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Published: 2002-10-03 03:17:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 7567; Favourites: 102; Downloads: 459
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Description -Medium-

Oils

-Size-

3ft width x 2ft height

-Description-

Perdition is a painting of depression and how you feel when depressed.
The Character on the bottom and the mask he is carrying are both the same person though separated because the character on his knee is the flesh part of humans and the inner is the mask. While in state of depression your own mind can be the most hateful thing because when depressed you can do actions you would never do. That is why the mask is with a grin. Depression is bad because nobody has is causing you harm but your own self. Our minds are sometimes the harshest enemy. Another trait of depression is when your depressed you feel that people around you family or others in your life talk about you in a bad way, and it is usually not true. The representation of that is the character on the middle of this work. As you see the character that is also laughing at something and point is not actually pointing at the character in the lower right corner but something we can not see. The mask on the back of the character on the lower left also represents the weight of everyday life. We have all had days that it is hard to wake up and do what is necessary for life, the pain of waking up is sometimes the hardest part of everyday life the fact of getting up is a direct conformation to the day that will come by getting up you prove you can go on everyday. Does in this case it seems he has just fallen down… with the character with a frown for sadness… The light on the mask means there is still hope. (just like my other paintings) The road that the character on the lower right is rough and dark… Does he decide to continue? Or does he decide to stay down? That is the question we should all make in our own minds each morning

Ah a painting with a moral

-Description of my art works-

This is a vague description of what I attempt to do with my works. My works deal with psychological problems and how I and other feel when these problems hit. My art works currently are painted in drama form. In the way that all the character or actors are placed straight the view in sort of Opera. I am attempting to bring something different into surrealism and that is more in-depth feelings inside of me and others. Masks are a great way to show emotion, and has been used in plays in the past. So In a way I am combining many elements into my works from some ideas of renaissance style to mural paintings and some traits of plays. I have not reached my goal and this is a life time project.

Thanks for seeing my work

Here are three close up pictures of my painting.

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Comments: 74

gwaladr [2008-05-31 15:47:44 +0000 UTC]

its amazing

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kairyuu [2006-11-03 17:06:44 +0000 UTC]

It's the creepy mask! Aaaah!

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blablaskunk [2004-09-12 17:36:41 +0000 UTC]

you are an amazing artist!

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Fiend-7 [2003-12-28 20:22:04 +0000 UTC]

just incrivel....really good interesting mind...really nice

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jek [2003-06-03 01:40:54 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome!!!

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syragon [2003-03-24 19:03:40 +0000 UTC]

oye

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da16x [2002-11-02 10:59:05 +0000 UTC]

- The Figure In The Back That Lookz Like A Lord Or Something Iz Great He Iz Smilling

While The One That Knieez Lookz Sad And Hurt Maybe Wanting 2 Run Away From Hiz

Master Or something i Wish i Had More Time 2 Talk About Thizz But i Haven't Soo

i've Gotta Go Now Byeeeeeee

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bob-x [2002-10-28 04:59:16 +0000 UTC]

Scary. I know all to well the feelings behind the creation of this picture. I've been there. A lot of people in this community have. A thing of true beauty you have created here.

+add to Favs
+add to devwatch

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hermes88 [2002-10-06 23:18:44 +0000 UTC]

*Stunned*

*Recovers and adds pic to favs*

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apparentlyneurotic [2002-10-06 18:27:15 +0000 UTC]

another neato moment man

neato


- aparently neurotic

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dr-d [2002-10-06 02:44:03 +0000 UTC]

very good again m'man! and congrats on another dd!
one problem i have with this is that without the description, and even with it to a degree, it's not clear by looking at the painting that you did intend for the arm to be pointing not quite at him. it helps with the description, but it still looks more like it is pointing at him, just not a very good job of doing so... know what i mean? it looks more like an error in the painting then as something that could be meant two different ways...
excellent job overall though man!

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melocopter [2002-10-04 16:59:23 +0000 UTC]

very cool

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immortus [2002-10-04 14:28:36 +0000 UTC]

kinda like dali... that smacks big ol balls

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-little-horn- [2002-10-04 13:00:41 +0000 UTC]

What can i say, its very very nice, like the "dark" style

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paraphrase [2002-10-04 08:45:34 +0000 UTC]

That is AMAZING!

Incredible...

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idlejam [2002-10-04 06:08:02 +0000 UTC]

that's pretty freaking tight.

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tcrud [2002-10-04 03:19:10 +0000 UTC]

oh freaking nice.

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princesnoopy [2002-10-04 02:32:40 +0000 UTC]

wow... the explaination alone is incredible... Wow!!!!!!!!

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alphakx [2002-10-04 01:55:09 +0000 UTC]

wonderful... absolutely wonderful work! nice !

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musickrazy57 [2002-10-04 01:42:32 +0000 UTC]

i love your style! wow....depresssing....sad.....dark.....emotional....i love it! da prints peeeeeez?.

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ara-kennel [2002-10-04 01:15:38 +0000 UTC]

... I usually don';t comment on big beautiful and also successful works like this, because I'm sure you're getting comments by the masses and probably deleting them before you get to read them all. But the only thing I wanted to say is that this was brilliant, and would do very well on "da prints".

Salvador Dalhi reincarnated.

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lolly [2002-10-04 00:42:07 +0000 UTC]

This is brilliant. Like a cross between Bosch and Dali with your own thing thrown into it. Excellent, and worthy of all the faves it's gotten. Add mine to the long list!

