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Hardly Surviving Artist(s)…

The best about blogging is easiness of writing and posting.

Everything that’s in my mind that I think should be important to notice I can easily post it.

Modern world is world of contrasts, at one side we have problems with weight, at the other side we have hungry people. Someone will buy a cart that is worth as a completely equipped house at the other side we have people living in a carton box,…

Then my favorite… Donations!
Ok you have some extra money, and you want to share it with world, or you with someone will say “you are so noble”, what will you do. The answer is correct you will make donations!

BRAAAVOOO! You will give US$ 10.000.000 to some organization to fight cancer, aids,… that is very nice

But, if you give 10M, someone else 15M,………..
What do you think will they find ever that cure=NO.

Q: Why not?

A: Search is better than discovery (better funds)
… and if you find that real cure for some diseases a lot of people will stay without US$ 100.000/year salary!

Situation is the same wit eco and cheap fuel.

Let’s back to art…

Last week here in my hometown was a charity auctions of artworks for Safe Children house. 800 invitations was sent! Was it successful? NO Why? No one has appeared (800 invitations!)

There is no benefit from safe house, buying art,…

In past artists has patrons, sponsors, and they could live, create, paint and live proper like artists. These days we have auctions with millions of dollars for masterpieces of death artists. Imagine for example musicians, what if popular would be only classics, and music of death composers and performers and only several contemporary!?! …Or actors?! … or what if I die… and nothing no benefit even form my grandchildren?!
I can only hope and pray that my grand grand children will have some benefit from my art and artworks.

What if, or what would I do with some extra $?

Rearrange my house, make some extra space for painting,… or go to some island first, on a whole month vacation, then rearrange,…:)

If you have some suggestions, how to profit now instead of in 2118, please comment or send me a mail!

Published & Offered-Art in Progress

Art, as this blog also, is about sharing.

Artists paints artworks, finish it, make exhibition, offer them,… that’s the usual way,…

But…

Here at this page you are in the possibility to see my longterm artworks in process of creation, in process of revealing them, and in every phase of creation.

When the artwork is finished? When artist say or feel it’s enough, but…
What if You think or wish it’s enough for that artwork in the current state of creation?!

If You are interested, I’m inviting You to post with Your comments Your offers also

What if…Again?

Oil on canvas, 80X120cm

This painting I’ve started few years ago!!!
Now I’m ready to continue with painting!

What it is about? By the bible first people on the Earth was Adam & Eve… you probably know the story.. Eden, snake, apple,…

And here my painting goes… Present day at the earth, or somewhere in the sky, in front of the gates of Heaven Eve is still young, and Adam is old, after all those years of healthy  Earth life, with wrinkles, hair loss,…

What If he had this experience, or knows what will happen, consequences, … WOULD HE TOOK THIS APPLE?! WOULD HE HAVE THAT TEMPTATION? WOULD HE?

On my painting they are inforont of the gates of Heaven, Eves hand becomes snake, and in fact Eve/Snake are offering this apple again. In the middle is Holy Grail (represents eternal life)… Will he take in, will he grab it?

Sketches

Drawings on paper.

Current state… underpainting-second layer

White Angel

Oil on canvas, 50X70cm

Orthodox Icon reproduction, original in monastery Mileseva-Serbia

Web Design, Why?

I had this great idea, to live where I live, in Serbia, to work what I love and like-to paint, and to provide my living by selling my works of art. How to manage that? I’ve decided to make my personal page, at the space provided by my internet provider (3MB), and after few months, and sleepless nights, my first website was ready. I was ready to go internationally. I can remember, that night when I have uploaded my first website my girlfriend and I have opened bottle of wine and cheer…

That was the beginning…

Did I sell anything via that site? … NO

… but thanks to this site I have begun to make websites for my friends.

This first website was great beginning, for some new opportunities in life, great introduction in capabilities of internet…

I have made my second website www.topalski.com, and this site was, and still is… great project, totally hand made, without any base (sql), but still have more than 360 html pages, 314 artworks, and real links about 800! But… when I count links at the side-bar (member off,…) it has more than 20.000 links!!! First page at the moment has google page rank 4! For some art related searches it is listed at the top of major search engines!

I design websites, because it gives me freedom, like painting, freedom of artistic creation, freedom to play, freedom to explore.

Currently I’m working on this blog, main conte website (www.conteart.com) and on some websites for my frinds.

Oh yeah, not to forget, when I make some website for my friends, after that, they share with me they money friends

I you wish, we could share and be friends!

Why I’m painting?

Because I like and love it. It gives me freedom, when I paint I’m in my own world and I have a freedom to paint what I like and what I want in that particular moment. That is the main reason why I have a lot of experiments. You can shock in art someone in many ways, and we were witnesses of that through history. I prefer more to produce art that will emerge your feelings, your thoughts, artwork to which you will come again and again and again. That particular and special type of art I call OPVS EVOLVZIONE and they are something specific and personal!

In my case and my painting, sometimes inspiration is some photo, sometimes it’s the artwork of some other artist (because of theme or technique), I have also these special moments when I practically see finished painting that I have never seen before.

Sometimes I dream it and sometimes it’s that moment between dream and reality! After that I made a drawing, but the most difficult thing is to paint that painting as I “saw it” sometimes during the process of painting something new emerges up, something I haven’t expected faces that you see in one moment and faces that you’ve never seen before at this work in the next moment!