Edward Zelinsky

transfer, Drawing, Pen Ink on Paper

2011

Drawings can be like dreams that come alive. It's hard to explain them. Each time you look there is a different meaning and story. :: Drawing :: Classical :: This piece comes with an...

A drawing :: Drawing :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Location: ...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium...

Vintage Pencil sketch of two figures carrying large billowing fabric by C. Gassier, circa 1930. Signed lower left. Original artwork on paper dis...