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No. 19. Voice From the Studio. The Newsletter of The Art of Felix Berroa. Marietta -Atlanta-, Georgia, May, 2007

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"36th Annual Cellular South Gumtree Festival".

May 12, 13, 2007.

Location: Old Courthouse Lawn in Historic Downtown Tupedo, Tupedo, Mississippi. 38802. Info: www.gumtreemuseum.com.

 

"Extension". Enamel on masonite. 48"x42". 2007. Sold.	"Sighting Birds 2". Acrylic and Oil on canvas. 42"x46". 2007. Sold.

Those painting and many others -large and small- will be exhibit this May 2007.

 

Previous Newsletter No. 17, April 2007. Click Here.

For Works Available from 2006, Go to Georgia Period Gallery.

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My Art Philosofy

Since my time in the Dominican Republic, my idea on the art has been that the artist is a kind of sponge, songwriter singer, of the things that surround him in a certain society. Therefore, he should sing to all that affects his sensibility, his conscience. The "technique" is the result of the academy, the experience with the materials, the learning "after seen the art works of the masters" around the world through the years. (One of the popular Hispanic singers I enjoy listening is the Panamanian Rubén Blades, because of his high "musical quality and great voice" (The technique); and the content of the words -the literature- in his songs, where he expressed a high feelings toward his native country -Panama -, the people, hispanoamerica, the love, the pain, etc. (the message). One of his very impressive CD's is titled "Tiempos" -Times-). In the Dominican Republic the Master songwriter is Juan Luis Guerra.

To write more on the matter of the "technical" and the "message", I will point out the case of Fernando Botero from Colombia. Famous around the world, millionaire. His works are in many museums around the world. His work of nudes, portraits and his compositions about his country (Colombia) are highly artistic and acceptable for most people -technical, composition, subject-. However, there are many people that in their top of the success, will no care about any sad thing, but NO IN A TRUE ARTIST. Fernando Botero is an ARTIST. In spite of having all that achievements, Fernando Botero was "sensitive" of what happening in his country. He also paint about the crisis of his Colombia : the violence, etc.

When I left the Dominican Republic in 1981, I made an exhibition of farewell to my friends and the local artistic atmosphere. The exhibition of farewell was titled "La Vida, el Sueño y la Muerte" (The Dream, the Life and the Death)", exhibited in the Gallery Paiewonski, in the capital city Santo Domingo. In that time I prepares the following statement:

"The subject in Art has to be found
in the happiness and in the sadness
in the well-being and in the pain
in the beauty and in the ugliness
in the maternal love and in the passionate
in the smile of a child,
or in the softness of an old man.
In short, The Life, the Dreams and Death of all human beings."

Felix Berroa, 1981. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

For those who not yet have read my biography, I'm mid 50's years old and I have studied 5 years "Fine Arts" at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes; "Art Education" at the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo -UASD-; two years in "Wood Carving", at the Centro Nacional de Artesania. All three educational centers located in Santo Domingo, RD. Also I studied different techniques of graphic, as etching, intaglio silk screen, lithograph, and experimental drawing at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, in San Juan Puerto Rico.

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Check this link: "The Business of Art: Evidence from the Art Market"

 

Felix Berroa

Felbere@hotmail.com

Tel. 678-355-1473.