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99 % SOUL, 1% FIGURATIVE ABSTRACT FEBRUARY
2020
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NUMBER 23 GALLERY
99 % soul, 1% figurative abstract Artist bio The Creator has all the clues for us - all around us. We just need to ponder, pick and put in our canvases. That's my approach towards art – my paintings. I mostly do figurative abstract. End of the day, it is all about the human spirits that present this core sense to us – the sense we use to know and to let others know what is our art. We never ask why or how. That's basic and I try to get the basics. I think it is possible to create the past and the future in the present. Every present is past, every present is future That is how it is for millions of years behind (and remember, we have that unbroken chain since the first human opened eyes and, maybe, appreciated art). And, that is how it will be millions of years in the future. We are floating. That is where souls swim. That is art. I mostly do oil on canvas – but I appreciate all forms of art. I am not blocked in any geographic area. The world is a big canvas. In my personal life – I have children both daughter and son. Children are blessings – more and more! They guide us in life – we do not guide them. That's how that unbroken chain mysteriously works. Let art be a part of everything that we understand and everything that we do not understand.
BY KHANDKER TAREK
LISA MONA 01
Oil on Canvas, 2019 20.800 x 23.800 x 0.100 in "It is difficult to comment on the process of this work. For long I had this thought to paint Mona Lisa in my own way. As with my other works, the abstract style came out naturally. No extra effort from my end." - Khandker Tarek
FOR VERMEER'S GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING Oil on Canvas, 2019 20.800 x 23.800 x 0.100 in
"This is my sincere attempt to show respect to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in my own way. It was painted on canvas and then was framed. Same like all my works, it is difficult to describe the process for this work as well. In a summary, the impression I formed in my mind of Vermeer's work came out like this." - Khandker Tarek
99 % SOUL, 1% FIGURATIVE ABSTRACT
"I do mostly figurative abstract - that's kind of naturally comes to me. No pressure, no stress. In those figurative abstracts of course there are suggestions of other elements in the surrounding as needed. I also do some abstract of nature or doing my version of masterpieces (like I did few of Monet's, Pissarro's etc.). Whatever I do, I try to do it soulfully - passionately."
- Khandker Tarek
MISTRUST SERIES I, II & III Oil on Canvas, 2018 12.000 x 16.000 x 0.500 in
BEDROOM I
Oil on Canvas, 2018 20 x 16 inch x 0.25 inch
WOMAN, MAN AND NATURE - 01 Oil on Canvas, 2018 12 x 16 inch x 0.25 inch
FOR MANET'S OLYMPIA OF 1860S Oil on Canvas, 2018 20 x 30 inch x 1 inch
HORNS AROUND LONDON Oil on Canvas, 2018 20 x 30 inch x 1 inch
HINT AND WHISPER OF DEGAS IN MY MELBOURNE Oil on Canvas, 2018, 20 x 30 inch x 1 inch
MY WATERLILIES FOR MONET
Oil on Canvas, 2018, 20 x 30 inch x 1 inch
End of the day, it is all about the colours from the soul. That's completeness in an incomplete definition. That makes things alive. Yes, my oil paintings are mostly figurative abstracts. And yes, there are souls around - let that be painted love or love painted. Colours do have clues. Gathered from around. Today tells tomorrow, silently – what to do and why. Coming closer has always new reasons. Generation after generation – millions of daughters, millions of sons – all children of time. It is never-ending. Tomorrows will always figure it out. Let our eyes towards the souls open. Like tomorrow, we can also figure it out soon – maybe today, maybe now.
BY KHANDKER TAREK
PROPOSAL - OR, VAN GOGH'S SECRET LOVER Oil on Canvas, 2018, 20 x 20 inch x 0.10 inch
URBAN SISTERS Oil on Canvas, 2018, 20 x 20 inch x 0.10 inch
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