Christian Quin Newell
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This dark, moody painting depicts a solitary figure navigating a dense, foreboding forest. The composition is dominated by earthy tones of brown and green, with the figure standing against a backdrop of towering, shadowy trees. The brushstrokes are expressive, lending a sense of motion and energy to the scene. The overall style suggests a Romantic or Symbolist influence, with the figure's isolation and the mysterious, enigmatic setting evoking a sense of the sublime in nature. This work likely explores themes of the human experience within the natural world and the search for meaning or self-discovery. ...
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Christian Quin Newell
1991Christian Quin Newell's work, which includes paintings, drawings, and miniatures, features coded narratives that reflect on the world around him. His practice blends his studies of mysticism, psychology and art history, and employs a unique iconography of symbols, archetypal images, historical characters, and multi-layered plots. He uses underpainting techniques and palettes from the Venetian Renaissance, as well as natural semi-precious pigments such as cinnabar and malachite, which are found in Indian miniature painting. With a mixed Jamaican and Italian heritage, he creates imagined worlds reminiscent of Metaphysical Painting, an early 20th-century Italian art movement, filled with enigmatic objects, where principles of time and space are distorted, featuring hybrid figures from a possible mythic past or imagined future. It is difficult for the viewer to place the scenes within a recognisable context, giving the impression that these images exist somewhere in the vastness of the universe. ...
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