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Welcome
To my web site. I hope that it will provide you with a better viewing experience of my artwork, background and internalization of art as well as the artist - gil vasquez. If you have visited before you might notice that I didn't carry everything over from the prior site. My thinking is to start anew and rebuild from there. Of course, my starting point is my love for the transcendental power and magical nature of the arts and its place between science and religion - the objective and the subjective, the known and the mysterious. "Mystery is the source of all true science and art," said Albert Einstein. The Indian mystic Osho added: "Now we need a new humanity in which religion and science become two aspects of one man. And the bridge is going to be art."
To this end, I continue to paint the inexhaustible and sacred human form. A work in progress is a painting of a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) memorable bout between Randy Couture and Tim Sylvia. It's like my "Ali vs. Holmes" piece. Other recent figurative and cultural based paintings are titled: "Egyptian Warrior Queen,"
and -->"Shaman Conjuring Quetzalcoatl" At the same time, I continue to reinterpret certain iconic metaphors from mankind's mystical cultures such as my own Mesoamerican cultures of the Mayan, Aztec, Toltec, Olmecs, Huichol and shamanic.
UPDATE:
I have started work on my new web site that will be e-commerce enabled. I estimate that it will be launched during the summer. So, please check back periodically.
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