Comments on: Dino Valls http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:57:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Chris http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-396200 Chris Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:12:44 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-396200 Great blog, I love the work of master Dino valls, also some images of Christo,Maquiamelo and John Currin who is my favorite. Great blog, I love the work of master Dino valls, also some images of Christo,Maquiamelo and John Currin who is my favorite.

]]> By: Jeimmy http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-32641 Jeimmy Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:21:49 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-32641 Dino Valls is a Spanish art master, he is more interesting in to paint pain and to aport darkness, another interesting artist from Colombia who paints the reality of the country but contributing with an ambiguous message that suggests several readings, violence, and abysses and whose primary referent could be found in Cioran. www.maquiamelo.org Dino Valls is a Spanish art master, he is more interesting in to paint pain and to aport darkness, another interesting artist from Colombia who paints the reality of the country but contributing with an ambiguous message that suggests several readings, violence, and abysses and whose primary referent could be found in Cioran.
http://www.maquiamelo.org

]]> By: arakno http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24972 arakno Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:35:25 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24972 Impressive! Just wanted to leave a comment for all the wonderfull work presented here by you. Thank you so much for showing and explaining this to the world! Please keep up... Impressive!
Just wanted to leave a comment for all the wonderfull work presented here by you. Thank you so much for showing and explaining this to the world!
Please keep up…

]]> By: Ariel http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24770 Ariel Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:15:21 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24770 I've looked through the entire gallery now and I think some of the most disturbing images are the ones in which disembodied hands twist and turn the subject of the image to better display their physical and psychological wounds... the implication is, I think, that these are not so much the hands of the artist as an extension of the viewer's own voyeurism. Chilling. I’ve looked through the entire gallery now and I think some of the most disturbing images are the ones in which disembodied hands twist and turn the subject of the image to better display their physical and psychological wounds… the implication is, I think, that these are not so much the hands of the artist as an extension of the viewer’s own voyeurism. Chilling.

]]> By: Charley Parker http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24387 Charley Parker Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:23:12 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24387 I've had enough experience with comic book art, in which faces and figures are routinely made up, to know that there is a tendency for artists to develop a style of invention in the creation of faces (among those who are good enough to draw recognizable faces) that begins to look like a particular face, even when carried beyond the portrayal of individual characters. There might be some of that going on here, on a different level, of course, in that the faces may be an amalgam of facial characteristics that Valls likes in a female face. The representation is in such detail though, that I still have to wonder if they are based on a particular individual, even if not painted from sittings or photographs of that individual. I’ve had enough experience with comic book art, in which faces and figures are routinely made up, to know that there is a tendency for artists to develop a style of invention in the creation of faces (among those who are good enough to draw recognizable faces) that begins to look like a particular face, even when carried beyond the portrayal of individual characters. There might be some of that going on here, on a different level, of course, in that the faces may be an amalgam of facial characteristics that Valls likes in a female face. The representation is in such detail though, that I still have to wonder if they are based on a particular individual, even if not painted from sittings or photographs of that individual.

]]> By: Daniel van Benthuysen http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24382 Daniel van Benthuysen Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:28:02 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24382 The trauma and violence and sinsister overtones are for the most part implied rather than explicit and as a result so much more tolerable than the images we find in the average slasher movie. It's refreshing to see an artist who has developed so much private imagery and iconography. The possibilities first hinted at by Breughel and Bosch hold so much more vast potential than the brief surrealist movement or the current sci-fi art has been able to explore so far. I agree that it's hard to accept that these figures had NO model or photo from which they were painted. The one young woman who appears over and over one suspects is the face of a specific girlfriend, lover or wife. But is she real or imagined? Is she in his life still or imprisoned in his past? Or is he still waiting to find her in real life? I'm not sure I want to know the answer. Whatever it is is probably far more banal than the sum of all the possibiliites. The trauma and violence and sinsister overtones are for the most part implied rather than explicit and as a result so much more tolerable than the images we find in the average slasher movie. It’s refreshing to see an artist who has developed so much private imagery and iconography. The possibilities first hinted at by Breughel and Bosch hold so much more vast potential than the brief surrealist movement or the current sci-fi art has been able to explore so far.

I agree that it’s hard to accept that these figures had NO model or photo from which they were painted. The one young woman who appears over and over one suspects is the face of a specific girlfriend, lover or wife. But is she real or imagined? Is she in his life still or imprisoned in his past? Or is he still waiting to find her in real life? I’m not sure I want to know the answer. Whatever it is is probably far more banal than the sum of all the possibiliites.

]]> By: Carolyn http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24379 Carolyn Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:15:24 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24379 Thanks again for exposing yet another interesting painter ;0) Thanks again for exposing yet another interesting painter ;0)

]]> By: Ariel http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24357 Ariel Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:22:15 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2007/02/13/dino-valls/#comment-24357 Incredible. Those are some of the most powerfully affecting images I've seen in a long time. Incredible. Those are some of the most powerfully affecting images I’ve seen in a long time.

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