About Stàn Bert Singer And His Artistic Approach:

Stàn Bert Singer has a master's education in architecture and drawing and painting, which he received at the University of Vienna at Karlsplatz near the famose Secession. Stàn Bert Singer is a classical Art painter specializing in old masters technique and does portrait commissions and nude paintings and art replicas.

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His focus in painting is the human body, especially the face. A good artist has to be more than just realizing or expressing himself, says Stàn about art in general and painting.

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Unfortunately, today the emphasis is only on expressiveness and less on skill. But art, true art, comes from ability. A good artist always has 3 qualities: mastership or ability, expression, and dispatch (message). Today, unfortunately, only the message counts. For Stàn Bert Singer, this is too little and too banal. That's why he mostly does the painting in an academic approach, similar to what the old master did. All this experience in these techniques eventually led him to his painting technique, so called the "Dietro Aria"- technique.

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He is one of the best contemporary realist painters and receives oil portrait commissions from clients around the globe, and his work is shown in numerous quality art websites. You can find a glimpse of contemporary realism in his paintings.

 

He receives oil portrait commissions from clients around the globe, and his work is shown on numerous quality art websites.

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Short statement:

"Who is able to see the dignity of woman - who to preserve it - who to depict it?"

 

"I am fascinated by femininity and influenced by the old masters and their painting techniques. My works show the beauty, but also the vulnerability, exploitation and consumption of women as commodities and 'used'. With the means of painting, I want to give back to women their dignity - I am not interested in striking provocation, but in beauty and appreciation with subtle criticism."

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Themes And Theories Behind My Work:

 

True art comes from skill, and skill comes from practice and practice.

 

My themes relate to the beauty, eroticism, dignity, and suffering of women. Since ancient times, women have been exploited as commodities as slaves, courtesans, advertising media, and objects of pleasure - commodities. In the present day in countless photos range from erotic to pornography. With my works, whose foundations partly come from erotic internet sites, I would like to refer to this and, with the help of painting, raise the image as a mass commodity to an art object with value and dignity, thus giving the young girls and women back their dignity.

 

Of course, this subtle criticism is not the theme of all my paintings - often, I am simply concerned with the beauty and grace of the woman.

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Artistic Approach:

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In the beginning, there is always the subject, which needs a thorough examination - especially in portraiture. I also try to show the exploitation of women in the portraits, although this is very difficult to do. Some women represent themselves as consumer objects without even being aware of it, ranging from provocative clothing to plastic surgery.

 

After the subject, the further development of a picture is a complex and elaborate process of searching for composition and weighing up the proportions in the picture format. Hizu, I spend a lot of time.

 

Details and atmosphere are very important to me.

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Dietra Aria Technique:

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I have therefore developed a technique called the "Dietro Aria" technique, which means "behind the air."

 

It is a kind of sfumato technique, where I have taken up the technique of Leonardo da Vinci and tried to develop it further. For this, many layers of the painting are used, and a kind of "air layer" with its own painting medium that creates a certain depth of light. The pictures are detailed but still somehow "blurred," just as natural vision is. In the usual way of seeing, there is no photo realism as it is currently fashionable - because every sensory impression only lasts for a moment and is therefore blurred.

 

Therefore, the pictures I make in the Dietro Aria technique need a lot of time - several months.

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Personal Statement:

 

"Who is able to see the dignity of women - who is able to preserve it - who is able to depict it?

 

The First Experience With Art - What Made Me Want To Become An Artist?

 

As a child, at the age of about 10, even before the first visit to a museum, I began to paint a self-portrait on cardboard squared from a photograph with oil pastels - the first experience between oil paint and drawing technique. Only much later did I learn that the old masters already used quadrature.

 

I hope I was able to give a good insight into my approach.

 

God bless You,

Stàn Bert Singer

Vienna