Option 1 Martyr Portraits. Driven by love, hate, sin, redemption and death, Michael Hussar's oil paintings present the viewer with a contextual maturity

Option 1

Martyr Portraits

Driven by love, hate, sin, redemption and death, Michael Hussar's oil paintings present the viewer with a contextual maturity that is both confrontational and evocative. Hussar describes his work as "a voyeuristic snapshot of perceived humanity, complete with freaks and fakery; a gothic wonderland illuminating the gray area between truths and lies." Hussar's attachment to his paintings runs deep; each piece is a journal of sorts, allowing him to come face to face with his demons and exorcising them with each new stroke of the brush. Hussar's paintings are in the private collections of Warren Beatty, Francis Ford Coppolla and Leonardo Di Caprio.

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Pandora





Sing Like Sinatra



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"My intellect doesn’t come into play when I am channeling something subconsciously. There is plenty of time for interpretation after a painting is finished. Whenever I look at my finished paintings it is like analyzing a dream – deciphering my personal symbolic language. Although there is obviously some calculated thought behind things like compositional aesthetics, I still try to keep these decisions relatively instinctive. I find this approach far more fulfilling than when I have injected some preconceived concept into an image, which has often consequently become either stale or too obvious."



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Face



Scream





Meat Tongue

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Dino Valls is a Spanish painter born in 1959 in Zaragoza, presently living and working in Madrid.Having previously obtained a degree in medicine, he is now one of the Spanish representatives of the vanguard of figurative art. His painting, elaborating and expanding the methods of past masters, centers on the human psyche by using figurative techniques only as a formal support in which to project a conceptual content laden with profound psychic weight, where the most obscure pulsations develop in a symbolic process of intellectualism. He has participated in important international exhibitions of contemporary art, and has held numerous showings in Europe and the United States.




Lectio

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"As an artist and subject in my work, I consider myself to be steward and ax man to the legacy of art history. Created out of ‘the anxiety of influence’ and its effects on one’s artistic identity, these portraits develop from incongruous sources forced into an uncomfortable whole. Nearly every subject in my paintings receives an additional set of eyes. The superimposed eyes are like a mask, thus providing the opportunity to role-play, hide or act out."




Death and the Maiden



Demon Mother




"I was born in Peekskill, New York in 1962. I spent most of my childhood exploring the nearby woods, and this early exposure to plants and animals affects my figures because this dominates my paintings today. I combine the human figure with elements from nature to comment on our interactions with the environment, and also symbolically allude to the dynamics of human nature in general."



The Esoteric

The Flame





The Wheel

Option 2

2- d Design

Circus posters


I have a fondness for ludicrous yet convincing images with unexpected undertows, and placing the unfamiliar with the familiar in what people call “making strange of things”. Paintings that are confrontational yet with empathetic groundings and a metaphorically autobiographical bent. Not objects for passive consumption that fit comfortably within administrated culture, but lucid psychological spaces formed from an interplay between art and life. Images that feel seductively 'other' and steeped in hallucinatory detail from which the viewer can leap into an intangible, perhaps unexpected, realm of feeling.Ideas for paintings may come fast, but they often lurk around for years as tenuous mind visualizations before they coalesce into forms offering substance and depth. Surrounded by research, photographic images, drawings, vague compositional scribbles, found objects and props, a picture often begins with a focus point like a face, and a delight in creating small worlds amid the large. I sometimes feel like Dr Frankenstein, stitching up body parts that can only come alive with the electricity of intense detailing. These images are hardly ever formed all at once or found in a fitting sequence. Always digging around for something else, I don't enjoy painting where everything is measured or preordained and conceptually understood from the start.



25% animal + 75% human

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Fil au Trapeze





Sells Flotos Circus

JIM ROSE CIRCUS SIDESHOW ORIGINAL CLASSIC POSTER This is the poster that was created by Ashleigh Talbot for the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow. Jim Rose was the maniacal hype master of the original Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, featuring The Amazing Mister Lifto, the Torture King, Matt The Tube Crowley, Slug the Sword Swallower and his wife, Bebe The Circus Queen. They came together to revive an ancient art form which had been nearly lost but not forgotten. In the early 1990's, their outrageous show caused screams, faints and scandal all around the globe.





Aleister Crowley Baphomet Poster





VICTORIAN QUACK POSTER Most of Victorian society was abusing drugs and alcohol. The rapid developments in medicine and science made drugs such as heroin, morphine, opium, chloral hydrate, and laudanum easily available and widely prescribed. Often the result was addiction, or death.









TATTOOED ALCHEMY SNAKE LADY & HE DEVIL During the 16th Century black magic and the occult sciences were practiced in Prague--the famous center of alchemy--on Golden Lane or the "Street of the Alchemist" as it was known. The infamous Doctor Faust lived there, as did Paracelsus, Cornelius Agrippa and the monk Tritheim. The setting for this poster is that of Grand Old Prague during the time of occult inspiration--in search of the philosopher's stone. This illustration depicts that which the magicians made of themselves to their art. Science could not fail to obey the 'serpent'. Eroticism was always present, as you can plainly see with this vividly illustrated image. QuickTime™ and a

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TATTOOED ALCHEMY SNAKE LADY & HE DEVIL



THAT OLD DEVIL WEED POSTER The inspiration for this poster came from Victorian-era medicall literature, one section I enjoyed wrote extensively on the different effects of Cannabis Sativa.








BLACK DEATH PLAGUE DOCTOR POSTER Doctor Schnabel von Rom ("Doctor Beak of Rome"), this poster was inspired by the engraving by Paul First, 1656. During the period of the Black Death and the Great Plague of London, plague doctors visited victims of the plague. A plague doctor's duties were often limited to visiting victims to verify whether they had been afflicted or not. Most urban plague doctors were essentially volunteers, since the real doctors would have fled to the countryside, knowing they could do nothing for those affected.





Adelaide Herrmann Hondo Magic





Carter The Great

Title: Moulin Rouge, c.1891Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec





Title: Jane Aril, 1893Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A TOAST TO YOUR COFFIN A custom as old as time itself, would be the toast: The word "toast," meaning a proposal of health, originated in Rome, where an actual bit of spiced, burned bread was dropped into wine to improve the drink's flavor, absorb its sediment, and thus make it more healthful. The goblet of wine would be passed from guest to guest until it reached the person being honored who would drain the goblet and eat the morsel of bread in the bottom. This poster celebrates the Irish toast, beautifully embellished with a Celtic symbol border, the oak tree the symbol of death and the acorn on the coffin a symbol of life.





A TOAST TO YOUR COFFIN







JAKE THE ALLIGATOR MAN OF MARSH'S MUSEUM

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Option 1 Martyr Portraits. Driven by love, hate, sin, redemption and death, Michael Hussar's oil paintings present the viewer with a contextual maturity