Independent Approach to Painting

Daniel Promin’s exhibition titled “Raging Bull” has been on display at the Fine Art America Gallery, from August 7th, 2016. This out of the ordinary exhibition which includes 18, uniquely brilliant paintings shows what it means to have an independent and authentic approach to painting. In short, we are dealing with an artist who beyond his media does not need a lot of additional resources. He doesn’t rely on story, concept or transmission of messages. I fact, his communication depends only on colors, brush strokes, layers and paint spreads which present various scenes: horsemen, huts, the jaws of a shark, corsets, old artifacts and a number of other seemingly unrelated objects, characters and places.



Although some of his paintings are originally based on these compositions, nevertheless, Promin doesn’t try nor does he want to imitate photographic precision. Instead his art work is made of striking painting techniques, with objects that emerge from the dense mass of color and power moves. American artist Daniel Promin often leaves room for loose or free interpretation, framing the scene in a two-dimensional nature, where the spectator can determine for himself what kind of meaning he is going to assign to that particular painting. He aspires to create pure paintings, rather than realistic space, which is why he often emphasizes their weaving. The colors he uses are usually passionate, just like the author himself, giving the final artwork an intense and vibrant look.

In terms of the paintings motive, his choice is a fruit of his personal imagination (as it can be seen above), and that’s why his art portfolio can have more than one interpretation, or batter said as much interpretations as they are viewers. Because Promin isn’t too concerned with rational perception and cognition, but instead gives more value to aesthetic sense and innate human instinct for harmony, the results is usually of its coating in a two-dimensional surface. The roots of this exhibition are in the roots of his consciousness. The motives images were selected according to his logic, fascination and intuition, with which he perceives and reproduces the world, in hopes of conveying his personal message and not a broad, global one.