Gallery of Matt Tisdale

www.matttisdale.com I am a professional commercial Illustrator and painter living in Columbus, OH. I am influenced by and interested in early 20th century black and white photography. I love the Victorian fashion influence of the period and the Art Nouveau movement. I paint mostly in black and white with subtle hints of color. The medium I use currently is Acrylic Paint on black archival paper. I enjoy the monumental vignette composition that portraiture conveys. I begin with a dark field of color and bring the light out of the painting surface. The art movement that my work best relates to is Surrealism or Fantastic Surrealism. The defining characteristics within my work are just as important as the viewer&rsquo s interpretation of my paintings. They advocate that descriptive expressions are vital, but that the sense of their arrangement must be open to a full range of imagination. Surrealism as a visual movement had found a method: to expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal significance, in order to create a compelling image that was beyond ordinary formal organization. Matt Tisdale www.matttisdale.com