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JANUARY 2019
A MAGAZINE FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE
JAAMZIN CREATIVE PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPHY
Visual artists, painters
Photographers and cinematographers
GRAPHIC ART Graphic artists, digital art
ILLUSTRATION Illustrators, cartoonists
INTERVIEWS I nt er vi ews wi t h ar t i st s and cr eat i ve peopl e
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Photography Photographers,, cinematographers
4 Painting
Painters, visual artists, cartoonists
11 Graphic art 12 Collage 14 Digital art 17 Mixed media 18 Event 19 Article
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Jürgen Vogt Born in Berlin, Germany, Jürgen Vogt is a Canadian photographer living in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was raised in Toronto and lived for several years in Montreal. Jürgen's personal work is of an ever evolving style, rooted in documentary and reportage genres. His images explore a fascination with history, the environment, architecture and sometimes politics.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Luc Girouard “Beauty is a disturbance of the senses, a disturbance, a shock that excites and disconcerts at the same time.”
Teacher, Graphic Designer and Professional Photographer, I live in Montreal, Canada, and I'm particularly passionate about creative photography for almost twenty years now.
I don't transform reality, reality transforms me.
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PAINTING
Yuko Kyutoku Yuko Kyutoku was born in Aichi in Japan. Having grown up both next to the mountain and rivers, her love of nature and the outdoors grew tremendously. Throughout her life, Yuko has always been fascinated by images and how the world is represented through the eyes of others. Naturally, she was drawn to drawings and paintings. The interest was cultivated during her childhood period and further developed when she opted to take her bachelor's Degree in Fine art, painting, drawing, and printmaking at SUNY Purchase college in New York.
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PAINTING
Aleksandr Mihaltchuk I am professional graphic designer and illustrator by my formal education (State Academy of arts in Minsk, Belarus). I worked in design and publicity agencies in Belarus, Canada and Portugal. At the same time, I was painting and collaborate with art galleries in Portugal. At the moment I still work, as illustrator, but most of the time I dedicate myself to my artist career with my paintings.
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PAINTING
Fontana Shelter Fontana Shelter (a member of West Ox Arts Gallery in Bampton, Faringdon Art Society in Faringdon, Oxfordshire Artweeks in Oxford and Opulent Art represented artist) carries on with the art activity of the Italian painter Luigi Fontana, specialized in pyrography and tempera colours.
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PAINTING
Marcie Myerow I grew up focusing on fine art and majored in its freshman year of college. Due to a variety of reasons, I changed my major to early childhood education and pursued a career in teaching at the elementary school level until having my own children. Three grown children later, and facing empty nesting, I very excitedly revisited my earlier interest.
I have since been enthusiastically and passionately painting daily and have created quite a collection of original abstract acrylic paintings that show colorful and inspirational designs in a variety of sizes.
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PAINTING
Peyton Rack My studio practice consists of oil painting and collage. I am fascinated by human history, and what it can mean to mix different photos and artifacts together that would have never otherwise been affiliated with each other. For instance, spending hours painting someone unfamiliar of a different generation, with no apparent relation or historical significance to myself. It becomes only about human connection. My process involves creating collages with National Geographic publications and miscellaneous found photos.
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PAINTING
Stephanie Joanne I am 50 years old, a visual artist living in Nashville, TN. In 2014 I started my creative journey with no formal training and no prior art experience, so my work is guided by a mix of intuition and experimentation. Through mixed media drawings and paintings, I explore my love for art, science, and consciousness. My work is greatly influenced by sacred geometry and ancient civilizations, as well as my own spiritual experiences and memories. The Divine Feminine also holds a special place in my art and I strive to capture its essence through my creative expression. I believe that art has the power to unite us all and I am constantly inspired by the way it allows us to connect with one another. Art chose me, and I am forever grateful to be on this journey of self-discovery and creative exploration.
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PAINTING
Jordan Merlino Jordan Merlino is a Nonbinary Watercolor Artist who graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2015. Jordan has been working with watercolor for over a decade. Throughout their process, they have discovered to let go of total control over the medium. Jordan allows the water to guide the paint on where it needs to go. Jordan has taught Intro to Watercolor with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum from 2021-2022. They currently live in Santa Fe, NM, USA
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GRAPHIC ART
Lou Patrou
I created two portraits called Clementine and Cornelius, (likely husband & wife) of large black & white pencil drawings on paper. I don't know why, but they felt like they were from the American gilded age, hence their names! I wanted the work to be jarring, beautiful and a bit comical. I created each as a portrait and added unknown bizarre elements floating in their compositions.
