George Grie

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George Grie (born in May 14, 1962) is a Canadian digital neo-surrealist artist. He is well known for a number of modern surrealism, 3D, 2D, and photomanipulation images.

1 Art career
- 1.1 1985-1998
- 1.2 1999 to present
2 Definition of Neo-surrealism by George Grie
3 External links

[edit] Art career

[edit] 1985-1998

George Grie graduated from the State University in 1985 with a BFA(Hons) (Bachelor of Fine Arts) and BDes(Hons) (Bachelor of Design). Born in USSR during the Soviet Union Regime (aka, Russian: Джордж Грие or Юрий Грибановский) he did not adopt traditional and politically correct socialistic realism art style, but chose instead to follow the more controversial, difficult, and demanding path of innovative neosurrealism painting and graphic. The result of his endeavors during his relatively short fine-art painting career (1985-1998) has brought a considerable measure of success with his numerous neo-surrealist & fantasy art shows in several European capitals as London (Mistral gallery), Stockholm (Artnova gallery), Saint-Petersburg (Cinema House gallery), and Helsinki (Artson gallery) etc. Grie's paintings are concerned with the portrayal of strong and powerful images relying on visual impact. They are about capturing visual paradoxes, sometimes they depict calm and contemplative moments, solitude, and sometimes melancholy. There is a stillness in his themes, which conveys a sense of inner-reflection and self-observation. Grie's use of a photo realistic painting technique gives a stark contrast between the light source and the often-dark tonality found in his early paintings.

[edit] 1999 to present

In 1999, George Grie had transformed his artistic carrier dramatically when he settled in Toronto, Canada, and studied the latest computer digital art applications. He becomes a professional Multimedia Graphic Design Artist and joins IBM Corporation as a lead new-media specialist. His prime interest now is in contemporary 2D & 3D digital art-design software, 3D models and their applications. Applying his previous fine art experience and classical painting education in new digital projects brings him a compete freedom of self-expression.

The new form of art was born without pompous manifestations and noisy commercials. Some of us still consider digital and 3d art as something mechanical and artificial, something that in some way is out of human touch. Nothing could be more wrong. Computers don’t make art, people do. Computers are creative tools –much sophisticated ones. Once you try them, you will never give up going forward. There is only one chilling obstacle between you and your perfect design – lack of imagination.

– George Grie, Biography & Digital Art Statement

His latest digital neo-surrealistic artworks are an extraordinary visual record of his conceptual thoughts, philosophic views, fantasies, and dreams. Often journeying into the subconscious, Grie's digital photo-realism artwork shows a magical and playful, dream-like world laced with mastery details. Supernatural illusions, mystic romanticism, spiritual magic, and delusional trance fantasies are all together presented in his virtual world. It is not always a comfortable and conventional world. There is a great deal of tension and alienation in the strange events taking place in the landscape of his imagination. In spite of his busy schedule George Grie created several CD covers for heavy metal music bands, and techno singers as: Sunroad, Flying n’ Floating, Project Morfeo by Gianfranco Biagini, Uncle Myros Flying Circus by Mario Massi, etc. He also contributed into:

Toronto Art Expo,
Artfocus - Canada's largest indoor art event,
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition - TOAE,
Contemporary Art London New York Toronto Art Fair,
International Art Exhibition

George Grie resides with his family in Toronto, Canada

[edit] Definition of Neo-surrealism by George Grie

Neo-surrealism is the term that has been given to the reappearance of the famous surrealism movement in the late 1970s. Initially, the movement focused on relating modern surrealism with pop art, but lately contemporary artists have been exploring other directions within the present movement. For a long time, Neo-surrealism was defined as modern surrealism due to a noticeable visual similarity of these two movements. However, the main difference between these two styles is that Neo-surrealism does not have the original idea of freedom from rational control or psychic automatism declared by André Breton, in his “Manifeste du surréalisme” (Surrealist Manifesto). Neo-surrealism is a combined imagery of dreams and fantasies or subconscious mind visions in fine art painting, digital art graphic, and photography. Modern computer technologies brought a lot of additional depicting power to contemporary artists. Neo-surrealism does not have a particular founder or group. The movement is still not clearly defined, but it develops rapidly adding more professional and amateur art enthusiasts every day. There are thousands of contemporary digital and traditional fine art media artists, who create fantasy art, speculative fiction, dark fantasy, horror fiction, supernatural fiction, fantastic art, and magic realism artwork comparable to Neo-surrealism.