http://antonio-pessoa-lifenews.zoomshare.com/2.shtml Antonio Pessoa - Life News: Blog Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:10:18 -0500 http://antonio-pessoa-lifenews.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/53ea4237bf9ceea80ec85f762d5a14f8_48feedf7.writeback Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:10:15 -0500 Antonio Pessoa Imagination Throughout his Contemporary Fine Art odyssey,and very particularly when it comes to what absolutely involves the "Free" heart and soul,Pessoa describes commitment as everything that goes with it,Imagination,playing for keeps,making Art,communicating through Art and going the distance. After Imagination,the two keys to living life full,Passion and Commitment.Heartfelt Passion for his dreams and artistic projects and Commitment to systematic research,aiming at new solutions,new action plans,new artistic,social and public performance. Using the power of his Art in the direction of truth,love and togetherness,Pessoa is well aware that his world is substantially the power to create.His world is the gift that comes directly from Imagination. Imagination changes our views and changes our mind.Changes Art and it can change the World! In Art,perspective first appeared in the Renaissance,as a system for making paintings look more like the real world,incorporating distance as well as size. Gradually the term broadened to refer our mental outlook over time,as well as our visual.Of course,our mental and our visual outlooks are connected through the act of perceptive Imagination. Art is also a metaphor for reality,and just like reality it isn't static,it moves and changes and none of us are able to see the whole thing at any one time. Antonio Pessoa uses his Imagination to connect Art with the outside world through sight,color,texture and meaning. But far from delivering us a universally consistent view of the same old concepts,his rich Contemporary Fine Art highly communicative expression is shaped by his Imagination. Imagination,personal and artistic sustainability,daring to transform ideas into artworks. The contemporary young master dances often with his lover and partner called Imagination.They wouldn't dream of performing their best without recounting the lessons they learn together. One has only to look upon his latest great works of art,beautiful performances in color,concept,aesthetics and visual literature. Imagination is a fascinating system of rules of conduct or methods of practice,synonymous with invention,artistic intuition and intention. Imagination jumps out and its presence challenges the artist to be true to his standards. Imagination lurks in the Studio shadows surrounding every crowning moment,Antonio Pessoa takes it by the hand and spin it around the Art Studio dance floor a couple of times then they become a dance team. Art Action time! Using Imagination consciously is Pessoa's secret to creating the Art of his dreams,the visual literature for his public.Communication. It has little to do with technique and everything to do with creative awareness. This cause and effect relationship is after all the heart and soul of the artist's Contemporary Fine Art new series general concept. The key factor for Antonio Pessoa's latest artistic significant changes,discoveries and progress was his ultimate decision to put himself in the right environment that could not distract him from the creative process he intended.Studio 1 ! Most of the time during the making of these charming artworks he sets aside a reasonable amount of hours in a row totally concentrated in this fascinating artistic challenge. Theoretically what he was seeking was a framework of the new ideals,visions and concepts that were important to him in order to come up with a New Line of aesthetic references and new solutions,his innermost aspirations focused on transcend the ongoing average art and provide the public with innovative formulas,ways and exciting possibilities of communication and dialog through contemporary visual expression. Antonio Pessoa - Contemporary Fine Art cooperative reality is a very real alternative in today's art scene for obvious reasons we all seem to be aware of by now.An artistic experience highlighted by the pure essence of Beaux-Arts coexisting in perfet and total harmony with the latest tendencies and beyond,a successful combination which visual effects dont't need much further complex evaluation nor tiresome theoretical for the birds nonsense. When the artist painted Imagination ( mixed media on watercolor paper ) he was already sure a new emotional scene was already at play every day and every night of his life,pushing ahead his most fascinating period in all areas,so far.Unquestionably eclectic. After all the most exciting was and is actually the process of creating this innovative art-communicating conceptual masterpiece and expressive powerful magnet,Pessoa's larger than life investment of all his multiple "Époques" art making years,ever. Much like a Domino effect,the general idea that has been set in motion by the boosting imagination of the artist,is by now reaching the mass majority of public,namely art collectors,art lovers and even emerging and reputable artists,who seem to fully understand and enjoy the concept's content of the broadcasting new generation of cutting edge suggestions and exciting projects,aiming at creating a totally innovative outlook of Contemporary Art and promoting its powerful communicative potential. Antonio Pessoa's essential secret is based upon his rock solid determination of not letting his Life and most importantly his Art,be the product of cultural conditioning. Thereby,the artist has admited he uses his Imagination to systematically find new ways to express amd share a new formula of communication,which will guide the public to greater levels of perception and understanding the powerful philosophical content of Art,and in so doing he is successfully creating the ultimate right chemistry between Contemporary Art and worldwide public. This wonderfully entertaining way to provide art lovers with a new and exciting outlook of Art,illustrates perfectly the artist's Contemporary Fine Art concept related issue,through which he uses his Imagination full potential to