Art Reliford

Contact: US your comments, please let us know,if you like my painting, please past on my website address to your friends and others, this will be a great help.......... thank you..... Email: reliford55@gmail.com Phone: (310)498-9670 Introduction ARTimitatesLife will be a new website I am building right now,that containing the following: A virtual reality interactive art museum, with 24 international corresponding city art tour exhibit of original oil paintings with a 12 year duration. Each original oil painting image has a limited signed limited edition of Giclee reproduction prints. The creator of the interactive art museum/world tour of masterly painted oils on canvass is acclaimed artist, Art Reliford. This is an inspired from a TV show called Art Imitates Life, Art Reliford was the creator and host, shown in Los Angeles Ca. Reliford, like many impressionist artists of the 19th century, feels he had to create a market place and audience for his artwork. In today’s world, he believes that by using international computer accessible technology, patrons globally can be exposed to a revolutionary presentation of fine art that can be viewed in any environment. Every revolution naturally expands consciousness. Reliford, by allowing personal interacting viewing of visualizing fine art, brings forth communicating thoughts, ideas and individual expression relative to the 21st century. This unique venture can present many opportunities for those who become involved. The following will expand this concept in a business proposal form for this vision called ARTimitatesLife. If you are instrumental in any backing with regards to ARTimitatesLife, finder fees are negotiable. Arther “ART” Reliford: Born April 3rd 1955, Holly Spring Mississippi, USA. Mission and philosophy: Share the mystery of the highest human creativity that’s imaginable by expressing my artistic perception of life. By galvanizing original thinking that is translated through my oil paintings, I am effecting encouragement of.. others globally to experience inner peace and harmony of their human condition. Connecting human minds to the imaginative mind of man. This will naturally spill over into many personal lives viewing dynamics of their personal expression. This will naturally gravitate to more of a spiritually truer feeling that touches perception that may be or not be true. Albert Einstein, one of the worlds greatest minds left us with many great quotes. One particularly states vividly, “imagination is more important then knowledge” In my personal life experiences I found that creative imagination is more important then all life itself. Imagination and creative genius will give rise to all new invention, originality, and unknown knowledge that have yet come to pass. Without creative imagination there will be a lack of newness and freshness that empower movement of our lives. Lack of newness and freshness create a void that may compel many scientists, inventors, explorers, artists and others to advance in their imaginations. This may often generate self-fulfillment in their personal and professional lives. My mission is to excel in my artist creations that expresses my imagination through creating and producing thousands of original oil painting images, that exist pass my lifetime and for centuries to come. Since his childhood he has possessed a curiosity and affinity to the ideals and inspirations of the world around him. He has been unmoved by any momentary gimmicks that may have affected others in the present day art world. Being unaffected, his work has a stronger sense of clarity that is absorbed immediately by the human eye and a nuance that develops a deeper understanding of the human condition. The main thread of creativity involves a re-enactment of abstract renditions of people in spontaneous life movements. Of the four hundred (400) original oil paintings in the collection, many are considered to be figurative-abstract and are painted in oils on canvas size 12”X 16” up to 84” X 96”. (30,000) drawing and sketches size 9"x12" to 22"x24". All original oil paintings,drwaings and sketches are dated and time-stamped at the time of completion. This was done by design early in the artist’s career to give him and others an autobiographical window in which to view his lifetime of artistic effort. It is an ongoing personal and private art collection of Reliford’s professional beginning in 1977. All of his early childhood work unfortunately does not exist today. From the age of three, in the late 1950’s, Art Reliford lived in a small rural town in northern Mississippi called Holly Spring. Through his early years, Reliford recognized that his unique talents, energy and special insights would carry him to a different plateau of human understanding and expression. At the age of five, Reliford’s family relocated to a small rural town in southern Indiana called Terre Haute. Beginning in the first grade at Lost Creek Elementary School, he began to draw constantly. A battle ensued with his first grade teacher, when a drawing of horses and rocket ships was found hidden in his desk. Reliford quickly recognized that he possessed an artistic talent and vivid imagination that would fuel his future work. His unusual, unique vision of others ultimately became his models of work Accepting the fact that he was different, in many ways, from others in his way of visualizing life and life’s expressions, he still felt there was a large audience that would appreciate his creativity. Being a creative thinker, one is more in tune with one’s inner feelings and emotions, therefore, moving along in the mainstream of the common masses he considers ludicrous. Reliford felt that his inhibited life style, as a youth, gave rise to an expression of fine artistry. Self-discoveries and self-expression gives him the perception of life’s brilliant energy. Between the early 1960’s and mid 1970’s these feelings became even more galvanized. In May of 1974, at the age of nineteen, Art Reliford joined the United States Marine Corps. He graduated from boot camp in August of that same year at M.C.R.D. in San Diego, California. Trained as a field artillery fire direction data operation chief, he was required to have great mathematical skills. During his first year, he received four promotions resulting in the rank of sergeant. New challenges: After reaching this goal in the Marines, his greatest challenge was still ahead, the study of fine art. In 1977, the last year of his four- year enlistment, he attended classes at Mara Costa College in Oceanside, California, located north of San Diego, California, near the Marine Corp base, Camp Pendleton. He began to attend an evening art class that included live, nude human models. After his discharge from the USMC, he continued taking art classes. Later he became interested in journalism and became the staff illustrator for the school’s newspaper, “The Chariot.” In the next few years, he illustrated over fifty articles for the college newspaper. At the same time his interest broadened into all aspects including theater arts, stage acting, lighting, sound, writing, and directing of many plays. The first art show: In January of 1979, Art Reliford produced his first of many one-man art show exhibits. The first art show exhibit was made up of three thousand drawings and sketches including ten oils. The exhibit was in Carlsbad, California, at the city library. Reliford continued to produce one-man art show exhibits in almost any place that was available. These shows, in the past twenty -seven years, have attracted much attention from the media. Move to Los Angeles: Reliford relocated to Los Angeles in September of 1983. He worked at the Ebony Theater for a few years and became friends and worked with the world- renowned Italian artist, Augusto Ranocchi. Later, in 1985, he became an expert in the art of kick-boxing. He trained and taught hundreds of students, one on one, in Los Angeles over the past two decades, and in 1996, delved into the world of fencing. Reliford feels that performing different athletic techniques, helps his awareness and ability to create. He constantly looks for other ways to expand his awareness of the world and promote his growth process. Reliford’s focus in the fine arts is an aspect of his life that will continue indefinitely. Through his original oil paintings, his energy will extend for many lifetimes to come and be a forbearer of the 21st century world of art.