SISTERS, 2019 Painting

The painting was made after a still from a movie by a Slovenian director Damjan Kozole. The movie is about two sisters that experience domestic abuse and are in process of dealing with it. PAINTINGS 2019 Eleven new paintings from me in 2019. As you will see, I attempted at playing with strong contrasts here and there. You be the judge as to how much I succeded in bringing to light a slightly different painterly reality. Apart from paintings my book is out! Cambridge Scholars in 2020 published my Study on the Parallels between Visual Art and Music: The Big Misconception. The book has 150 pages, approximately the same number of footnotes, and is divided in three parts. It is available on all the usual spots, Amazon included. The contents? Here are a couple of »blurbs«: “There have always been parallels between visual art and music. Rembrandt, loosely speaking, looks the way Beethoven sounds, perhaps Mozart sounds like Velazquez looks. Monet is the original Impressionist painter, while Debussy is the original Impressionist composer… What, then, are the parallels that go with, say, Warhol, Koons, Hirst? A Study of the Parallels between Visual Art and Music: The Big Misconception by Boštjan Jurečič answers this question and the many others that arise from the predicaments of these established parallels.” “Standard surveys of 20th century visual art imply that there is a continuity between, say, Rembrandt and Jeff Koons, between Caravaggio and Damien Hirst. Even the sharp critics of artists like Warhol, Hirst, Ai Weiwei and countless others that dominate the contemporary art scene, imply such a continuity. They are all wrong. There is no such continuity or, more precisely, such continuity is only very weak at best. A Study of the Parallels between Visual Art and Music: The Big Misconception by Boštjan Jurečič explains why and how the claims regarding this continuity are false and how we arrived at this point of great confusion about the arts.” “A Study of the Parallels between Visual Art and Music: The Big Misconception by painter, art theorist and journalist Boštjan Jurečič, is a systematic attempt to look at the conceptual and morphological similarities between the works of painters/visual artists and composers/musicians. But this book doesn't stop there. Establishing such parallels raises controversies, points to the confusion that rules in much of the contemporary art world and addresses many of the questions that plague the art scene today.” “There are people who demand proofs of mathematical rigor and precision for claims in the domain of art theory. As such proofs are not provided, these people then claim that any and every debate and any and every assertion about the arts is possible and acceptable, as everything about the arts is subjective. But mathematics can't be used to prove anything of significance in the arts. The proofs in art theory have been, and can only be, epistemological. This demand for the type of proof from a specific domain, when in reality the proof can only be found in a different domain, is behind much of the confusion that plagues the contemporary art world. A Study of the Parallels between Visual Art and Music: The Big Misconception by Boštjan Jurečič explores the confusion that arose from this predicament and examines solutions.”

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:47.2 W x 27.6 H x 0.8 D in

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