Category: visionary art

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Vanessa Cooper

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The artist Vanessa Cooper lives in the south-west coast of Dorset, UK.

Cooper has built a reputation as a bold, imaginative artist with a deep love of color.

She studied at Portsmouth University, first exhibited her work in 1987, and has steadily built a reputation as a bold, imaginative artist with a fascination for hues and depths of color that represent life around her.

She takes her models from nature and from family life – from forests, gardens, pets, and children.

There are deep veins of both sensuality and humor in her work, which enhance their vitality.

Cooper works principally in oils and a variety of other mediums, redrawing her compositions over and over again to pare down the picture’s content to its basic elements.

Her art is infused with both a playful humour and a strong sense of sensuality, giving it a distinctive energy.

More of Vanessa Cooper’s colorful art can be found at https://vanessacooperstudios.com/.

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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rogan Brown

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Rogan Brown is a British artist based in France whose work explores the architecture of natural forms.

The artist studied at Goldsmiths’ College and holds an MA from Queen Mary University.

Brown’s method — cutting thousands of layers of paper either meticulously by hand or with the aid of laser technology — stands in stark contrast to the digital-native practices that dominate contemporary aesthetics.

Scientific illustration and model-making inspire his intricate paper sculptures, some of which take up to 5 months to complete.

The patterns and forms Rogan depicts may stem from nature, but on a bigger scale they take on an otherworldly look.

His labor-intensive process places him within a broader craft revival that challenges industrialization, speed, and mechanization.

His works, rooted in biology and ecology yet executed with obsessive handcraft and advanced laser cutting, situate him within a critical crosscurrent of contemporary art practice.

More of Rogan Brown’s amazing work can be found at https://roganbrown.com.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen

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Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen (-1963) is a visual artist living and working in Copenhagen.His practice spans painting, installation and writing, and his art is, in whatever form, closely related to poetry and the poetic dimension.Educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schmidt-Rasmussen’s work is narrative and is positioned in an utopian intersection between the autobiographical and the general.With a strong connection to literature, performance, and cultural surroundings, Schmidt-Rasmussen has consistently developed a practice that balances personal reflection with broader social themes.Schmidt-Rasmussen’s practice has always been nomadic, drawing inspiration from everywhere.The artist describes his painting as going on a journey, a journey where one’s travel plans often fall apart and one ends up in a completely different place from the original starting point.Schmidt-Rasmussen wants to invite the audience into a universe that is different from where they are come from.His paintings burst with color and rhythm, a surreal blend of lines and objects and designs that viewers can wander through.More of  Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen’s work can be found at https://christianschmidtrasmussen.dk/ and https://www.facebook.com/christian.schmidtrasmussen/.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Tarik Kiswanson

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Tarik Kiswanson (-1986) is a visual artist and poet from Halmstad, Sweden.Kiswanson received his MFA from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and BFA from Central Saint Martins-University of the Arts London.The artist comes from a Palestinian family that was exiled from Jerusalem to North Africa and then Jordan before subsequently settling in Sweden in the early 1980s.Kiswanson transforms sculpture into a highly experiential artform.He employs simple-seeming objects to conjure the sense of rootlessness that pervades our age.Accordingly, what stands out from the empty wardrobes, cribs, cocoons, and chairs that recur in his installations is their overall impression of weightlessness.Kiswanson borrows from Minimalism, and, in his rejection of simplified geometry and form, ushers in a new type of abstract sculpture.

More of Tarik Kiswanson’s abstract presentations can be found at https://tarikkiswanson.com/

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Forrest Bess

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Forrest Clemenger Bess (1911–1977) was an American painter and fisherman.

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He is known for his abstract, symbol-laden paintings based on what he called “visions.”

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Bess made his own frames and worked mostly with dark, brooding pigments, which he sometimes mixed with sand or varnish for texture. 

And All the Things I Have Forgotten

 

Throughout his life as an artist, Bess developed a complex visual vocabulary to accompany his obsessive devotion to beliefs and theories that separated him from society around him. 

Dedication to Van Gogh

 

Bess believed his visions and the resulting paintings came to represent a pictorial language that had universal significance.

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He also he believed his imagery formed a blueprint for an ideal human state, with the potential to relieve mankind of suffering and death.

I Can See Through Myself

 

He is now regarded as a unique visionary, an artist who cannot be grouped with any one school but who belongs to his own vivid, personal vision.

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Bess was formally diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic late in his life. As an alcoholic and increasingly disturbed, he experienced frequent hallucinations, visions that often translated into art.

Seascape With Sun

 

More of Forrest Bess‘s visionary art can be found at http://www.forrestbess.org.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — H.R. Giger

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It’s sometimes funny how your first introduction to an artist is through everyday things — like album covers.

H.R. Giger (1940-2014), one of the preeminent artists of Fantastic Realism, was a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor and set designer known for his biomechanical creatures, extraterrestrial landscapes and disturbing, though memorable, imagery of grotesque sensuality.

Giger discovered the airbrush and, along with it, his own unique freehand painting style, leading to the creation of many of his most well known works.

Giger kept a notepad next to his bed so he could sketch the terrors that rocked his uneasy sleep — nightmarish forms that could as easily have lumbered from prehistory as arrived from Mars.

Giger’s art enters the rarified realm of the near magical, and certainly the land of genius.

But this generous and humble artist avoided the limelight and rather let his work speak volumes of his mastery.

The most famous book with publications of his drawings and landscapes was the “Necronomicon” of 1977.

It was Giger’s published book Necronomicon that inspired Ridley Scott’s Alien.

His work is surrealistic, magical, detailed, and plainly gorgeous.

More of H.R. Giger‘s work can be found at http://www.hrgiger.com/ and http://visualmelt.com/H-R-Giger.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Robert Venosa

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Robert Venosa (January 21, 1936 – August 9, 2011) studied  the Misch Technique (also known as the Master’s Technique) discovered by the seventeenth-century Flemishmasters Hubert and Jan Van Eyck, which utilizes the system of painting in tempera and oil glazes.

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This technique is perfect for painting the crystalline worlds that Venosa envisions.

celestial Light goes through the surface oil glazes, bounces off the white tempera underpainting and comes back out hitting the eye with the illusion of transparent depth.

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For Robert, it was more than a career — it was a spiritual path of self inquiry and direct experience of transcendent realities.

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He has been called a visionary, his paintings slicing through the ethereal and bringing it closer to home.

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His neighbor and friend Salvador Dali once said, “Bravo Venosa! Dali is pleased to see spiritual madness painted with such a fine technique.”

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More of Robert Venosa’s works can be found at  Robert Venosa  and at rvenosa.