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At the beginning, were the drawings of my earliest youth. Little colored squares put side by side to form what my brother and I used to call "magasins": my first primitive art, full of innocence, plenitude of little boy's concentration upon his work. After, there were school art courses which seriously broke into this primitive innocence. My work as an artist, is like a tentative of recovering the child's joy in front of colours. Over the year, it has also become a mean of exploration and of communication. Another remembrance linked to the origin of my artistic emotions is an old Disney movie, in which colours were flowing out from a magic paint-brush, thus giving birth to the story, to shapes, characters, landscapes... In a way, I have the same joy while realizing my modern marble paintings. After having left school, I went back to drawing and painting as an amateur, as a dilettante, an explorator, an autodidact, inventing not rules but ways of exploration.
What encouraged me to continue was the unexpected apparition of a vegetal face during my first essay with watercolour, which provoked the surprise and the astonishment of an explorator who, 20 years later, is not back yet from those lands and continue to discover new ones.
I multiplicated the essays, always questing for the new, diversifying the technics, the viewpoints, getting more audacious. The works illustrated here give an idea of the diverse aspects of my work.
Marble painting. This technic was used 1000 years ago by Persian soufis as a mean of meditating before beginning their circle dance. In the 18th century it was used for decorating cover page of books. I practice this technic in a more free way. For me, it's also a kind of contemplation or meditation. China ink. Another kind of improvisation, with reminiscences of hieroglyphs and chinese ideograms. Mandala. Geometry and colours, computer generated, but without the cold or artificial aspect of such works.
Collage, according to the old fashion of surrealist collage, with the help of a image computer program, which give new liberties to the artist, and give to his imagination tools that allow him to incarnate his visions. Manipulations give birth to new images, a kind of a lyric abstraction, in which the original motive gets drowned or is integrated into a new creation. These pictures are printed on different types of creation papers and boards, which give them a certain style. There are the etchings of the 21st century.
What encouraged me to continue was the unexpected apparition of a vegetal face during my first essay with watercolour, which provoked the surprise and the astonishment of an explorator who, 20 years later, is not back yet from those lands and continue to discover new ones.
I multiplicated the essays, always questing for the new, diversifying the technics, the viewpoints, getting more audacious. The works illustrated here give an idea of the diverse aspects of my work.
Marble painting. This technic was used 1000 years ago by Persian soufis as a mean of meditating before beginning their circle dance. In the 18th century it was used for decorating cover page of books. I practice this technic in a more free way. For me, it's also a kind of contemplation or meditation. China ink. Another kind of improvisation, with reminiscences of hieroglyphs and chinese ideograms. Mandala. Geometry and colours, computer generated, but without the cold or artificial aspect of such works.
Collage, according to the old fashion of surrealist collage, with the help of a image computer program, which give new liberties to the artist, and give to his imagination tools that allow him to incarnate his visions. Manipulations give birth to new images, a kind of a lyric abstraction, in which the original motive gets drowned or is integrated into a new creation. These pictures are printed on different types of creation papers and boards, which give them a certain style. There are the etchings of the 21st century.
Bye bye Alice, here come the Hybrid Animals...
After a month spent in the company of Alice, here we are in June. Throughout this month, I will be participating in the Ai-challenge hosted by emilysaiart, with the theme being Hybrid Animals! Each day will be dedicated to a fantastical creature. Artists are invited to create one or more images representing this extraordinary creatures. I will try to post my images daily. If you want to participate, here is the link of the Journal And here is the complete list of hybrid animals : June 1st - Lion-Eagle Hybrid June 2nd - Octopus-Giraffe Hybrid June 3rd - Elephant-Frog Hybrid June 4th - Dolphin-Tiger Hybrid June 5th - Snake-Owl Hybrid June 6th - Monkey-Penguin Hybrid June 7th - Bear-Shark Hybrid June 8th - Eagle-Kangaroo Hybrid June 9th - Lionfish-Gorilla Hybrid June 10th - Rhino-Ostrich Hybrid June 11th - Lobster-Elephant Hybrid June 12th - Cheetah-Whale Hybrid June 13th - Flamingo-Giraffe Hybrid June 14th - Tiger-Butterfly Hybrid June 15th - Crocodile-Monkey Hybrid
Fractal collector # 2
Sometimes fractal landscapes remind me my childhood...
Well... reading this statement, one can ask « in which kind of world, on which planet did this man grow ? »
In fact, I grew up on earth, but looking at the sky, the stars, the planets,
through Space 1999, Star Trek, The Forbidden Planet...
Then Menger bulbs remind me the moon station in Space 1999.
While ASurf evoke in my mind some kind of extraterrestrial life.
The fractal world is a open universe of new forms, born from mathematics and imagination,
something like the inner science-fiction life of the human mind.
The hereafter featured 3D fractal artworks were created
Fractal collector # 1
Fractal art is about exploration, deeper and deeper, year after year.
Sometimes, the artist looses the way, gets bored, takes another direction, returns to real life…
but one day or another, he or she embarks again on the fractal ship for new adventures…
Fractal world is not only a way to escape the real…
It’s a mean to sharpen one’s glance, to open the eyes,
but also yes to discover brand new worlds… or old ones.
This journal is dedicated to all the fellow fractal explorers.
In this 1st issue of Fractal Collector are featured works by AkuraPare fraterchaos krompulos timemit nic022 MANDELWERK batjor
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At the beginning, were the drawings of my earliest youth. Little colored squares put side by side to form what my brother and I used to call "magasins": my first primitive art, full of innocence, plenitude of little boy's concentration upon his work. After, there were school art courses which seriously broke into this primitive innocence. My work as an artist, is like a tentative of recovering the child's joy in front of colours. Over the year, it has also become a mean of exploration and of communication. Another remembrance linked to the origin of my artistic emotions is an old
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