"El arte soy yo",#1 of a series of twelve portraits of an expressionist artist as seen by his son, august 2010
as expressionists we express all of our feelings and emotions that may be difficult to express otherwise. We distort, we dissect, brutalize, torture, distort and if necessary cut into little pieces what is unbearable to us, in short we stop at nothing to achieve our goals. Most of us use bold colors, use heavy forcible brush strokes and sometimes when anger takes over simply splash paint, mostly red and black on canvas completely neglecting any sense of order or composition. We are not interested in creating good art or bad art. Our aim is simply to make statements. For the most part our "art" is not popular nor has it any redeeming value. What it does offer is brutal honesty of how we see our friends, foes, relations and above all the world around us. In my portraits of friends I have often been accused by painting them as caricatures and not flattering in the least, and I have to admit that, once I get to know someone well enough, that is how I see them, for that is how I see myself.
It is by studying myself that I have discovered the Caricature that resides within us and is the one that we do our utmost to hide from those around us.
When very young I was much taken by the "German Expressionist" dancers, enormously popular in Latin America, namely Mary Wigman, the inventor of of "Audruckstanz" dance form and the dances of "sorrow and pain" by Rudolf von Laben, The director of the Deutsche Tanzbuhne.
While taking an interest and study of the Bullfight, I discovered the true art of "expressive" dancing in Flamenco, realizing that the "Ausdruckstanz" had it's roots in Flamenco, rather than in German culture as it was "sold" and I was delighted to have made that discovery for at that time I hated anything that was connected to German "culture"
Since I needed more than a canvas to express my anger and emotions I embraced this art form and used it ever since as a form of exercise during and after my painting activity. I don't consider it a dance per se, but rather a further expression leading to a healthy life style.
"El arte soy yo",#1 of a series of twelve portraits of an expressionist artist as seen by his son, august 2010
as expressionists we express all of our feelings and emotions that may be difficult to express otherwise. We distort, we dissect, brutalize, torture, distort and if necessary cut into little pieces what is unbearable to us, in short we stop at nothing to achieve our goals. Most of us use bold colors, use heavy forcible brush strokes and sometimes when anger takes over simply splash paint, mostly red and black on canvas completely neglecting any sense of order or composition. We are not interested in creating good art or bad art. Our aim is simply to make statements. For the most part our "art" is not popular nor has it any redeeming value. What it does offer is brutal honesty of how we see our friends, foes, relations and above all the world around us. In my portraits of friends I have often been accused by painting them as caricatures and not flattering in the least, and I have to admit that, once I get to know someone well enough, that is how I see them, for that is how I see myself.
It is by studying myself that I have discovered the Caricature that resides within us and is the one that we do our utmost to hide from those around us.
When very young I was much taken by the "German Expressionist" dancers, enormously popular in Latin America, namely Mary Wigman, the inventor of of "Audruckstanz" dance form and the dances of "sorrow and pain" by Rudolf von Laben, The director of the Deutsche Tanzbuhne.
While taking an interest and study of the Bullfight, I discovered the true art of "expressive" dancing in Flamenco, realizing that the "Ausdruckstanz" had it's roots in Flamenco, rather than in German culture as it was "sold" and I was delighted to have made that discovery for at that time I hated anything that was connected to German "culture"
Since I needed more than a canvas to express my anger and emotions I embraced this art form and used it ever since as a form of exercise during and after my painting activity. I don't consider it a dance per se, but rather a further expression leading to a healthy life style.