Talent Tyr

Channel:

Art

Genres:

Figurative, Portrait

Roles:

Painter, Artist

Specialties:

paint the world. the form of a woman.

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”(Oscar Wilde) ... stating the obvious? it’s all about the image. just the image. there is no need for emotion in aesthetics. beauty cannot be defined in those terms. she’s inherently incapable of having feelings. they are left to the spectator. as such the paintings can maintain their simplicity. clean ... and cold. still. there is no escaping Mr. Wilde’s theorem. every portrait painted without feeling might just turn out to be a portrait of the artist as well. perhaps portraits are not meant to be of the sitters.

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible" ( Oscar Wilde).
one needs vision to “C true”. to acknowledge the depth of the human surface.
the seeming emptiness of the image. and not to expect more. for the image alone is enough. no more paintings of the old riches. no more ecclesiastical commissions. religion is dead and our euro-western property has become virtual. you are what you own no longer applies in these modern times. the globalization of the net has projected all of us into the public domain. today we will more likely inherit internet domains than actual (tangible) property. new perspectives get imposed. even “big brother” has become a family friend. it’s no longer a problem. we are starting to see what we couldn’t see before. we are contented with the illusion of property, the illusion of privacy. we touch upon the untouchable. and we are no worse off for it. today the image can be empty. the illusion suffices. figuration is the new abstract. (not that it wasn’t abstract before, we just didn’t see the meta-reality it actually represents. semiotic architecture). (r)evolution is upon us. our personal space is growing inwards. we are reaching new realities, perhaps a little less full (depends on the interpretation) but not less real. on the contrary. we are starting to see the visible. starting to unravel the mystery.

Modern Portraits.

photo shoot, sketch & paint

Acrylic on just about anything

upcoming publication in Masters of Today (2007)
-novel/catalogue "C'est le cas de le dire" Thierry Mortier/Tyr (2004)

2007
- Groupshow MDZ Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2006
- Lineart '06, solo-booth Tyr, Ghent, Belgium
- Lineart '06, Gallery booth, MDZ Art Gallery
- Groupshow MDZ Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2005
- Lineart '05, Gallery booth, MDZ Art Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
- Art Event Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
- Duo-exhibit, Van Crombrugghe, Ghent, Belgium

paint the world. the form of a woman.

Patrick Nagel, Tamara de Lempicka, Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Leon Spilliaert