Richard Hubal

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When did you first become interested in art?

It was environmental. Both my parents can draw, my brother, and my Grand father whose name is Victor Hubal Sr. a scenic painter who worked for Arthur Godfrey, Ben Turpin and Laurel and Hardy. My Grandfather and Father were my mentors.

What style of art do you use most?

My style, learned from observing and practicing from the masters.

Has your style changed from when you first began as an artist?

Of course, but it’s a combination of real-life experiences and consistent drawing, doodling, like a person who plays music instrument each day. The longer you practice, the better you get.

Bob Dylan’s eye ( trying to understand his soul) – pen & pencil

What medium do you use?

In the past, I’ve used everything including wire, rope, steel, cement, watercolor, stain, cloth, acrylic paint, sand, wood, it all depends if the piece is 3d,2d or flat surface. I’m using the least to get dirty from, colored pencil!!

Do your ideas come from life or imagination?

Both, it just happens. The ideas will go on and no stopping.

The spit art artist

How do you choose your images and colors?

At random.

Who is your favorite artist?

Dali, DaVinci, all the impressionists, the Dutch artists, some Haiti artists, I’m pretty open over all with exception of stupid work that doesn’t really have any depth, more for the reason of bias-vanity.

What is your favorite piece of work by yourself?

I have 8 children, so I really don’t perceive my work as “family” but more so as a talent I have that I share or am commissioned for. Because of the diversity of work I present I can not point out just one, a better way would be some of the better work in each medium.

Cross beach – Acrylic

D.A.M.M.M. (Dead artists make more money) – Clay relief

How much time (on average) does it take to complete a work?

It depends

How well do you take criticism?

Both good and bad

What do you do to overcome a ‘block’?

Watch TV

How do you know something is ‘finished’? Is it easy to walk away?

I ALSO DO HAIR. You know when to stop, same goes with the art work, you see the finished piece is finished before you even start.

soul your conscious

Have you had exhibits in galleries?

There have been many in the last 2 decades. More recently was at St. Cloud state University, at the Atwood Gallery, a one man show for the month of September 2007. Here’s the interview from that showing.

Hubal takes on the masters

Minnesota artist Richard Hubal put his Art Block “Just trying to figure it all out!” on display in the Atwood Memorial Center Gallery

Media Credit: Anya Vaverko

The clay sculpture “D.A.M.M.” is one of the only high clay pieces of art in Hubal’s collection displayed in the Atwood Memorial Center Gallery. The title stands for “Dead Artists Make More Money.”

Salvador Dali and Ed Hopper are just two of Richard Hubal’s artistic inspirations. Hubal has come a long way since his first drawing of Santa when he was only a year old. Now, with 49 years of experience behind him, Hubal is enjoying the acclaim he’s getting for his new artwork.

Hubal’s Art Block “Just trying to figure it all out!” displays 19 new works of art combining wood relief and clay sculpting.

Hubal began work on these pieces in March, and they will be on display from Sept. 17-Oct. 18 in the Atwood Memorial Center Gallery.

The University Program Board (UPB) Visual Arts Committee played host to the opening reception Sept. 18.

Visual Arts Adviser Janice Courtney said Hubal’s art is really exciting and has already received many positive comments by students.

One of the most noticeable things about Hubal’s collection is the strong presence of famous works of art within his own work.

Hubal said Salvador Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory” and Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” were drawn into a few of his pieces to give them an extra dimension.

The pieces “Mona taking a break” and “Mona, please put the mirror down… you look fine” along with “Now I get it!!” each draw upon recognizable, historical artwork.

“I just wanted to experiment with taking on some of the ‘masters’ just to see where I was at with my views and skills,” Hubal said. “I’ve always enjoyed Ed Hopper’s work, with one of my favorites being ‘Early Sunday Morning,’ and so I went ahead to see if I could do it, and it came out pretty cool.”

With “Writer’s Block (I should call Hopper),” Hubal said he wanted to develop a theme, so he came up with the idea to add in Ed Hopper’s piece.

He said he wanted to combine Hopper’s piece with the writer in that particular piece to give it a concept people may be able to relate to.

“That’s actually the piece that got me into the show, ironically,” Hubal said. “After that, I decided to do some other ‘masters’ I look up to like Dali and Van Gogh to see if that can be done, and sure enough, it could.”

Continued…

Encompass – pen & pencil

What are your plans for the future ?

Soul research, a showing of many possibilities of where our soul is located in an artistic approach.

The series titled: “Iris+Pupil=Soul”.

Leonard Shlain proposes that the visionary artist is the first member of a culture to see the world in a new way. Then, nearly simultaneously, a revolutionary physicist discovers a new way to think about the world. Escorting the reader through the classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern eras, Shlain shows how the artists’ images when superimposed on the physicists’ concepts create a compelling fit.