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COLLAGE
Irina Novikova My name is Irina Novikova. I am a graphic artist. Drawing began to interest me from an early age, the first subjects for me were fantastic birds and animals. By my first education I am an art critic (State Academy of Slavic Cultures), by the second I am a graphic designer (MGTA).In 2021, I became interested in collage, first gluing together small pieces from newspapers. Afterwards I started testing fabric and threads. My images are based on mythological subjects: all-consuming time, a journey to the other world where unicorns and dragons live.
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COLLAGE
Bill Yarrow I am professor emeritus of English at Joliet Junior College and author of six full-length volumes of poetry. I have recently been working with public-domain paintings, photographs, and designs to construct original collages, which attempt to assemble discrete pieces of other artworks into new artistic wholes.
ARTEFACT The only thing I have left of my maternal grandfather is a small hand-held mirror made of ivory. It sits in the upstairs bedroom dresser drawer like an only child. I have yet to see myself in it.
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DIGITAL ART
Ruud van den Berg Ruud van den Berg has drawn, has made photographs and has been occupied with computers for several decades. East-Indian ink at primary school, further development at high school. Ruud studied experimental physics at university, where he got in touch with computers. He was an expert in, advisor on and manager of automati on. He studied philosophy for two years. He has also been a mathematics and physics teacher for several years. Ruud inherited a sense of style and color and a can-do mentality from his parents.
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DIGITAL ART
Jireh Grace Pihoc Jireh Grace Pihoc is a Filipino creative born in Quezon and shaped by her experiences in Marikina and Baguio. A poet and generative AI artist, she has found solace and healing through her artistic expressions. Jireh's creations serve as a mirror to her life, revealing memories of her upbringing and the hidden battles she fights within her mind. Growing up in the diverse landscapes of Metro Manila nurtured her love for words. Her time spent in the library during her formative years led her to develop a love for words which blossomed into a passion for journalism and creative writing during high school, and eventually drove her to pursue research in college until she turned to poetry as a therapeutic practice.
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DIGITAL ART
Tomiwa Adelagun Tomiwa Adelagun is a full-time practicing artist who hails from Ijebu Ode in Ogun State Nigeria. He was born in the Urban city of Lagos where his artistic talent sprang to life and received the guardian of God and older artists. His total commitment to creative endeavors cut across diverse media, however his chosen media are Digital, Oil, Ink, Charcoal and Acrylic with a preference for Mix media.
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MIXED MEDIA
Antonius Kho My works are mosaics of art and culture from my country, which is a variety of arts, cultures and languages, is a synthesis between east and west. Which is my art education background in Germany, at FH-Cologne Art Academy, majoring in glass paintings and textile art-tapestry, therefore my works is a synthesis of mosaic and textile art.
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EVENT
Artful Seoul As the space for pop culture, art and collectibles, BLAXK by ActionCity, in collaboration with Korean art toys collective K-TOYZ, is proud to present the ARTFUL SEOUL exhibition, the first Korean toy artist group show in Singapore! More than 10 representative artists from the Korean art toy scene have come together to showcase their distinctive works in this inaugural exhibition. From veteran artists who have been active in the Korean art toy scene for an extended period to recently acclaimed rookie designers, ARTFUL SEOUL puts together a fascinating collection of collectible art prints, digital assets, large-scale sculptures and exclusive designer toys from a diverse and creative array of Korean artists!
BLAXK by ActionCity from Saturday, 27 January 2024 Details about the ARTFUL SEOUL exhibition in Singapore: Period: 27 January 2024 (Saturday) – 24 March 2024 (Sunday) Venue: BLAXK by ActionCity Address: Funan, 107 North Bridge Rd, #01-03, Singapore 179097
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ARTICLE
What is art? - Part I. Art is the pinnacle of our civilization, and there are very few things as malleable, unstable, yet so strongly present as art. Art is nothing. And everything at once. Somehow, it is always on the reverse side of life. Perfectly useless if you look at it that way, yet it is one of the oldest human phenomena. In Plato's philosophy, the essence of art is mimesis, the imitation of reality. However, he also believed that the reality we perceive with our senses is only as real as shadows cast on a cave wall. Therefore, he speaks of a higher reality, the world of ideas. In other words, art, like our senses, tries to capture reality by striving to represent perfect forms. Aristotle, a student of Plato, added that art does not just copy reality but also presents its potential, showing what reality or the world could become. This approach is very close to us. For us, art is about how things could be. This is our special concept of art. The English word "ART" comes from the Latin "ARS", which can mean skill, manual dexterity, craftsmanship, trade, expertise. The Romans translated this word from the Greek "TECHNE", which we recognize in the modern word "technique", used in arts as well. In Greek, this word encompassed any skill or expertise, not just the ability to sculpt, but also medicine or shipbuilding.
