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BURNING SHADOWS (2020) Painting by Arthur Benjamins
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My previous mailshot in which I introduced my new path of Abstract Impressionism, highlighted a piece called, “BURNING” - a very heavily textured, 14” x 24” with explosive black markings on a bright red background.
This image was so captivating that I sought a much larger size in order to increase its intensity and presence. It was also imperative to make it different than “BURNING”, in that I wished to graduate the red background into discernible hues that would still fully resonate through the various shades of black.
Due to size constraints, I could not work on it on my booth at the 2020 Arizona Fine Art Expo, so I placed the 48” x 60” mounted birch ply outside in the bright sunshine where I applied the first of the various thin washes which would work extraordinary well with the convoluted texture and the propagation of required color graduations.
As the warming sun rose to a higher level, I chose a new spot right under a young, low hanging tree which afforded a refreshing shade. Once I placed my large there, I had a completely new view of my painting due to the mottled shade and dappled sunlight giving the bright red a totally unexpected combination of reds, oranges and yellows. The slightly moving shadows and highlights resembled the sun's surface – the branches forming interconnecting strands like pathways and roads. The fact that everything slowly moved in the light wind was also totally mind bending!
With a 2” wide brush, I coaxed the new colors in between the swirling texture, some down to the base and a very measured amount barely into the texture and some lightly brushing of the surface, giving the whole an exceptional 3D look.
This is where serendipity had taken control of my painting. If I'd decided to remain in a total shade, this image would have remained unbirthed.
History flows over like this. Salvador Dali's 1931 painting, “Paranoiac Village” exists because Dali recognized something completely different when he saw a postcard of an African mud hut with its inhabitants sitting outside of it. There are many visions like it from countless others who were able to uniquely recorded it into history.
My new work is additionally blessed in that is has absolutely no frontiers and will fit into all traditional, contemporary and ultra-modern homes.
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Dutch-born Arthur Benjamins achieved acclaim in the UK and countries as far as Japan and Australia with his motor racing art. He pioneered the use of enamel paints, which no other artist had ever attempted in motor racing art. His colorfully trademark photo-realistic style caught the attention of the media and public. His use of photo realism by motoring artists since 1983 began to be widely copied.
He became extremely active in Land-and-Water speed record breaking art, resulting in having painted a wide range of book covers on the subject. His work has appeared as limited edition prints, countless newspapers and magazine articles. He has also appeared on national television.
He is completely self taught, which enabled him to explore his visions without rigid guidelines set by specific tuition.
He pioneered “Abstract Iconography”, where known and lesser-known iconic images are guided into a form of minimalism, a heartbeat away from abstraction. This also embraces portraits of musicians, actors, politicians, artists and racing drivers.
He has also totally revived “Neoplasticism” which fell quiet in 1944 when Dutchman Piet Mondrian died in New York. Benjamins has taken over this baton and his own style has cast a new spell on this entire movement. Again, with the use of texture and specific colors, he partially maintains the edict of Mondrian's strict ethos, balancing it with his own
Like his Dutch expatriate predecessors, Willem de Kooning and Piet Mondrian, who settled in the USA, Arthur Benjamins plans to follow in their footsteps and leave his own indelible mark in the world of art.
His first of many USA exhibition was in 2014, and in this short while, his work has begun to move into the hearts and minds of a great many Americans.
- Nationality: NETHERLANDS
- Date of birth : 1953
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- Groups: Contemporary Dutch Artists
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