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My art follows
traditions of the ancient cultures of China, Sumer, Egypt, and
Greece. The artistic visions of the masters of these cultures
contain a spiritual and moral frankness which mirrors their
understanding of the universe. The aesthetics of antiquity were not
speculative, but rather were functional thus reflecting the
necessity of survival and thereby excluding all subjective factors.
I am attracted by man's contradictions in intelligence, character, will and activities. My art reveals the beauty of form by capturing these inner contradictions. My expressions of plastic composition reflect ideas whose spiritual foundations are being engulfed by cheap urbanized culture. My portraits represent not only a specific face, but the essence of a person's soul. For instance, when I do a portrait of a child, I try to show that the child is innocent, but also laughing, crying--the spirit of the child. In my favorite medium, bronze, I am searching for lost modules and spiritual values of a previous time. For the representations of "The first Dictator" I have created an archetypal figure that represents all dictators in all times--a characterization of an essence that is not completely animal, but is also not human. |
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