“Okay, Welcome Alexius, Thank you for allowing us to interview you!, Such a pleasure, Let’s start by asking, What have you been upto lately?”
I’ve just returned from a trip around the city, finally found the perfect house to live in.
“That’s awesome, I hope its a dream house!, Overlooking the city!”
“Tell us abit about, How you got into Designing?, How many years has it been now?”
Well, it actually doesn’t overlooks the city, it overlooks a backyard with pine trees.
Delicious pine trees…
Also, I never got into “designing”. Next person to call me designer shall be smacked with a poorly designed foldable chair.
“I was judging wether to call it Painting or Designer or Art, so many variations! hehe, Please dont hit me however, foldable chair sounds a bit.. hard.”
I’m an artiste and I got into painting years ago, when I was just a little boy living in soviet russia.
…amist Siberian taiga, in a city of Imperial architecture, build for steel workers of the Soviet union
“What inspired you to do the paintings you make today?”
Life in Siberia and my memories of it, intertwined with life amidst skyscrapers of Toronto
“How long does it take to create such pieces?, Do you not get angry or frustrated at it sometimes?”
From several days to months, depends on each piece.
I don’t get frustrated, I get lazy and distracted. Although, now that I think about, some clients can get frustrating, but that’s because they want constant updates and minor fixes.
“Now, we all know that you are pretty big on DeviantArt, With so many pageviews, it is quite surprising that maybe nearly everyone has atleast some piece’s of your work, Do you have any other means of networking/sending out your portfolio/work?”
not really, nothing else can compare to DA’s power, nowhere else I can get 30′000 views on an artwork in the first 2 days after posting it
“Yes quite true, however being a deviant for over 4 Years, must take some part in that, We do see alot of new Networks opening up over the past 2 year’s or so however, It’s just, What else can they offer that DeviantArt does not already offer!”
according to alexa deviantart is 77th most popular site on the internet, and it is the most popular “art” site on the internet.
“So going back to when your first started with Art, was painting always your true first art-form, Or did you go into Signatures, or Large Art?, Many do not have wise-words to say on Signatures, thinking it is pretty small, however it does provide testing grounds until the big plunge into Large Art?”
signatures providing grounds into big plunge? never heard this one before, I started drawing at 4 years old in traditional mediums- markers, pencil crayons, at 11- watercolors, guache, at 18- photoshop paintings.
” For instance, many people actually make signatures when first doing Art, rather then going straight into Large Art, they test out photoshop and other programs, and then knowing enough, they make large art, and gradually fade out of doing Signatures, Painter at heart then, it seems?.”
never did signatures, I passionately dislike drawing small things, the bigger the canvas, the more fun I have,
in fact, one of the reasons I went with digital paintings, is that 1×1 meter traditional canvasses take way too much space and pile up cost wise, On the computer, I can actually paint on 1×1 meter canvases, without my studio space shrinking from canvas piles.
“Yes indeed, more and more of today’s Art is from Computers, however we do read more about, Is what you create on a Computer, Really art?, or is it what the program has purely done, by you pushing a few buttons, But, With Painting via Computer that must be done purely by you?, With graphics tablet and such?”
art has long stopped having any kind of specifics attatched to it ever since Duchamp’s readymades.
“Do you have any sort of Role Models when making your Art?, anyone you’ve ultimately looked up to?”
Ivan Aivazovsky, His romantic seascapes always inspired my work, which is a reinvention of romanticism, Aivazovsky painted the struggle of men against nature (The ocean), I paint the struggle of men against themselves. with a pitch of the apocalyptic and fantasy, which I call “Dreaminism”.
“Why Dreaminism?”
It’s a name I invented to define my style, real, yet imaginary- images realised in the split second before the waking, when the mind cannot define what’s real and what isn’t.
“That pretty much wraps up the interview today, We will be sure to check up on you in the coming months though?, Ultimately, Can you tell us abit about yourself?, And any wise word’s to the Artist’s/Designers/Painters out there?, any mentionables you wish to name also?”
I’ll say the same thing I usually say to young artists:
It takes the following to become a famous and well-paid artist:
1)Talent
2)Dedication
3)Imagination
If you have some drawing talent, and wish to become a true artist, then dedicate all your free time to drawing, sketching, learning about art, and advertising your work by showing it in online and offline galleries. Never forget about the power of imagination, practice imagining things, write intricate stories with your art, create unique worlds. Often a piece of art with a better idea/concept is the winner.
Also, send me butter, for I need it to build me a butter fort.
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So that is it lady’s and gents, We have managed to interview the iconic Vitaly S Alexius,
Wish to thank him for accepting to be apart of this new project, And we will be sure to check up on him in future times.
If you wish to check out some of his work, please visit alexiuss.deviantart.com
