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Cassius Cassini

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Good art is produced when the idea, the media, the artistic skills are combined with personal integrity...
Here's a little about myself, I'm Phil Dalton aka Cassius Cassini. I'm an emerging artist in the contemporary art world. There is no substitute for disciplines necessary to create great visual art I believe and the principles of good design and composition are here bent to new heights.
I have been into art ever since my childhood. I was pretty much always keen in drawing comics when I was younger and I always had a sketchpad with me. I studied art and design in my teens but my new unique style has developed in the past 5 years so you could pretty much call me a self-taught artist. My art is very much about colour too and I'm forever fascinated my the magic of combinations of colours, I'm working on some OP ART pieces at the moment that really explore colour along with street art on canvas projects.
My direction is to explore a wide range of modern art and branch myself into a lot of new territories. Taking influences of the past but very much aiming out to the future. I strive to push myself and hope you will enjoy the website. Please contact me section for more information about purchasing my art.
My art is ideal for corporate and home interiors. I specialize in Fashionable Modern Contemporary Art - Iconic Retro Pop Art, Modern Paintings, Abstract, Animal, Portrait work, Pop Art and Photography.
My passion for art is very much the same as when I first started and I'm a pretty much self taught artist, I went to art college and loved art at school but had a break from art for a few years and got into portraiture and then into doing modern art after being inspired by album art and photography. I then started to develop myself and experimenting to find the right medium. I loved what some artists were doing with acrylics and had used them in past and liked the ease of not waiting hours for paint to dry like oils. I then started to see what other artists were doing but were not stuck to a medium like Damien Hurst and Jeff Koons, just letting themselves express what was in their minds at the time. A great imagination I feel is paramount to creating art like what those two guys are doing. Love to have the money to really experiment with creating some huge peices of artwork, lol maybe one day.
I do see myself in the next few years devoting lots of time developing my art and hopefully breaking into the art world and also want to develop my music and get writing poetry again. I'm very revved up creatively at the moment and excited for the future and seeing what paintings I'll come up with.
My influences
I'm heavily influenced by music as well as art and always paint with something blaring out on the hi-fi, check out my list of band influences on my myspace page. (link at the bottom of this page) I've aways been attracted to the glamour of the 60s and mod culture in general, so hopefully that comes through in my art. Well as an artist I'm obviously inspired by other artists and much prefer the modernists to the old style classic painters, but appreciate a wide variety of art, the biggest influence artists I like are Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstien, Piet Mondrian, Willem de Kooning Damien Hurst , Banksy and Francis Bacon. I work with acylics, mixed media, stencils, corel painter and love to experiment with new media. I love to paint modern culture and come in at a differnt angle with my art. I'm a bit of a perfectionist which is a pain sometimes as takes me forever to finish a painting but love to keep busy with new projects. I also am a fan of simplistic symbolism in paintings like Warhol and Opie painted however also like to paint lush paintings that are rich and great on the eye. I usually work by gut feeling about how to start a painting and love to really let flow and see where I end up, especially with my abstract art and finish when I'm getting the results I'm after.
My new website www.gallerycassini.co.uk is open and revamped and I'm also planning with 7 other international modern artists a VOMA hub site for us all to promote our work on, it will be a very unique project, We will be the VOMA collective and are a kind of art band family - I'm currently in talks with some artists on all this so stay tuned .. the site will probably be voma.com (which is Visionz Of Modern Art)
I'm hoping also to start a page in the gallery to showcase band we like from Myspace, theres quite a few I love.

My Site
www.gallerycassini.co.uk
Kebab shebab New Poem

Dirty sweep down to my knees

Renting ruin, too blazing to consume

Flapping around like wasp

Scared like a mungo jerry

Climbing bare faced walls with stagnation

Biology bleeding like a tear jerk clown

Funky London childhood playing on in the background

Gorilla marks melting onto the cool jewelled affinity

Baby these aint real scars these lacerate through time

Baby I aint asking scream he run around, he body.
Cassius
.Art Of Man
Heavy dreams with layers of elusive mysteryThe sermon of sleep message tusk delight Degree of quality in this simulated built up sight An asphyxiate smug in his channel of minority Sullenly greets the mess in his life Haste with fanfare district tar rained love Enters population of his bedroom, oasis of impulse In his sparse wilderness the world pierces his smile She wanders the shadows of his complacent vision Just glows in the unreachable universal mission Search the tides of taste, the city groans in groups Film of his potent universe restricts his mindAnd the allurement of every girl goggled eye Plants hype inside his brain, strengthens his monstrous man So that he can revolve with a smile in his desert of dream A travelled man who once was torn to every placeNow his perpetual demands strides on the steam of his face The mariner of lady life links with calculated morning Rises in every century with living surprises on his brow Know somehow he's in tune with the oxygen of his colony----me year dot
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My Interests

Art, Music, Poetry, Films, Comedy, Travelling, Keeping Fit, and discovering new things.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people, pretty much anyone creative and those who love Art and Music.

