Artist Yarek Godfrey
Yarek Godfrey is a French artist who was born in Poland on April 8, 1957. He graduated from the College of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1982
Lives and works in two cities at the same time,
Jarek says about his work:
"The desire and power of creation and creation is expressed in my picturesque images, which consist of my memories, dreams and hopes."
- What is painting? Is this a profession?
- This is fate, this is passion, this is a kind of beloved captivity, in which you die a happy and at the same time completely lost person.
- Why are we lost?
- If in the artist's soul there is nothing but a thirst for the ideal and burning creative dissatisfaction, isn't this death, isn't it torment, isn't it happiness? It's like in sex, you know, the more a person is concerned, the more joy and burning torment women bring him.
And Godfrey's women are still unusual. The first thing that catches your eye is the large, slightly hypertrophied hands. More attention is paid to them than to the face, chest, and thigh line. The artist does not tolerate flaws, makes the model take the most prosaic pose, so that even the most slender woman has folds on her stomach, and let her just try not to remain charming. Mermaid translucency, monotonous color scale with the absence of a conditional sky and conditional earth, the absence of gravity, when a completely naturalistic picture can be hung upside down, and it does not lose some of its realism. The effect of a kind of erotic intoxication, when the beloved flips over you, you roll over the beloved, the room with Godfrey's paintings flips over you.
- Are your models your mistresses?
- In the physical sense - never! It would ruin everything. The point is to fall in love with the model and pour all this passion onto the canvas. If an artist does not develop a passion for the woman he is painting, then this passion will never arise in a person looking at a painting. The technique may be excellent, but the feeling is not technique, it must be experienced in order for it to be absorbed into the canvas. I have three models constantly working - one American, one French and one Polish. I love all of them very much, and they are all sacred and inviolable to me. My passion for them has an outlet only in painting. You know, to really love food, you have to starve. And if you want to get addicted to some kind of food, never eat it enough. Do you understand? It's so easy!
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