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Biography
Anthony Chapman was born in Boyle, Co. Roscommon, in 1969.
He has been painting and drawing for most of his life and
has worked variously as a builders labourer, teacher and
actor before settling down to paint full time.
He uses water mixable oil paint and works each picture untill it feels right, sometimes this means cutting part of the canvas away, as in Boy With Musicians Fingers and Nude In A Shop Doorway, where the woman has been cut out of the street and held up as an icon.
I am committed to the belief that one must become an artist each time one begins to work. Art, then, is not so much in the idea, but in the execution of that idea. Each painting is therefore a search for meaning - what is the purpose of art in the 21st Century?
Stylistic variations are the result of a reluctance to impose anything that might get in the way of the individual painting; in the same way that Stanislavsky counsels the actor to get out of the way of the character, the artist must set his ego aside, indeed, he must give up all social and career ambition.
Self-expression is kept to a minimum, as far as that goes, self-expression ends with the choice of image. Besides which, there is an inherent problem with self-expression; beyond a few core values, the self is malleable, this is why one must become an artist everytime one sets to work.
This is an almost impossible task.
He uses water mixable oil paint and works each picture untill it feels right, sometimes this means cutting part of the canvas away, as in Boy With Musicians Fingers and Nude In A Shop Doorway, where the woman has been cut out of the street and held up as an icon.
Statement
I am committed to the belief that one must become an artist each time one begins to work. Art, then, is not so much in the idea, but in the execution of that idea. Each painting is therefore a search for meaning - what is the purpose of art in the 21st Century?
Stylistic variations are the result of a reluctance to impose anything that might get in the way of the individual painting; in the same way that Stanislavsky counsels the actor to get out of the way of the character, the artist must set his ego aside, indeed, he must give up all social and career ambition.
Self-expression is kept to a minimum, as far as that goes, self-expression ends with the choice of image. Besides which, there is an inherent problem with self-expression; beyond a few core values, the self is malleable, this is why one must become an artist everytime one sets to work.
This is an almost impossible task.
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