Abstracts: © 2017 Vivian Antonini. All rights reserved for images and works.
This series of paintings are a combination of mixed media, paints, textures and colors that have a profound and compelling presence in my works.
I start with a question, an experience or a situation. Based on that, I lay the foundation for the initial layer of paint and work from there. The brush strokes, lines, shapes and forms will come to balance and create a sense of tension that is important for me to represent.
My goal is to be able to create a controversial work of abstract art that will engage the viewer into a discussion, a sense of belonging, and an experience that will spark conversations anywhere. It’s a back and forth play between me and the canvas, each move I make or a material I use sets up a new move, the painting challenges me.
My paintings are open to interpretation by the viewer without a route. Viewers need to find a road and have fun looking at them. When I see a connection in a viewer with my paintings, whatever it is, representational, transcendental, fictional or real, it’s what inspires me to continue doing what I do.
The canvas for me becomes a mirror of a self-exploration of my inner thoughts, like a portal that represents a conscious emotional state within me.
This series of paintings are a combination of mixed media, paints, textures and colors that have a profound and compelling presence in my works.
I start with a question, an experience or a situation. Based on that, I lay the foundation for the initial layer of paint and work from there. The brush strokes, lines, shapes and forms will come to balance and create a sense of tension that is important for me to represent.
My goal is to be able to create a controversial work of abstract art that will engage the viewer into a discussion, a sense of belonging, and an experience that will spark conversations anywhere. It’s a back and forth play between me and the canvas, each move I make or a material I use sets up a new move, the painting challenges me.
My paintings are open to interpretation by the viewer without a route. Viewers need to find a road and have fun looking at them. When I see a connection in a viewer with my paintings, whatever it is, representational, transcendental, fictional or real, it’s what inspires me to continue doing what I do.
The canvas for me becomes a mirror of a self-exploration of my inner thoughts, like a portal that represents a conscious emotional state within me.
Fauve Ladies: © 2017 Vivian Antonini. All rights reserved for images and works.
My Fauve Series represents the diversity of women in our world. Each of these faces displays an individual personality, mood and implied narrative. I juxtapose painted small rocks to delineate parts of the face creating tactile textures and enhancing the facial characteristics of the women today. I want to convey a particular beauty in each of them. The natural rocks that I use also provide a direct allusion to nature. The multi-colored skin I have created in the faces, as Fauvism did, reflects on our contemporary times on the strong demand for splendor and gorgeousness that we, as women, are submitted to show. May 15, 2017
My Fauve Series represents the diversity of women in our world. Each of these faces displays an individual personality, mood and implied narrative. I juxtapose painted small rocks to delineate parts of the face creating tactile textures and enhancing the facial characteristics of the women today. I want to convey a particular beauty in each of them. The natural rocks that I use also provide a direct allusion to nature. The multi-colored skin I have created in the faces, as Fauvism did, reflects on our contemporary times on the strong demand for splendor and gorgeousness that we, as women, are submitted to show. May 15, 2017
Minimalist Retro Series: © 2017 Vivian Antonini. All rights reserved for images and works
I wanted to experiment using a different style that referred only to itself, allowing the viewer an immediate, purely visual response. “What you see is what it is”.
The forms are immediately organic, swirling and undulating from one end of the surface to the other. Once this has been established, I start working each shape, dissecting it into its unique rhythm. This is the secondary aspect of making each work, and the action that ties the shapes into a whole, one that balances between energy and calculation. It is an attempt to create an engaging visual environment through line, color and form.
I wanted to experiment using a different style that referred only to itself, allowing the viewer an immediate, purely visual response. “What you see is what it is”.
The forms are immediately organic, swirling and undulating from one end of the surface to the other. Once this has been established, I start working each shape, dissecting it into its unique rhythm. This is the secondary aspect of making each work, and the action that ties the shapes into a whole, one that balances between energy and calculation. It is an attempt to create an engaging visual environment through line, color and form.
Sculptures & Installations: © 2017 Vivian Antonini. All rights reserved for images and works
My desire to explore new frontiers in art have led me to create and design installations and sculptures, while learning new techniques and letting myself go, expanding the boundaries of my previous works of art.
My desire to explore new frontiers in art have led me to create and design installations and sculptures, while learning new techniques and letting myself go, expanding the boundaries of my previous works of art.
