Damyan's Conceptual Modular Art

"Author's Desilusion" by Damyan. 2008. 1200 x 500 mm

Here Damyan presents his new graphic works made of modules. The Conception presents modular constructions revealing one or another image, idea, expression, thought. The "Author's Desilusion" graphic work is done with repetitive samples of the cover image of a book, showing the state of soul of Desilusioned author, or its heroes. The work reveals Damyan's world, deep, unfolded and full of desilusion, desilusion being here a dominant mood.

"Food Constellation. Golden Modules" 2008. by Damyan.

Photo-Modular. 600 x 600 mm

The work "Food Constellation. Golden Modules" is techniquely done diffrently; but in the same creative period dominated by modular art. Inspired by bidimensional electronic 16 bit images space, the black background showing the space, and Golden points eliminating the produced stars made of food. "We are all made of stars" sang recently Moby. Damyan here illustrates his philosophy of circulation of matter in this world/universe. Human beings representing the Stars made of Food, eliminated by Golden Modules.

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The logical link between the "Generating/Productive Golden Modules" and the human beings, being Stars, is reversed according to ancient concept of unity between the running lama and the jaguar hunting it. The Lama in the moment of desperate escape feels allready a part of jaguar. The victim feels a part of the hunter. So The Golden Modules are a Product of Creative Human Stars. As people will perish, but Art - as Golden Values created by them will live eternally. Ars Longa - Vita Brevis (roman proverb).

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More than that : This Art then will contribute to give birth to new "stars", who will continue this neverstopping process of creation and contemplation through creation. This is the hidden sense illustrated by the Artist Damyan. Hope you'll enjoy the works.

Damyan's Paintings and Graphics Collection II

"The Nineth Wave" by Ivan Ayvazovsky. Oil On canvas Copy by Damyan. 2005. 1000 x 600 mm

Here is the second part, a new post on the art blog of Damyan's Paintings created in the 2004-2007 period. Some of the paintings created during Damyan's studies in the college of Fine arts or Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts.

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If you are interested in buying original art works from Damyan or high quality reproductions, or you are a gallery/restaurant/hotel/exhibition space/ owner and looking for an Artist to decorate your speace, or you want to Oreder/Commission a painting for yourself or as a Original Art Gift for your loved ones please contact Damyan by email.

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And Damyan will be excited to offer you his large spectrum of graphic works and oil paintings. Ars Longa - Vita Brevis "Art is Eternal, Life Is Short"

"Rustic Still Life" 2004. by Damyan. Oil On Canvas. 550 x 750 mm.

Amy Winehouse Pseudo-Mosaique Portrait. 2007. Prague. mixed Medium.

Metamorphosys Of Time. The Blood Call. by Damyan. 400 x 500. 2005

Metamorphosys Of Time. Main Motive. by Damyan. 1500 x 2000 mm. 2005

Prague. Heart Of Europe. By Damyan. Graphic work. 2007. Detail

The Violet Bood. Detail. 2002.

The Judgement Day. by Damyan. 2004. Oil On canvas. 650 x 950 mm

Damyan's Paintings Collection. Prague

Faces in Universe. Damyan 2002. Detail. 400 x 500 mm. Oil On Canvas.

Metamorphosys Of Time. African Sunset. by Damyan 2005. Oil On Canvas. 500 x 650 mm.

Contemporaniety. Triple Oil on canvas Painting. by Damyan 2004. 1000 x 450 mmThe Violet Blood. by Damyan. 2004. Mixed Medium. Collage. 700 x 480mm

Jennifer Anniston Portrait. Pencils on Peach tinted paper. 2007. 210 x 297 mm

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The Metamorphosys Of Time : Dusk. Oil, Mixed Medium. Post Modern Style. Jackson Pollock inspiration influence. 520 x 620 mm

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The Metamorphosys Of Time : Dusk. Oil, Mixed Media. Post Modern Style. Jackson Pollock inspiration influence. 520 x 620 mm. Detail.

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Art Commissions by Artist Damyan, portraits, family anniversary gifts, hight quality copyes of world known and beloved masterpieces. Be Original, choose a Art Gift! Decorate your house, flat, interior with original authentic art!

