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WALLS THAT FORM A PRISON
Title: Walls That Form a Prison
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2008
Size: 24"x30"
Status: Not For Sale
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WISHFUL THINKING
Title: Wishful Thinking
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2008
Size: 16"x20"
Status: Not For Sale
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DISAPPOINTMENT
Title: Disappointment
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $995.00 US
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DEPRIVATION
Title: Deprivation
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $1,495.00 US
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DECEMBER
Title: December
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 20"x24"
Status: Sold
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DEVOID
Title: Devoid
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $1,495.00 US
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DEVOURERS
Title: Devourers
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $1,495.00 US
This is a painting about 2 lovers devouring one
another's passion.
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DIAGNOSTIC
Title: Diagnostic
Medium: Tempera, Acrylic & Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x36"
Status: For Sale - $1,495.00 US
Diagnostic is an abstract work composed of three
blocks of color (red, black and white) which are segregated by borders of
gray. The blocks of color each have their own subtle and unique texture.
The painting was done with a thick red tempera base coat that I then
covered with a coat of red acrylic paint and then red oil paint. The red
base is the foundation of the red block and also shows through the gray,
white and black in different areas of the work. The painting is
inspired by the concept of self analysis.
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DISTANCE
Title: Distance
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $1,495.00 US
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DELICATE
Title: Delicate
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 16"x20"
Status: For Sale - $795.00 US
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DISTURBANCE
Title: Disturbance
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x36"
Status: For Sale - $1795.00 US
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DISASTER
Title: Disaster
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 16"x20"
Status: For Sale - $795.00 US
This painting is about self created self
destruction.
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DAME MIT DEM ROTEN HAAR
"WOMAN WITH RED HAIR"
Title: Dame Mit Dem Roten Haar
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x32"
Status: Available In Signed Prints Only - $195.00
This painting is about individualized desire.
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DEPRIVED
Title: Deprived
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x36"
Status: $995.00
This is a painting inspired by the self
deprivation of certain things in life in hopes of improving the quality of
life or making life easier to live.
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DELUSION
Title: Delusion
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x36"
Status: $995.00
This is a painting about lying to yourself and
deceiving yourself about the environment that surrounds you..
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DRAWING NEARER
Title: Drawing Nearer
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $995.00 US
Often times I hear people say that my art is either
dark, sad or somber. In many situation that is true, but not in all.
For instance this painting is about hope; hope that there is some great
reward for living life in a good manner when so many others do not.
Hope that God or some great entity will provide us with what we so
desperately long for. Shouldn't we be rewarded? Have we not
paid our tolls with sadness, loneliness and depression? How much
more do we owe? It seems only fitting that the good should be
rewarded for sacrifices they make. It is so easy to do wrong.
This is my depiction of that hope that we hang on to even though we have
no guarantee that we will ever receive the satisfaction that we desire.
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DESOLATE
Title: Desolate
Medium: Oil & Ink On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $995.00 US
"Desolate" is a painting about the missing piece
that so many people say that they have inside of themselves.
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DECISIONS
Title: Decisions
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $995.00 US
"Decisions" is a painting about the countless
seemingly unimportant decisions that we make every day that can often
times have significant impacts on our lives even though we are not aware
of what is actually occurring. It happens thousands of times each
day; "I will race through this orange light." Because of that
small decision you have changed the outcome of your life. You may
cross paths with someone at your destination now that you would not have
previously, simply because your commute was shorter. The
conversation that you have with that person may have another impact on
your life, changing the course once again. It is incredible when you
consider how even the very smallest of things can completely change ones
life. I was discussing the topic with my friend earlier today and
then I began to think how even the conversation we were having was making
an impact on my life because of the time that was being expelled on the
conversation. The lines in the painting represent these decisions
and the different courses we take with each one. In each of our
lives we have millions of these lines; sometimes I wonder if they each
lead to the exact same place. Do we have control over our destiny or
does it only appear that way?
