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Joined: Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:06 pm
Last visited: Wed Nov 20, 2019 11:51 am
Member Type: Artist/Photographer

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My Real Name Carl Owen
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Age: 74
Occupation: Artist
Interests: creating objects of beauty, new experiences, travel and learning
About Me: I am an artist. Always have been an artist and shall always be an artist. My first painting was done on Christmas day after receiving my first art set under the tree at the age of four. My last painting has not yet been produced.
To me as an artist, there is a knife’s edge between order and chaos, between style and ability, between realism and abstraction, and between do and try. If asked to paint a realism painting, it would not be done. A photograph would do the same task. The desire to demonstrate peer acceptable artistic ability would only be a wasting of time. To perform an artistic social statement about the realities of the world would be the act of a fool. When creating an object of beauty, either it is done with success as an accomplished task, or failure is the result. There is never try with the endeavor of creating a work of art.
There is a genre of art that this artist will do not do. It is disagreeable and has no need for any artist to produce. This so-call art is sexually explicit, human degrading, socially outrageous or horrific and terrifying objects referred to as art. It is called "Shock Art". The only message it sends is that of a cry from artists to look at them. Shock Art is worthless. All of my artistic endeavours are aimed at making objects of beauty.
There is something deep in us human beings that instinctively knows, appreciates and desires ownership of objects of beauty. And after all words, excuses and rationale vanish, it is the work of art that stands there or hangs on a wall all alone commanding the viewer to accept or reject it solely upon the viewer's decision. So my efforts are aimed at making that work of art own the ability to command the viewer's attention. This is my life’s quest.