Thoughts | JEFF DEL NERO

Interview with Tripp Art

July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 by Pixel Janitor

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

May 14, 2023May 8, 2018 by Pixel Janitor

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

Fuel Usage

December 20, 2016December 19, 2016 by Pixel Janitor

hmmm…

Average Person vs. Leonardo DiCaprio Fuel Usage Comparison

Regular Person:
20K miles / year at 20 m.p.g

vs.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Private Jet:
358 gallons/hour in a 3 hour flight uses more fuel than I do in a year.

To Inform & Delight…

December 23, 2016December 14, 2016 by Pixel Janitor

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC)

“The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says,

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Conflict Play

December 5, 2016December 3, 2016 by Pixel Janitor

two-bodies-800px — “Conflict Play” 30.5 x 24 in., acrylic on panel, Jeff Del Nero 2016

Start Sign – Blue Sky Thinking

December 3, 2016April 4, 2016 by Pixel Janitor

“Blue 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

December 14, 2016November 14, 2015 by Pixel Janitor

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.

Triggers Flag or Anti-Flag

March 16, 2020October 19, 2015 by Pixel Janitor

I have been thinking about what it would look like to combine a bunch of trigger symbols into one flag that might summarize many “anti-sentiments.” It really started when observing

Decoy Concept

December 23, 2016October 5, 2015 by Pixel Janitor

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.