George Grie

Bio: George Grie gradurated in 1985 from state university with a BA degree in fine arts and applied design educaiton. Instead of following a traditional routes in domestic arts, he diecied to travel down the more difficult and demanding path of neo surrealism. He later moves to Canada, where he became fascinated with digital art techniques; where he later became a professional Multimedia Graphic Designer at IMB. Grie's primary interest is in contempory 3d modeling software and applicaiton. When you see his work, it has a dream world laced into it; along with, supernatural illusions, mystic, romanticism, conceptual thoughts, and philosophic views.

Art Review

George Grie

"The Sand Castle"


Description: The main theme in this piece is a sand castle, but it is sitting on a wrecked ship and a mammoth. You can see texture of the old wooden ship, its small but you can still see it. The castle dosen't look entirely made of sand, when I look at it I can see stone. The sea looks almost glass like, it dosent have the ripple effct that normal water puddle's would have to indicate that its water.

Analysis: There is good value from light to dark in this piece, the main focal point is the sand castle, but my eye is drawn to th Mammoth rising out of tehe sand. I really like the arieal view of the piece, it gives you more of a dream quality as if your flying over the beach. As I said, there is very nice texture here, it's also asymmetrical. I also like the depth of field, you can see the beach extend far beyond the horizon line.

Interpretation: I believe Grie was enjoying a day at the beach watching kids built sand castle's and watching te tide come in and out. He most likely had a dream where it involved castle's, ships, sand, and for one reason or another a mammoth.

Judgment: When I look at this piece, I fell as though as i am in a dream. It has all of the dream qualities, of seeing somehting we are fammilar with, and puting out of the normal structure of reality. Case in point is the castle on a ship and a mammoth coming out of the sand.