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DIVISION
Title: Division
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $995.00 US
"Division" is a painting about borders and
alienation. I often times reflect on choices that I have made in my
life and the reasons for those choices. I try to live with out
regret and always make the right choice but I am not perfect and sometimes
though I do my best, I do not think that I always make the best choices.
The white block is a border line, a mental wall, that is constructed for
emotional protection.
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DECISION
Title: Decision
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $495.00 US
"Decision". Have you have reached a cross road
in your life? Wondered, should I go left or perhaps right? I
know where left will lead me and that is good, but if I go right, it could
be better then left! Then again, it could always be far worse.
This is a painting about that consequential decision. So many times
I have been told to "never settle". That is easily said but it can
be extremely difficult when you have something that is far better then
usual and you have to go because there is something in you that craves
more yet you do not know if it is greed or possibly stupidity that pushes
you on. Where is the line between greed and complacency drawn?
I wish that I knew the answer but I do not. So all I can do is hope
that this beacon that urges me to push on is correct and is not some
flawed device that is pushing me away from something wonderful that I let
slip through my clutching hands. On a side note, someone once told
me that they though I should take more chances with my art. That
stuck in my mind. I don't know if many of
you have ever encountered this situation in life but sometimes when I
paint I come to this point in the process where I am happy with the work
and there is a part of me that says "Stop you fool, do not do something to
jeopardize this thing that you have created that you are happy with." but
there is another part of me that say's "Hmmm, maybe I should put a big red
line around his eye; that might look really cool.", but I have tried that
on occasion and sometimes it ruins this thing that I was so happy with.
It is like someone stole the most valuable thing in the world from you and
you know you can never replace or retrieve it. Yet inevitably I
often cross that line of security and then after all is said and done I
say "Wow, I am glad I painted that red line."
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DESIRE
Title: Desire
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 16"x20"
Status: For Sale - $395.00 US
"Desire", the definition of desire is "to have a
strong wish for; to long for, covet or crave". It is truly one of
man kinds strongest emotions. All men, no matter how pious crave and
long for something from this life.
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DETHRONED
Title: Dethroned
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 16"x20"
Status: For Sale - $395.00 US
"Dethroned" is a painting about chess and
its parallels in life. Chess always reminds me of my childhood, one
of my favorite things to do as a child was play chess against my father.
We would typically play on a weekend evening, I would go up to him and ask
if he would like to play and if he said yes I would run over to the
cabinet where we kept the chess board and then feverishly setup the
pieces. I would get so excited over a such a small thing. I
would always do my best to win the match; some times I would and other
times I would not. What stands at most to me though is that point
where I knew that I was about to win the game and each time at that very
moment a dichotomy arose; part of me wanted to win while another part of
me did not want what I enjoyed so much to end. As is with chess so
is with occurrences in life.
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DROWNING
Title: Drowning
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 16"x20"
Status: For Sale - $395.00 US
"Drowning" is a painting about feelings
associated with a lack of control and hopelessness. Yesterday, the day
that I painted drowning was March 2nd, 2007. I remember seeing
a full moon or at least what was very close to a full moon hanging in the
sky as I was driving home from work. I am not quite sure what it was about
the day or I should say evening but I felt as though I was drowning in
life. It was honestly a horrible feeling. It was a combination of being
overwhelmed, disappointed, depressed and powerless. When I was a child of about 5 years of age I can clearly remember a
specific summer day; it was one of my first clear and vivid memories that
I have of my childhood. I was at our community’s pool and I had just
learned to swim on my own about 2 months previous. I was getting better
and better but still was not a very competent swimmer at such a young
age. Some of the other children had brought a large raft / rubber boat to
the pool that day. It was in the shallow end of the pool so I swam up to
the raft and decided that I was going to test my ability and swim all the
way under the raft and to the other side of it while holding my breath.
