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The Art of Creating
The Art of Creating offers a fresh view on the creative process that is central to the understanding of modern and contemporary art. Creating is the most powerful way that we express ideas, solve problems, and shape our world. What we create, and how we create defines who we are, and communicates who we want to be. Creating is a way of thinking, inventing, and innovating. The power of creation is that which fulfils our needs and desires.
Ernesto C谩novas鈥� works, which are often a composite of references to both history and popular culture, present the viewer with a fleeting moment at once familiar and unknown. This notion is made manifest in Untitled (Part I), a painting which utilises J. M. W. Turner鈥檚 atmospheric treatment of light as source material, manipulating and adapting this to make it his own.
For Spanish painter Pedro Paricio it is himself and his contemporaries who come under close scrutiny during the creative process. In I want to feel something, I just want to feel, Paricio makes direct reference to Damien Hirst and his infamous installation, Away From the Flock which featured a sheep preserved in a tank of formaldehyde. By rendering Hirst鈥檚 sheep upon canvas, space is physically flattened but its significance remains. In doing so, the artist relays to his audience the transformative power of painting within an increasingly digitised, conceptually sensationalised contemporary art establishment.
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The Art of Creating offers a fresh view on the creative process that is central to the understanding of modern and contemporary art. Creating is the most powerful way that we express ideas, solve problems, and shape our world. What we create, and how we create defines who we are, and communicates who we want to be. Creating is a way of thinking, inventing, and innovating. The power of creation is that which fulfils our needs and desires.
Ernesto C谩novas鈥� works, which are often a composite of references to both history and popular culture, present the viewer with a fleeting moment at once familiar and unknown. This notion is made manifest in Untitled (Part I), a painting which utilises J. M. W. Turner鈥檚 atmospheric treatment of light as source material, manipulating and adapting this to make it his own.
For Spanish painter Pedro Paricio it is himself and his contemporaries who come under close scrutiny during the creative process. In I want to feel something, I just want to feel, Paricio makes direct reference to Damien Hirst and his infamous installation, Away From the Flock which featured a sheep preserved in a tank of formaldehyde. By rendering Hirst鈥檚 sheep upon canvas, space is physically flattened but its significance remains. In doing so, the artist relays to his audience the transformative power of painting within an increasingly digitised, conceptually sensationalised contemporary art establishment.
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