User:Contisro

Born in July 21st, 1955 and raised in Drobeta - Romania, an ancient city on the Danube River. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest-Romania. Now the artist live and work in New York.

Constantine Cionca has been involved the arts for over thirty years, working in a variety of creative medium as oil, acrylic, mixed media, For the past twelve years Constantine has channeled his expression and artistic experience from oil and acrylic painting into digital art. He took a few computer art classes and web design in New York. Most of his images are created using Photoshop, illustration, FreeHand and Flash MX For Constantine, digital art is also an creative act of picking up line, forms and colors, balanced them by the composition order. Each new piece of art created is a fresh experiment of aesthetic communication of his artistic inner.

artistic statement I study the technical aspects of drawings and painting, oil and acrylic, as the old art techniques ( fresco, painting on wood, mosaic ) at  the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, and I took some courses in web design in New York. Most of my computer achievement are self-taught. I realized that computer art in itself is, as painting, also a technique, and both have one common origin the creativity and imagination of the artist. Digital art is also an act of picking up lines, forms and colors, balanced them by the composition order, and giving them a new “voice”, to provide a message under a certain esthetic considerations. I balance order and chaos, accident and intent to create tension, and expressively. I like to consider my art as a "kinetic" screen-based language and the Internet the wide world web, as the physical gallery or museums, a way to share my artistic thoughts. I combine the scanned personal oil and acrylic painting or drawing, with images taken during my journey, then, digitally assembled into new compositions. I keep in mind that, the good art is good art, wouldn't matter the tools that I have to work with.

technique My digital art is basically a cut and paste, blend images into a new meaning. The process consists first in taking and collecting images using a digital camera. The images were then immediately transported via Compact card into a Power Mac G4 computers, for cropping, sizing, and color correction with a photo editor, then, enhance them in unique creative ways

recent favorite exhibition 2006 – Spirit of Season – Magical realism 2005 –MIAD Venado Tuerto, Argentina 2005 - My Expose, Period Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska 2005 - Snap to gird - the UN juried show - LACDA Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, 2005 - 7th Annual Abstraction International - Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE 2005 - Virtual Memorial, Tsunami-the inevitable, Agricola DeCologna on line collaborative project 2005 - Art Now 2005, Artoteque.com, on line Gallery, London 2004 - Avisen-avk Art Gallery, Denmark 2004 – Vision VIII – International Art Competition, Howard Hall, Covington, KY 2004 – 6th Annual All Media Juried Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Washington.DC 2004 – ISQ 104 –Kinetics- Imaginestation Gallery, Lehigh Valley, PA 2004 - Landscape IV, Period Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska