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Limited Color Palette

Slobodan Lončarević

Last Modified November 8, 2020 Leave a Comment

Biography

Slobodan Lončarević was born in Podgorica, Montenegro, during the Yugoslavia union, in 1960. He lives and works in Podgorica. He is a self-taught painter, who used literature from the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts and the exercises of Albert Durer for his art education. He studied art during a long period of early youth and was assisted by several renowned Montenegrin artists. He continues to study art, focusing on surrealistic art. He graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of Montenegro in Podgorica.

Statement

I approach painting through fantastic forms in an attempt to draw out the human essence to the canvas. In the space between myself and the painting, I experience myself as a crucified man; neither on heaven nor on earth. For me, surrealism is a gentle fluid that breathes life into the limitless playground of reality.

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Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Limited Color Palette, Whimsical

Jem Ham

Last Modified December 29, 2019 Leave a Comment

Jem Ham is an Australian, self-taught artist who started painting on brick walls with water at the age of four. Fascinated by the way the watermarked the brick and the ability to bring to life something from within, his love for art was born. Since then, it has been a journey of self-discovery through art, fuelled by a passionate need to create.

His work aims to visually represent the nature and psychology of the inner sphere of the artist. It is an attempt to understand the day to day psyche through self-expression and the creation of an original visual aesthetic. The process aims to tap into the subconscious world of imagination to reveal something from within which is often vague in the mind but comes to life through the process of drawing. As the whimsical creations are evolved manifestations of the artist’s inner sphere, the freedom in which each element can be interpreted allows the viewer to also connect to a naive imagination.

The evolution of each artwork is triggered by the recognition of the whirling maelstrom of seemingly random elements within. From this heightened state of being, the pencil hits the paper, channeling this creative energy into physical form.

Drawing influences from a range of artistic styles, his art comes with a large dose of heart, a touch of the surreal and psychedelic, a hint of realism, and a dash of whimsy. In essence, his works are a soapbox for the subconscious mind, giving voice to the imaginative world within.

Visit Jem’s Portfolio at jemham.com or purchase prints at Jem Ham’s Etsy. You can also follow him on Instagram or on Facebook.

Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Limited Color Palette, Whimsical

Anis Tabaraee

Last Modified August 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

Dialog
Dream
Duality
Heritage
Match
Meeting
Patriarch
Remained by Anis Tarabee
Sensation by Anis Tarabee
Triple

Biography

Anis Tabaraee (Tehran, 1989) graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design in 2013 and an MA in illustration in 2018 from Tehran University of Art. Her art has been exhibited internationally.

Artist Statement

I am passionate about representing and expressing the world around me. I manipulate and exaggerate the details in the forms of creatures to create new and interesting worlds. I love to convey the Eastern mythos and mood in my art. I attempt to weave the threads from the rich historical tapestry of Eastern stories into my contemporary art. Work is strongly my culture, such as the sphinxes.

I draw with a ballpoint pen. This tool delicate lines and sharp color. It also helps me to develop my inspirations more easily to be close in my style. It’s also easy to be carried to every place that I have time to draw. I can pick it and start drawing even when I sit on a chair at subway to reach my destination.

I continue to develop my ideas to one day make an illustrated book of imaginary creatures.

Links:
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Filed Under: Drawing Tagged With: Alegorical, Animals, Figurative, Illustration, Limited Color Palette, Lyrical, Monster, Mysticism

Genres: Surrealism

Nam Das

Last Modified August 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

Nam Das (b.1989) creates visual stories by arranging figurative elements like an assemblage forming a central idea. An idea which plays around the different archetypes of the collective unconscious or mythologems observed throughout history.

He began to work as a full-time painter at the start of 2019.

Slow Motion Explosion
Camp Fire Flight
As Above
Rites of the Hunt
Sibylline Song
Forethought Unbound
A Thousand Suns
Satellite Seasons
Flora Fauna Marta
Old Adage
Sites:

https://hnamdas.wixsite.com/paintings
https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/1229023
https://www.instagram.com/thenamdas/

Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Alegorical, Figurative, Juxtaposition, Limited Color Palette, Nature, Painterly, Portrait, Psychological

Genres: Surrealism

Allen Linder

Last Modified August 13, 2019 Leave a Comment

The Teacher
Dreamer
Man in Situation
Man in FreeFall
Man Holding His Head
Man Leaving Home
Man Pushing Through
Man Resetting Time
Man Rising to Applaud
Father and Son
The Master of the Entrance to the Void
The Ring
The Hands of God
Grandfather
Messenger of Wonder
Pie Man

Artist Statement

Whether creating sculptures or paintings, it is a desire to fall deeper and deeper into my imagination that compels me. A desire to be surprised to discover what I am actually dwelling upon in the often obscured parts of my being. I like to strip away at what arises in my vision until it makes a kind of complete sense although I may not understand it quite yet. I work until the image somehow resonates with my life and speaks of something that I actually know through experience. It must be real in my life to hold any lasting interest for me. I have sometimes thought that I am taking what is ordinary and extraordinary in my life and refocusing it through a lens of symbolic form. That way it can speak to me on all levels at once. I never think too long on a title for I simply call it what it is.

About

Allen Linder has been a nationally exhibiting fine artist for over 30 years.

Please direct all inquiries to lindersculpture@gmail.com

Biography

Thinking In Stone:

Employing the archaic philosophy and methodology of direct carving, Allen Linder sculpts contemporary artifacts—solid works embodying the present, extolling life and preserving the human spirit.

The act of carving and grinding away at stone, wax and bronze is an intuitive practice: ideas and images stimulated by life events emerge from Linder’s subconscious mind. The objects are a complete syntheses of his personal narrative and mythology, directly connected to the awe, beauty, joy and mystery of daily existence, namely the infinite possibility of experience and personhood. There are many narratives present; the work is left open and becomes a sort of spiritual fiction.

Linder “feels his way into form” in search of its center. His ideas play on a single scientific and spiritual metaphor: the need for resistance. The result of his process is hyperbolic sculpture in which content and form unite to distill existential thought using timeless, figurative gesture.

His sculptures explore physicality, the purity of material, and the construction of tactile, illusory awareness through his own psychological and transcendent reality. His work is at once somber and playful, comical and sublime, the posturing symbolic of life.

Links:

https://www.lindersculpture.com
http://www.facebook.com/lindersculpture
https://www.instagram.com/maninfreefall/
https://www.saatchiart.com/lindersculpture

Filed Under: Painting, Sculpture Tagged With: Alegorical, Conceptual, Figurative, Limited Color Palette, Painterly, Psychological, Whimsical

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