Hello again

i show your site and I like mainly the abstract partition. I think that we are very similar at the abstract style. This is very important because the beginnings are very different. I am a part of western culture and you are a part of east culture.

I was born in 1959 in Drama and live in Kavala, a city of northern Greece.
As far as I remember myself, I like painting. I have never watched any artschool course about painting. For this reason, I consider myself self –taught. I assume that Caravaggio, Velasquez and Rembrand are my teachers. I studied a lot about the theory and history of art.
During my childhood I used to copy the classic painters in order to learn how to paint. I had been provided with books of art which I studied continuously. That period I was influenced by Dali and Magritte. I created my first compositions with surrealism and symbolism.
From 1985 I have started to make my first attempts on abstract compositions.
My works are exhibited rarely in several topical group exhibitions.
In 2000, felling lost, I decided to follow the basic instructions of experienced wayfarers who consult that, as soon as you feel that you have been lost, the wisest action is to follow your footsteps backwards until you find yourself in known places.
Thus therefore, I started to travel back to the constant values of the grandmasters. I studied deeply the work of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Caravaggio, Paulo Uccelo, Piero de la Francesca, attempting to captivate the ineffable merit of the work of the big figures of art. I was trying to arrest the quintessence of painting.
I tried to use sand and glue in order to create a surface on canvas emphasising the colours and lines with this rough texture.
The station of this route is my painting “Did Rembrand knows Altamira?” , an artwork which is belonged in a private collection. Looking at this painting, someone could see the " "Night patrol" of Rembrand painted on a rock surface of a cave, someone else could see an abstract painting with many colors here and there that luckily resulted in that classic piece of art (as, according to the theory of chaos, a chimpanzee pressing randomly the keyboard of a typewriter has the possibility to write Shakespeare ) some other could see a detrited cave painting of Altamira, which when Rembrand faced it with its mat colors, he painted his classical work.
Although my artwork is appeared abstract, nothing is random, except the wet colour, the lines dances composing abstract figures reminding the viewers familiar scenes moving at the edge between the remembrance and oblivion.
Therefore, the real meaning of the art is what cannot be said, the ineffability.From the beginning 2007 he collaborates with online gallery Meredithlaing who is working in the USA , mainly in LOS ANGELES and will open gallery in HOUSTON. http://www.meredithlaing.com/
Also it collaborates with online gallery Artphilo who is working with Greek artists in London. http://www.artphilogallery.com/

· Individual in the Prosotsani 1979.
· In 1980 common in the square of Prosotsani.
· Group in the Drama 1983.
· Group in the Drama 1984.
· Individual in Kavala 1989.
· Group in Kavala 1997.
· Group in Kavala 2000.
· Individual in the Athytos of Chalkidiki.
· Group in the Prosotsani 2001.
· Group in Thessalonica 2002.
· Individual in Kavala in December 2004 - January 2005.
Individual in Kavala in December 2005 - January 2006.
· Group Exhibition in Athens in April 2006.
· Group Exhibition from May 2006 up to December 2006 that tours in all Northern Greece.
· From April 2006 collaborate with the GALLERY ANGELO in Athens

·Exhibition in The Brick Lane Gallery, London .19 - 5 February 2007. "Lost & Found" The first exhibition showcasing artists from Saatchi's "Your Gallery" website. LOST&FOUND FOTOS

· with Artphiló Gallery at Cambridgeshire Art Fair 2007 : 7th-10th June 2007

..….Your work is very vivid and very beautiful. You should study the work of Dali if you haven't already. Take care.

Ernest Williamson III

I saw your website and really impressed. U are painting both modern and traditional. Nepal is a beautiful country and nature provides lots of sights to fill your canvas. We have visited Nepal long back must e in 1996. We enjoyed the scenery.

……….Congrats for your work.
I'd want to be in touch with you. Thanks again. Best wishes.

