Man in a wheat field. ( Portrait of Elias Newton )

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Artwork Details

Medium Oil, Canvas, Framed by Artist
Dimensions 61cm (W) x 91cm (H) x 3cm (D)
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Artwork Description

The idea of "man in a wheat field," took place one sunny day in Greece. I went to visit my daughter in Thessaloniki, Greece a few years ago. At that time she was preparing her school project. She had decided to try book binding, painting the whole book, and writing it. She created a book that took her back in Vincent Van Gogh's time and allowed her to talk to the artist. Due to the lack of Vincent's picture on the internet we decided to use my son in law as a model. We took some pictures of him and there was a one in particular that made the difference. The sunlight of that day and the intense contrasts created by it, inspired me instantly and created a visualisation of the painting. It was as if we were all standing in a sunny, bright wheat field, looking at Vincent's eyes and seeing the crows through his dark pupils. It was as if we had a time machine or a portal was created at that very moment, and the colour pallet opened up itself for me letting me observe the colour formations and the almost "dancing" movements of the brush. The fact of having my daughter taking the picture and setting the environment, me creating the painting and bringing the moment back to life, and my son in law being such a great model, makes this painting a symbol of family and unity. There is the technical part of it, which was a great journey going through Vincent's pallet combining it with my personal one, but also there is the emotional part that makes this painting so dear to me but also to any who would like to visit the place that we did.

Artist Bio

An artist is the creator of the beautiful. The goal of art is to uncover art, and to hide the artist...A critic is one who can express the impression he has received from beautiful works in a new way or with a new building. The highest and lowest form of criticism is some kind of autobiography who finds a rusty meaning in beautiful works av is corrupt and shrinking in loveliness. And that is a flow. Who finds beautiful meaning beautiful works-is cultured. There's hope for him though. The chosen ones are those for whom beautiful deeds are the only expression of beauty...The moral life of a man is merely a part of artistic construction; and the moral of art is to make a perfect use of an imperfect means. There no artist who wants to prove a point. Although only truths can be proven.There are no artist with ethical sympathies. Ethical sympathy for artist i an inexcusable stile mannerism. There is no artist of decadent. An artist is able to express everything... "Picture of Dorian Grey", preface by Oscar Wilde.

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