Interview with Tripp Art

Artist: Terry Tripp of TrippArt Interviews Artist: Jeff Del Nero about his work. TrippsArtClass.com TrippArt: What first got you interested in visual art? What’s your “art testimony”? JEFF DEL NERO: Illustration was an early interest. I loved album cover art and how the visual expression of the music added to the experience. The whole package … Read more

Invisible Visible

Reflecting on my work, in the past, it was more aligned with romanticism layered with social realism. Combining those elements that are “seen,” then fashioning and ordering them in a way that seeks to make them memorable and newly discovered. Now my work more aligns with the conceptual ideology of making something that was once … Read more

Start Sign – Blue Sky Thinking

start-sign-500pxBlue Sky Thinking” is…

…Thinking that is not grounded or in touch in the realities of the present.

The proportion and symbolic silhouette is that of a stop sign. Hopefully there is enough graphic alignment with the original intent of the shape to be recognizable — but this with an entirely different conclusion. An entirely different suggestion is in the content of this message.

Triggers Murmuration

This canvas is a work in progress utilizing some of the symbols from my “anti-flag” which I am now considering more of a “trigger” flag. Flags tend to be some thing people are for – this flag is about what people are against.

The murmuration is a way of capturing an initially beautiful image that gets progressively less beautiful when looked at closer.

I still have quite a bit of work to do on this.

Decoy Concept

Temptation Concept / Sin Concept

In thinking of the dilemma of life’s journey, I have been seeking images that describe the challenges with which we are daily faced. An idea I had was to show temptation in a way that could be depicted in a graphic form.

Temptation Concept / Sin Concept

The oxymoron of a camouflaged decoy is one that

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Is This What I Do? Or, is this What I Am?

Some *more* Thoughts.

 
“Is This What I Do? Or, is this What I Am?”
~ thoughts

“I am offended. The Art World Favors Dead People.”

~  thoughts
 

“Is there any art form that is so powerful that it cannot be surpressed?” ~ thoughts