In my opinion, the artist is not only helpful but also essential to the well-being of society. Art is, and has always been, a means to communicate experiences, emotions and sensations, usually to others, using metaphor. The artist's role is to pick up on those ideas and to explore them with imagery. He/she uses the given cultural vocabulary to do so. And by doing this successfully, the artist can instil in the minds of the viewer a faith in the power of the creative mind. Put very simply, creativity is the single most important aspect of the human mind, because it allows knowledge to grow and mature.
Modern art needs to go back to the primitive man's reason for creativity … making the world alive ... and I try in my body of work to suggest that with the latest figurative-abstract series. Especially the piece, What Is It?, most important aspect of the human mind, because it allows knowledge to grow and mature. It is curiosity, imagination, unpredictability, ... and so we all need the artist, to move forward with our understanding of the world and with our appreciation of fantasy and insightfulness. Artists are not only the barometers of society, predicting the future but the instigators of new forms and systems."
Primitive man or woman, in creating works of naturalism, was convinced that the image was a true double of reality. It was a work of magic by which man asserted mastery over the world. The primitive artist was a magician whose drawing was an incantation in order to insure fertility of crops and plentiful game. In other words art intervened with natural forces to attract 'good' and repel 'evil'.
Antiquity, especially Greece redefined art as expressing beauty, in order, harmony and balance. Artists revolutionized architecture and how people perceived the human form. Its influence is still felt today.
Modern art needs to go back to the primitive man’s reason for creativity …making the world alive.. and I try in my body of work to suggest that with my paintings. Masks have been used by many societies to invoke magic into their lives. Both in North and South America, Asia and Europe. In Europe, mimes and clowns served the role of showing people the absurdity of life, and helping them to question existence and their mundane perceptions of reality.
As a result more questions emerged and the mystery has been slightly deepened, as Francis Bacon would say.
Masked Woman
40 x 30 in