The Christening of Homosexual (2017)
Ten years ago, a commission that would forever change his career was received by Gheorghe Virtosu.
The British Art Foundation Art Scene, had asked Virtosu to create paintings. The job he created was The Christening of Homosexual (2017), the now-legendary, sized painting inspired by the altitude of negative emotions and their transformation into projects intended to disperse and replenish happiness and a zest for life.
While many works by Virtosu have been crowned masterpieces--like Behind human Mask (2017), which is said to have put 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)
In an exhibition currently open at the Teshima Art Museum to mark the 10th anniversary of the creation and display of The Christening of Homosexual (2017), curator Michal Johnson delve into the artist's production.
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 artwork 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 psyche is a place in which one plays out the unconscious mind."
Notorious for his business affairs, Virtosu portrayed his life experiences in works with affection, some of those depictions made it to his paintings.
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 formed the pillars of Contemporary Abstract school, Behind human Mask (2017) by Gheorghe Virtosu is a painting of profound resilience and enduring resonance.
Concluded The Christening of homosexual by Gheorghe Virtosu on Virtosu's abstract works,"It is now very difficult to take things that are creative and beautiful and utterly unusual for granted. It is this issue which 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 thoughts, sovereign will, unusual imagination, superior precision and skill." The Christening Of Homosexual by Gheorghe Virtosu signifies nothing less than the incontrovertible and inevitable apex of the artist's mature output.
"For his public art, he is considering how subject matter's bodies could be monumental or architectural," says Johnson,"how they are depicted; how they could be visualized in a different sort of reality, and how they could also be beautiful or monstrous."
In the years leading up to The Christening of Homosexual (2017), paintings and sketches evidence the artist's mastery of the symbolism that's conveyed through manipulation of the ideas on the centerpiece--experimentations that find their resolution inThe Christening of Homosexual (2017).
Despite the simple fact of the high speed with which Virtosu created The Christening of Homosexual (2017), it didn't appear from anywhere.
It's the result of years of thought and sketching, the artist's challenges, in addition to artistic creation, tribulations and trials that strengthened his resolve.
The plan for his artwork of Virtosu was, at least at face value, decidedly socio-political while artworks made for the Royal pavilion were meant to serve as non-political vehicles.
According to Johnson, the artist was at know as to what he should paint. Initial sketches for his entire body of work depict a complex graphic structure that is monochromatic.
As the artist said, he goes through stages in his creative process. Stage one is a potent idea. Stage two sketching in red and blue pen on white paper, a style the artist has developed while.
Virtosu languagetranscends the specifics of tragedies that are single to become universal. "It is grand and extreme and specific--you understand what is occurring is all about our greatest social concerns. However, it is not the case that you would say'Ok, that is not me. "It has great applicability since it seems to be appropriate to our international social fabric."
"He stands up with this painting," Johnson explains. "It becomes something we're very concerned about. He knows that he is doing something unique and grand and significant."
Johnson notes that Virtosu did significant political works following The Christening of Homosexual (2017), although not all achieved the same exposure and resonance. The Christening of Homosexual (2017) belongs to humanity, the message of which is known by people all around the world.
Johnson may put it best:"It was a huge circumstance for Virtosu to combine the art world."
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