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My Girl is a large oil, wax graphite On Canvas. Size 60" X 48" inches. Ford Crull, Is a Neo-Symbolist painter (American, 1952) - Find works of art, auction results and sale prices of artist Ford Crull at galleries and auctions worldwide. “The ambiguity of the image is central to my expression in art. The derivation of my symbols, pulled out from the oceanic flow of an unconscious, devolved dream state, reflects a necessity for metamorphosis and recombination that deprives the image of any safe haven.  We are committed to enhancing our customers lives by discovering creating, and pointing out only the best art we can find in the world today. We Are Taste-Makers, Art Advisers, Consultants & Publishers of Great Stories.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-symbolism

The core philosophy of neosymbolism, like that of its predecessor, is the idea of "correspondences", the "emblematic order" of a world in which technology and the industrial reality have not yet drowned the forces of mysticism and belief. In a world where visual images exist to generate sales and revenue Neosymbolist imagery attempts to preserve the relationship between image and the human soul. The imagery is necessarily representational rather than abstract. It borders on the narrative, but stops short of the commercial trap of illustration to convey an idea for profit. Oddly, artists like Norman Rockwell could qualify as Neosymbolist painters in that they adopt a social and cultural undercurrent and convey it in terms of the cultural cliche'; the image as representative of core aspects of the culture. The same is not true, however, of the generally accepted idea of commercial illustration which attempts more to influence cultural, political, and economic ideology than it tries communicate an existent reality. Neosymbolism is fairly well hidden within the culture with few references and almost no broad based visibility. In 1988 A_Demos,Nick published a book in an edition of two. This was the first visible sign of the idea underlying this philosophy.Nick A_Demos developed this first book of Neosymbolism into paintings.Nick A_Demos was the first to coin the word Neosymbolism as evidenced by neosymbolism.com as the first use of this word and documented by the domain name, see link to this site.



The Symbolist movement in art was first proposed by the poet, Jean Moreas, in a manifesto published in 1886. The resulting wave of influence had an impact on all the arts and ultimately impacted the development of Expressionism, of Fauvism, of Italian Futurism, and of most of the lineage of modern art as we know it, even though the movement itself lived a life of only around thirty years.