stay systematically on the hook for greater possibilities concerning Art and Public relationship and beyond. New Visual Arts egalitarian equivalence! It's perfectly accurate to state and admit once and for all the unquestionable fact that today's Art Public is expecting and most importantly deserving The Big Break,meaning a different vision possibility regarding this specific issue of how to interpret the hidden underlines of contemporary art expression and very particularly how to realize and solve the mysteries of the apparently complex context,content,intention and meaning of abstract Visual Arts when it comes to approach the latest cutting edge tendencies,whether through Video,Photography,Installation,Live Performance,or in Antonio Pessoa's unique and amazing universe,through a mostly successful fusion and skillful combination of sources,an exciting cross between the Great Masters techniques and reputable models and this only apparently simple project known as Contemporary Fine Art. The open minded public is obviously willing to embrace this interactive innovative attitude the artist came up with and is definitely looking forward to take it to even more stimulating and higher levels of communication,sharing,mutual participation and togetherness.When the student is ready,the teacher appears! That's when and where Antonio Pessoa's Imagination comes in,suggesting us new exciting challenges,excellent Art and most important of all with a heartfelt project aiming at turning Contemporary Art into a worldwide mass phenomenon. Antonio Pessoa - Contemporary Fine Art hit a nerve with the art lovers network. Obviously it's because public in general desperately want more direct relation with Art and I would say even the need goes much deeper.Maybe it was just about time to provide Contemporary Art with that exciting something,that missing stimulating formula now available to such an extent that the viewers more than just contemplate will feel they have to reach that ultimate point of intimacy to spontaneously feel the pleasurable urgency to want Art into their homes and hang it at eye level on the wall.More than a question of metaphysics,rather a spontaneous desire to have it,touch it and feel it. The artist's Imagination takes off from a systematic self- actualization,straight up to the highest levels new Contemporary Art can actually reach,which includes the multiple ways and daily steps to accomplish the ultimate challenge. Fulfill the Public's emotional demand through an effective exciting communicative process,where a new Vision of Arts potential is absolutely what's at stake. Simple as that,beautiful and new. After all the artist is well aware that Imagination is a Good Creative Source,a Must Quality.Imagination is like his generator within his creative engine,it stirs him like no other natural gift.Imagination drives him systematically to make movement and to add the creative fire necessary to activate amazing artistic,personal and communicative results in his and in the Public's favor.Art Action and Communication require a deep burning desire for change,it requires energy that is ablaze with Imagination. Cultivating and unshakable,Pessoa's Imagination does create a new attitude,a new character,an abundant supercharged communication sculpture,with the magical chisel in the hand of an artist guiding all his energy and his collaborators team motivation toward the new concept of Art and Public,art loving and definitely art collecting,a conscious decision for this specific and exciting outcome,a current successful successful process,the result of hundreds and thousands of options and accurate choices in order to make Contemporary Art come alive like never before. The artist's life is built mainly by how he wonderfully responds to what happens in his Imagination. Burning desire,enthusiasm,attraction,love and new concepts,cutting edge visions in all areas,public awareness,sharing,belief,abundance,masterpieces,gr eat Art and Life Supreme! http://antonio-pessoa-lifenews.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/060f3c3fa0087f5930a828b05a54914a_48feea91.writeback Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:55:45 -0500 Antonio Pessoa Art Express Antonio Pessoa Weekend Report Once again,I fly from Canary Islands to spend the weekend with my favorite living artist and one of my best friends as well.Skip intro,for between the two of us,after all these years and after all these countless moments of mutual excellent conversation,shared bizarre episodes and a few unspeakable adventures,by all means no ceremonial rituals required whatsoever,simply put and absolutely true. He picks me up at the densely populated airport and the silent perfect-mannered chauffeur drives us back to his idyllic castle more popularly known as Antonio Pessoa-Home Studio. A new life in the sun,a new weekend in the relaxing and cosy atmosphere of the spacious living area all the more enchanting by the friendly staff,let alone the artist's awesome and most entertaining recent new line contemporary fine art canvases and watercolors.Wall Art at his unquestionable very,very best,if you ask me. After a dimlit mediterranean food dinner at the balcony overlooking the warm summer night,during which we pleasurably break news and get on with our lives latest episodes and metaphysics updates,we have a Scotch while strolling about Studio 1 as he shows me his on- going canvases,drawings and watercolors,a true dream factory,and sooner than I expected it was 2.a.m. and my obnoxious yawning was already warning me it was just about time to call it a night,so next thing I knew I was between sheets and thereby quickly going into night time oblivion.Delicious! Indeed,I actually have to admit I simply adore this recovering and rewarding total forgetfulness of the great oblivion of sleep.So does the artist,for all I know. I wake up early morning just to witness once again the dynamic full-swing stimulating on-going racing activity all over the place. The telephone keeps ringing,business partners,clients,art collectors,friends,family,art merchants,co- workrts,you name it,from all over the world. Pierre Fontanals and Luis Santiago seem to be successfully handling the situation,as in everything-under-control,with