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ARTICLE In the English word "ART", we often sense a meaning that refers to a manner or way of doing something. The way we live, the way we see things. If this is true, then the artist shows the way the world could look. Painting absolutely speaks to this. So does literature. Both create worlds. They create a world parallel to, and different from, what our senses perceive. Art is often considered a sort of sublime thing. This ties in with Plato and Aristotle, as in Plato's world of ideas, art strives for perfection. Just as we try to grasp the world with our eyes and ears but constantly fail, only perceiving it imperfectly, so does art. According to Aristotle, art reveals a more beautiful aspect of reality, what it could be, and the potential within it. Look at a Greek statue, each one is perfect. Kant uses the concept of the sublime, which he considers to be a greatness that transcends the limits of everyday perception and understanding. Hegel also views art as the pinnacle of civilization (modestly placing himself in this category, as he defined both art and philosophy in this way), representing an incredibly high level of human nature. Art offers a glimpse into the world of the absolute, the realm of spirituality, beyond all perception. These two elements, the sublime and technique, are also found in the Chinese interpretation of art. The reason for discussing the Chinese perspective is that their highly developed culture is considered to have evolved differently from Western culture. This includes, and especially pertains to, their language, which is another tool for representing reality.
In Chinese, the word for art is written as
艺术 (yìshù). This
compound word consists of two characters:
艺 (yì), which means "art," "skill," or "craftsmanship."
This character originally depicted a person kneeling before an altar, representing the concept of ritual or ceremony. Over time, its meaning expanded to more generally refer to skill or craftsmanship.
术 (shù), which means "method," "technique," or "art." Its earliest form depicted a hand planting a seed,
originally referring to various methods or techniques in agriculture. Later, its meaning broadened to more generally encompass technique or method.
When combined in the word
艺术 (yìshù), it conveys the
general meaning of "art," with a strong emphasis on skill and technique.
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ARTICLE In Sanskrit, the word for art is "Kalā" (कला). This term is ancient, possibly thousands of years old. Its root, 'kḷ', originally signified counting or enumeration but also implies skill, understanding, and perception. When the form "Kalā" emerged, it more specifically referred to skills that require understanding, knowledge, creativity, and techniques.
In Indian Tantric philosophy, 64 Kalās are identified as skills that a wise person should possess. Among these, several relate to artistic activities:
Geet vidya: The skill of singing. Vadya vidya: The skill of playing musical instruments. Nritya vidya: The skill of dancing. Natya vidya: The skill of theatricals. Alekhya vidya: The skill of painting.
Additionally, the Sanskrit concept of Kalā often carries a spiritual dimension, frequently alluding to an inner transformation aimed at the fulfillment of one's innate abilities.
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ARTICLE The Hungarian word for art, "művészet," is also interesting in its origin. The word "mű" as a standalone term refers not only to the result of creation but also to its "artificial" (man-made) aspect. This implies that art involves human alteration of reality. In art, this deviation from reality often moves towards the world of ideals. However, the word "mű" also suggests another direction, implying falseness or deceit. Interestingly, nobody perceives Csontváry's 'Lonely Cedar' as 'artificial' in the sense of being a fake tree (since it's paint on canvas); instead, it's viewed as a creation that represents a human effort (in this case, by Csontváry the artist) to represent and transform reality, endowing it with new meanings.
Despite the different developmental paths of Western and Eastern worlds, two key elements of the concept of art are found in every culture. Traditionally, skill appears to be universally important, and there's a strong connection between art and expertise, which can be described as the ability to shape reality. Another criterion is the presence of something sublime, striving to represent ideas, the absolute, and the presence or attainment of a spiritual level. For us, the Tantric approach is particularly appealing as it emphasizes that for a learned and wise person, the culmination of expertise and mastery in skills considered artistic is a path to understanding the world. We feel the same about the deep roots of the Hungarian word "mű," where extraordinary abilities are naturally integrated into accepted human actions. The mastery of a craft is seen as a miraculous power, capable of shaping reality. This notion will be revisited when discussing the institutionalist approach to art. We acknowledge that the skill to build a bridge from trees in a forest is as much a miraculous, reality-shaping force as creating a beautifully sculpted statue. These words, whether from the East or the West, originate from a world where these two realms were once united.
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