Adda4Gay_Arts: November 2010

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

ART OF ULF

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ROSS WATSON: The Timelessness of the vicissitudes of Man

Untitled, 2010. Oil / Wood

The diver and Olympic gold medalist Matthew Mitcham is portrayed dramatically attached to a sail on a oceado tempestusoso suspended. Watson was inspired by the solitary nature of many sports and the intense pressure to succeed and win against all odds. Here the artist invites us to think about what might happen after a success or a defeat, or anxiety or loneliness of man faced with the conflict of winning or losing a competition. Ross Watson has referred to a work of Willem van de Velde, who was the undisputed master of marine paint at that time.

In art as in life there is nothing new, if we see and study the history of painting are always painting the same, and there lies the importance of creativity of the artist to show what differences has been done and seen, inventing or solving the above from a new work of art, developing another reading or another conception of previous work and perhaps surpassing the previous or original masterpiece.

Yannis Tsarouchis: The New Ideal Greek.

Man with butterfly wings sitting on her heels, 1965

Yannis Tsarouchis is perhaps one of the most important Greek painters of the twentieth century, excellent art work contributed to portray and define the modern Greek identity. Yannis is a deeply sensual painter, his work is heavily influenced by the French Impressionists, is also Tsarouchis an important gay artist who filled his canvases with homoerotic images of vulnerable men despite their uniforms or athletic bodies.