Eli Cedrone
"A work of art
does not appeal to the intellect, it's aim not to instruct, but
to awaken an emotion." - George Inness
Eli Cedrone has spent
her lifetime creating. Upon graduation from the School of Art
& Design in Boston, she studied art in Italy and at the School
of the MFA, Boston. Her professional career began as an art director
at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, Bermuda, followed by work
as an illustrator and mixed-media artist in Laguna Beach, CA.
Her work has been exhibited nationwide and she conducts plein
air workshops in Bermuda and Italy, in the alla prima method
of painting.
Cedrone works in oils,
and feels it's important to work from life. She paints en plein
air or develops larger works in studio from the model, memory
and a variety of reference materials. Contemporary Realism would
best describe her style. Two powerful influences have been the
Spanish impressionist, Joaquin Sorolla and the Bay Area figurative
painter, Richard Diebenkorn. Others include Nicolai Fechin, Anders
Zorn, John Singer Sargent and Antonio Lopez Garcia.
Her work increasingly
bridges abstraction and realism. She is most drawn to the human
form - the body as an expressive and interpretive vehicle. Through
a meditation on the essence of the subject she transforms the
figure into suggestions of person, place and human pathos. The
figures exist both in representational and tactile, painterly
worlds. Constantly striving for a way to articulate this unique
visual synthesis; from the monolithic to the corporeal, portraying
nudity as something real and not idealized. Often a narrative
theme is explored, she strives to capture the emotional power
of the moment, expressing a vast range of dramatic possibilities.
For Cedrone, landscape
painting is a journey in search of something that ultimately
evokes a personal response - something beyond the obvious and
descriptive. Her concerns are with the expressive qualities of
light captured in paint as much as they're about new ways to
consider the landscape in contemporary painting.
"Feeling too comfortable
as an artist is dishonest because art is born out of life and
life is a mystery - an ongoing transformation. The work must
have modesty, it must be free from ostentation. Common can be
beautiful, emotionally resonant and demanding without being manipulative
or artificially provocative.”
"Landscape painting
should not be painted for the sake of beauty alone, but rather,
through the landscape something significant may be reached, something
close to the spirit of nature. Within it should be the story
of the soul." - Alexander Korovin
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