Music:



MySpace Music Lists at MySpace Toolbox !

Bands/Artists
Joy Division, Mazzy Star, The Black Angels, The Clean Prophets, Ozric Tentacles, Pink Floyd, Indigo Moss, The Rifles, The Aliens, LCD Soundsystem, Dirty Three, 13 floor elevators, low, incredible string band, shit robot, Devendra Banheart, The Dreadful Yawns, the morning after girls, the volta sound, Adorable, Mojave three, Revolver, Ride, catherine, wheel, Spacemen 3 , Flying Saucer Attack, The Wedding Present, The Fall, 18 Weeler, The Yetis, Pale Saints, Moose, My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse, Eugenius, The Boo Radleys, Swervedriver, Power of Dreams, Portishead, Massive Attack, Wormhole, Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth, Jesus And Mary Chain, Calvin Party, Curve, The Hair and Skin Trading Company, Sebedoh, Madder rose, Huggy Bear, Pram, Delicatessen, The Joeies, Cardinal, The Palace Brothers, Ben Harper, Worldblue, Pony, Pornos for pyros, Oodes, Stranglove, Janes Addivtion, Nancy boy, Menswear, Wire, Orlando, Thousand Yard Stare, The Breeders, AC Accoustics, Pinky, Gorkies phsycotic munci, Stina Nordinstum, Mambo Taxi, Smash, L7, The Auteurs, Flying Medalions, US3, Athghan Whigs, Veruka Salt, Finn, Shellac, Spacehog, Nick Drake, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Artic monkies, Node, Aphex Twin, Beth Orton, The Smiths, Morrissey, The Verve, Mother Earth, The Doors, T-rex, Blondie, Velvet Underground, Kraftwork, Beck, Spiritualized, Pavement, Stereolab, Luke Slater, Slowdive, Mudhoney, Pj Harvey, Tindersticks, Nick Cave, Mercury Rev, Jedi Knights, Global Communication, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, David Bowie, Small Faces, Tricky, Massive Attack, Super Furry Animals, Galaxie 500, John Martyn, Drugstore, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Seefeel, Telstar Ponies, Dandy Warhols, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Ian Brown, Underworld, Kings of Leon, The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Flaming Lips, Flying Saucer Attack, The Fall, Wedding Present, Calvin Party, Nirvana, The Warlocks, Dead Meadow, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Emiliana Torrini, Fiona Apple, Joseph Arthur, Leona Naess, Witch Season, Stina Nordenstam, Mum, TV On The Radio , Phoenix, Bad Brains, Robert Johnson, Alan Lomax, Jimmy Thackery, Holmes Brothers, Gun Club, Boxer Rebellion, Five Blind Boys Of Alabama, Stevie Wonder, Madrugada.and The Kutlers

Movies:

Films erm well I love Brit flicks and anything with Robert De Niro

Television:

Nathan Barley, The Office, Blackadder, spoof comedies, Phoenix Nights, Alan Partridge, The Mighty Boosh, Peep Show, Bo selecta, heaps more but you get the jist.

Books:

Too many to list, anything with a good plot that gets me thinking.

Heroes:

David Bowie and Jim Morrison with a little Marc Bolan sprinkled in for good mix

My Blog

New Site is finally live

Finally got my new website completed and live, quite pleased with it as saved loads designing it myself, done a new site for my portraits too.www.gallerycassini.co.ukwww.cassini-portraits.co.ukWill no...
Posted by Cassius Cassini on Wed, 16 May 2007 09:00:00 PST

word of the day

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Posted by Cassius Cassini on Sat, 27 May 2006 07:54:00 PST

Deface le traditional the cosmetics for walls

Hi Just a quicky really to say been thinking hard on this one and decided to jazz up some of my more traditionally looking paintings in my gallery. Since watching ole buzzer sewel the other night on ...
Posted by Cassius Cassini on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:34:00 PST

New website launched

Our new site was completed this week, its much fresher look and portrays much more what we are about and the direction I want to see it all go, Still lots to do and lots to add, We will be updating th...
Posted by Cassius Cassini on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:12:00 PST

Lots going on in my life, quite excited about things

I'm at the moment reworking my gallery cassini site, complete overhaul and will be taking it all in a different wave. Been very busy painting and designing. I'm going to get another 5 modern pop artis...
Posted by Cassius Cassini on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:31:00 PST