The Slowness The Beyond and The Transcendence

My vision grew to become an Abstract Expressionist/Surrealistic/Sci-Fi way of painting dreamscapes on canvas using acrylic paint, house paint, found... more

by Roger Mapes

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Price

$900

Dimensions

24.000 x 30.000 inches

Title

The Slowness The Beyond and The Transcendence

Artist

Roger Mapes

Medium

Painting - Mixed Media On Canvas

Description

My vision grew to become an Abstract Expressionist/Surrealistic/Sci-Fi way of painting dreamscapes on canvas using acrylic paint, house paint, found objects, and assorted other media. I interpret energies from spiritual, supernatural, and otherworldly forces. I read a lot of sci-fi authors such as Frank Herbert, Octavia Butler, and Vernor Vinge. I am also very interested in the channeled writings of SETH. These ideas and characters from novels and readings show up in my paintings as powerful and sometimes disturbing images in saturated, mostly primary, colors.

I consider myself an Outsider Artist. I found a description of Outsider art that fits me perfectly and I'd like to share it with you. I found it on www.jsaslowgallery.com:

"Jean Dubuffet's description (of Outsider art) from 1949 still holds true in many respects today. At that time, he used the term Art Brut (which translates from the French to mean literally "raw art") to describe what was so distinctive about his own collection of artworks. What we mean by this term is work produced by people immune to artistic culture in which there is little or no trace of mimicry; so that such creators owe everything - their subject matter, their choice of materials, their modes of transcription, their rhythms and styles of drawing and so on - to their own resources rather than to the stereotypes of artistic fashion."

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November 16th, 2008