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"Eternal Melancoly", Decolage by Damyan

"Eternal Melancoly", Decolage

year: 2002

dimensions : 45cm x 55cm

will be exhibited in Gabrichidze Gallery in Brussels in February 2009

during the "Krakoziabra Group Exhibition"

official website of te gallery:

GABRICHIDZE GALLERY BRUSSELS

Damyan's Prague Graphic Works and De-Collages

I present the following works: 1. Prague, Franz Kafka's, Jan Nepomouc's and Saint Wenceslas' Heritage 2. Prague - The Mother Of Cities, Bridges 3. Prague By Day Collage 4. Prague By Night Decollage 5. Prague - The Heart Of Europe - Negative

"Prague, Franz Kafka's, Jan Nepomouc's and Saint Wenceslas' Heritage" (2007)

Artist: Damyan TwoNine

Dimensions: 210 x 297 mm

Support/Medium/Techinque: Goznak Art Paper, Black Ink, graphic pen techinque, Graphite Pencil

Availability: Original Available for Sale

LTD Signed Reproductions of any size Available.

"Prague - The European Capital, Jewel City" (2007) (Detail) by Damyan TwoNine Dimensions: A3 size : 420 x 297 mm Support/Medium/Technique: Pencil and black ink on Goznak Art Paper, graphic pen. Availability: Original Sold (Private Collection, USA) LTD Signed Reproductions Avalable.

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"Prague by Day. The Jewish Heritage" (2007) by Damyan TwoNine Dimensions: A3 size : 420 x 297 mm Support/Medium/Technique: Pencil, Black Ink on Goznak Art Paper, Mixed medium, graphic pen, Decollage. Availability: Original Available for Sale, LTD Signed Reproductions of any size Avalable.

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"Prague by Night, St.George and St. Vitus Triumph" (2007) by Damyan TwoNine

Dimensions: A3 size : 420 x 297 mm Support/Medium/Technique: Pencil, Black Ink on Goznak Art Paper, Mixed medium, graphic pen, Decollage. Availability: Original Available for Sale, LTD Signed Reproductions of any size Avalable. ~~~

"Prague - The Heart of Europe" (2007) by Damyan TwoNine

Dimensions: A3 size : 297 x 420 mm

Support/Medium/Technique: Digital Graphic Work. Negative (Black/White Ink on Grainy Tinted Art Paper, graphic pen)

Availability: LTD Signed Reproductions/Prints of any size Avalable. ~~~

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Damyan29's star portraits give you a good appreciation of his wide variety of inspirational professional styles and techniques used! The special themes (like art deco) and graphics in various mediums give a cutting edge original feel to his work that is rare and can be appreciated by all ages and tastes! Many visitors love Damyan29’s celebrity portraits but prefer a portrait of their loved ones or a friend or a self portrait. NOW you can order a special COMMISSION by sending a photo and choose the style or medium you prefer!

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Damyan's Original Prague Graphic Works and Drawings

Here we are, I am presenting the Prague Graphic Works, Black And White pencil and Black ink graphics, that I did in 2007! Enjoy! All the Graphic Works are available for SALE, so you can buy easily or commission the desired graphic work or portrait as a Unique and unforgettable Gift for your loved one!

"Prague - Mother Of Cities (Mater Urbium)" (2007)
Artist: Damyan TwoNine
Dimensions: 297 x 420 mm
Support/Medium/Techinque: Goznak Art Paper, Black Ink, Rapidograph Technique, Graphite Pencil
Place of Creation: Prague, Czech Rep.
Availability: Original Available for Sale

LTD Signed Reproductions of any size Available.

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"Prague - The Heart Of Europe" (2007)
Artist: Damyan TwoNine
Dimensions: 297 x 420 mm
Support/Medium/Techinque: Grainy Tinted Art Paper, Black Ink, Rapidograph Technique
Place of Creation: Prague, Czech Rep.
Availability: Original Sold (Private Collection, USA)
LTD Signed Reproductions of any size Available.

