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Dan Civa
Danish, painter of realistic/expressive style. Self-taught and Academic Art School. Born 1939 in Denmark. Live half a year in Thailand.
Subjects in paintings: animals, people and nature in warm colours, especially influenced from long time staying in the Far East with kinship in Sri Lanka.
Glowing pictures with motifs from Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Denmark, depict a number of experiences among colourful people in different stories of everydays life style and temperaments.
www.DanCivaGallery.dk
About the Artist
Special subject in the past 20 years: Transgentic motifs of HUMAN ANIMALs in paintings and drawings with the combination of human being and animal, referring to coming possibilities in the future of genetic engineering.
Ideas and inspiration comes from a personal, deep interest in experiments and new ways in results from science and research, today and tomorrow.
Oil paintings and drawings, in realistic style, are reflecting portrait examples of transgenetic manipulation with human beings and animals. Probably a hypothetical, imaginary development of today but a foreseeable realistic possibility of tomorrow. These art works are all, more or less, influenced from genetic research, but he try at the same time to go some steps further into a still unpredictable future perspective. A well-informed acknowledment of consciousness by possible things' continuation and repression of the impossible matters in life. At the same time, his mission with such paintings is a warning signal of anziety for power structure of the human race. When human, somehow, want to play God, the risk could be fatal for our existence.
Transgenetic manipulation separately with human beings and separately with animals, and combinated with man & animal, with plants etc, were earlier just "a whim in the course of nature". Today and in the future these evolution-wishes can be realized genetically.
Dan Civa tells: 'Whatever we like it or not. With the inborn need of curiosity through the human brain there?s only ethical distance to the already started gene theraphy and gene cloning with everything this brings along for mankind.'
| 4 votes. | Philippe Benichou
Philippe Benichou is a French-American artist. Born in French occupied Algeria in 1957, his family moved to Nantes, France, when he was just a small child. Philippe comes from a family of artists and began studying painting and art history as a youth with his late mother, artist Arlette Oger. He studied at the Sorbonne University, New York University and UCLA. Philippe formally studied and was greatly encouraged by well known art educator, artist and sculptor, Francis Coelho, in San Francisco, CA. In addition to being a painter, Philippe is a successful actor, voice over artist, director and acting coach in Hollywood. | 2 votes. | Judy Puckett
The future is in our hands,
a photograph I took of a statue in the park
I digitally enhanced, | 2 votes. | Dan Civa
why...? = in the collection of Human Animal paintings of Dan Civa' s future art | 1 vote. | Lise Boucher
Digital Art | 1 vote. | Judy Puckett
Send the fireman to the moon
the moon seems to be half covered in smoke after Nasa's rocket crashed tonight
79 million dollars up in smoke
while people are starving on earth,
another stupid step for mankind. | 1 vote. |
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