was attracted to the costumes in this film, especially those of the Queen of Chain and her ushers who wore elaborate, over the top costumes, dramatic head pieces, and exaggerated neck pieces. The Queen wears a black Elizabethan ruff and her ushers wear matching ones in black and white. The ushers wear white ruffled headpieces and red headbands. The Queen wears a large black trailing dress with several bulky layers and a white underskirt. She wears a thin black veil which, when taken off, reveals a crown made of two linked transparent orbs on either side of her head. If I have enough time I would like to experiment with creating my own headpieces and accessories. I liked the theatrical grandeur of the costumes in this film. Although I am creating a fashion look and I want it to be modern and edgy, I still want to incorporate some theatricality into the image. Artists that I think encompass the two well are Lady Gaga, Gareth Pugh and Alexander McQueen. I could look at these people as further research to inspire my work.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Rod Moss Title: Moss play with fire Medium: graphite and synthetic polymers on paperBy Rod Moss
Eighty fires, many of them deliberately lit, had encircled the town mid 2011. We became accustomed to breathing carbonized air though a few dozen asthmatics sought relief in the hospital. At night, the rim of the eastern MacDonnell’s was alight, a long dazzling cord suspended above the valley.
Rodney and his brothers, together with Harry and Adrian junior, rehearsed for a recording session at CAAMA. They knew the buffel didn’t grow right up to the sheds and most of the trees were fire-resistant. It would come and pass quickly, scarring trees and shrubs without destroying them. While police and firemen attended camp to confront the fires, the band played on undeterred.
The next morning I carted them to the studio. Trevor Coulthard added his vocals to older brother, Rodneys’. Their sibilant harmonies seemed to emanate from one body. Vivian Ryan sat closest to me, gliding up and down the bass guitar. He was all willowy grace and his wide-eyed wonder at Trevor’s plaintive singing accorded with mine. He caught my eye, grinned toothily and dipped his head over his instrument.
Out east the fires continue unchecked. During lunch I drove the Ross River highway to photo the fire. Just past Emily Gap the grass fires licked the verges. Just what I needed. Rodney had suggested I paint a cover for their CD and juxtaposing them with fire would be totally relevant, given that one song refers to fire. His father, recently deceased, had woken his sons at night to watch an encroaching fire. They’d stirred into action and beat it back from their camp. I see Rodney leading the band on through the flames. Perhaps their playing has incendiary implications.
Rodney had programmed the keyboard component to each song. The even spread of instrumental mastery created a fluent understanding between them which dispensed with verbal communications. Rodney occasionally motioned to the others where to enter or exit solos and the various emphases. The resultant mix of balladry, Blues and Rock was cinched.
Back at camp, I set up the band members, Rodney raising his right fist a la Eugene Delacroix’s 1830, Liberty Leading The People, guitar at his side leading his brothers. Adrian junior is on the left. Vivian, Harry, Jack and Trevor thread across to Rodney.
courtesy:aliceonline
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Donald Judd Untitled,Year: 1969Medium: Galvanized iron and plexiglas , overall 120x27 1/8x 24in, 10 box
Artist Statment: Overnight success, split-second life transformation, instant love… these ideas are beautiful, and get grounded on nothing solid. Would you move into a house that had a shaky foundation? What about a house with no foundation?
If you wouldn’t want to live in a house erected without a foundation, why would you expect that, overnight, it would be a most desirable to reach the stratospheres in your career, your personal growth or your love life?
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Arpana CaurTitle: Day & NightSize: 72" x 60"Medium: Oil on CanvasYear: 2013
Arpana’s finely executed imagery with petite female figuration immersed in folk forms and legends are marked for their deeply spiritual and somewhat autobiographical undertones. The literature and philosophy of Punjab contributed to the strains of melancholy, mysticism and devotion that may be felt in her work, while the Pahari miniature tradition provided inspiration for Caur's manipulation of pictorial space. Despite her diverse influences, however, Caur's subjects remain firmly rooted in the quotidian world of the woman, showing women engaged in commonplace acts such as daydreaming or typing.
The repeated motif of clothing in Caur's work both confirms and subverts the traditional picture of women. Sinha writes that "the image of women sewing quietly, within the acceptable parameters of femininity is in a way liberated by Arpana, as the woman is placed outdoors, embroidering larger destinies. Instead of a feminine, income-producing function, it becomes a political comment on women's productivity."
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day Manu Parekh Title: Enlightened Stone II,Medium: Oil on Canvas
Polemics have always intrigued Manu Parekh – the energy of the organic form and the inherent sexuality within these forms are intangible elements in his works. His paintings provoke viewers to take notice of the world around them through the emotion, pain and anguish expressed in the subjects of his paintings. His colors and forms exude a volatile energy that can barely be contained within the confines of his canvas, and become an extension of the artist's personality.
Vivid colours and prominent lines are an integral part of Parekh’s work and each exudes the energy that he attempts to capture. Parekh admits to being very strongly influenced by his surroundings. His stay in the city of Calcutta, for instance, drew him towards Santiniketan and the old masters of Indian art, Ram Kinkar Baij and Rabindranath Tagore. His appreciation of their work, more at a perceptual level than stylistic one, urged him to delve deeper into the thoughts that inform his own ouevre.
Banaras as a city came to play an integral role in Parekh’s work after his first visit there following his father’s death. This holy city of hope, of faith, of tourists offered him a vast number of contradictions in one location. Parekh also highlights his relationship with his wife Madhvi, who is a self taught artist, and his admiration for Picasso as key influences on his works.
courtesy: saffronart
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