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Sketch: "Fairy"

on August 28, 2009

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"Fairy" - A5 pencil on paper

art fantasy

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The Oh-so Controversial Fairy

It's always amazing to me what people find "confrontational" - possibly because I've always been taught that the truth sets you free, I look for and absorb every thing, idea and emotion that leads to personal liberation. If I find an idea distasteful, I have to ask myself what it is that I'm trying to avoid - its reality, or its illusion? The painting here "Sprite" was in a local cafe in a solo exhibition of mine, where it was acknowledged that it had to be deemed appropriate for the location and the patronage. Inside of a week, there were four complaints over this artwork, forcing the cafe owners to take it down. The local mothers had felt that it was far too adult for them to expose to their children. When I posted this news on the internet, the general reaction was that the children weren't the ones troubled by the art, the mothers were - in a time when clothing catalogues, advertising on television and even on bus stops has changed the publ

The Mythos of Fine Art

Pop culture has redefined the terms of art as far as the mainstream is concerned - the "people's artist" has become something of a centralised theme, with the majority of the audience recognising this as the height of art. What is not widely recognised is how that came to be. Beginning with Andy Warhol, a man who was trained as a commercial artist and designer, who reinvented himself as a blank canvas, without identity, so that others could write their own interpretations of who he was in their own minds and reviews. The idea was that the more of himself that he removed from the art, the more he was celebrated for being an amazing artist, because that's who people wanted him to be. They created their own icon, because he allowed them to dictate who he was as an artist. Banksy, another pop culture artist, who is for the most part completely anonymous to the people, and also a commercial artist, is another individual who allows the audience to design their own art her

Captured

I have been working on a number of vignettes to get back into the drawing rhythm, small drawings that immediately capture an idea or emotion. They are created on A4 size paper, and finished in one layer. Simple small one-of-a-kind treasures that would go well in a personal space or private area.

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