New Ideas

"I want to walk away feeling like I had a human experience.  I demand that from art."-Keith Carter

 "Last Kiss" is by Adam Martinakis, a recent artist interest of mine.  I am captured by his focus on the human subject as well as his imaging techniques.  I really love this piece because of its raw emotion that is exuded through these unknown figures that lack eyes, the part of the body that many would say exude the most emotion.  I want to be able to bring that much emotion to my own pieces, with as much elegance as Martinakis does.  The rather simplistic composition is filled with extreme complexity that doesn't overpower the piece.  This is a problem I struggle with, giving as much detail as I want in a piece without making it too complex or messy because there is so much going on. 

http://adamakis.blogspot.com/

  

 "Two Men Dancing" is by the famous photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.  I have always been fascinated as well as intimidated by Mapplethorpe.  His work pushes so many boundaries even today, in such ways that I would be afraid to.  Just like Martinakis I really like the simplicity of the composition, and the complexity in the subject matter.  The emotion you can tell comes from Mapplethorpe as much as from the two mean and the final image.  You can really tell there is the artist's emotion and artistic force behind the piece.  That is what I want for my own work.  While I want it to stand on it's own without me behind it, I want my audience to be able to tell that I am driving the work.

http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2013/02/the-man-podcast-robert-mapplethorpes-xyz/