……..Your paintings are too good much more talent than I and I cant give you any inspiration except your vision out weighs mine when it comes to interpretations and much beauty in your paintings, I loved them good luck ………………………………

Amanda LaPaglia I have always been a bit of a loner i turned my attention to art when i was 7 by the time i was 10 i could copy cartoon drawing to perfection,and decided i wanted to be a commercial artist so i did two years night tech when i was 14 and was a qualified sign writer at sixteen Unfortunetly mother had other ideas and i ended up working in a milkbar at 15, then by the time i was 19 i was running a photo lab and was concidered one of their best colour printers I became very passionate about the things i loved most,animals and nature ,though i left the business when i was 24 Never to return so i said and i didnt for 20 years. recently teamed up with an old school mate Who also had the same passions and it is he that has awoken this sleeping fairy where as NOW when i take photos i can really see them ,its like a sexual awakening for me ,im a bit of a late bloomer i guess and im discovering my own true sexuality as well. I do hope that you you stay with me on my journey as the storm has now passed and watch me blossom ,.THE REAL ME ;is very kind never cruel to animals ,i will always stick up for the underdog.I will act like i trust you but i dont ,i detest liars and cannot forgive you for it (though god says i should) I hate greedy people,And if you do not like animals i wont like you.Im a very complex person yet simple too so im even looking forward to see what unfolds from here on for me .I learnt photography back in the old days of film and black & white and was also called on for touch up work on old photos i used a Canon Av1 back then (& still have it packed away somewhere) .I have had absolutely no training since returning as everything is now digital of course so im completely self taught and that includes this computor which i have only been using since November 2006 ,I also thank God And the Angels that the horrors in my life never come out in my work, and it only proves to me that no matter what happens to you in life nobody can break your Spirit.I also find it very odd (and i only noticed yesterday is that ;people say that im a very vibrant and happy person ,yet i dont wear bright clothes im very earthy & neutral,yet i have noticed that my pictures are very colourful.My man says its my bright personality shinning through.i giggled!.Visit My Website www.itsallgoodamanda.com

Hi. I went into your web site. Wow you have some lovely paintings. I love the bright colors. They are all very interesting. Keep it up. Well done.

Sorry for my delay in answer you. I just saw your site as well as your paintings. There are magnificent & colorful; how much time you dedicate for each one in average? I'm inclined to the details.

I hope you continue painting, and keep me in your mailing list. Are you selling much by publishing them in "Eye of the Art"? Did you subscribe already, or just in the trying phase.

To see my full collection you could go to because I'm not going to continue in the "Eye of the Art" much longer.

ARTIST BIO
Benito Alonso is a New York based artist. He was born in
Santurce, Puerto Rico. Benito discovered his artistic abilities
at age 7 and continued drawing throughout his youth.
In school, Benito took up the profession of Architectural
Drafting and Design and worked in this for 39 years. He
always continued his art although seriously began portrait
painting in 1989. Mr. Alonso has had several showings of
art including the Washington Square Art Show, the Atrium
at 57-58th and Park Avenue and the DC 37 Council's
Hispanic Heritage Month art show and at the "Frederick
Douglass Academy"

ARTIST STATEMENT
Benito Alonso has that Latin flair of appreciation for the
human form and the Caribbean appreciation for nature's
beauty as depicted in many of his portrait and scenery
combinations.
Mr. Alonso considers himself an Artist Plastic Surgeon, who
is able to correct or refine any unwanted imperfections in his
portrait of full body artwork. He works from a clear photo
so there are no uncomfortable hours of posing.
His work clearly demonstrates the combination of his
architectural and artistic ability seen in the super-detailed
stroke of hair and facial features. This combination of art
and detail make his portraits uncannily lifelike and endears
the individual for generations to come.

jeevan ,artist
I viewed your work and it is very impressive. I like your graceful scenes and vivid brilliant color---which makes you feel as though one is actually in India. Especially like # 1, 3 and 6. They are real works of art, I have no idea about digital work, and your oils on canvas are my favorites.

Hi Jeevan ,
…..I had a look at your site. Amazing how you achieve the digital work to look like actual paint. I like them.
I find looking at paintings on screen quite difficult as you can't see
the texture and the actual size. Nice work………..

Thanks
Marcus

Dear artist,
I visited your website, and I really admired most of your work. You got these feelings coming out throw your paintings which inspired me in a way to discover another field of painting which is Digital Panting, know I will
start to learn more about it, Thank to you.

Your paintings are strong, meaningful, died but alive at the same time it
gives the feeling of getting into it...

good work and keep it up...

thank you

Hello,
I’ve just been on your site and I love your colors and digital abstractions. Where do you live by the way?

Best regards

Marie

…………..I like the way you use color. I particularly like FILE 16/36 - not sure what it is, But I like it………………

…..Good morning. I looked at your art and you have a fine talent. I wish you every success and hope you do well………….

Hello Jeevan,

I hope you are well. I think your art work is beautiful and full of wonderful colors...you are very talented.

Lisa

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