Friday, January 1, 2010

Expressions of the Painter's Cybernetic Brush



August Bower
2009
by Eric Whollem
mixed media digital art
Copyright by the artist.
























A Painterly Use of Digital Technology

Works like August Bower recall the Postimpressionists and the Fauves who
enjoyed building up the surface of a painting with layered brush strokes.

The Muse, the Anima, & the Soul Twin



























The The Mystic Muse
2009
by Eric Whollem
mixed media digital art
Copyright by the artist.


The Muse, the Personification of
Imagination, Form, Color, and Beauty


The Muse is the Psyche of the artist. For the male artist it is often the female
form of his Other Half. The Muse is his Twin, his ultimate Soul Mate, his
flame from the diamond mirror of origins. His penultimate allegory.

Jung described the search for the Anima and the Animus. This terminology
describes the artist's obsession with his Muse. But one should not resort
to clinical orthodoxy in the pursuit of the truth about the dynamics of the
artist's soul. The search for the Anima is not necessarily one of turmoil,
and transmutations, but may travel into the langorous valleys of Imagination.

The term Anima literally means soul in Latin.

Heaven is meant for artists, as what is divinely imagined is eternal.

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  Flora's Twin
  2009
  by Eric Whollem
  mixed media digital art
   Copyright by the artist.


An Allegory of Harmony With Nature/The Fairy Goddess

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010


The image below shows the crowned fairy goddess bearing a small flower in the sunlight.
The fairies exist in many orders, from archangelic overseers, down to gnomic workers in 
   dense matter.
The Fairy Goddess prays for clean water for the planet.






The Glory of the Sun
2009
by Eric Whollem
mixed media digital art
Copyright by the artist.