their usual experienced,stree-free and that easy-to-do look on their faces,savoir faire and know-how...while the artist is nowhere to be seen. Well,not quite so,actually.Antonio Pessoa is already painting in his sound proof Studio 1,basically relaxed,happy,however totally focused on the huge canvas before him. Antonio Pessoa always faithful to his traditional studio performance unique style,is working on several paintings at the same time,despite today's main artwork at stake happens to be a gigantic canvas on the skyscraper like easel,seemingly succeeding to be grabbing his full attention and his eagle eye concentration. I light my pipe and silently observe the artist at work for quite a long while,genuinely fascinated by his reputable art action speed,as if he were actually only the art making mediator between Divine Guidance and the canvas. I politely coughed lightly twice before I broke the silence."What's going to be the title of that masterpiece ,my friend?" "Free!" said the Pessoa without even bother to turn around."Free,my dear,just what I wish to be above anything else in the world.Free!" As a matter of fact ,I love to admit,Free,indeed turned out to be one of the most awesome and charming king- sized canvases of the artist's latest contemporary series and definitely one of my favorites ever. Laser focused and maximally productive,the artist all of a sudden takes a break and moves about the studio,gladly aware of my dear friendly presence,brush in his right hand staining here and there on the watercolor papers scattered all over the spacious studio. "I have this feeling,this don't know what something about this weekend",he tells me,thoughtfully contemplating- and I think - seriously evaluating one of those unfinished watercolors,with that peculiar self-criticism look on his diamond-white face. One of his cell phones rings.That's the Home Studio "Special One" cell phone as he ironically titled it.As far as I know it's actually the bad news breaker , the last-minute urgent issues cell phone.What do you know! He picks it up and I hear Pierre Fontanal's voice almost screaming from the other side,meaning,from the "Concepts into Action" headquarters,where everything usually looks as if the Universe is conspiring to make business matters an easy-going task and some other times it looks as if indeed all hell broke loose! That was Maxwell Armstrong from San Francisco,California,absolutely anxious and under pressure and demanding (...demanding!)...to speak directly over the phone with the artist. By now,Antonio Pessoa is painfully back to real-life again,takes a seat,thinks for a while...and I hear him say... "Pierre,please,just tell him I'm out of order" Silence again,while Pessoa listens to what Pierre has got to communicate... "OK,then tell him I won't be back untill next week." He hangs up. He's never going to change,I'm thinking,the artist definitely hates a life full of problems and the best way he knows to get rid of them all once and for all,or at least for a peaceful while,is the same old formula. Get back down to work and once again life is Heaven,just Paradise! With the happy ending of the canvas fast approaching,the artist quickly recovers from the interruption.Obviously the key to full and fair recovery is to get on with what he was doing and that's precisely what he does.Congratulations! There are always unplanned occurences that prevent him from painting just the way he simply adores.Peacefully! Getting caught up in the day to day activities of his team,isn't precisely his idea of indeed getting a kick out of art studio performance. Talking about the devil,the cell phone rings again ( ...at the right time...at the wrong place ...),as the artist gets ready to get back down to work.How convenient! My eavesdropping is supposed,more than basically tolerated,fully accepted,just for the record... "Not again!",he sighs. However,he picks up the phone while looking at me with that funny helplessness expression on his face. Pierre once again screaming from the busy room,just to tell him Maxwell Armstrong wishes to know whether the artist is once and for all decided to deal with him directly or not. "Tell him...well,Pierre,just tell him...Or Not" He hangs up the phone. I must say that in real-life philosophy this is theoretically a definite "Leave me Alone!". One of Antonio Pessoa's most peculiar secrets is that deep down inside- unquestionably - he sure loves this art studio daily ritual,delicious silence,this self-imposed exile...well,in a manner of speaking. What turns out to be his big What and Why,that's for us to know and for you to find out throughout all it's been said and written about the artist's Life and Oeuvre. Strange how this weekend seems to be shorter than I would like to expect,just in the exact proportion to my delight to stay by his side and enjoy the making of all this scattered collection of unfinished canvases,drawings,sketches and impactful watercolors. Whatching him build on the fine art dreams factory always creates me an exciting state of antecipation.Inevitable fact. However,the cell phone is persistent enough and there it is once again ringing and once again inevitably forcing the artist losing steam and probably reminding himself that indeed at last check Paradise will be only possible in a far away tropical exotic island between the Pacific Ocean...and Eternity! So it seems - from what I can make out of my legitimate eavesdropping - Maxwell Armstrong just comes up with a brand-new proposition,fair enough to put a broad smile on the artist's face and probably a helpless curiosity expression on mine. "It's alright then,Pierre,please let him know he can have those six canvases for that price...oh,and by the way,please tell him that next time he calls us four times in a row I won't negotiate..." We have lunch on the balcony,a nice mexican food combination,served hot...and how! One of the benefits of his lifestyle,by all means.Now we concentrate only on the tasty good smelling positive aspects of the mexican cuisine,while wandering about this and that...as a fresh,almost sweet wind breeze starts blowing from the seaside. Just two good friends and Art Connoisseurs making the most out of being together again. Harold MacArthur is in