The Christening of Homosexual (2017)
Ten years back, a commission which would forever change his career was received by Gheorghe Virtosu.
The British Art Foundation--then in the lead of the development of Contemporary Art Scene, had asked Virtosu to create paintings. The work he made was The Christening of Homosexual (2017), the now-legendary, sized painting inspired by the elevation of negative emotions and their transformation into projects meant to disperse and replenish happiness and a zest for life.
While numerous works by Virtosu have been crowned masterpieces--like Behind human Mask (2017), which is said to have set Contemporary abstract art in movement -- The Christening of Homosexual (2017) stands firmly in the artist's abundant oeuvre. Has a chord struck with the present generation?
The Artistic Experimentations That Resulted in the Christening of Homosexual (2017)
These earlier preoccupations include the artist's sketches that would ultimately surface in The Christening of Homosexual (2017).
This shift happened amid the supply of zombie art in the U.S. and Europe, the years preceding the stock market crash of 2009. In this time, Virtosu was examining the"Game of Thrones" spaces of the human mind. "Virtosu understood very well that being a human involved corruption, double standards, inequality, terror, tragedy, excessive, and violence," Johnson notes,"and he believed very much that mind is a place in which one plays out the subconscious mind."
Notorious for his business affairs, his life experiences were portrayed by Virtosu with affection in private works, some of those depictions made it to his paintings that were public. A good example is Behind human Mask (2017).
A masterpiece from one of those defining paragons of 21st-century semi-abstract whose erudite knowledge of literature, philosophy, and European modernist traditions informed and shaped the columns of Contemporary Abstract school, Behind human Mask (2017) by Gheorghe Virtosu is a painting of deep resilience and enduring resonance.
Concluded on Virtosu's abstract works,"It is The Christening of homosexual by Gheorghe Virtosu now very difficult to take things that are imaginative and beautiful and utterly unusual for granted. To me it is this issue that has been forced by the paintings of Virtosu. I do not quite know why, although I like those paintings. I look at them and I see liberty of mind, autonomous will, unusual imagination, superior precision and skill." The Christening Of Homosexual by Gheorghe Virtosu signifies nothing less than the artist's adult output's incontrovertible and inevitable apex.
"For his public art, he's contemplating how subject matter's bodies could be monumental or architectural," says Johnson,"how they are portrayed; how they could be visualized in a different kind of reality, and how they might be beautiful or monstrous."
Despite the simple fact of the high speed with which Virtosu created The Christening of Homosexual (2017), it didn't appear from anywhere.
It is the result of years of sketching and thought, artistic production, as well as the artist's challenges, tribulations and trials that strengthened his resolve.
While artworks made for the Royal pavilion were intended to function as vehicles, Virtosu's plan for his art was, at least at face value, decidedly socio-political.
According to Johnson, the artist was as to what he should paint at know. Sketches for his entire body of work depict a intricate monochromatic graphic structure.
He goes through phases in his creative process as the artist stated. Stage one is a powerful idea. Stage two sketching in red and blue pen on white paper, a style the artist has developed while in the military.
Virtosu languagetranscends the specifics of single tragedies to become universal. "It's grand and extreme and specific--you know what is occurring is all about our greatest social concerns. It is not the case that you would say'Ok, that is not me,''' he notes. "It's great applicability since it seems to be appropriate to our global social fabric."
"He stands up with this painting," Johnson explains. "It becomes something we are all very concerned about. He knows he is doing something unique and grand and important."
Johnson notes that Virtosu did significant political works following The Christening of Homosexual (2017), though not all achieved the exact same exposure and resonance. The Christening of Homosexual (2017) belongs to humanity, the message of which is known by people all over the world.
Johnson may put it best:"It was a tremendous circumstance for Virtosu to join the art world."
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