Focal Point: Arley Blankenship
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Artwork by Arley Blankenship
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Recent Blog Posts by Arley Blankenship
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Posted on 6/14/2008 9:02:01 AM
Other Web Pages With Info About Arley Blankenship
Arley Blankenship's Main Artist Website
Art Galleries Representing Arley Blankenship
Creekhaven Inn
Wimberley, TX - 512-847-9344
Gallery On The Square
Wimberley, TX - 512-847-9904
Wimberley Valley Art League
Wimberley, TX -
Overview
Click Here to go to the website for artist Arley BlankenshipThank you for visiting Arley Blankenship Fine Art. While pieces of my collection are somewhat traditional, most are what I call contemporary surrealism.
WHY CONTEMPORARY SURREALISM?
At the beginning of the 20th century, the early Surrealists found a rich source of visual imagery in Freudian psychoanalysis, and it's "dream state".
I have always admired their representational classic technique, but do not subscribe to their aesthetic philosophy. All that we have learned about human perception, power of mind and the nature of hallucination requires a less constricted approach. Rather than encrypting meaning within symbolic relationships between objects and their environment, I attempt to make meaning itself cryptic and non-specific. Landscapes and environments depict both beauty and desolation at the same time. Laws of Physics are adhered to and suspended simultaneously.
Objects that occupy these environments are preposterously out of place and demand to have their meaning interpreted. I aim to deny the viewer any specific interpretation. Thus, while an image may be beautiful and compelling to one person, it can be disturbing and uncomfortable to another. The individual viewer becomes the final arbitrator of meaning and symbolism and so becomes as much an integral part of the creative process as the painter himself.
Arley Blankenship
Biography
ABOUT THE ARTIST...Blankenship discovered his love for creating over 40 years ago sitting at the base of his father's easel. As a young boy his tools were watercolors, pencils, pen and ink and traditional leather tooling. As a young man his curiosity with oils, acrylics and sculpting began to emerge. Raised on the plains of the north Texas panhandle, his painting inevitably began to depict the vast horizons and spacial infinity of that part of the country. The endless stretches of panhandle skies carry through even in his work today. Upon graduation from Oklahoma University School of Fine Art in 1972, he began traveling the US extensively. Eventually settling in the northern Rockies, the well developed sense of atmospheric perspective served his work well. Returning to his native Texas in 1986, he continually studied and stretched his abilities and vision in all paint mediums. For the last three years he has expanded into bronze patination as apprentice patineur at the Michael Hall Studio Foundry, Driftwood, Texas, which has stirred a new interest in casting and sculpture. Blankenship also is a prolific writer, poet and musician. He continues to paint and sculpt in his studio and also writes and plays music with various locally and nationally recognized musicians in the Hill Country outside of Austin, Texas. His attitude on retirement? "To fall face down in a palette of oils with my Ibanez at my side." TRANSLATION: Art is not a job one works to retire from. Art is life to the artist who is compelled to give it birth. Once conceived in the minds eye of the artist, it becomes something to be manifested visually and shared.
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