town,so the three of us decide to go for a rejuvenating long walk along the seaside Avenue,it's just a beautiful day,clean cloudless sky,Sprigtime just smells fun,the sea is light blue contrasting with the light-golden-blue sky and it's just wondeful to be here in this idyllic scenery of western world tropical life, as we easily overcome procrastination and stroll further and further away while pondering and review several topics,including the artist's current and upcoming projects. In spite of the inevitable fact that Pessoa is actually more than twenty years younger than we are,he proves systematically to have reached this mature-like unmutable consistency,this inspiring effortless reliability charisma,wherever he is and whatever he does,a remarkable combination of qualities playing an important role in our unique mixture of logical and philosophical reasoning inter- exchanging chemistry. Nothing like a six- kilometer boulevard stroll with such distinguished company,along the clear blue waters,crystaline sand and dazzling coral reefs,the ideal place to take full advantage of excellent conversation focused on interesting issues,including Art. Nevertheless,let's face it.Sir MacArthur current situation seems pretty obvious both for me and for the artist as well.His personal increasing interest in Antonio Pessoa's latest artworks,his definitely his main motivation to pay him a visit from time to time,well...more accurately at least once every month.Define this simply as art collector's persistence would be basically unfair,for I know that apart from his main reasons to fly from London on such a regular basis,roughly twelve times a year,his admiration for the artist is by all means clearly genuine to the point of true growing friendship.That much is transparently in the air. However,the high price of the artist's canvases,namely and very specifically his latest contemporary fine art series,New Era-New Line,if not being precisely beyond his financial reach (definitely not!!!) at least have achieved a global demand effect,feverish enough for a drastic rise in prices,eventually rather unexpectedly and as far as Harold MacArthur is concerned,from his strict point of view,fairly acceptable,on the other hand,painfully unfair. In spite of the inevitable everlasting situation of being systematically "blessed" with new exciting and painfully unexpected challenges,Sir MacArthur is never going to change his faithful sense of personal commitment concerning both his friendship with the artist and his private art collection growing reputation,continuously updated integrity. No big deal,whatsoever.Hard working art collector's self-consciousness.I like that...and so does the artist. Anyway,just as with the tides in the sea,there is an ebb and flow to the tides of Antonio Pessoa's Home Studio leisure weekends. Swimming in the art world,understanding its awesome Universe and eventually,of course,swimming through the sand of bizarre timing and close encounters with unannounced visitors. What all this reminds me of is how great is to have the world in our hands and time by our side. At last check I find myself wondering. Visitors...or Invaders? Miriam Di Rosa! A Lady in the Water!The water of the Art Ocean.Atlantis? It's tea time,in the contemporary Fine Art Shrine! Miriam sits down at the steaming good smelling table with her gentle jet-set complexity although grotesque proportions. She starts by complaining about the weather,then seriously complaining about her love affairs setbacks,then about the art market impractical foolish unpredictable roller coaster unreliable flux and flows,then she goes on complaining about the enough of non-sense world we live in,and at last she complains about all topics in a row,she says she's had it...and by then,surprise,surprise,believe me or not,crazy as it seems,forty five minutes had gone by and tea time was over. Miriam Di Rosa and the artist,they are actually so used to share whatever-you name it together,yet so aware of the intentions of one another,that they don't permit themselves anymore to become ruffled or victimized. Sir MacArthur looks mildly tolerantly patient and me,well,I fortunately have reached that level of after- walk,after-tea.who-cares,accomplished calmness. Tea time is over and Antonio Pessoa looks bored,slightly standoffish,I suppose a bit tired.Miriam somehow always succeeds to set this mood paradigm shifting in the artist emotional mechanism.He accepts her exactly how she is and she remains in his life playing the important role of art critic,art curator,although systematically,hopelessly expecting to keep the artist image strangely tuned in what he was six years ago...still illuminated by the pure oil smelling Romantic Period's Modern Art bulb. On the whole,Miriam Di Rosa regards Pessoa's contemporary series as a road-map to something which hasn't yet been achieved and I think she secretly believes it never will. I understand her feelings(let alone her old fashionad artistic concepts ) however,by all means I don't subscribe her point of view. Pessoa in my opinion is actually going through his fine art very,very best up to now,and that's the general public perspective,except for Miriam who still has this secret hopeless hope to re- convert the artist to the old models of Modern Art.Too late,if you ask me. Pessoa wastes no time climbing back aboard the now urgent loneliness of his studio,while the fictional Lady Miriam keeps me company as we sadly watch him go,leaving us behind...and he's gone. After a long silent while Miriam Di Rosa stands up and gets ready to go. I light my pipe as I hear her say "It's not all,isn't it?Antonio doesn't need my company nor my advice anymore.Enough Genius IQ,I suppose." I say nothing.I know exactly what's going on between the two of them,and I also know it's none of my business...well,at least while she is around. "If he's aiming for Genius IQ Perfection that's his problem." she goes on as she walks towards the door."But my previous experience tells me he was a much better artist,before.Anyway,the great Antonio Pessoa will never be successful if he sticks to this contemporary abstract non- sense.That much I can tell you.He's just trying to be a little innovative but definitely losing the Great