Interview with Visual Artist Aryea Flohr

New York City NY

20 January, 2022

3:56 AM

Description

Today we present to you Aryea Flohr, a professional Fine Arts artist who gained national recognition in the last couple of years with his stunning paintings with distinctive color choices. Born and raised in New York City, Aryea Flohr studied art at the New York University. Working in his studio from photographs, Aryea employs traditional methods of photorealism using strong diagonals, reflected surfaces, and transparent components to elucidate vibrant scenes. Vibrant, detail oriented and filled with movement, the paintings of Aryea Flohr capture a place and time of day, perfectly. Q: How was your passion for art born? Aryea Flohr: In a natural, intuitive, educational and professional way. As a child I spent hours drawing as a natural gesture and the interest increased in my formative stage when I began painting at the New York University. As an artist it has also driven me to investigate and experiment. Q: Tell us a bit about your style: what stages have made you the artist you are? Aryea Flohr: Fauvism and expressionism are the stages I investigated in my training, the ones I took as a reference and the ones that marked me in the evolution of my own ecleptic style. Q: What is your work process when creating a new artistic project? Aryea Flohr: Sketchbooks and sketches are the first step that generate an idea for the narration of the painting. Until not long ago, it was the composition process itself that generated the forms and elements in a surrealist evolution devoid of any previous phase. A direct confrontation with the blank canvas. Q: Can you tell us some of the artists that have modeled you as a painter? Aryea Flohr: There are many artists that I like, especially from the last century. But to highlight some Matisse for the strength of color, Picasso for his stroke and De Kooning for his heartbreaking brushstroke. Q: How do you turn your fantasy into art, where do you find your inspiration? Aryea Flohr: In the very pleasure of drawing and being in contact with the materials. Ideas arise spontaneously. Generally, the narrative is articulated later, except in commissioned works where the images gain in narrative but seek not to lose spontaneity. Q: Has it ever happened to you to put something very personal in your work and prefer that nobody sees it? Aryea Flohr: Very rarely, right now I only remember two personal jobs that I keep with suspicion. Q: What are the works that you recognize as the most representative of your art? Aryea Flohr: "Untitled" 1999 mixed technique, pigments and acrylic on canvas. It is one of my first works, from when I was studying Fine Arts at the New York University. Perhaps the most fluid work for different reasons; for being uninhibited by the creative space and for being the bearer of my first style. Q: How do you define yourself as a painter? Aryea Flohr: I define myself as an artist, not exactly as a painter, because I am also making ceramic, clay, graphic, steel plate sculptures, etc. Q: If you had to describe yourself, as an artist, what adjectives would you choose? Aryea Flohr: Spontaneous, colourful, fluid and expressive.