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"Prague Double Exlibris - Franz Kafka's and Alfonse Mucha's Prague" (2007)
Artist: Damyan TwoNine
Dimensions: 210 x 297 mm
Support/Medium/Techinque: Art Paper, Black Ink, Rapidograph Technique, Graphite Pencil
Availability: Original Available for Sale

LTD Signed Reproductions of any size Available.

Damyan29 - the Celebrity Artist, and his new Artworks, portraits of your favourite celebrities!

 

AMY WINEHOUSE - A 5* Winner of the US Grammy Awards

Byzantine Mosaic and its traditions taken from the Great Roman Empire Art are still a great source of inspiration for me as an artist. I am putting some good examples of Byzantine Portraits of Saints and Queens with Kings. So here I will show all the main stages of creating the portrait of Amy Winehouse, the Star of the Month!  I want to share and show my work that I recently did, a Mosaic Portrait of Amy Winehouse. Her music, her style, incredible voice and original appeal inspired me so much.

"Amy Winehouse" (2008) Graphic Mosaic by Damyan29. Dimensions: A3 size : 297 x 420 mm Support/Medium/Technique: Colored Pencils, Black Ink on Grainy Art Paper, Mixed Medium, Rapidograph. Availability: Original Available for Sale, LTD Signed Reproductions Available.

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GRAPHIC ART Inspirations for a Professional Skill Artist

Good evening my dear readers, friends!

Today i will reveal my graphic art inspirations and main Artists that I admire in graphic Art. As leonardo Da Vinci said "The Drawing is the Most Important Art and A BASIS for All fine Arts"

So here are some relevant examples of graphic art of Otto Wangner (Austria) and Gustave Klimt(Austria). Their detailed graphic works for decoration of publi buildings, private houses, concert halls, Railway Stations had a lot from the Secession Art deco style, using the principle of filling the particular spaces oif the composition with flowers, vegetal elements, golden and silver accents in expressive stuffed square .

insertments in CONTRAST with empty, simplified stripes and figures of architecture or people.

Gustav Klimt slightly begins to stylize the figures, decorates the Portraits, experiment with painting and sculputre.

This principle is often called "Full-Empty" which makes the Art Deco style stand apart from all the previous tendances in the Fine Arts. The Composition, The Decorative pannel or the portrait with Empty squeare spaces and small stuffed parts with deco elements make the composition fresh, and catches the eye on certain parts of the composition. Stylized deco Fonts rise the expression of Secession and confers the conposition an aspect of Applied Art Work.

Gustav Klimt's Graphic poster for the Secession Exhibition in Wien (Austria). the composition begins to 

be devided into parts 

of interest filled with details and empty spaces.

While Klimt - a rebel Artist - who wasn't recognized and was toughly criticised by the leading Professors and Artists did a more bi-dimensional interpretation of the real subjects like landscapes and Woman Figures. The period of Art Nouveau seemed to make the artists perceive the reality otherwise... the perspective was not so important any more. The academic detalisation and the Air perspective, shading and true live colours were not a priority any more.

OTTO WAGNER

The Art had allready new horizons and objectives. Art Deco was a hymn for symbols and shapes. The portraits became decorative and slowly evaluated into posters and stylized monumental figurines. very often these figures were simplified into square and narrow sculptures on the buildings, designing a new era and conception of Art.

Damyan's graphic Work dedicated to Prague. "Prague The European City". I used the image of the GIRL (dreaming) from Klimt's painting, as Europa - the Goddess on the background of Europe in top, after that zooming into Czech State with famous panorama of Prague with bridges and ending with prague Map graphisme.

Damyan's Graphic Work "Prague - the HEART OF EUROPE - Mater Urbium" Black and White Ink technique on Tinted Grained Paper. Classic book Frame from the Middle Ages. Prague as a HEART on the fading Europe image which transforms into the sky clouds. Prague View with Saint Vitus Cathedral and PRAHA inscription in the bottom part inside the Frame. Work with Middle Ages inspiration.

Damyan's "Pargue - The Heart of Europe" Negative Print Version. Winter version. Prague at Night. A3 size (297 x 420mm).

ALFONSE MUCHA - and his great Talent and Influence on me as an Artist!

