George Grie

George Grie

"Silence is Deceitful"

Fine Art Oil Painting

Two Dimensional

1992

 

 

George Grie was born in Russia, where he also experienced the world of art. He drifted away from the popular and traditionally political-bound representations through art, and instead geared towards a less common art practice. He actively describes his art as a form of neo-surrealist apprenticeship, and has carried quite significantly throughout his artistic career. Grie’s art pieces tend to show powerful images that draw their energy from a visual perspective, by the distinct alterations in light patterns as well as colors. Coming into the more modern era, Grie has not fallen behind and has also adopted technological practices that he introduces into his artwork. He acknowledges that with the assistance of technological innovations, the possibilities in the digital art world are endless and explains that “There’s is only one chilling obstacle between you and your perfect design-lack of imagination.”

“Silence is Deceitful” draws on both elements of past surrealist practices as well as more modern techniques to portray a sort of imaginary realm that at the same time is distorted from what we perceive as reality. Just like in many of his previous works, Grie works by merging real world images with emotions from the subconscious mind to create a sort of puzzle by which the audience are to try to take apart and solve.

Grie’s way of thinking combining emotions with the real world images reflects what fantasy and surrealism are. There are endless possibilities of what can be added to the theme reflected through this exhibition but in regards to this piece of art, a viewers imagination might be shifted into a world of emotions for example fear, fear of the outside world and its dangers to be brought into the home.