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Imagery, Poetry, Music, Art

2 PHILIP MIX: THE EVOLUTION OF AN ARTIST — UPDATED!

I am honored to call Philip Mix one of my best friends. Not only is Philip a wonderful Christian, but he is also a brilliant artist. And not only is he a brilliant artist, he is also an extremely gifted art restorationist. His grasp of color and space and light is almost magical. This is a sampling of his works I have enjoyed going back thirty years, from Penumbra to the present, The Abduction of Europa. Oh yeah, he is also my brother-in-law. Enjoy!

  • February 28, 2013
  • by Henry Kriete
  • · METAPHORIA

After viewing these paintings you can read a short interview with Philip at the end. Just click a painting to enter gallery.

Penumbra
Penumbra
Soliloquy
Soliloquy
Mirage
Mirage
Midnight Revelry
Midnight Revelry
Poet's Bluff
Poet’s Bluff
Alpine Harmony
Alpine Harmony
Moonlit
Moonlit
Sentinel
Sentinel
Laughing Pine
Laughing Pine
Saturna Sunset
Saturna Sunset
Island Alchemy
Island Alchemy
Copper Mountain
Copper Mountain
Lantern Moon
Lantern Moon
The Gift
The Gift
Avalon
Avalon
Source
Source
Miracle at Massah
Miracle at Massah
Whisper
Whisper
Scrolls
Scrolls
Cello Serenade
Cello Serenade
Presence
Presence
Intersect
Intersect
Sundial IV
Sundial IV
Metronome Adagio
Metronome Adagio
The Black Night
The Black Night
Harlequin Romance
Harlequin Romance
Paperback Suspense
Paperback Suspense
An Evening With Bergman
An Evening With Bergman
La Dolce Vita
La Dolce Vita
Radium Four
Radium Four
Fresnel
Fresnel
Leaf Green Louboutins
Leaf Green Louboutins
Le Danse Golden Earrings
Le Danse Golden Earrings
Isadora
Isadora
Pandora's Temptation
Pandora’s Temptation
The Abduction of Europa
The Abduction of Europa

 

With a strong interpretative design sense, the works of Philip Mix display an elegant thoughtfulness; a balance of convention with a probing inventiveness.

This excerpt is from an interview with Ariana Flynn, January 27th, 2011:

Question- Would you say you paint in any one particular style? What technique do you use?

Philip Mix– I use a technique of placing two or three colors in more or less vertical strokes next to each other to create a shift that modulates or adds depth to the surface. The forms are delineated with a soft line that also shifts color occasionally. I base the idea on stained glass windows.

Question- Do you work from life, from photographs, or from imagination? What inspires you to create?

Philip Mix– I have used all three of the resources at various times in my career but at this time I work with an idea as a starting point and play about with design. Artists of the past such as Picasso and Braque contribute to my inspiration. Not that I wish to imitate them but I am fascinated by the ideas they initiated by their own exploration. In particular I am intrigued by the question, “what is TIME?”, and how does memory affect the way we see. Many writers too, have explored this theme; it seems to be a universal question.

Question- What is more satisfying—producing art or discovering the viewer’s reaction to your art?

Philip Mix– I paint to create a dialogue and I would never want my art to be so obscure as to not be understood. However, ultimately the process of creating paintings is the prime reason for my internal drive and motivation. I feel this is a God-given thing and stopping it would be like trying to stop a train. I would never produce a work simply to satisfy what i thought another individual liked.

Question- Do you find titles to be integral to understanding a work of art? Do you feel the meaning of your work needs justification or explanation?

Philip Mix– Explanations help—the ideas I am trying to convey don’t immediately appear evident to the viewer. Yet I think all the clues, titles included, add to the substance of the work. Locations mean nothing to me nor the exact type of tree, for example. Form is my medium and light my brush. I paint to express an awe, an idea, and a puzzle.

For more information visit: http://philipmix.yolasite.com/

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Although my wife is the poet in our family, I enjoy reading poetry and still write some verse now and then. Here's one I wrote and one I read..

  • February 19, 2013
  • by Henry Kriete
  • · METAPHORIA · THE PARADISE CAFE

Here is a poem I wrote a long time ago, which still means a lot to me:

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Was it from an upper room or from heaven

He came to them that night?

Was it from a couch or from a throne

He arose that night?

Was it with towel or human flesh

He wrapped himself that night?

Was it to the floor or to the earth

He descended that night?

Was it with water or with blood

He washed them clean that night?

That night!

That night!

That staggering night!

When men argued for greatness

And God was on His knees.

– HK

And I really love this poem by John Donne:

HOLY SONNETS.  Fourteen

Batter my heart, three-person’d God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp’d town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth’d unto your enemy ;
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

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