Preparation for the Tea Ceremony- Robert Masla
Item Number: 392
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
This Digital Collage Painting was created in 2005 and is part of a series that will be on exhibit at the Springfield, MA Museum of Fine Arts in July of 2009. Masla layers digital photographic images, scans of his paintings along with scanned painted textures, gliclee and final layers of painted surface to create richly evocative textures and images.
You can see more of Robert Masla's work at www.maslafineart.com or visit the R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton and Amherst. Arts Unlimited in South Hadley also carries a selection of Masla’s works. He is also represented by gallery des Artistes in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and Malon Fine Arts, Editions Limited Gallery in Indiana.
To view an online sampling visit R. Michelson Galleries, and Arts Unlimited.Masla has lectured and taught painting, drawing and art history at several colleges and institutions. He conducts workshops from his studio and home in rural Ashfield, Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Masla also offers truely spectacular teaching experiences at his villa, Casa de los Artistas in Boca de Tomatlan, Mexico.
Robert Masla's all inclusive, week-long, art workshops offer an experience of authentic rural Mexican culture while enjoying the comforts of modern amenities. For more information see the Art Workshops section of this website.
In the 1970’s, Robert Masla coined the term “Spiritrealism” to describe how the spiritual can manifest itself in the so-called “mundane” realities of everyday life. “We’re given the opportunity to participate in creation every day of our lives. Creating art is a form of worship, a form of spirituality born through creative living,” says Masla. For him, Spiritrealism is a way of life.
Painting the landscape around him brings Masla joy because it allows him to “take things that we might pass by every day and bring them into focus—to see them again as if for the first time.”