Felix Mas

Sketches of Franz Liszt

2008

Intimidad is a serigraph on canvas printed by the award-winning Kolibri Art Studio, 24 x 20 inches, signed 'Felix Mas' lower right and numbered 158/295 lower left. Framed in a gold-t...

El Mar is a serigraph on canvas printed by the award-winning Kolibri Art Studio, 25 x 32 inches, signed 'Felix Mas' lower right and numbered 229/295 lower left. Framed in a gold-tone, acanthus leaf frame. Felix Mas is in many ways an alchemist, transforming each canvas into treasure. These once void foundations are developed into dreamlike visions – some elements recognizable to us as grounded in reality but blended with areas of surreal fantasy. It is the gentle genius of Felix Mas that lays claim to these lyrical beauties. Each limited edition print by Mas is an expertly crafted reproduction of the original painting, with every detail approved by the artist. Martin Lawrence Galleries is an affiliate of the publisher Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts. This print therefore has no prior ownership, coming straight from the publisher. Sea, siren, Great Wave off Kanagawa Hokusai

“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography. I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects hanging on walls, I augment art as a commodity and reconcile the conflict between the artificially assigned monetary value of artworks with the reality that they are simply swirls of paint. In this way, I am also acknowledging the literality of my own work. I have also altered each copied painting to personalize the context of the pieces and address specific autobiographical ideas. These ideas relate to a range of both recent and distant experiences, both funny and sad. Although my initial renderings are digital image composites, my medium of choice is oil paint, applied in transparent layers, using the image on the computer screen as a reference. In addition to its lush visual properties, I enjoy the flexibility of oil paint in making acute renderings as well as the evolution of the imagery from paint to digital and back to paint in further protracting both the distillation and evolution of form. statement on piece "The character Jame Gumb, from the 1991 film and 1988 book, The Silence of the Lambs...

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