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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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