ARTcnet Presents Zachary Fae Nonobjective Airbrush and Mixed Media Paintings of a metaphysical psychogenetic theme

ARTcnet Presents

Zachary Fae

metaphysical psychogenetic paintings

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I paint of modern man in search of his soul, as occurs in both Homer’s Ulysses and James Joyce’s Ulysses, as well as in King Arthur’s Holy Grail. I paint from the unconscious in a metaphysical psychogenesis and Jungian fashion using the transcendent function and the active imagination, the syzygy of the animus and anima, and the imbrication and intercalation of the shadow of the self and ego. I painfully pull amorphic images to the surface to create concordant, ordered chaos and a union of opposites.

Some of my inspirations are Theophrastus Paracelsus, Hermes tris Megistus (a 16^th century alchemist magician and legendary writer on the gnostic teachings of the first three centuries,) Francis Bacon, and the tragic Greek writings of Aeschylus, Euripedes and Sophocles.

I am interested in philosophy, religion, comparative literature and etymology, often reading Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and the Empiricists Locke, Berkley and Hume.

The artists who have influenced me are the surrealists Miro, Klee and Dali. My paintings are non-ojective and contain aspects of symbolism and zoomorphism. Their colors are vivid and muted, cacophonous and quiet. I was one of the early painters using the air brush.

Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which involve the mysteries of nature, the cosmos, the relationship with others and the relationship with self. My goal is to make this pause as luminous as possible.

I am an orphan alone;
I am alone nevertheless I am everywhere;
I am one with myself but opposed to myself;
I am youth and old age in one and at the same time;
I have neither mother nor father for I have been fetched from the deep of the sea like a fish or fell like a white stone from heaven.
A.D.Villanova, alchemist poet of the 1600's

Mixed Media Paintings below

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Zachary Fae Painting: Anamorphic Anastamosis, a metaphysical psychogenesis
$20,000.00
Mixed media painting; 5' x 4'; unframed; shipping, handling and insurance are included; the painting refers to the primordial type of species and their zoomorphic distortions going from the lower form to a higher form; influenced by Dali's Galla; The mixed media paintings of Zachary Fae include oils, water colors and acrylics which are applied to the canvas in various ways: brush, airbrush, stencil techniques, etc. The resulting effects are transparent, textural high and low keyed colors, kaleidoscopic patterns and an overall complex design. The resulting compositions reflect a careful study of the Futuristic, Expressionistic and Surrealistic Schools.
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Zachary Fae Painting: Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, a metaphysical psychogenesis
~~$20,000.00~~ $18,000.00 On Sale!
Mixed media painting; 5' x 4'; unframed; shipping, handling and insurance are included; the painting refers to the life cycle of a single organism and how it imitates the evolution of its species (a phrase used in biology.)
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Zachary Fae Painting: Conundrum, a metaphysical psychogenesis
$20,000.00
Mixed media painting; 4' x 5'; unframed; shipping, handling and insurance are included; this painting is a riddle of the morphology of painting, actually a logogriph of words in color and form. This is an anagram to wrest the images buried through suffering.
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Zachary Fae Painting: Entelechy, a metaphysical psychogenesis
$20,000.00
Mixed media painting; 5' x 4'; unframed; shipping, handling and insurance are included; Entelechy is a Greek concept of evolution. The painting attempts to show that we can have a rebirth while still living by realizing new concepts that break through our barriers of perception.
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Zachary Fae Painting: Anthropomorphic Forest, a metaphysical psychogenesis
$20,000.00
Mixed media painting; 4' x 5'; unframed; shipping, handling and insurance are included; This painting is an interpretation of the characteristics of what is not living or personal in terms of what is living and personal. The result is idiopathic - rising spontaneously from the obscure. I was influenced by the 19th century denial of rationalism (stemmung), which is all that escapes definition. Here I am influenced by Gauguin, who broke away from the romantic and followed the irrational. All that escapes fixity is random.
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Zachary Fae Painting: Euterpe, a metaphysical psychogenesis
$20,000.00
Mixed media painting; 4' x 5'; unframed; shipping, handling and insurance are included; Euterpe is one of the 9 Sister Goddesses, the Muse of Poetry. The painting is symbolic of lyric poetry.
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