Please click on them for larger view. Even so, be aware that they should ideally be seen live, since they incorporate thick paint, textures, imbedded objects, and wrap-around-the-frame. They are 60cm X 60cm. And 5cm deep. Acrylics on canvas.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
New paintings
Aaaaall right, I guess it is time to post photos of my recent paintings. The first ones in more than 12 years!
Please click on them for larger view. Even so, be aware that they should ideally be seen live, since they incorporate thick paint, textures, imbedded objects, and wrap-around-the-frame. They are 60cm X 60cm. And 5cm deep. Acrylics on canvas.
Please click on them for larger view. Even so, be aware that they should ideally be seen live, since they incorporate thick paint, textures, imbedded objects, and wrap-around-the-frame. They are 60cm X 60cm. And 5cm deep. Acrylics on canvas.
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They are brilliant.
Thank you very much.
And wow, that was quick, I just posted this like four minutes ago.
Dear Eolake,I see them as a triptyque,a simple and beautiful answer for the famous question exposed by Gauguin "Where we are coming from? Who are we? Where we are going to?
With great admiration and gratitude,yours Paul Alexandru Cazacliu artmanro@yahoo.com
OK, if it's a trypque, then lets explore that concept from a different angle...
1. There's a huge amount happening in the background, very deep, very intense, very profound. What is he running from??? To???
2. Calm. Peaceful. Still. (Almost, but not quite)
3. What IS it with the ghastly /ghostly light in this picture!?!?! I almost expect someone to walk forward out of the fire and say, 'Here I am'. (I'm sure others will see it totally differently.)
Well Done!
I may be repeating myself, but I've seen far worse abstract sell for millions. But then, these leaves seem quite concrete.
(Say, Eolake, is that colored concrete under the leaves?)
;-)
Maybe, if you let Paul and Vivienne describe it in artistic symbolism, you could be the next Picasso? But I'm sure that's not your main aim. :-)
Isn't Peyotitlan the name of an aztec god? And is that him running through the primordial starless sky in the top picture? Could be. "In the ancient Time before shapes were created, there was the wandering silhouette of Peyotitlan, roaming the void"...
Or maybe I'm having a Rorsach overdose!
The bottom one might also be a satellite image of the family of Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent. (I love how you can see practically whatever you want in abstract!)
Nice matter effect, seriously. It's great what a creative mind can do with volume and basic materials.
I sometimes fantasize on having a blank wall and inviting some young talented graffiti artists to create something nice on it. A 21st century fresco.
Well, one thing I don't see these as is a triptych -- I find them way too different in technique and ... intention.
I do quite like #1 and #3. They are calm, balanced, and I would think very much sellable.
#2, then, is pretty much as boring as you can get. This must be one of the most beaten to death motifs: Every school kid does one (or several) of these in hir "career" -- and usually with more vigorous energy and, dare I say it, more interesting results as pictured here.
Try this again with Perran, and was it Jade?, as your assistants and note the difference :-)
I hope you continue and post many more!
The leaves are real. They are sealed in acrylics paint. Obviously I take care everything is permanent.
Thanks guys.
I think the "meaning" of a work of art is way overrated. Just enjoy it, or not.
I haven't much to add to the above comments.
Since I'm an autumn type of a person, I especially like #s 2 and 3. A similar painting as #2 is in fact decorating the wall in the home of one of my clients. I love the warm colours.
Eolake, I've created a new folder which contains many of your paintings which I'll be using as desktop background on a rotation basis. Vera's picture is also included, so her beautiful figure will stay on my mind, as well. I hope this is all right with you, Vera ;-)
Greetings to all contributors to Eolake's postings - nice to have you as friends in this digital medium :-)).
I like 1 and 2 the best, 3 is just kind of scary - just don't like it much. :) Two is nice and calm, nice and simple. But then, I tend to judge art as in - "do I like it?" or "Would I hang this in my living room?" I like one because it's just different... it makes me think of someone shining out above his/her environment, with all the connections that come with.
Thanks for putting these up, Eolake!
no offense eolake, but if i were you i'd stick to domai.
abstact paintings always look like a child just threw paint at the canvas.
Trust Jon,
Lost souls don't really care if you are naked.
;-)
"Try this again with Perran, and was it Jade? [it was], as your assistants and note the difference"
TTL, don't underestimate the raw abstract talent of children. Ask any psychology specialist. :-)
Some child art should be exposed and studied.
"The leaves are real. [...] I take care everything is permanent."
Eolake, I'm pretty sure these weren't permanent leaves. This is fall season, after all! ;o)
Wonko,
I think the real intention of abstract (and maybe most of art) is to let the viewer find his/her own message. Hannah just confirmed it. I already mentioned Rorsach : isn't his test the epitome of abstract?
You'd never guess what I see in Domai girls. But Eolake knows. There's a whole world behind these images.
Gen,
You're most welcome. The pleasure is mutual.
=|:-)))
[Note : the above is an Abe Lincoln smiley.]
Harold,
Just see above comment about children. The way they draw is often very revealing of their inner world. For instance, traunatized children often draw with lots of black lines, and no color... except maybe for red! Isn't abstract the child in us adults, basically?
Granted, often it doesn't take much drawing technique. (Those famous and silly "monochromes" spring to mind.) The interesting part is elsewhere.
There are a few videogames I am quite fond of, simply because they plac you in a special and intriguing mental world. Like Rez, Psychonauts, Ico, Okami, or even the gory Killer 7. Super Mario Bros met worldwide success because at the time, it was just as new and special. Before everybody copied it.
They're "different art" in their own way. Virtual playing is simply a 21st century new medium. ("The future is now.")
I used to find my kid nephew's all-star favorite game, Dora the Explorer (which I have to play for him, he's too young), atrociously boring in its colorful simplicity. Then I looked at it with an analytic eye, wondering why he loved it so much. I (re-)learned a lot about what it is to be a little child, to see everything with a fresh new look that's still discovering the beauty of the world. An enriching experience.
Naturally, not everybody is into this sort of things.
Dear Eolake,THEY GET IT ALL WRONG,WHAT CAN BE MORE SIMPLE THAN THOSE THREE SIMPLE AND BEAUTIFUL IMAGES,the bottom one is "WE GET ALL LIFE IN A BIOLOGICALLY STAGE";the center one is "THE END OF THE BIOLOGICALLY STAGE MARKING A NEW PATH" TO-the one on the top- "A RITE OF PASSAGE TO A NEW LEVEL WHEN WE ARE TRAVELING AS A PURE ENERGY FORM OF LIFE TO A NEW BEGINING".
The Art is a creation both of the heart and mind,therefore the receiver can get it also with both heart and mind,we have to set free our imagination through the portal opened by the artist,we have all of us to listen to our hearts,as a Chinese proverb says:"THE HEART NEVER SPEAKES BUT ALWAYS SAYS THE TRUTH";we are all human beings not heartless robos.
With admiration and gratitude.yours Paul Alexandru Cazacliu artmanro@yahoo.com
!MOM Oh, sorry. WOW!
(Interesting that the numbering is from bottom to top.)
Foye
Yeah, I decided to post them in the sequence I had painted them, but I had named the files without system. Perhaps I should have given them some titles as well. But I never know what titles to give art, so you don't evaluate it.
"I never know what titles to give art"
It seems that half of the commentators (me included) gave their own titles to this art. And very creatively abstract ones in their own right!
:-)
I love all three. In the first one the figure seems to be floating, suspended, and a bit afraid.
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