Jumat, 20 Juni 2014

James Christensen Paintings

By Darren Hartley


James Christensen paintings are inspired by the world's myths, fables and tales of imagination. They add up to more than beautiful, sometimes curious looking, works of art. They look at the world as a classroom. This stems from the fact that James taught art professionally for over 20 years.

The early humorous James Christensen paintings displayed fantasy images that James thought other people will like. To his amazement, he discovered that people liked his imaginative, magical worlds as much as he did. After completing his studies, James worked as a freelance illustrator, continually working on his own painting on his free time.

The universal predicaments of the fantastic characters in James Christensen paintings touched a chord in the lives of other people and bring a wry smile of recognition from them. People found themselves relating to one of James' overdressed, self important little characters in his Poofy Guy in a Short Leash painting.

James Christensen paintings provide a little lift to help people keep going. In a miniscule, they tell people that all things are possible provided they share in James' philosophy that believing is seeing and not the other way around.

James Christensen paintings can be about mythical adventures. One such painting, St. Brendian Naviga describes a 10th century romance about Brendan and a company of monks sailing the Atlantic Ocean towards the Promised Land. St. Brendan has been associated with whales and large fishes. His fame rests in his adventurous stories as described in Brendan's Voyage.

There are James Christensen paintings that are love stories. A prime example of this is Twilight. It is rich in symbols representative of the close of a chapter, the twilight hour of the day, the final phase of the moon, the turning leaves on an autumn tree and the checkerboard road coming to an end. One symbolism from the painting could be interpreted as love coming in many different levels but one that is everlasting has the most important power of all.




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