JARI JÄRNSTRÖM Jari Järnström (b. 1960) is a visual artists, a painter. He has graduated with Master of Fine Arts from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts 2003. He lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Järnström starts his work by painting the background with acrylic colors in an abstract expressionist way using the style of Action Painting, where the paint can run and spread freely. Action Painting is a style of painting which started in about 1950s and was predominant style until the 1960s. It is often connected to the Abstract Expressionism. Instead of adding the paint onto the canvas with careful brush strokes, in Action Painting the paint is splashed and added spontaneously in various ways. After the background is done, the work continues with oil colors. This is the point when especially the influences from Neo-figurative art arises. The Figurative art is based on representational art and therefore based on representation of the objects and humans. The most central topics for Järnström's paintings have for long been people, particularly man. www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/fi/taiteilijat/1834 jari.jarnstrom@welho.com
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Play 1 90 x 100 cm Acrylic and oil on canvas 2014