This would be a major accomplishment in my young mind. I took the deepest
breath that I could and swam as fast as I could. As I swam the boat must
have followed the current that I created underneath it because it followed
me to the near by corner of the pool. In desperation, I remember pushing
on the bottom of the raft to try to move it; I was nearly out of breath
and did my best but it was no use, I was too small and the raft was too
big. I remember looking at the white wall of the pool as my energy began
to fade, I felt so hopeless. Checkered squares of black began to replace
the white that I saw, I was suffocating and I could no longer move. The
next thing that I remember was my eldest brother lifting me out of the
water. I honestly have no idea how my brother knew that I was drowning, I
don’t even know how he could have seen me in the corner of the pool under
the big raft. It was the single most amazing thing in life that I have
ever experienced; if there is some form of God or divine figure in this
world then this is the greatest piece of evidence that I have seen to
support it. This painting is not so much about depicting drowning as an
image; it was about allowing what was welling in to vent onto a canvas.
Sometimes when you think things are hopeless, you receive an unexpected
helping hand.
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BLOOD LINES
Title: Blood Lines
Medium: Oil & Acrylic Painted on Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2006
Size: 36" x 48", 30" x 48" & 30" x 48"
Status: For Sale - $3,995.00 US
Blood Lines is one of my few Abstract
Expressionism art works and yet I am extremely fond of it. It is
painted on 3 canvases; the two end canvases are 36" x 48" and the center
canvas measures 30" x 48". I use a combination or water, acrylic and oil
paints to create the heavily textured surface of the painting. Blood Lines
is basically a painting about genetics and blood mix. I am 50% German, 25%
English and 25% Irish. The black paint represents my German blood,
the red represents my English blood and the green paint represents my
Irish blood. The different paints are all intermixed yet at the same
time divided. The Abstract Expressionism art style seemed like the ideal
method to depict the complex order / disorder of the human genetic code.
As with the seemingly random calculation that forms each of our specific
genetic profiles that makes us the one of a kind individuals that each of
us is; I used a streaming paint method that allowed the paint to have a
random and one of a kind disbursement.
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DECAYED
Title: Decayed
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 16"x20"
Status: Privately Held
"Decayed" is one of the few self portraits that I
have ever created and the only one that I have painted in a very long
time. The main reason is that I am usually the focal figure
represented in my paintings anyhow so I figure what the hell is the use of
painting a portrait. Lately I have been doing allot of self
analysis, so I decided to paint one. I have felt unfulfilled for a
long time (most of my life) and I so wish I could change that. I
seem to have a difficult time merging with social norms and finding
happiness. I feel like I am compatible with 1 in about 100,000
people (I am not exaggerating); this makes for a lonely existence.
Loneliness causes me depression. Anyhow, this is a painting about
that and several other complexities (Specifically it is about always
trying to hold myself accountable for my actions. I try to be a good
person and always do what is right / treat others as I would wish to be
treated. Life is filled with so many temptations and most of those
temptations I find jade you, DECAY you and deaden who you are once you
taste and experience them. Your first experience of something always
seems to be the best ( most memorable / vivid ) and then in time you seem
to take it for granted because you have preconceptions and expectations.)
I fight this sense of decay constantly, I do my best to be a good person
but you can not win; you can not stop experience and wisdom. I have
made mistakes in my life and have hurt people that I never wanted to hurt.
I have heard so many times that what does not kill you makes you stronger;
in all truth I think that what does not kill you just further decays you
and the naive nature which we are all born with that is such a beautiful
thing. Life just seems to decay you further and further with each new
experience). I cling to empty bottles and memory's of the past.
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DESCENDENT
Title: Descendent
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $995.00 US
"Descendent" is one of my favorite paintings
that I have created in a long time and yet I have this strange feeling
that no one else is going to much care for it. I find the background of
the painting to be just beautiful to look at and I like the way that the
strong pale contrast of the figure slams into it. This painting is
my rendition of the town crest for a small village in Germany called
Gartenstadt. Gartenstadt is a suburb of Mannheim and it is also the city
where my mother was raised and where all of my close family in Germany
still reside. As a child, my family would go on trips to Gartenstadt
and I still go back when ever I have the chance. If I ever had to
select a second home it would be there. It is one of the most beautiful
places in the world and the people who live there are incredible.
