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Chris Crewe
( Canada )

Design; Art Digital; Peinture

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Chris Crewe

Call me Dr. Frankenstein with a deadline. Ripping apart, and scanning into the computer pages of diagrams and assembly instructions. I make a place in my life to sit and create daily. I imagine my process is at times similar to Dr. Frankenstein's, one of my personal hero's. Cutting apart and sewing together fragments of the world around me to build my own aesthetic of Art. After a few hours I am ready to paint my design, I clear my head, grab a brush and approach the canvass. I never sleep the same night as I work on a painting, I love to watch the sun come up as I put my finishing touches to a piece.


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  • microphysique,physique quantique ,alchemy, and macroscopia /you show us the structure of universe.Love the title liquid sunrise
     
    agostinho - 22/01/2011 14:08:49

  • Bravo!!!!!!!!!
     
    katrina - 20/12/2010 08:46:47

  • Wonderful and impressive gallery!!!
     
    katrina - 20/12/2010 08:46:16

  • Congratulations for your great art work!!!!
     
    katrina - 20/12/2010 08:45:30

  • Art includes today technology as it included it also in former times ... in other forms but art is and has always been experimenting ... we should not exclude PC and digital work, projecting ... for me the essential is the artistic decision the artist takes in creating his work ... Some simple reflections:
    The new (digital) medium is not here to displace but to enhance, just as did the invention of paper, photography, the airbrush, and the endless list of other tools that have preceded us and our "machines". A main question is if technical methods including automation do diminish the value of creative works aided by them? I don’t think so. Look back into history again: Michelangelo used teams of assistants, as did Leonardo daVinci. Painters as Caravaggio, Ingres, Velasquez and Vermeer used a camera obscura or a camera lucida lens system to speed up and improve the initial drafting step in their paintings. In his book “Secret Knowledge : Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters » David Hockney makes a solid argument that artists were enthusiastically using lenses and mirrors (the highest of high-tech at the time) in creating their art. Hockney’s book opens people’s eyes to the fact that technology has always been an important part of art creation. It is erroneous to think that the “computer does it for you”. The computer and other digital tools are just that – tools. Used in a hand of a perceptive, talented artist, a computer is not subordinate to brushes, palette knives or enlargers. The fact is that the artist’s own hand lies heavy on most of the steps in the making of digital art. Using cameras, scanners, digital tablets, and a whole host of image-editing software, artists have a personal relationship with their images as they guide them through the various stages of creation, manipulation and printing. The aesthetic decisions are always the artist’s. The artist has a range of techniques at his disposal with which to creatively express himself. With the exception of machine art, this is not mechanical art; this is imagery that emanates from the mind and the soul of the artist. Gila Paris
     
    gila - 18/12/2010 12:43:47

  • Hello Chris, I agree with your statement about integrating technology into the creative process or even exploiting it to the full. Why should an artist ignore this opportunity if serves to improve and broaden the individual expression? Your results "justify" the means. Very impressive paintings. I like the strange and undefineable atmosphere they have.
    Christine
     
    artemis - 18/12/2010 10:46:56

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  • I absolutly love your work. Keep making art, you are awesome :)
     
    ccrewe - 21/01/2011 00:16:14

  • Christine, im am more and more impressed as i am viewing your work. This peice is absolutly beautiful, I love how rich and subtle the layers of images are, and the entire peice is pulled together and contrasted by the rough conte like sketched image of the girl.
     
    ccrewe - 18/12/2010 11:14:41

  • Christine, this peice is just breath taking! Love it
     
    ccrewe - 18/12/2010 11:10:10

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