Master's touch.It's a shame,really,it's a shame,but there's nothing much I can possibly do about this weird situation.Anyway,guys,take care,all of you.I'll be in touch...I think.Goodbye." She closes the door behind her.And she's gone! Under my circumstances I kept on smoking my pipe,while recognizing she couldn't have been more mistaken. If to much art studio action can be at times responsible for making the artist's mind dense,it's also true the his controversial relationship with Miriam - always on the verge of actually going down the drain ( which miraculously never seems to happen )- hasn't helped much to improve his mood after our tea time nail-bitting session. So after sunset,Jasper drives us to the Meditation Center,nº39.The ultimate shrine for total peace of mind,discernment and relaxation. The most valuable thing you can learn about Meditation multiple benefits is that it indeed shapes your character,provides you with a rewarding inner- self awareness and asures you this happy and healthy well-being,the great foundation that enables you to wake up every single day ready and steady to get up and literally go fot it,whatever that might happens to turn out to be,particularly concerning Antonio Pessoa's challenging life,a great powerful mindset and a solid self-centered unbreakable motivation,more than enough to overcome professional obstacles and general serious commitments. It's imperative by now to understand how these systematic meditation sessions and rituals have contributed immensely for the artist's amazing personal growth and his latest increasing artistic performance success. The power of balance,minimizing all external and internal clutter,recalibrating the artist and assess his direction regularly,implementing higher love principles,clearing out inconsistent behaviors that may eventually push him off track,discerning when it is appropriate to let go or move forward,making honoring his truth in art expression his top priority,honoring and encouraging his continual growth and learning,setting a clear and focused intent so he can share it and follow through to completion,and discovering how to strengthen his character and soul so they can't be bought nor manipulated. Antonio Pessoa has embraced these commandments at Bala Mani's Meditation Center,and since then,he has been teached and coached surrounded himself with Masters of the Mind he believes and trusts,and consequently adopting naturally and gradually a surprising new line attitude,actually the key element that has been a positive and successful step towards his current genius efficiency not only in art performance but in his personal,social and professional life,with remarkable results so far,providing him with the inevitable super easy going skills and know-how to get out and play to win. Pessoa's weelky sessions at the Meditation Center have been setting his mind to face and overcome all professional obstacles plus providing him with a remarkable Know-How and easy- to-doingness when it comes to make the most of his multiple projects,challenges and dreams,let alone his highly effective art performance. The Age of Aquarius has given us the great possibilities of Quantum Physics. There is an infinite universe of intelligent and highly creative energy where the artist pulls out the Quantum Ocean,enabling him to continuously accomplish with little time and effort,his personal lifestyle concept,artistic projects and professional commitments. As an art collector,art critic,art coach and counselor,supporting and reviewing Antonio Pessoa's Life and Work,has proven to be probably the most exciting experience of my seventy-two years of multiple interesting projects all over the world so far. Thereby,as a matter of fact it's rather rewarding just to witness how the artist has actually increased his artistic performance to such an extent of quality,visual impact providing art lovers with a substantial new contemporary literacy,furthermore making it possible for a huge amount of public realize the full potential of his Oeuvre and very particularly of his innovative capacity. Systematically exposing himself to exciting new ideas and perspectives,Antonio Pessoa,with a relevant help from his impressive mindset proceeds with the right attitude,progresses into the future on a full determined one million-steps- forward journey,with the energy,feel,style and proficient imagination,plus his absolute clear purpose serving him and all his collaborators in all important specific areas,possible and "impossible" ways. Back home,we spend the rest of the evening just the two of us,listening to soft music and relaxing at the balcony,emotionally at ease and enjoying the spendid warm night atmosphere and the ongoing cheerful crowd celebrating life down at the charming square. We have dinner,confidently sharing our viewpoints over so many interesting subjects and next thing we know,the square is empty,it's 1 a.m. and we call it a night. Saturday morning,I woke up before the house got really busy,so after having breakfast delivered by Arturo and his wife,consisting in a cross- between mediterranean food and english ham and eggs,I took a stroll along the seaside avenue,not too long a walk,just enough to stretch my legs and let the blood quicly flow into my grey cells as the bright sun rays provided me with enough energy for the rest of the day. When I got back to the artist's Home Studio it seemed as if all hell broke loose. James Babel was once again feeling pretty lousy over David Medina and his usual dread failures. Life basic essentials teach you different ways to look at life.In this specific area,mine and Antonio Pessoa's traditional detachment was indeed being used to our great advantage. As everybody seemed just about to start crawling up the walls,only Pierre Fontanals,the artist and myself,seemed to remain cool,calm and collaborating aiming at finding a snappy solution for what seemed to be the financial crash of the century. Twenty minutes later we all went out for lunch.An early,struggling and out loud speaking nerve- shattering lunch.Bad news is we had Pietro Fabricci to join the club...he and his humorless sense of humor. The artist and the sophisticated and versatile Pierre Fontanals might see him as a smarty-arty