Christian Quin Newell
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This surreal artwork features a central, sun-like shape made of white material, surrounded by a grid of various human facial profiles in shades of gray against a dark, starry background. The overall composition creates a sense of mystery and exploration, with the abstract central element contrasting with the realistic yet disjointed facial features. The artist's use of chiaroscuro and the stark black-and-white palette gives the piece a haunting, dream-like quality. This work appears to delve into themes of identity, fragmentation, and the subconscious, reflecting the artist's unique artistic style and vision. ...
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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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