Good Evening. Today I will tell you about The FIRST Czech Artist (by all means) as William Hogarth as the Firts Painter in England - ALFONSE MUCHA.

Alphonse Mucha with his decorative posters has become a kind of trademark and synonym for the Art Nouveau movement. In the sixties his poster reproductions had a revival and were popular again among the flower-power and hippie generation.

Alfons Maria Mucha was born in Ivancice, a small provincial town in the Czech Republic.
He started his artistic career as an autodidact.

Alfons Mucha had a vocational training in stage decorations in Vienna from 1879 to 1881. In the evening he attended a class in drawing. After a few occasional commissions for decorative paintings, he went to Munich in Southern
Bavaria. Here he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from 1885 to 1887.

After Munich, Mucha moved to the "mecca" of arts, Paris. Here he studied with different teachers. He lived in modest conditions and could survive with small commissions for book and newspaper illustrations. For a short period he shared a studio with Paul Gauguin.

Mucha had developed his own personal style-
characterized by art nouveau elements, tender colors and byzantine decorative elements.

And all these elements were ranked around images of fairy like young women with long hair and
splendid, refined costumes. In the coming years, this type of female images should become his trademark. Mucha used lithography as the printing technique for his posters.

The posters are usually signed in the block. Some of his posters were produced as sets like The Four Seasons. Complete sets count among the most searched for of his works.

In 1890 the artist had his first one man show in Paris with 448 works on display. His art work was not confined to the printing media.

He designed tissues, stamps and even bank bills. In 1900 he received a commission by the Austrian
government to decorate the Austrian pavilion for the World Fair in Paris of 1900. He became also

active in designing jewelry.

In the first two decades of the XX-th century Mucha traveled frequently to the United States.

He took commissions in the US and taught art at art academies in New York and Chicago.

In 1939 the German Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia.

The popularity of the artist made him a number one target for the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. He was arrested, interrogated and realeased. Shortly afterwards, Alphonse Maria Mucha died on July 14, 1939 in Prague.
The city of Prague has dedicated an Alphonse Mucha Museum to the artist.

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The New Year 2008! Looking back to the Sources of Inspiration for the Damyan's Portraits!

Wellcome again Art Lovers to my Blog! In this post i'll be writing about my sources of inspiration for my original graphic art and the celebrity portraits and commissions. As without past and the roots and "fathers" and the background of an artist we cannot know and "feel" the artist's world. All artists and people are influenced by their surroundings. I have been inspired by the architecture (specially Art Nouveau and Art Deco), the many bridges and narrow winding lanes giving a medieval atmosphere. The Czech artist Alfons Mucha (Czech Republic) has many motifs and decorations that I use in my frames and graphic work to give a special finish to my portrait work. I think he was a genius, like Gustave Klimt (Austrian Secession) who was cultivating Decorative Taste and a New Style in Portraiture. This decorativity ind stylisation I think today is looks very actual, and can be used in decorating interiors and designed in art deco beautiful style; as decorative stylized portraits can be presented in huge formats and dimensions. This Post is dedicated to Gustave Klimt - One of the most important representatives of Art Nouveau Secession style in the History of Art. Here are some examples of Gustave Klimt's Major Works that cultivated and influenced my tastes in art: Gustave Klimt's "Music I" Gustave Klimt's "Hygiea" (first row on the right) The Serpent curves and Decoration, the golden flowers in the goddess' hair are fascinating. A Very Colourful portrait with an abundance of decorative elements and graphic figures on the background. Gustave's Judith - The Brilliant Art Work which is called by many critics "One of the Most Sensual, Erotic and Beautiful Portraits of all times"

I have also produced some interesting graphic posters and collages using this beautiful city and its architecture as an inspiration, that you can see in my previous posts. There are elements of the medieval towers, bridges and also art deco and modernist buildings and decorations. In the next post i will be speaking about Alfonse Mucha - a very famous representative of Art Nouveau in the

Czech Republic - who's style and technique has Influenced my tastes and style. 

His paintings and Decorative panels are spread in Galleries all over Europe, and the most beautiful ones but not all... are exposed in Prague Mucha's gallery, together with Salvador Dali's sketches and Prints in one building. Thanks for your interest and good luck.