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21 Works of Art
ekyoung's Biography
Beyond the vanity of self-expression, Art is also a unification of differentiated consciousness through creation and contemplation. With this notion, Art for me is a natural means of communicating personal convictions and observations of the contemporary human condition and also functions as a vehicle of inquiry into its conundrum.
As my primary subject matter is anthropological, human forms or objects of anthropomorphic quality are predominant in my works. Oil painting is my preferred medium with its fluid malleability and versatile color palette that renders the tactility of forms more effectively for me.
Notwithstanding the importance of the subject matter itself, I believe an artist’s gestural approach to painting is just as crucial in conveying the force of the image. In this respect, I am partial to bold brushstrokes painted in impasto, for its textural versatility and sculptural attributes that allow the eye to dance freely with the movement of paint on the canvas.
Without a proper art education, apart from the guidance of MyArtSpace, my aesthetic sensibilities are also cultivated by browsing the works of renowned contemporary figure painters. Other than my admiration for their individual idioms of expression, Lucian Freud’s unrelenting attention to detail, Francis Bacon’s devotion to the raw image and Edvard Munch’s lurid colors of existentialist anxieties have also largely influenced my artistic journey.Besides visual research, I am also an avid reader of existentialist philosophy which I believe has a profound effect on the themes investigated in my paintings.
I work with the conviction that eventually, my oeuvre of artwork would be more than just an illustrative autobiographical diary of my emotional experiences but also as a device that inspires self contemplation and criticality in the consciousnesses of both society and the individual. It is important that my art transcends benign illustration and escape decorative notions. Ultimately, my art should succeed in painting the invisible forces of life and humanity, its imagery seizing the viewer like a violent cough that convulses the body and reverberates in his consciousness.
ekyoung's Collection
A painted allegory of tragic human condition, accursed by Man’s self consciousness. He is an ambiguous entity that cannot be truly liberated in animalistic corporeality which His self-consciousness negates, nor be actualized in transcendental being. Man can live only as a continual process of self-surpassing, an anthropomorphic struggle manifested in disillusionment and societal violence, bound by the Sisyphean task to destroy and reinvent Him-self, even as he seeks to escape his predicament A newborn is a violent encounter of formless consciousness and corporeality, an anthropomorphic geyser spurt of unadulterated prismatic possibilities, and relentless in asserting the purity of its presence. Birth is a bloodcurdling scream of pain that resonates with life’s immanent cry of despair, suggesting a prescient knowledge of both physicality and futility. Perhaps, birth being just as difficult as death, makes life merely an unnatural habit that we have grown accustomed and cling to Sleep unfetters Man from Ego and false notions of self, a respite from the conformist demands of social judgement and obligations that are his passport among his peers. In this blissful oblivion, Man is authentic, as unconscious as Nature, and transforms into a conduit for the expression of invisible impulses that find form in the flourish of flora and fauna. It is a beauty that the picture tries to capture in its ambition to be a clarion call for Man to return to a more natural state of being
Creations II - The Schizophrenic Primate
Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:15 am
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Creations II - Birth
Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:11 am
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Creations II - Beauty in Authenticity
Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:09 am
73 View
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This portrait is an instinctive reaction to salvage myself from the state of oppression that I felt was suffocating me, having realized that for the most of my life, it has been arranged to oblige, hardly anything conducted out of self volition could be documented about my quotidian existence thus far in my actions and decisions as an individual....more at http://leoportraits.webs.com/blog.htm This self portrait was done during a period of intense introspection. The process of self reflection was a strong impetus behind this project as I contemplated the short history of my existence, the origins of my identity, the roots of my individuality, the progress of my emotional development and my current constitution.....more at http://leoportraits.webs.com/blog.htm Portrait as a token of friendship in exchange for one of myself with a fellow participant at a recent portrait drawing session. I found the dog's disconsolate and soulful eyes juxtaposed against the owner's self-absorbed look into the camera, framed in a loving embrace of fur and skin, fascinating because it seemed as if the dog's eyes acted as a conduit for the owner's emotions while she posed for a kodak moment...
Self portrait 2
Sun May 17, 2009 4:56 pm
78 View
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Self portrait
Sun May 17, 2009 4:54 pm
31 View
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Canine affection
Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:44 am
39 View
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From the periphery of my vision, the image tugged at the sleeve of my consciousness,demanding attention. Enraptured and intoxicated by the sheer power of serene compassion emanated, I was compelled to ask for the privilege of expressing its art. From a photo id obliged, this portrait is born.. Group portrait stitched together from 3 photos, hence the discordant light sources, yet the picture seems believable. This picture is motivated by an innate curiosity to witness the result of converging the youthful splendour of the personalities from separate frames of experiences and moods photoed with their other companions.It is also a gradient of styles, from patient circular strokes on the first character to a more impatient and abrupt rendition of the third. Portrayal of the nascence of a rare smile from the usually stern countenance of my dad
Serenity
Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:06 am
49 View
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Friends
Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:00 am
49 View
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The shy smile
Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:29 am
68 View
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