Gartenstadt translates in English to "Garden City" and as is evident in
the crest, agriculture plays a significant role in the cities history.
If ever you have a chance to visit Germany and find yourself near Mannheim
then I highly suggest that you try to pay it a visit.
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DISCIPLE
Title: Disciple
Medium: Oil Painted On Wood
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: Information Pending
Status: For Sale - $795.00 US
"Disciple" is my homage of the icons of old. I
have always been drawn to this style of art so I figured that I would
create one in tribute. I created this painting on loosely fitted
wood planks that have a very rough grain and high texture. The
planks are held together by adhesive and 2 smaller pieces that run across
the back of the work. As this painting is created on solid wood
planks, it is very heavy.
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DESPONDENT
Title: Despondent
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 12"x16"
Status: On Display - Karachi, Pakistan
"Despondent" is an expressionist work about the
stagnation that can form in ones life when they stop fighting for what
they desire. This seems to be the demise of so many because the
alternative is so difficult to acquire. The masses in the background
all huddle together to be the next in line for their cup of apathy.
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DEPARTURE
Title: Departure
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 24"x30"
Status: For Sale - $995.00 US
"Departure" is an expressionist work about
separation. The painting is done in blue, black and white oil paints.
In Departure, (as with many of my works) I use a good deal of semi exposed
canvas to represent such things as void, passing of time, the past,
distance and emptiness.
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DISASSEMBLED
Title: Disassembled
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2007
Size: 30" x 48"
Status: For Sale - $995.00 US
"Disassembled" is my first completed painting of
2007. It is an expressionist work exploring the feelings associated
with the loss of a love. This work is very closely related to one of
my other paintings titled "The Two Swans". As opposed to "The Two
Swans", with this painting I used a much rougher and expressive brush
stroke. Often times different emotions that I feel will inspire me to
paint in a different fashion. Recently a good friend of mine told me
something that I felt was very insightful; he said "A person will exert
far more energy to avoid pain then they will to achieve pleasure".
I find that to be a very truthful statement; there is nothing so
displeasing to the human emotional system as sadness, loss and pain.
Expressionism is a very odd and rare thing; with
expressionist art it is not the fineness of the brushstroke, the quality
of the finish or the perfect life like quality of the item that sets its value but instead
it is the meaning behind it and the emotion(s) that it evokes, conveys or depicts.
Expressionism is a subjective art form and when viewing an expressionist
work you should always consider a few things; who painted the work, what
is important to that artist, why did that artist find it important to
paint the work, what do the objects in the painting mean, do the colors
have an alternate representation, what are the focal points, what or who
inspired the painting, what does the title mean in relation to the work
and so on and so on. The real beauty of expressionism is that it takes
emotion, distills it and refined to its purest and most emphasized form
and then displays it in a single image that can represent so much.
True art is all about emotion and there are
few purer forms of it then what you will find in expressionism. It
will always be the style that I am most drawn to.
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THE TWO SWANS
Title: The Two Swans
Medium: Oil Painted On Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2006
Size: 24" x 30"
Status: Privately Held
"The Two Swans" is purely and simply a painting about
love. Swans are one of the few animals in nature that pare
with one another and mate for life. This is a painting about that
inseparable bond of love that is such a very beautiful thing.
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BROKEN
Title: Broken
Medium: Oil Painted On Glass & Canvas
Artist: Joseph Minton
Year: 2000
Size: 36" x 48"
Status: Privately Held
As is true with many of my paintings, "Broken" is a
depiction of emotion. Specifically this painting deals with the
relationship that I had with my father during my adolescence. It is
a medium sized painting that I painted on broken pieces of glass that I
mounted on a canvas which has a base coat applied to it. I then
painted the top layer of the glass which is two layers thick in some
areas. In the bottom right section of the painting, under a piece of
glass, I inserted a photograph of my father and myself during my
childhood. The image is obscured by a thin layer of paint but can
still be seen. Ultimately the painting addresses the strife and
impact caused by stress on our relationship as I made the transition from
boyhood to manhood.
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