jueves, 18 de septiembre de 2014
Gérard WILLEMENOT
Gérard WILLEMENOT arrived on this planet on 11th February 1943. At that time, the three wise men were dressed in grey-green and devastated the world under the leadership of a little man with a moustache and strange hair style. As the eldest son in a family of nine children, Willemenot's childhood was not a fairy tale. His school years were chaotic and, very soon, despite - or because of - his multiple gifts, he entered into conflict with the National Education Board. This conflict still exists and will probably only stop with his death. Nevertheless, he obtained various diplomas as art designer and architect, a profession he pursued erroneously for many years. Willemenot wanted to reinvent the world and failed in the attempt.
His childhood and years as an architect made him a chronic maladjusted who did not like his period. Therefore, since he could not reinvent the world, he decided to paint it in a somewhat outdated, almost timeless, manner. One must remember that for nearly a century, paintings at that time were discussed solely by the intellectual media, and it was not uncommon for an art critic to write eight pages about a virgin canvas entitled "Without Title No. 12" or a fly dropping on canvas entitled "Opus No. ". For a long time, this intellectual masturbation has erased all former values considered old and decadent, such as composition, craftsmanship, creativity, etc... to praise modern and new values only. A modern approach is great of course... an artist's crap is beautiful, more so if it is the most recent one, that of the Day! Yesterday, he did not make any, he was constipated!
Technique and themes
The painting of Willemenot is simple. It is a painting style that is dying out, called "à la Tempéra" (which he created himself). To concoct this dish, you must add an inordinate love for the Middle-Ages and its mysticism, gradually include two hundred grammes of fantastic literature from your childhood (the Lovecraft type), and add a pinch of cartoon strip. Serve it with lots of humour, a little love for humanity, and, alas, the omnipresence of death around the plate.
This technique requires a lot of work. To motivate you, get yourself a woman that you will love, children (preferably fathered by your good self) and a good tax collector (good ones can be found nearly everywhere).
This outdated and timeless painting style is very popular with the Anglo-Saxons and people of the medical profession who suspect that the artist, under the disguise of real imagination, is somewhat deranged or a user of forbidden substances.
The works of G. Willemenot can be found nearly everywhere in the world and its immediate surroundings, as well as in some galleries in France and abroad.
Gérard Willemenot nait le 11 février 1943.
La guerre mondiale et la déportation de son père à Mauthausen marqueront fortement son enfance. Il est le fils aîné d’une famille de neuf enfants. Très tôt rentré en conflit avec l’éducation nationale, il fera des études artistiques, sortira décorateur des Arts Appliqués puis deviendra Architecte DPLG et Urbaniste, métiers qu’il exercera par erreur pendant vingt cinq ans !
Son enfance et ses années d’architecture feront de lui un inadapté chronique qui n’aime guère son époque. Ne parvenant pas à refaire le monde, il va le peindre à sa manière, décalée et intemporelle. Willemenot n’aime pas la peinture dite contemporaine qu’il considère comme un canular institutionnel.
La peinture de Willemenot est simple. Il s’agit de peinture dite «à la tempera» (qu’il fabrique lui-même). Cette technique, en voie de disparition, sera cuisinée avec un amour immodéré pour le Moyen-Âge et sa mystique auxquels il convient d’ajouter l’influence de quelques grands anciens comme Jérôme Bosch, Breughel ou Patinir mais aussi celle de peintres contemporains comme Albert Drachkovitch ou Jacques Poirier qu’il a bien connus et admirés, tous deux artistes hors du temps.
Son oeuvre aborde essentiellement les thèmes de l’Amour, l’Humour et de la Mort.
Les oeuvres de Gérard Willemenot sont présentes chez de nombreux collectionneurs un peu partout dans le monde et ses abords immédiats, ainsi que dans quelques galeries en France et à l’étranger.
miércoles, 17 de septiembre de 2014
martes, 16 de septiembre de 2014
lunes, 15 de septiembre de 2014
Tetsuya ISHIDA
Tetsuya Ishida (born in June 1973, Shizuoka) was a Japanese painter who died in 2005 after being hit by a train. (Possibly Suicide)
Tetsuya Ishida painted scenes of ordinary Japanese life, but with the protagonist (a self portrait) always trapped in a machine-like body, or treated as part of a production line.
"Tetsuya Ishida dipinge scene ordinarie della vita giapponese dove il protagonista (lui stesso) è intrappolato in corpi-macchina, spesso parte di catene di montaggio. Altre volte il corpo è fuso con elementi architettonici che siano scuole, paesaggi, marciapiedi, giardini o elementi più piccoli quali lavelli, toilet, letti, automobili.
Trovo molto chiaro il messaggio sociale e di disagio contestualizzato dal trinomio uomo-macchina-lavoro"
viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2014
ALLEN WILLIAMS
I've always loved drawing for as long as I can remember. I have pictures of monsters that I did at the age of three and I feel most at home with a pencil in my hand. I also work in acrylics, oils and occasionally digital... but everything always starts with drawing. I went to college for a few years but left when I started doing more illustration than actual homework assignments. I became a professional freelance artist in 1988 and have worked on many publications, games and projects since then. Beginning with TSR, Dragon magazine and later progressing into ccg's such as Magic: The Gathering and Rage.
In 2001, with the prospect of a child coming into view, I decided to get serious. I renewed my efforts, began seek out my own, self directed, education and build a stronger discipline. I allowed myself to obsess on what I love to do.
In 2010 two major things happened. I wrote, illustrated and published a young adult novel called "The Witches' Kitchen" for Little Brown and I met Guillermo Del Toro and was asked to do pre-production concept work on the film "At the Mountains of Madness" (which is currently on hold). Most recently I've done concept work for Guillermo's "Pacific Rim," Darren Aronofsky's film "Noah" and book cover work for TOR. In 2013 I was honored to be the recipient of the Spectrum Gold Award for concept art.
I still just draw most of the time whether anyone pays me to or not... occasionally I write and now I am beginning to paint, again.
JOAQUIN JARA
JOAQUIN JARA, Barcelona, Spain, 1977 Joaquin Jara is a multidisciplinary artist. All of his aspects, from interventions in natural and urban environments to painting, sculpture, and experimental movies, converge on a common objective: -understanding the creation process of the portrait as a piece. Within the internal processes which shape a creation, we can witness a dialog between matter (used to construct), intentionality (energy that generates the work), space (in which the expression is executed), and time (the transformation element). These processes and the dialog between them generate a performance in itself, due to unexpected events, which become an existential question; overcoming thought, which is nothing compared with the image of the world captured emotionally, an image that appears as a revelation. The portrait is displayed as an object subject to internal and external forces, those of the environment, which generate constant changes. Therefore, it will be a representation of the subject processes. An instant inside a sequence of images in continuous transformation. An image saved, which does not illustrate identity, but testifies it. An image without a possible conclusion, as it resides on instability.
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