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Heads & Bodies : Fragmented contemporary art   Figurative   William Coronado   installations   oil painting   postmodern art   My work is both figural and corporeal. The paintings brush work has its origins in abstract expressionism. The marks of brush work and paint act like fingerprints of the existence of another human being. In these marks my personal emotions in relation to the imagery is revealed. Through the brush work I can suggest the manner in which the painting is read. In some of the work the marks are violent and in others the brush work is meditative which provokes a state of contemplation. These marks are traces of my gestures while at work. I always try to sympathize with my subject mater in creating an image in order to intertwine representation with emotion. In addition, my work is also figural. Figurative works demand recognition of the subject portrayed. By creating images that are a distortion of reality I hope to enhance the feeling of empathy in the work. The anatomical fragment of heads and bodies shatters the conception of coherency in the representation of the figure. The mood of the work combines the objectivity of clinical observation with the paroxysm of romantic melodrama. The body is not just an object of desire as portrayed by the advertisement companies, but the site of suffering, pain, death, and loss. I use references from television, the internet, newspapers and magazines; however I focus on the potentiality of creating images with a visceral language that uses poetry and artistic metaphors to provide meaning. It is difficult to digest the images that are displayed by the media industry because of its ephemeral existence. There is such an overabundance of distressful imagery that it loses any opportunity of being psychologically significant. The nature of television and digitalization is one that is in a state of constant and rapid change. What makes painting a powerful expressive medium is its very nature of static imagery. The stillness in painting is its greatest strength. Its ability to hold the viewer in a trance or meditative state of reflection is its greatest attribute. In my paintings, I attempt to push these boundaries.