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Arête Painting

Gergana Nikolova

Bulgaria

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 56.7 W x 37.8 H x 1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

In ancient Greek “arête” means “excellence”. I have read about this term in the book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values” by Robert Pirsig. The book states “Arête implies a respect of the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency — or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not in one department of life but in life itself [quoting H.D.F Kitto's "The Greeks" ].”.

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Painting:

Acrylic on Canvas

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

56.7 W x 37.8 H x 1 D in

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My painting style is driven by emotions and various ideas. I extract philosophical ideas from books and seek to transfer emotions from music on the canvas as accurately as possible. I also play the piano and naturally, music in general is very important to me. I find these two branches of art – painting and music – very similar. The technique that I’m using is greatly influenced by the classical examples – I’m following exact stages whereas I’m working with multiple layers. For several years I was painting with oil paint. Then I decided to try with acrylics - I combine them with structure pasts, vanish or pigments, in order to achieve different effects. The experiment is crucially important to me and takes a central part – as part of the work process but also as a starting point of communicating with the viewer through his intuitive searches.

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