sort of clown,or should I say,multifaced juggler clown...never mind... The circus entertainer was after all James Babel and his out of breath manifestation of blame on the guilty one,David Medina for having sold nine valuable masterpieces for a substantial incorrectly measured price. Eating at random and struggling to get his message across,James Babel was losing his self- made man public relations strategy as Antonio Pessoa was getting seriously bored and so was I,just for the record and for all that matters. We left the restaurant in a quite remarkable polite hurry and made our way back home,fortunately quickly recovering from the embarassing sort of everything-you-need-to-know about how to throw a lousy lunch party. Pessoa once again looks slightly bored,moody blue. I suppose so many types of people around him quite often actually succeed to take his concentration away,or at least to a less effective level in which he inevitably can't help feeling awkward enough to continuously avoid situations that might turn out to interfere negatively with his deliciously silent philosophical universe. Very far from being some corny sort of ethereal spiritual mumbo-jumbo,Antonio Pessoa's lifestyle is definitely based upon a practical wisdom and vision of emotional abundance,aiming at making his art performance,private and social life,professional commitments,flourish,grow and expand. Thereby,no wonder his Studio 1's celestial peace is for the artist his ultimate heaven,favorite playground and his divine castle where all ghostly apparitions dissolve and melt away making way for spiritual lightness and proficient creativeness. The artist has become more and more conscious,concerned and aware that what he expects to happen in his art studio - specifically when it comes to excel in art expression is determined by the thoughts he dwells upon plus the intensity of the emotions behind those thoughts. Systematically using imagery to create innovative contemporary art patterns he knows how to give himself the freedom to reach for the stars of supreme awareness (inspiration!),one idea leads to another,and the momentum he generates with these mind tools,one thousand and one visions and beyond,will begin a magical fast shift in his creative power so is art performance becomes a passionate flow of emotions where he finds himself mastering the process of being the ultimate mediator between the reality circus and visual poetry.Art! The mystery about the current amazing chemistry between Antonio Pessoa and Boris Dainville is after all very clear,so it's no mystery al last check whatsoever. They are both emotionally concentrated on the power of all forms of Art,including human relations. They hop on the strong rules of spiritual energy,learning together how to prioritize the great Truth known to all mystics and ancient sages. What they mean to each other,more than sympathetic resonance,is an absolute like attracts like effortless harmony,sharing the same life approach in which basically the only possible option is to be and feel absolutely alive. So this Saturday,once again,they keep in touch over the phone,as the artist goes on working on several canvases and watercolors at the same time and I keep him company as I sit quietly reading,taking notes or simply watching him suggest awesome visual propositions with every painting brush stroke as time goes slowly and pleasurably by in Studio 1 and as the sun beams keep coming in anticipating yet another delicious warm subtropical night. Once again we're having dinner at the comfy balcony.Antonio Pessoa looks relaxed now,however thoughtful,sharing the silence with me,plenty aware that I,more than anyone else in the world,can make out the essence of his pondering,even in the silence,or when we talk exchanging ideas,projects,secrets,concepts,dreams,you name it,I'm able to read the underlines,able to accurately interpret the inner-areas of the artist's intimate reflections and thereby succeed to come up with a rather clear picture of his current perspective of the whole field of life,world,art...and beyond. He is a complex,informed,wise distinguished man.He has embraced the whole creative process,art studio,lifestyle and beyond.This is the big one,and this is the main reason why I've been reviewing his Life and Work for the past ten years up to now. Some of Antonio Pessoa's top qualities are definitely his increasing capacity to keep his mind on task,it actually gets easier and easier for the artist to become fully focused on what's more important,beginning with his art studio daily action,indeed a creative ritual which has become a pleasurable and inevitable part of his life.Also using his subconscious to accept that what he desires is possible to achieve,even his wildest dreams,keeps him steady on the right track and mastering the art of being ready when the magic happens,like something he will most certainly will enjoy,even when it comes in the most unexpected ways.Pessoa handles this emotion- charged feelings aiming at expand his multiple issues and areas,an ever growing display of fascinating projects,leading him to reach higher levels of living the ultimate Life Supreme! After dinner we move back to the studio,where Scotch is served in cognac snifters by the silent- polite Arturo.He leaves us alone as the phone rings announcing an incoming call fromm Felix Nuñez. Felix Nuñez is taking care of the artist's affairs in San Francisco,CA, and he has been doing it for over two years already,now.From the five minutes conversation I can figure out Nuñez has successfully added three more reputable art collectors to the artist's U.S.A. crème de la crème clients list.Fair enough.Pessoa hangs up the phone with a broad smile of satisfaction on his face. "This young man is just about to hit the big time,Jacob,and so are we"he says. "You are,not me" I say "I'm just an innocent bystander.But I like it!Are you hearing me complaining?" We're laughing out loud,now...making a toast to good health. The Art World! Bigger names have come and gone,but few careers in contemporary fine art have been more consistently interesting over the last ten years than Antonio Pessoa's.Painstakingly careful and accurate the artist goes on this Saturday after midnight exhaustively