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The Art of Vesa Peltonen and Global ArtXchanges

28 Monday Mar 2011

Posted by Romantic and Postromantic Art in aesthetics, Amnesty International, art and human rights, art blog, art criticism, art education, art history, art movements, beauty, Claudia Moscovici, Cubism, fine art, fineartebooks, Global ArtXchanges, history of art, Impressionism, Impressionist art, modernism, post-Impressionism, postimpressionism, postromantic aesthetics, postromantic art, postromanticism, postromanticism.com, Realism, Realist art, Romanticism and Postromanticism, Vesa Peltonen

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Vesa Peltonen has dedicated not only his art, but also his life to protecting and celebrating human rights. His paintings have a softened Cubist feel about them: as if the viewer were examining not just the shapes themselves, but also their shadows and the shades of color, from all angles.  The effect is dazzling. Like in post-Impressionism, his paintings allow the eye to mix the colors from afar. Because the emphasis is placed on shades of striking colors, however, the images seem to float despite their underlying realism.

Vesa’s paintings are multicultural in theme, as the artist finds the beauty and flavor of each location where he travels to bring art to students all over the world. Vesa Peltonen’s art and his human rights activism are, in many respects, inseparable. He founded the Global ArtExchanges Program, which, in his own words, views art as “an integral part of helping enliven the learning of youth, and thus enriches their neighbourhood and community, large or small.”

This program collaborates with local art group directors to motivate youth across the globe to express themselves artistically. Global ArtXchanges works hand in hand with human rights organizations, like Amnesty International, to bring the beauty of art to impoverished areas of the world, where artistic expression might be viewed as a luxury, not a necessity. Art may not be essential to basic material survival, but, Global ArtXchanges maintains, it’s nonetheless essential to our spiritual and creative flourishing. You can find out more about Vesa Peltonen’s visionary art and the Global ArtXchanges Program on his website, GLOBALArtXchanges.org.

Claudia Moscovici, postromanticism.com


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