Video: Country houses and small houses: painting by Ben Grasso
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
New Yorker Ben Grasso feels like an impostor in painting. But this is what makes him constantly keep his nose to the wind and his ears on the alert in order to catch new trends and keep up. In addition to abstract painting, the artist often draws houses and houses, which are definitely not in the metropolis, so he has accumulated a whole art village with buildings for every taste. His wards (or experimental?) Houses are reflected in the water, fly, climb trees and crumble into small planks.
When the future artist Ben Grasso was introduced to oil paints as a child, at first he did not know what to do with all these colors and felt constrained. So I decided to switch to mastering the shape of objects, focusing on clay sculpture, and postponed oil until better times. And, of course, they came.
Strange, but Ben Grasso does not feel like a creator with a capital letter, like most of his colleagues in brushes and paints. He even entered an art school because he needed to continue his studies somewhere after school. While all the classmates were running around with their tongues out, looking for the best university, Ben Grasso decided to enroll in the nearest "artist".
The newly minted student did not know anything about the current state of art, or about the famous schools of painting, or about modern masters. And everyone around just talked about it! In order to keep up with at least erudite comrades, Ben Grasso began to enlighten himself. So the unwillingness to be ashamed made him work a lot on himself.
But the inferiority complex stuck in the artist for the rest of his life, and now it always seems to him that he needs to catch up with someone and constantly improve. However, this is probably not bad. Indeed, in addition to personal growth, Grasso is also attracted by changes in the outside world. When he arrives in his hometown of Cleveland, he is always amazed at how everything was rebuilt there. And change is wonderful!
Once one of the teachers gave the future original painter the following advice: swim through life like a duck on water; let it seem to everyone that you are easily sliding on the surface, although in reality you are like a damned work with your feet under water. This also applies to Ben Grasso's "country" paintings. God only knows how many hours he spent to bring his houses to mind.
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