Memories

Painting from 'Trikaal collection' - Philip Dmello What is/was Academic art? Academic art has strict training methods based on classical theory. when going trough the way of any art academia, there are certain protocols you need to follow. Evolution:  Right from stone age times to modern history, the practice of art has been evolving all over the world. but then the academic art mainly evolved under the influence of European nations. The first academy of art was founded in Florence in Italy by Cosimo I de' Medici , on 13 January 1563, under the influence of the architect Giorgio Vasari who called it the Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno (Academy and Company for the Arts of Drawing). Training : Young artists spent around four years in rigorous training, Drawings and paintings of the nude, called "académies", were the basic building blocks of academic art and the procedure for learning to make them was clearly defi...

Change is constant but yet something needs to be constant - is Philip’s artistic statement. Edging closer to nature and the bygone his work offers an experience of a gentle walk in the village, full of vibrancy. Nothing is fully defined or even suggestive, or it may even elude interpretation.  But the delicate charm and subtle beauty of the paintings, leave a feeling of something timeless, a record of the bygone from where the present stems and the future derives. Philips art trajectory is in fact an entry into the nostalgia. The modern world’s craze for gizmos and an almost impossible life of wired quagmire, such artistic glimpses offer an escape to the comfort zones of the past. This deep human yearning is always present in everyone and offers solace in times dilemmas of existence. Lost childhood, warmth of mother’s embrace, a favourite tree, an evening by the riverside, first love or first tastes refuse to leave till the end...