Art
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To NFT or not to NFT
I have been trying to understand the term Non-Fungible Token (NFT), its concept in the art world and its function with a work of art. As a concept I can get it but when it is transformed to a valuable work of art, I really don’t get it. It seems to me that It is…
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What Is an Ex-Voto?
So, I was invited for an exhibition next summer with the theme: Contemporary Ex-Votos and I have to send an image by February 12 in order to be included in the catalog. But what is an Ex-Voto and what is its relevance? According to Wikipedia : An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or to a divinity; the term is…
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Countdown: 65 days until delivering my next painting.
After my 100 days project something change inside me, I was the same but at the same time I feel that I have more control on what I am doing as an artist, and little by little I started to participate in art shows here in Canada and in the USA. I moved to Toronto…
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Would you give booze to an alcoholic?
My name is Carlos, and I am artist. I have seen some movies and read novels about AA meetings and it seems that they start introducing themselves and acknowledging that they are addicts. Being an artist is a kind of addiction? Sometimes I found myself at the stationary department at the superstore buying pens even…
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Flag
I started this drawing as an exercise in a Facebook group, we have to draw an ordinary object, I choose a kitchen cloth from IKEA and with this I started a conversation with the drawing and it began to get a meaning and a self identity. Jasper Johns back in the sixties created a series…
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Self Censorship
Have you ever felt the need to censor your artwork in order to make it palatable to your audience and/or to make a profit? Back in the 90’s my gallery gave me some freedoms but they had some restrictions with paintings: No religion, no politics, no national symbols. I couldn’t help to make a painting…
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Losing my religion
Art for me is a quest about questioning my environment: my culture and within it, Religion, Spirituality, Politics, Beauty… I am who I am because of my culture, I mean, all this baggage that I carry from my ancestors, my homeland, my friends and family… But why is so important? Can I avoid it? Is…
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Inspiration or Plagiarism?
“La Poesía no es de quien la escribe, es de quien la necesita.”(Poetry is not from who writes it, it is from who needs it)El Cartero de Neruda, Antonio Skármeta What is the purpose of art? Why we make art? I said in a previous post that Art is a kind of tool for better read a problem or a…
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What is Art?
What is art? That is a question that had been avoid for any reasonable answer to me. At the beginning I was thinking that it has to do something with beauty but after painters like Picasso, Cezanne or Van Gogh, I don’t know how describe beauty anymore, beauty is fragile and very subjective. Then I…
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Flag (After Jasper Johns)
I took this photograph a few days ago and I didn’t know what to do with it, I just loved the way the light bath the cloth and instinctively I shoot it. A few days later in one of my Facebook groups ask us to make an art project using an ordinary object from our…
Carlos Fentanes 