I started out to studying architecture in the university, back in Europe. I have two college diplomas in the US. One from Sociology and an other from Fine Art. From grad school I went straight to do murals and other complicated issues.
I do paintings....and of course I do photography.
This one is my very recent painting,from a
series of my Blue Tulip era, titled:
The Purgatory Of Dancing Alone
I love to deal with human behavior within my visual art.
Human nature is well affected by society. I like to break the taboos to focus on values that are important. Many human behavior, especially the ones that are related to erotics or sexuality are opressed even in modern (?) society like ours here in the USA. (Reminder: poor Janet Jackson's one nipple was visible on broadcast tv for 2 seconds and it did brought this nation to a hault..) While many countries give the death penalty for natural human behavior, our own country has many many things to learn about and learn to handle things differently.
While talking about bloody murders in the presence of children might acknowledge only as bad taste, to say out loud the word "breast" in the presence of the same children might bring a lawsuit. Something wrong with this picture.
Erotics and sexuality are NOT sins (in contrary of the views of many groups ). Erotics and sexuality were major drives in the era of the birth of classic art in Greece and in Rome.
Take example of modern Europe where nude pictures are displayed in daily newspapers, and these photographs are not seen as crime punishable by death, jail or summons....they are either just art or just advertisements....and note that Europe's actual crime rate is way lower than ours here.
I am against murder, robbery, stealing, looting etc.etc.etc. and of course I am very against rape. Because raping the body or raping the mind are equally big No-No by my opinion.
With my art I just try to help an already ongoing developing positive progress. This port is related to the photography site of MM#509013. It's the same family.
I admire Robert Mapplethorpe and Joyce Tenneson and... Dali..and Picasso...and Klee...and Cheirodon...and ...and so on.
