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@gric and I am so happy to have had a dialogue with this super talented artist. I am stunned at the fact that there are people in this world with such talent.
I'm not really looking for a niche. I'm basically trying to do what I enjoy to do and painting the stuff I do is something I can enjoy. I'm not thinking of any particular style or label, but if people need labels then I just throw them terms like surrealism, sci-fy, abstract geometry...
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You mean the "Passage". Well, I think it can be a little of abstract geometry, a little of surrealism as well as a little of sci-fy.
Yes, my parents. Especially my father Jaroslav Gric - https://www.facebook.com/jaroslav.gric
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I was born in former Czechoslovakia and when I was 11 I immigrated with my family to Austria.
I listened to music in the past while I was painting but I don't any more since 10 or more years. I paint either in silence or sometimes I listen to audio books, talks and documentaries I find online. My problem with music is that at some point I can't listen to something over and over again and I lack the motivation to search for new music.
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It can be many things. Its forms in the nature like rocks, erosion, clouds... but it also can be all sorts of machinery, architecture, and robotics. I also find inspiration in 3D software simply by playing around with abstract forms or by modifying existing forms and bodies. And of course I get inspired by the works of various other artists.
My first influence came from my father's surreal work of course. I was always attracted to the imaginative, to the surreal and to science-fiction. The ordinary reality was never enough to me, I had to explore other worlds, thus I was fascinated by artists with a similar orientation, like the surrealists Giorgio De Chirico, Paul Delvaux, Dali, Ives Tanguy, and also Max Ernst, Alfred Kubin, HR Giger, Rudolf Hausner, Odd Nerdrum, Agostino Arrivabene, Henry Moore, De Es and many many others. Sometimes is was just one particular artwork from an artist that inspired me to a new series.
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Well, Steemit is still a small network so I can't compare its impact in terms of finding inspiring content like with facebook. Nevertheless, new interesting artists are joining daily and the pool of inspiration and influence is growing. Many of my fellow artists friends are already active here on Steemit and initiatives like Artzone or Slothicorn contribute here in a fruitful way.
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Do what you enjoy to do, but don't put on yourself the pressure of success. Joy is the origin of creativity. If your priority is joy then you'll get better and better and the chances for success will grow. But, if your priority is money then the fear of failure will poison your joy.
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Thank you too Chi!
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