Calligraphic painting is a combination of calligraphy and painting. The idea behind writing is to convey certain meanings with standard characters. In calligraphy, symbols and gestures meet. Calligraphic painting is more than that. The calligrapher does not just write words – he uses signs to convey information and metaphysical meanings. Painting is the art of […]
Post-painterly Abstraction
Interview with Ivo Alvarone – landscape painter
O-A: You are an landscape painter, abstract painter … Ivo Alvarone: Abstract painting always has secrets. My works often deal with non-obvious, general issues. One of the most important is the pursuit of unattainable inner harmony. Only through abstraction is it possible. All my creative activity can be described as a process of improvement. I […]
Interview with Jan Astner – VOLUPTUOUS TOWNS – series of portraits
Series of portraits. Face of city is the theme of your VOLUPTUOUS TOWNS series. Intriguing! Jan Astner: Every town is different. It has a different face, or rather faces. A series of portraits of cities is not about urban planning and architecture. Towns are people. Each city has different people, a different way of life, […]
Abstract painter ROBERT Lardus – interview
You are an abstract painter. This is your credo. Is DYSMORPHOPHOBIA, the series of your works a series of images-illusions? Robert Lardus: As an abstract painter I use various tools, for example Optical art, Op-art, which is a kind of abstract art. And I do it for a purpose: I want to have an impact […]
Alice Juno hard-edge artist – “Run, Run” series of paintings
Alice Juno hard-edge artist Alice Juno, as a hard-edge artist, strives to organize the form and colors used in the painting. It often limits the color range. What distinguishes her work is the texture of the lines. They are spacious as the only element of the picture. Alice gave up on any randomness. She paints […]
Robert Lardus – HUMANOGRAHY – art voice
Humanography – unique art voice Each creative artist creates his own art voice. He has a variety of painting symbolism at his disposal. Robert Lardus treats painting as a story. One can even say that he does not paint, but writes his pictures. He writes with characters. His art language is people-signs. . The artist […]
Jan Astner – TRANSHUMAN PORTRAITS – abstract vision
Jan Astner paints his TRANSHUMAN PORTRAITS as abstract visions, visions of the future. It is an ongoing project as new compositions are constantly being created in this series. These are not strictly speaking portraits. More sketches of a vision of the future. Notes from the dehumanized, technologically reconfigured future. Abstract visions, a vision of the […]
Ivo Alvarone – LAND-ECSAPE – expressive landscapes
The expressive landscapes of Ivo Alvaroune gained critical acclaim early on. He is an artist whose volatile, romantic imagination and the gift of transforming the landscape allow him to create unique fantasies. Painter, graphic artist and unconventional man, with a soul sensitive not only to impersonal beauty. He paints in various techniques. . During his […]
CONVERSIONS by Eva Davis – Expressionist painting
CONVERSIONS by Eva Davis CONVERSIONS are expressionist painting. Paintings from Eva Davis’s CONVERSIONS series are associated with change. Eva Davis’ paintings represent a complete departure from figurative painting. In her works, we see a free assimilation of various graphic elements or a complete deformation of known forms. We have the feeling of changing, modifying values […]
Jurgen Haupt new artwork
Coincidences – contemporary abstract drawings by Jan Astner
Jan Astner in black and white “Coincidences” black and white drawings talks about his world, combining poetic elements with individual intimacy. His work is always the beginning of a story that leads the viewer to the threshold of an unknown and fantastic world. In his abstract drawings, Jan composes shapes and forms of the image […]
Antonia Glynne Jones – Harbours & Landscapes
This gallery of harbour’s and landscapes contains work mainly from Cornwall, but also Wales and the Spanish island of Menorca. The works are based on actual places whether from an aerial, frontal or multiple perspective and always with a real element of the place incorporated into the painting. My work is not pretty, “I like […]