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sorezki [2002-10-03 23:38:50 +0000 UTC]

WOW !!! Great style, amazing art work! I love it!!!

Keep on creating such wonderful stuff!!!

Peace!

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p4nth3r [2002-10-03 23:21:07 +0000 UTC]

oooooh... this is awesome

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srgio [2002-10-03 22:59:38 +0000 UTC]

This is the reason I come to DA almost everyday, Inspiration. Thanks Rogelio.

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angelsfaith [2002-10-03 22:40:28 +0000 UTC]

very cool. i love your style.

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amphex [2002-10-03 22:33:07 +0000 UTC]

Amazing..

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Zlatty [2002-10-03 22:13:17 +0000 UTC]

Mindboogling job! ....

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forsythia [2002-10-03 22:00:42 +0000 UTC]

rogelio, this is beautiful.
I see what you see inside yourself.
First of all, in an artistic way, the colors are so settle and it gives layered depth of the painting that arlready created by the light and the clouds(smokes).

I read your journal that you mentioned that you use only several limited colors. Now I see the deep saturated colors that are perfectly fit your painting.

Since you gave us lots of information, I have not much to add.
But after I read your description, I thought it sounded like paradoxical how you see "masks" in your painting.

Masks are a great way to show emotion, and has been used in plays in the past.

When thinking of the purpose of masks, they are more like a "fakeness" to hide our real faces. Nobody can read your real emotion behind the mask that has always the unchangeable still expression.

But maybe it is not true.

Masks usally have very exaggerated facial expression on them. It maximize your sadness and happiness. Maybe we can show our feeling better with these exaggerated masks. In addition, the masks inside us are actually alive and can change its face. It is grinning, frowning, and talking. And we might have several of those masks inside us.

When we are depressed, we might pick up one of those ugly masks and put it on to express our feeling effectively. We might want to hide us behind ugliness called depression. But as time goes by, it gets bigger and bigger, we cannot effecitvely handle our emotion any more. It eventually becomes its own burden.

If we don't take that off with courage, we would be crunched by the enormous despair.


Congrats on getting DD.

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darkvvulf [2002-10-03 21:57:44 +0000 UTC]

Wow, reminds me of Dali somewhat.
Excellent work.

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karra [2002-10-03 21:37:41 +0000 UTC]

oooh... deep... *runs away*

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radiantflux [2002-10-03 21:30:01 +0000 UTC]

wow..

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pilzbury [2002-10-03 21:22:09 +0000 UTC]

this is great, well deserving DD, you have one of the best style of art here

+fav

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artikstudio [2002-10-03 20:47:14 +0000 UTC]

Whoa that's a great lookin' peice. Keep it up man.

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repus [2002-10-03 20:28:49 +0000 UTC]

very nice, i like it a lot
keep it up...

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weiskopf [2002-10-03 19:54:17 +0000 UTC]

this works very well on two levels. you have the strictly aesthetic value of this piece which is very good. then, you have the intellectual value and the meaning behind everything which you have already explained in your description. this is a wonderful piece all around and i commend you on your work.

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gnowoga [2002-10-03 19:41:47 +0000 UTC]

this is wild! thank you!!

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paroxysm [2002-10-03 19:30:11 +0000 UTC]

daily feature - can't say i'm shocked.

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jay13 [2002-10-03 19:10:10 +0000 UTC]

the colors are nice but what i realy like about this image
is the light that is hanging from the mask also the
expression of that mask
very smooth style and surreal art is ammazingly
hard to do

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nuime [2002-10-03 18:52:41 +0000 UTC]

Holy crap....I know I won't be the first to say this, but..I am in love with this piece. The colors, the composision. It's all just fabulous! !!!

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htrd [2002-10-03 18:47:00 +0000 UTC]

good move with that description. it makes this already great painting that much better. i love the interpetation.

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lzrelak [2002-10-03 18:46:52 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow...very cool...great job!!! I love this piece and I love the description given to the piece. So good..so good.

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alchemism [2002-10-03 18:26:42 +0000 UTC]

ITS ABOUT TIME TRADITIONAL ART GOT MORE RESPECT. Lovely piece.

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sakura [2002-10-03 18:17:18 +0000 UTC]

ohhhhhhh yet another amazing peice...

most peices are eyecandy
your peices are eyecandy and mind altering...
dont u hate it when u look at a great peice of artworkand your heart and soul just comes pouring out for it?

pshhh..... ^_^

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kalimon [2002-10-03 17:28:55 +0000 UTC]

Cool Indeed.

Oils whjooo traditionale artsit--- COOL!!!

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nostrom [2002-10-03 17:20:40 +0000 UTC]

oooh my gosh,
your style is so original!!!
i love every paintbrush you did there!!!
it's awesome,
love it nos

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mooshoo [2002-10-03 17:04:47 +0000 UTC]

wow indeed, damn good job.

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pillipinoguy [2002-10-03 16:50:11 +0000 UTC]

this looks awsome!!! is there gonna be a print of this??

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cuperix [2002-10-03 16:49:07 +0000 UTC]

wonderful.
simple wonderful!

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-freak- [2002-10-03 16:47:29 +0000 UTC]



excellent mixture of expression and attention to detail. The clouds are lovely. The balance of light and dark is well thought-out and implemented.

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