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Vic Vicini
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December 2013 Volume 2 No. 12
contemporary fine art
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Transporting you back in time.
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As a youth, I sort of became introverted and spent plenty of time drawing and creating an imaginary world after the death of my mother when I was 7 years old. My father, who was a carpenter by trade, needed someone to watch my sister and I so my Grandmother and Uncle joined us and raised us for pretty much our entire youth and adolescents. I spent many hours alone with a sketch book creating some crazy fantasy that filled my days for many years. Comic books and hot rod cars were a big favorite of mine when I was young. I spent many afternoons admiring the wonderful drawings in comic books and would study them for many hours. I loved to draw Spiderman or Superman in some thematic elaborate scene. I was not so intrigued by the story line but those crazy drawings that the illustrator put our hero’s in was more if an interest to me than the story itself. As for cars, I would create crazy looking cars with huge engines and large puffs of smoke and pretended that I was in some sort of car race. Boy that was fun! Those influences in those early years stayed with me for my entire life. I would move away from these subjects throughout the course of my life, but it remained with me in some sort of manner. Whether it was in design or color, the bold stories or the bold colors, these influences have always played a part in my development as an artist.
Flying Buck
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58 Dodge Coronet
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Betty Menu
Coke Games
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I attended Wayne State University and studied Printmaking and Painting. Those years I spent at Wayne State was some of my more influential and enjoyable years of my life. It was a time of discovery and awakening for me. During those early years in my twenties, art was not accepted as a way of life within my family and it was not respected as a career path. However, life seems to balance itself out. After several years of attempting to work in other fields, art resurfaced and I pursued my life’s dream. Like many of us, life moves on. I got married and had two children. For over 15 years I stopped painting and drawing completely. However, my life changed in 1999 when I had the opportunity to meet Robert Vickery at an opening in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was considered the premiere egg tempera artist of our time (aside from Andrew Wyeth). His work inspired me to paint again. I spent the next few years, while working as a Data Technician, working with egg tempera. I loved the medium and enjoyed the craft that went into the process. The beauty of egg tempera is something that I will always respect. I created all my colors from dry pigment
Cat and Mouse
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Roll Over Cat
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After several years of painting in egg tempera I decided to take on oil painting again. Once I started, I never looked back. The freedom of the paint was something I really missed. In 2000, I started oil painting again. I took on all the traditional styles, whether it was still life, landscape or portrait – I took them all on. Never really establishing myself in any one particular theme, I challenged myself to paint many subjects. And boy did I ever! I painted over 600 paintings over a course of 10 years.
Superman Jar
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Super Games
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As time moved on I realized that you cannot hide from your past for very long. Water will always find its level. The influence of my youth and my fascination with nostalgia would eventually take over my art. I started to incorporate comics, classic cars, vintage toys and retro packaging into my work. These images began to dedicate to me the path of my art. I felt like Santa Clause painting these images as if I was actually crafting them myself. The colors, design and the freedom of painting these images made me feel like I was a youth again. Every time I start a painting I feel like a kid with a box of crayons creating some imaginary world that only I could appreciate. Painting has changed me in so many ways. The freedom to create an image based on a feeling or emotion is something that has provided me purpose. I suppose it is the colors, the nostaglia or the imagination that triggers many of these works but it is all about how one sees the world and how the world sees you.
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Super Tear
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Super Space Age
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