staining here and there,living up to his art studio wizard reputation. His latest paintings are just amazing,passionate and so chromatically beautiful and at the same time deliciously absurd in their successful attemp to reproduce the artist's serious sensory experiences. Saturday's featured artist,takes the midnight express absolutely motivated and comfy in the spacious comfort of Studio 1.Into art action now completely,his burning fire seems to go higher and higher,and once again I feel helplessly inspired as I watch him dancing about the awesome scenario,mainly furnished by huge easels,gigantic and medium size canvases,oak tables covered with an apparent chaotic display of finished and unfinished watercolors,drawings,collages,mixed medias and small sketches here and there and everywhere. There's a beautiful abstract acrylic on watercolor paper on a chair I hadn't noticed the day before.I ask him where did it come from.The artist tells me he started doing it yesterday,and that's where he was actually writing this wonderful weekend poetry.What poetry,I just asked,not because I didn't know what he was talking about,I did,but just to get my private kick,well,mainly to make conversation. "Momentum takes over " he says "It's easy enough to dream and plan big projects,but when it comes to see a particular weekend measurable progress,nothing like a watercolor to draw the whole map.It's like an episode.That's what it's meant to be.The Weekend Report!" So that was it,I thought.Antonio Pessoa's intention generator was on once again,with the rushed busy flow of his eclectic style,the artist's ever present amazing capacity to see artistic challenges as supreme opportunities working toward innovative ideas,as he goes on and on staining here and there filled with passion,creative fire and almost childish excitement. Suddenly he stops and looks at me as taken by surprise,slightly puzzled and definitely amused. "I don't know why I bother to go on painting,it's almost 2 a.m.,you must be tired and I'm keeping you here,Jacob.We should be going to bed and call it a night." "Let your inner light shine,my friend,go on with what you were doing and please do not worry about me.I'm quite alright and very entertained if you ask me." The artist shrugged and said. "Just a few minutes more and then we'll have another scotch on the balcony." I watch him as he gets back down to work. Antonio Pessoa's amazing power of persistence,I thought,that's the real secret for his artistic success.It's always been as far as I can recall.And it was indeed 2 a.m. by then. As soon as I discovered it was already 11:30 a.m.,I jumped out of bed,simultaneously recasting my priorities,such as a good cold shower and a late breakfast delivered by a silent Jasper at the spacious kitchen,all part of a process of treating me like a special honor guest. After taking a look a the ongoing situation in the artist's Home Studio as I watched my energy level raise up by witnessing the energetically vibrating excitement of everyone's pleasurable working flux and flow,every step I take toward Antonio Pessoa's contemporary Fine Art shrine,Studio 1,the clearer it became that he had company this morning.As I got closer to the door,I knew the artist was facing a new challenge today.Listening patiently to Boris Dainville's latest episodes. I let myself in and after taking a sit and picking up my notepad,I had to face the fact that Boris Dainville had just been through yet another love affair setback with a strange woman from Dublin who at last check proved to be a tough pill to swallow for the millionaire and enthusiastic art collector's delicate emotional attachment,another overwhelming failure to join his rich content love affairs diary. Now that I come to think of it I have to admit The Beatles were right when they came up with "Can't buy me Love" song. No matter the stage of art performance Antonio Pessoa finds himself in,he can't help run through a whole fully concentrated working day,without being almost systematically interrupted by unexpected visitors out of his endless list of unique soul mates. Although this list seems to be the list of an artist with a pretty wide and diverse social life,unquestionable fact,the pros and cons of this circumstance after all very often provides him with a rather awkward momentum,sometimes in the form of a focus saboteur,when art action remains stuck,eventually totally inactive,while these overwhelming unexpected last minute visitors,may prove to be long lasting gossip overloaded whimperish meetings,classified information sessions,where his best and closest friends,as bizarre as it may sound,come to his Studio and to his arms seeking wise advice on multiple emotional subjects,soul mates who at a certain point of their lives seem to know little or nothing about how to handle a specific situation,particularly concerning matters of the flesh,of course. Although I know and have to admit that running away from this almost daily inevitable scenario may be Pessoa's first instinct,somehow he ethically finds it more beneficial to meet it head-on,taking a different approach to every different situation.A valuable exercise! The artist's good listener magic is thereby created from being a giving person who gives to giving people,such as Boris Dainville. The day goes by as the three of us continue the communicating process,through lunch,another art session time,tea time,a sunset walk along the boulevard and by dinner time we were basically emotionally exhausted,literally almost passing out on the dining room floor,a simple way to put down in words how Boris Dainville's love affairs setbacks can turn out to become a totally thumbs down negative feelings network. Anyway,just before midnight the lover boy goes away for good after seven seasons with the saints,leaving us alone in a sea of sighs in the ultimate effort to pull ourselves together,having the last one for the road double Scotch on the rocks at the exotic balcony overlooking the stunning bay.Some Sunday! I woke up monday morning to join the temper- based complaints of Miriam Di Rosa at the steaming breakfast fancy round table. Contrary to what she seems decided to believe,the artist is not bound for getting easily trapped on her nightmarish