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Zagreb, Croatia
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Title
The Voyage Of Yoni
Artist
Sora Neva
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The Voyage of Yoni is from my winter 2013 series Anima Mundi. The subtitle is The Origin of the World 90 Degrees Counterclockwise, and it is a homage to Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World).
All the pieces in this series were action painted with oils, dusts, pigments, sand and salt. The finest Italian linen, medium texture, and wide stretcher bars were used for the canvases, so they can be wall-mounted without frames.
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When I paint abstractions, I paint in an alternation of dance-like exuberance and contemplative, almost meditative self-absorbance. The pieces are usually executed alla prima, in a single wet-on-wet session.
I created the Anima Mundi series around winter solstice 2013, in an outburst of long-repressed joie de vivre! For hours, until I was completely exhausted, I flung, dripped, poured, splattered, splashed, struck, crushed, caressed and even blew around the various ingredients (the liquid one being clarified linseed oil). Once finished, each piece had to stay in a horizontal position for half a year. My partner constructed me a special vertical structure, a "painter's tower", for safe keeping and drying of this new kind of oil paintings. The old wine kind... -_-
For the better or for the worse, such paintings continue to live a life of their own. They mingle and jingle, entertain bugs, shape-shift across the surface or undergo in-depth metamorphoses. Depending on the area, the various surfaces and strokes slightly or significantly change, old patterns vanish or new ones emerge. Some of these changes enhance the composition, others ruin it (once you invite chance into your studio, you have to accept its whimsies, don't you?). I like to say Mother Nature cocreates with me, or me with Her!
I have been waiting for a long time to be able to photograph and present the results of my experiments, the "evolving paintings", to you. Enjoy!
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July 13th, 2014
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Gloucester, Gl - United Kingdom
a lovely combination of colour and texture. I'm imagining what a negative of this might look like, too
NICHOLASVILLE, KY - United States
Wow! What is there left to say? A powerful, beautiful work of art. Bravo!
Fairfield, CT - United States
Revisiting a fave. Lovely work, congrats on the feature in Everything In Moderation, Including Moderation
Fort Collins, CO - United States
Congratulations your fantastic work has been featured by “Everything In Moderation, Including Moderation!”
Bensalem, PA - United States
Incredible work Sora stopped in to enjoy this marvelous painting :-) sharing
New York, NY - United States
That is quite a voyage indeed, Sora. I love your description of how you created this strong piece and the series. Love too that it is based on L'Origine du Monde. Did you know that there is talk that they have found the head of this painting and some now believe the original owner had the original painting cut to make the Origin? Personally I prefer it without the head.
Sora Neva replied:
Thank you, dear Sophi, and thank you for sharing this with me. No, I didn't know it... but now I do! -_-
Sora Neva replied:
I couldn't agree more: the head is a mere anecdote, a paparazzi thing! If you stick a face on L'Origine, the whole mystery and archetypal appeal is lost. I've done some research and apparently Courbet himself has framed and sold it the way we know it, and he certainly knew what he was doing! For men are both attracted and repulsed, terrified and thrilled by the Dark Abyss of the Eternal Feminine... so eager to possess it... which is, of course, impossible (and this is where Art comes in, lol).
Titusville, FL - United States
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Pueblo, CO - United States
This series is fabulous! Love the colors, energy and texture!! Beautiful. v/f
Flushing, NY - United States
Such a spontaneous and fun piece of art Sora. Loving your style and texture. L/V
Zagreb, HR - Croatia
Ohh yes, it was a definite break-up with tradition, and the outset of my version of action painting - Dance Painting! -_-
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