Blood Painter Vincent Castiglia
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The beauty of blood as medium is that it contains the iron oxide pigment found in many traditional paints, and gives rust that distinctive colour, so that all of his bloody imagery to date has had overwhelmingly positive reactions from viewers,
Blood Painter Vincent Castiglia
If you know the iconic artistry of Dr Rev, then you will love the stuff produced by another artist who literally paints himself into every image he produces, by using his own blood as his medium of choice. New York painter Vincent Castiglia has a new exhibition running in the Soho district of Manhattan that is again raising eyebrows.
Features a number of his, to say the least unusual paintings from the last decade, every one blood painting, 30 year-old Castiglia, 30, commented when interviewed that his use of his own blood as his first medium resulted from an urge to connect with his work on the most intimate level he could imagine.
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The beauty of blood as medium is that it contains the iron oxide pigment found in many traditional paints, and gives rust that distinctive colour, so that all of his bloody imagery to date has had overwhelmingly positive reactions from viewers, though some people might conceivably find them a bit medium creepy.
He begins each new work with a preliminary pen or graphite sketch - extracting just enough blood in the privacy of his studio - before pulling out his brushes, inspired to create those iconic surrealistic, bloody images typically featuring decaying human bodies on abstract backgrounds of many kinds.
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The larger, more complex works of blood-art can require three months of work before completion, his in-demand work fetching between $1000 and $26,000 - most recent famous customer musician Gregg Allman, buying Gravity - a 2006 painting by Castiglia.
According to this most unusual of painters, his work is meant to convey the transience and harmony between life and death - Feeding is a poignant example of his strange artworks - a mother in a wheelchair -decaying legs - at a feeding infant at her breast - an expression of the fragility of life.
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Slasher film and heavy metal aficionados will be well aware of the work produced by this oddball artist, who is best known in the USA and Europe, but one cannot help but feel that his work, once it becomes more widely seen, could well appeal to a much bigger audience.
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9th Oct 2012 (#)
Different items and astonishingly written.
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9th Oct 2012 (#)
I mean just beautiful images came across my screen. I just know I could not have blood paintings hanging all around me but, gorgeous paintings. Very interesting. As always, thank you for sharing.:)
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