Résumé Vitaé
Curtis R Doll Jr., artist and designer at CurtisGraphics, developed from his Fine Art Painting career, is an 1998 inductee into the Alpha Beta Kappa National Honor Society with an Associate Degree in Advanced Digital Design from The Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts.
In 1977, he was an honors graduate of Fine Art from The York Academy of Art, specializing in painting.
Curtis has 48 years of professional experience as a visual artist.
During that time, he designed monumental architectural stained glass windows nationwide.
Since 1998, he has digitally enhanced, manipulated, and restored photographs.
His areas of expertise include producing paintings in mediums consisting of pastels, oils, acrylics, gouache, and watercolor, and since 1998, giclée fine art paintings.
These images are in themselves "Metaphysical Symbols". Form and color are combined, united and harmonized to create heart felt impressions of life. They are not meaningless abstractions. The concept of inner radiating light plays an integral role in the development of these images. This light emanates from within a counterpoint of darkness and shadow. In some of these images the light is radiating from without almost hiding the shadow. In others the light is radiating from within the darkness and is almost hidden. The light expresses all the positive forces of nature including growth and expansion, the power of intellect and most important, the power of transcendental love. The darkness elicits the dark forces of nature and of humankind; anger; resentment; hatred; complacency. Ironically, we cannot have one without the other. The darkness increases the beauty of the light just as evil contrasting benevolence enhances the joy one experiences by doing a good deed. It is an eternal paradox.
The Lark Ascending
Out of Abyss emerges the matrix Primordial egg of existence Diaphanous womb of our universe Permeated by luminous power of celestial origin
Tempest is released from its fetters Instantaneous collisions of energy thunderclap Pristine semina of duality take their stance Origin of diversity begins
Mirror of endless contemplation crystallizes As the chrysalis manifests itself An entity of reflection, Of spiritual longing takes form
Olamic metamorphosis impels cyclical inertia Causation begins
Entrails of the nucleus expand and Break apart releasing the monad The lark ascends
An ecstatic paean issues forth Venerating innocence with increasing charm As resonance illumines Lydian measures
The lark sojourns Till elixirs of lengthening vigilance overflow Then resumes its journey
Curt Doll
(After the Musical Composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
The Lark Ascending music by Ralph Vaughan Williams was composed in 1914 and revised in 1920. A musical composition for solo violin, The Lark Ascending is described as a pastoral piece depicting pre war England. However, taking into account the spiritual depth of his symphonic music, I personally perceive The Lark Ascending to evoke a deeper longing for the discovery of ones own inner being.
As a graduate of Fine Art from the York Academy of Arts in 1977, I have been a lover of fine music, art and literature all of my life. The Lark Ascending Poem was inspired by the sublime violin composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams. It is my intention to reveal the interconnectedness between the arts; music, poetry and visual art by incorporating visual images along with this poem. The imagery and the poem are best appreciated when viewed and read while listening to the music. Ballet is implied by the final line in the poem.
2002 "The Lark Ascending" Poem was included in the International Library of Poetry Anthology: "The Solace of Night" Published by Watermark Press, One Poetry Plaza, Owings Mills, MD 21117
Artist Highlights
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ArtWanted.com Gallery: Digital Painting
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Proficient Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress
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Past Clients: http://www.sovaart.com/ http://www.imakenews.com/cabf/ http://www.cabf.org/community/ http://www.bpkids.org/ http://www.hickoryfalls.com/ http://www.curtisgraphics.com/fastluckband.html