Video: Dan Witz's personality and disintegration
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It looks like the American Dan Witz instead of eyes, a camera, and instead of hands, a real color printer. This conclusion suggests itself after viewing his very realistic easel works. In fact, Dan gained fame, however, and began his creative career as a "street artist", that is, a "street artist," graffiti artist.
He is very famous for his tiny "street art". Imagine there is a trash can:
Approaching her, you see:
So, here passed Dan Witz … With brushes and paints.
But, however, the artist's easel painting is a much more impressive and remarkable layer of his work. If mini-graffiti inform everyone that in this huge technogenic world there is now an individual under the code name Dan Witz, then his canvases are something different. He paints huge spreads with a mass of people, dogs, or, say, a canvas covered with mice. He himself calls it " mosh pits"-" pits mosh. "An interesting association - a crowd, a congestion of people-animals, for an artist the essence of a" pit. "An individual in a crowd is not an individual. He is in a hole, dissolved, enslaved, absorbed, … Crowd effect - not a collective mind, but a disintegration of the personality.
Dan Witz himself divides his painting into two sections - "night painting", which includes two subsections: "night" and "lamps and interiors", and "figurative painting": "mosh pit", that is, crowds-flocks of people or animals, and "figures and portraits."
Figures and portraits - one, rarely two people. "Here I am", a little confused, unadorned and with embellishments, after alteration, withdrawn into himself, lustful, trying to prove something to the whole world, just lonely and not very much, just one of billions of his own kind, …
The manner of painting, almost monochrome scale, large masses of dark (not black!) Color, tonal contrast of Dan's paintings involuntarily make one remember Caravaggio. Ridiculous comparison? Not at all. Look at El Greco's creations - Expressionism? Post-Impressionism? Avant-garde? Broken, skilfully deformed proportions, free writing …
And yet: The artist's site is here.
P. S. By the way, Dan Witz was an active participant in the punk movement in the past …
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