Ether: the rarefied element formerly believed to fill the upper regions of space

Time: the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues

Dimension: measure in one direction ; specifically : one of three coordinates determining a position in space or four coordinates determining a position in space and time

Astral projection (or astral travel) refers to episodes of out-of-body experiences perceived as unfolding in environments other than the physical world, by an astral counterpart of the physical body that separates from it and travels to one or more astral plane.

Einstein argued that light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second in all directions at all times and for all observers — even if one observer is moving relative to another observer. That the speed of light does not vary defied the fundamental laws of physics passed down from Galileo and Newton . This and other assertions in the special theory of relativity completely changed the way scientists thought of time and space.

Proverbs 7:2 says, “Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.” Today’s meaning of the phrase “apple of your eye” is precious or favorite. In the original language it literally means “deepest blackness” and refers to the pupil of your eye. The center of the eye, the pupil, considered to be the most important part of the eye, and the center of eyesight.

Art and Religion

Art and religion have gone hand-in-hand for thousands of years. Almost every religious sect makes use of it. It glorifies protests, idealizes, and tells the stories of religion. During some periods of out history art existed for the sake of religion. Artists of our time are generally free to create and comment on whatever they choose. People, colors, nature, dreams or shopping carts might be just as interesting to an artist as the appearance of a crucifixion or an Indian fertility god. Religion dominated art–it commissioned it and used it as propaganda. Religion or its ideas were presented in paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture– you name it. Religion and art share common features: their origins are uncertain, and it is hard to define exactly their criteria. So much of religion and so much of art belong to the participants–the worshippers, collectors, patrons, and those whom religion and art have left confused.

It seems that nearly all early art has its roots in religion. The Christians used it. The Taoists used it. The Buddhists, the Hindu, the Muslims, the Jewish– all used decoration, painting, sculpture, or architecture to express their beliefs in a higher place or power. Art was a way of rearranging the mundane to make it seem celestial. Art applied human creativity and ability to the ordinary to make it extraordinary. It pointed to another place, where everything was ready-made perfect. Art was a reminder of good, evil, life and death.

Can art and religion ever truly be separate? Can one exist without another? Can we truly produce a piece that depicts anything of this world without showing our belief or disbelief in the process? So much of art’s history was dominated by religion; it is hard to imagine art ever functioning without it. That question will only be answered through the passage of time. (Erwin O. Christensen Primitive Art New York: 1955)

Did art begin as a religious practice? Were ancient artists offering their talents and works when they painted the cave walls at Lascaux , France ? One hundred thousand years ago, ‘give or take a few millenniums…the Neanderthals were burying their dead, placing tools in the graves and perhaps chunks of meat as if for use in an afterlife or spirit world.’(John E . Pfeiffer, The Creative Explosion 1985)

Did humans always have this suspicion of another world? Is this when religion and art began to have its huge impact on our world, during the period known as the Upper Paleolithic, about thirty thousand years ago? What seems like an almost immeasurable period of time to us is the blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things. Those distant occurrences–burial of the dead, decoration of cave walls, and other evidence of rituals are what distinguish early humans from other primates and what link our ancestors to ourselves.

So there it is, interesting . Now I had a revelation the other day and I would like to share that with you what it’s about. Lately, when you look at the moon when it’s full, its round and the darkness surrounds it. It reminded me of Melvin Morris’s book where he did an interview of 800 children going through Near death experience. The tunnel and coming towards the ‘light’. Amazing stuff. I know 8 people who have gone through this experience alive to share it. So the moon is round, the sun is round, the blood cells are round , the woman’s egg is round, everything we take for granted is round, especially… our eyes iris.

Our eyes. When you, as an artist look at another human being and see their eyes, just their eyes-their iris, you’ll understand their soul. The eye never ages. Talking with hospice care faculty, nurses, and doctors in the past decade, what’s interesting is when they witness a person dying, it’s the victim’s eyes iris. Either their pupil will turn black showing no color at all, or a cloudy vale covers the once alive eye iris. Science explanations and theory by man is expected, but I have another theory. The eye’s iris is part of the soul and the soul leaves the dying body to the next dimension. Everyone has a different theory of where that soul may go (some believe there isn’t a soul). I see it as when you close your eyes while awake you can see your soul. When you die, and as you go to the next dimension, your body is irrelevant.

So it would be very interesting for the world to see, everyone show your interpretation of this theory, because you know what? We’re all gonna die. God speed!

Medium includes high clay relief, low clay relief, wood relief, 3d sculpture, water color, acrylic, pen and ink. It’s like oysters, either you’ll love my work or you’ll hate it!!

The death and possible life of Lewis Paine

What advice would you give new artists?

Persistence. Believe in your self, do not stop, and if it does, it will come back again.

Have you done any courses to help you?

Some.

What do you do to market your work?

It depends how motivated you are, who you hang around with, what is your goal. Is it for you, or for your client? Do you want to be redundant, or do you want to create? Is it for wealth, or is it to just to create?