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andrewjonesart
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[2009-11-25 07:21:29 +0000 UTC]
"Andrew Jones"
(Japan)
# Statistics
Favourites: 7; Deviations: 55; Watchers: 21
Watching: 4; Pageviews: 4100; Comments Made: 20; Friends: 4
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Bosch. Mantegna. Titian. Brueghel. van Eyck. Memling. Caravaggio. Ribera. Rembrandt. Goya. Blake.Favorite movies: Hitchcock. Lynch. Jodorowsky. Svankmajer. Kubrick. Scorcese.
Favorite writers: Lovecraft. Poe. Swinburne. Byron. Beckett. Kafka. Nabokov. Joyce. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Other Interests: Painting and drawing. Collecting pieces of small dead things.
# About me
While my works may seem fantastical, in the sense that they superficially appear to portray the unreal, I do not consider them as such. On the contrary – I seek to make visible the horror that, mercifully, eludes the perception of the healthy and well-adjusted. There are real things at the periphery, beyond the horizon, briefly visible at the moment of awakening, in awkward silences, in failure and despondency: the inevitability of decay and death, the folly of hope, the futility of struggle against chaos.I create icons for absent gods; nativities for failed messiahs; reliquaries for worthless bits of bone. Saint Anthony is torn apart by his demons; the Crucified rots.
As a child, I was inspired by images of the Cyclops devouring the crew of Odysseus, of Gawain beheading the Green Knight, and then of religious martyrs broken, burned, flayed; the eyeballs of saints on platters.
A febrile mix of fantasy, horror, science fiction and comics further twisted my imagination, and Bosch, Caravaggio, Titian, van Eyck and others expanded and refined my aesthetic development.
# Comments
Comments: 8
It's absolutely no bother, all of your stuff is far beyond any of my capabilities anyway!
It's all really impressive
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i must say, after digging through your gallery, i'm impressed. the shapes amaze me. i'm pretty sure you'll get a daily deviation or two in no time. post some more work 
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Welcome. Excellent work! Very interesting indeed. Looking forward to seeing more.
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thanks. i'm just getting started here. it will take me some time to figure it all out...
andrew
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It takes a while but it's easy when you get a hang of it. Help section is worth gold and if you have any questions then just ask people - we don't bite much!
Caja
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it's all a little frustrating at the moment, but i'm sure i'll get there eventually. thanks for your interest.
andrew
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