Face Covered, Not Seen – Charcoal Drawing Series | Jirasak Anujohn

฿ 108,000.00

The old man is covering his face with his two hands drawn by Jirasak Anujohn. The artist wanted to convey the philosophical idea of a two thousand years old Buddhism philosophy into his canvas. Just “Old man covering his face?”. It’s not as simple as that. This painting was aimed for you to interpret the meaningful truth of life under the concept of Buddhist Philosophy.

The detail and texture is very exceptional. The wrinkles through his hand, forehead, body depicted perfectly how this old man has been through in his life. The big size of the painting would be wonderfully fits with your studio or your parlor!

Technique : Charcoal Drawing

Style : Realistic

Year created : 2022

Size : 110 W x 150 H x 5 D cm

Frame : Not Framed

Jirasak Anujohn a famous Thai artist from Lopburi Province, is passionate about portrait painting. His educational background from Poh-Chang Academy of Arts has honed him to become a professional artist which received both local and international award!

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Concept of artwork

The old man is covering his face with his two hands drawn by Jirasak Anujohn. The artist wanted to convey the philosophical idea of a two thousand years old Buddhism philosophy into his canvas. Just “Old man covering his face?”. It’s not as simple as that. This painting was aimed for you to interpret the meaningful truth of life under the concept of Buddhist Philosophy.

The detail and texture is very exceptional. The wrinkles through his hand, forehead, body depicted perfectly how this old man has been through in his life. The big size of the painting would be wonderfully fit with your studio or your parlor!

Interpretation of the Buddhist philosophy and the concept of 3 wise monkey

Those three wise monkeys are supposed to represent a way not to feel evil. The common sense is : not to see anything, not to hear anything and not to say anything. But can it really be that simple? Such a philosophy can hardly be reduced to this only sentence.

Through those monkeys, let’s have another approach : not to see the evil, not to hear the evil and not to say evil things. That can be explained by the idea that, each time we see something bad, a part of it enters into our body. Similarly, hearing the evil or speaking of it makes a part of us turning into evil. Those three little monkeys would be a call to refuse the evil in our life.

It’s certain that ignoring the evil won’t make the evil disappear. In other words, The concept would want to tell about being conscious of everything happening around yourself but would choose not to let it reach you. The more simple idea is ‘to think before speaking’ . We have to learn how to think by ourselves, not to listen to anyone and not to always trust our pretending-full-view-eyes. This has become the concept of Anujohn painting.

The truth of life become the inspiration

Life reaches a point where the body cannot do what it used to. The eyes cannot see as before.nor ears hear the same and skin has become wrinkled. Crow’s feet on the face and a creased appearance may not be desired.but time cannot be slowed and the aging process cannot be stopped.

Jirasak was inspired by the facial signs of aging. Wrinkles indicate a life full of experience and the passage of time. Through the medium of charcoal the artist s able to create a dramatic and realistic portrayal of the elderly face touching and engaging the audience emotionally.

Get to know artist

Jirasak Anujohn or ‘Berm’ is actually not an emerging artist but an award winner who has experienced with several art competitions and exhibited in leading galleries both locally and internationally.

His educational background from Poh-Chang Academy of Arts has honed him to become a professional artist with practical skills which his art school has emphasized as a cornerstone for art career in the future. Undoubtedly, his signature is embedded in exceptional charcoal drawing techniques that portray minute wrinkles on the human face and body graced by years of life. His realistic portrait drawings with charcoal were exhibited in the reputed galleries such as Chamchuri Gallery and BACC. Also, one of his works has recently been considered in the Established Artists category of 12th UOB Painting of the Year 2021.

Internationally, Jirasak has gained his hands-on experiences in exhibiting his works in Adda Sarto gallery in Paris, International Art Fair in Busan in 2018 and Art Fair Stockholm 2018, to name but a few.

Becoming professional

With his profile and experiences, he said “It seems to me that in Europe they pay attention to essential skills whereas creativity and ideas are what they consider in Thailand. They are good for contemporary art. Regarding competitions, understanding objectives of the competition is very important for entries. You have to know what the judges are looking for.”

Despite his accurate skills in charcoal drawing, he also has his own galley called ‘Nice Gallery’. Inside of the gallery is full of Impressionist paintings. The art movement that most of us are familiar with and it was epitomized by notable painters such as Monet who went outdoor to paint. These paintings depicted wonderful pastoral scenery behind his hometown studio in Lopburi. However, they are not typical Impressionist paintings due to the local surroundings such as natural light and those green banana leaves but it give you the new style of impressionism which you will find from nowhere!

Exhibitions

Art exhibition in honor of the Queen’s 72nd birthday at River City

– “Artist Self Portrait” exhibition at Silom Galleria

– Art Exhibition “Inspired by Nai Luang” at the Ministry of Culture

– An exhibition of paintings in honor of the King in the Artist’s Heart

– 14th PT.T. Art Competition

– The 49th National Art Competition

– The 21st Toshiba Art Contest

– 12th Panasonic Contemporary Painting Contest

– The 4th International Line Drawing Competition

– 4th White Elephant Art Contest

– White Elephant Art Competition No. 5

– Solo exhibition, Emotion Nude exhibition at Jamjuri Art Gallery

– Solo exhibition, Time and Faith series exhibition at Krungthai Art Gallery

– Solo exhibition Charcoal Drawing exhibition at Chamchuri Art Gallery

– ‘Purchase Prizes’ Award – 3rd International Print and Drawing Exhibition

– ‘Most Promising Artist of the Year’ Award 5th UOB Bank

– Honorable Award for the 5th Asia Plus Contemporary Painting Exhibition

– Outstanding Award, 17th Panasonic Contemporary Painting Exhibition

– Art Fair in Singapore 2017

– Art Fair in Hong Kong 2018

– Art Fair in Stockholm Sweden 2018

– One-Man Exhibition Adda&Sarto gallery in Paris 2019

Additional information

Weight 5 kg
Dimensions 110 × 150 × 5 cm

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