Visual and Performing Arts: Alfred Neumayr

Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Visual and Performing Arts: Alfred Neumayr Alfred Neumayr is an Austrian artist who was born in 1958 in Tulln. The artist went through school, and after his high school graduation, he became a printing apprentice. He then worked in his profession for a large part of his life. However, due to physical and emotional exhaustion, Neumayr was obliged to leave the job in 2005 whereby he produces his first painting. The painting was the beginning of his artistic pursuit that later developed into imaginative wishes. With the new urges and not wanting to go back to his previous job, Neumayr’s life was oriented. The imaginative quest led the artist into visiting an open studio program in Gugging institution daily. The studio worked as a platform for anyone who wished to embark on self-taught creation. The platform gave him a chance to experiment with his artistic mind with different formats and techniques. With time, Neumayr’s importance for drawing increased which meant more accuracy and precision, the format became more prominent, and the time exposure grew longer. The artist in his drawings illustrates how everything is something; Neumayr argues that his work is based on nothingness ("Alfred Neumayr: Mythical Creatures"). Nothingness is established as the origin of everything for him; he insists that it is from nothing we get something. The movement during the process of drawing nothing is what results in the art. He believes that to arrive at a good drawing, the artist needs to keep busy and everything else is bound to fall into place. Most art pieces are mostly associated with situations that are consciously experienced, but Neumayr mostly dwells on art from within. He draws endless inspiration from making an effort to put nothingness into a drawing. The artist has done several art pieces that are different and interesting; the mythical creatures include several different drawings. The works include, but are not limited to pieces such as “Eva and Adam” which is one of his latest pieces and “All souls Carriage” which are interesting and educative pieces. Eva and Adam. The piece elaborates figurative representation where he draws figures that seem abstract with the first glance but later develop into a reasonable figure. In this art, he uses human figures and names it after the first human beings in the creation theory. Neumayr goes ahead to openly indicate the sexual orientation of the two figures found in the art by showing their genitalia. However, the artist’s expansive pictures do not limit the audience’s interpretation. In my opinion, the piece is interesting because it illustrates the...