About Myself

Coming Out - Mitro

Lives in Daytona Beach, Florida
Born 1953
I am an abstract expressionist artist deeply concerned with ending hunger here in the United States and abroad.
My art is very metaphysical and comes from the unconscious creation of soul.
 I love color and just looking at colors brings me joy and makes me happy. Good art makes one feel.
 I love life and consider each day a blessing.
 Painting makes me feel very good, and to look on my finished creation brings me much pleasure.
  I had someone say to me the other day that my art was abstract, merely colors, and I told him no, each painting is "something", you just have to look it a little longer than the normal painting, for that something to come up.
 A case in point is my Coming Out painting, at first glance it appears to be merely a swirl of pink, but if you study it, the image will come up.
The image is of a slender man, a boy really sitting up against the trunk of a tree, you can see his knees bent and he is holding a purple flower in his hands, He has a big flop of hair and if you look between his bent knees you can also see his mothers face also looking at the flower that her boy is holding.
 Each of my painting are the same, and my paintings are never compete until they are something.
If you are having trouble finding that something a good tip off is the title. I give away the subject in each title.
 My painting also contain many hidden complex images and the longer you look at the painting the more they will appear to you.
With the exception of 4 of my paintings I never start a painting with any intention whatsoever  of what I wish to paint.
 That is why the subject matter of my paintings are so incredibly diverse.
 I merely add paint to the canvas with rag or brush, make slashes with oil crayons and voila a painting comes up which I enhance after I know where the canvas is taking me.
  A large portion of the money received for sale of my art goes to hunger relief, as I believe there is nothing more essential than enough food for all.
 Even the beauty of art cannot be appreciated when one is in pain from a hunger.
 Hunger hurts and is the easiest of pain to remedy and it's remedy is joyous and feels good, like good art
-Mitro

What Makes an Artists Work Valuable

In order for any artist to succeed in the art world they must have a unique artistic style that is recognizable as theirs and theirs alone.
Just as what value in a van Gogh work, if all  of his pictures were a different style, and one could not look at one and say, oh that's a van Gogh!
An artist that paints realistically for that reason has much less chance of making his work extremely valuable.
If the painting looks exactly like the subject, where is the artists stamp on it? 
I am not saying impossible for such a realist painter to make a big name, but much harder for them.
Even the quirky artists Jeff Koons have a certain style. 
If you and your art lack such a style it will be hard for you to make it big. 
If you copy others styles instead of forging a brand new path, it will also be virtually impossible to make a name for yourself, that name is already made by the person you have copied.
You must have something in your art that makes you stand out in a crowd, even if it is something the majority of the population hates. Just having people talk about your work with passion whether it is geeze I  really hate that, or wow I absolutely love that,it is giving you your 15 minutes of fame that can be parlayed into long term fame in something as completely  random as the art world.
Art and artists can achieve great fame just by thought provoking titles on their work as attested by Hirst.
But you gotta have something,

Heart - Mitro

some unique quirk that sets you apart from the crowd.

Invisible spirits and energy paint the picture, I am just a tool.

Sea Horse and Lion - Mitro

 As an avid student of the metaphysical and all things we cannot touch with our senses, but only feel with our souls, I love that my painting are created not by myself alone but seem to spring from universal energy.
Almost as if spirit or magical energy is in control of the canvas instead of myself, I see as I swipe paint onto the canvas, images appear.
It is almost as if the canvas is magnetized with a scene and when paint is swiped across it it sticks only to the pixels that create the scene.
 I choose Sea Horse and Lion to demonstrate this, as it is very apparent to see, but all my paintings emerge in this same way.
 I have no drawing skill of any kind, but you can clearly see in this picture a skillfully drawn lion complete with mouth, nose, eyes and mane.
You can also see the sea horse very clearly, and a man in the lower right hand corner of the painting The fascinating part of this is, I start painting with no intention of what I wish to paint.
I merely swipe on paint, scribble with oil crayons and voila a painting emerges.
 I rotate the canvas all 4 ways and there is always one right way but I do not know which way it is until I look at the painting in all four ways.
Boats emerge on water that I have no painted, as in Independence.
3D faces emerge looking at the cross in Cross, that I have no drawn.
The twin towers emerged in one of my first paintings one whole year before the actual 911 in a complete scene, probably because the energy of that scene was so intense.
As I view eternal energy as only good, these paintings are a beneficent gift to me from the non physical plane.
I know that the only real truth is love and that everything else exists only to compare itself to love, and to feel by this comparison the beauty of the true nature of reality.
Everyone who has ever known in their heart that good always trumps bad, has discovered the secret of the Universe and that is only Love and it's sister companions, kindness, empathy, goodness and compassion are real, bad fades away into nothingness as if it never existed, as indeed it is not real, when confronted with the light of good. 
Mitro

Abstraction Places Viewer Firmly Into Painting

Abstract Expressionism art suggests form instead of concrete reality to enable every viewer to put themselves squarely in the picture without reality interfering. For instance an abstract dog can be any dog, a shepherd a collie and on and on, whereas a picture of a collie is just that, a collie and if your dog is not a collie it can be hard to relate. An abstract form of a mother can be Chinese, Greek, Indian and is also not bound with reality constraints. Mother 16" by 20" $125,000