Marcel's Art: SEAHORSE

Finally!
Thanks to Picture4Ever we have some professional shots of Marcel's artwork available (instead of relying on the ones I took, seen in the slideshow below, plagued with discoloration and glare). Over the next few weeks we'll explore each particular painting, up close and personal.
First up: Seahorse Bowl
In a previous post I mentioned that Marcel doesn't aim to infuse his paintings with a lot of his personal feelings.
Yet emotions do have a way of leaking through, sometimes in the most obvius way.
Check out the painting above - does that look like a red fist in the center of the abstract creation?
It is.
There's so much to say about this particular technique. Fisting, as I believe it is called, originated in the 1960s, when soluble artist quality acrylic paints became commercially available. Since then, the technique has evolved to include a number of paint application processes that use any portion of the body in leiu of a paintbrush or another tool. The most popular method in recent times, by far, is full body application.
What do you think of how the technique was used here?
- It's honest (the painting, not what I just wrote).
- It's raw.
- It's organic.
Frustrated artist indeed.
The original Seahorse Bowl is now available for purchase on Ebay!!! Please search for a Malinowski original :)

First Batch - Fresh From the Oven

Inspiration

Why does Marcel paint? Simply because for him, there's just nothing better.

Art lasts. It does not fade. Amidst all the daily activities and accomplishments, artwork is something that will not be forgotten. It is a way to leave behind an imprint of one brief human existence - that, at least, is the idea. Art provides meaning.

And yet, Marcel's paintings are not a recording of his thoughts or emotions. He writes music and lyrics as Wordsworth wrote poetry: during a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. But his art takes too long to create to capture fleeting feelings, however powerful. Instead, Marcel's art is an experiment and an evolution. And he is looking for any type of reaction.

Back Cover

"Calming chaos. Somehow uplifting darkness. Marcel has the eye and the feel of a pro, but with grassroots ethics and training. The paintings are open to interpretation, and free of heavy background. He's a refreshing difference to the heavily weighted meaning in a lot of the work I'm seeing today. Whatever happened to art, for art's sake? Whatever happened to color and shape and design, without overarching attitude and aggressiveness? His paintings bring it back.


With an undertone of the dismalness that is life, Marcel's first works are more than expressively good art. They're a front which is backed by amazing potential, which I can't wait to see."

- Sam Sleevi