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SLAVO - Painter, Graphic Designer and Musician

Slavo's Artworks:

www.slavoart.com

Slavo's Blog:

slavoblog

Slavo's Music:

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Leonardo Da Vinci has always held a special fascination with Slavo ever since he was a boy. Drawings of flying machines and weapons brought to life with beautiful paints had a particular magnetic power over Slavo. Da Vinci was a true genius whose open mind changed the image of his day and into the future. His incredible talent was a mix of engineering and art, which built him into a legend.

Michael Angelo had pure passion and consistently worked hard with an almost super-human ability to produce some of the most amazing masterpieces of art today. Unpredictable in his private life, he created precise and colorful artworks. His unbelievable advanced approach in sculpture has endured for many centuries.

I think these two Slavo's heroes had the biggest influence in his artistic and intellectual development. After studying them, He have discovered a whole army of those who were his mutual teachers. Just to mention a few; Caravaggio and Vermeer both taught me about color. The ancient Greeks and the Romans laid brick at Slavo's private school of academy of art, and built respect for the past generations. French impressionists like Matisse, Toulouse Lautrec, Antoine Villard, Cezanne and hundreds of modern and ancient artists have influenced Slavo's path.

Later on Slavo started to discover writers, movie directors, poets, composers; with that exposure, Slavo began to open his mind to other forms of art. Slavo's adventure with visual art began about 1975. He was five at that time. Watching the Flintstones TV show which was on black and white TV in Poland. Slavo remember trying to copy Dino – the Flintstone’s pet. He found real pleasure in drawing, so he spent a few hours drawing almost every day.

Slavo grew up in a communist country where fortunately for Slavo, there was not much to do except play soccer, drink vodka or read books (some of them were illegal – like Orwell’s Citizen Kane) or play some instrument. A few years later Slavo started to draw comics and tried to improve his skills drawing and painting fruits, glasses, dishes – everything and anything he could see. [MORE AT: www.slavoart.com]