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Click images for a larger view "Martinis and Attitude" oil on canvas 16" wide 20" high |
2008 -2009
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2008 -2009 Portrait Oil Paintings |
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2008 -2009
"Angel at the Bar w Skull and Roses" 24" x 36" oil on blocked linen 2008-2009
SOLD 11" x 14" OIL PAINTING of child |
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Giacomo Gates, 2005
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Portrait Painting Redefined by Riki R Nelson "People have been asking me lately, 'Why?' 'Why add wings or horns to a portrait painting, or a skull sitting on the bar in a painting of a cocktail lounge, or paint sunglasses on a face so you can't see the eyes? Why paint a subject looking away from the viewer so you can barely make out the features, or paint a disturbing degree of expression into a saxophonist's mouth as he plays?' ." "Similar points were broached in another article that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News and Los Gatos Weekly, entitled - "Dissonance of Jazz", based on an interview I had with author / arts writer, Emily Dolittle..." ( Link to article by Emily Dolittle http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10246996 ) "...Pretty paintings, are wonderful, I create them, and enjoy them, but a painting intended to strike a chord of both resonance and reality, should also bring to the viewer a certain disquiet. The experience can be downright jarring, or as subtle as a style of Zen poetry that alludes to things lost but still treasured; the space inside you that they once occupied still sacred, even without them. A thing of profound beauty, does not have to be pretty. But it does have to have meaning." "There is discord, but it is the discord that makes the harmony interesting." "People have crooked smiles, sax players have distorted lips when they play, and flawlessly beautiful models, often have more - or less - to them then meets the eye. So I add the reality as, and how, it occurs to me. When I use archetypal imagery - skulls, roses, wings, horns, - what is being expressed is a profound internal experience of indefinable source, that is absolutely as real as the perfect make-up, and flawless bone structure of the living models I work with. " "That extra bit of stark reality in the musician's faces; that is the passion, the creativity, and the power, that comes from the musicians as they create their own art (music). When all you can see of a face is a smile, reaching out to you from below a pair of dark glasses, what is left is pure alluring enigma - the very core of art. There are raw moments in all great works of art, whether it be music, painting, or poetry. Art is both grotesque, and beautiful, often at the same time. It is the delicate balance between the two that defines both the artist, and the piece. 'Real Art', is far more then just the sum, of it's pretty - or not so pretty - parts." -- Riki R Nelson, 2009 -- For information about commissioning a portrait : New Portrait Gallery Section... Online Gallery You may read Biographical information for Riki R Nelson- Phone 408 623 5344
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email - portraitqueries@riki-arts.com Riki R Nelson, is a Contemporary Realist & Oil Painter |