reality,nor is he willing to be mistakenly dropped off on her outmoded planet. "Why isn't your Art the way it should be? Just the way it used to be?" She complains as Antonio Pessoa copes as best as possible with her sadness,with his traditional well-being,tolerance and joy- even detachment- as a pure realization that after all her opinion matters,in spite of her stubborn unwillingness to take the ultimate step and expand her vision into the larger and far more innovative world of contemporary art. This hard to deal conversation goes on for about one hour,while Miriam's unsuccessful attempts to overcome her hidden desperation became more and more obvious till the moment the artist and I get up and leave the kitchen,however no fast enough to miss her last disappointed remark. "If you don't change your artistic style I don't know what I will do!" That's the high price for artistic freedom. I watch his amazing latest artworks as we once again enter Studio 1.This room has become his holy retreat,his world,his destiny. There was only one particular mixed media on watercolor paper which had been puzzling me throughout the whole weekend. "One last thing...why don't you have it finished yet?"I asked the artist. "Well...I suppose I'll do it tonight,my friend...this one is a special combination of our latest interesting events...including yourself"He smiled.A naughty smile. "What do you actually have in mind?" I asked as I came closer to the unfinished artwork. "Because this one is The Weekend Report". Jasper took me to the airport after lunch.While we zipped along the highway,suddenly I got the whole picture. After all that has been his secret all the way during these days. The ultimate relationship between real life and artistic interpretation. The Weekend Report ! Antonio Pessoa After Midnight Going out,wandering about downtown,walking around and maybe pay Louise Ragot a visit,always that dimlit place,Ragot's Art Deco looking den,of what once breathed like life and love,however now it's just a dimlit den of sorts. Delightful art clocks,Pop Art paintings and the old record player handsomely showcased in the solid wood and veneer cabinet.Fancy! At Ragot's there's always the chance of hearing the door bell ring and one of her After Midnight friends showing up for a free psychotherapy session. Urgent cognitive- behaviour techniques with the After Midnight intervention secret resources of Lady Ragot. Besides the Pop Art small size paintings of her art collection,five oils on canvas signed Antonio Pessoa,(A Pessoa!),among a carefully curated selection of elegantly framed Nude Art photography. It's the new city,the Now town,the After Midnight twilight zone,the time of the eternal open relationships,the kinky preferences network,tasteful mysterious moves,and "professional" lifestyle...bizarre and sometimes even stimulating! Oh my God,the artist told me,that night at 5:30 a.m. he stumbled upon Nadine,a silent night angel,blonde and freezing and dressed to kill.Smashing!She didn't have much to say,so he told me with that peculiar smile on his face.She was like three personalities in one or at least he thought so or maybe that's what she pretended,in a silent ultimate effort to make him believe that behind the apparently dull looking doll there might as well be the inner special one.Give me a break! Furthermore the four things she told him she liked actually sounded absolutely unspeakable.So what?What did he expect? After Midnight,the weird designed ride! When yoy think you actually can do whatever you want...I suppose something the artist always wanted to believe was true. And then,what?The Chinese Restaurant! Pessoa goes in,there's nobody in the big exotic room but the cook...it's almost 6 a.m. and he tells him "Too late,we close,no,we no see girl of yours,no more ask please..." Another bar,and he told me later what had just crossed his mind.True love!Sometimes you know it the instant you see it across the bar.However,and I truly believe him,there was no one there but the same old bald wrinkled bartender. Really amazing,inspiring awesome surrealism. After all,it seems After Midnight's twilight zone can set his imagination free.Blind faith,I told him,because thinking is hard.However,the artist was already aware of it... Time goes by. So here comes the night,here comes the night once again,the After Midnight express entering the Twilight Zone one more time. Tonight ( must be Wednesday,Thursday...or even Friday...who cares...),James Babel,one of the artist's regular art dealers is off to Madrid with no paintings in and no joy,Boris Dainville is breaking no news from London town and Louise Ragot is nowhere to be seen,let alone reached. Antonio Pessoa tells me over the phone about his "nerve-shattering" negotiations (in a manner of speaking ) with Maxwell Armstrong and Sylvia Abbot. He tells me sometimes he feels he would be better off living in the tropical Canary Islands for good,after telling the whole godforsaken art business to get lost. I know he is just overreacting ,he says it but doesn't mean it...or at least deep down inside I still don't believe he has reached that point of absolute detachment to actually say goodbye,so long,I've had it,that dit it and flip- flop and fly away. He tells me yesterday night he didn't feel like going off to bed,so he went out for another After Midnight real-life explorer delicious Let's- see-what-Happens ride on his own. After a while driving around he goes to the Meditation Center,managed by Bala Mani,an indian art collector,a wealthy prematurely retired businessman from New Delhi who decided to spend the rest of his life providing others with the wisdom and knowledge of Universal Awareness and Silent Meditation. One of the After Midnight available spots the artist loves the most. Open twenty four hours a day,it provides emotional- support for anyone willing to experience the mindfullness well-being with the powerful inspiring easy-to-do methods of deep spiritual relaxation and cosmic insight. Martin Faber introduces Bala Mani to the artist back in 2004,during his second art show in Chicago,IL.However only in the past two years Antonio Pessoa becomes seriously involved and emotionally ready and motivated to fully commit himself to the wonderful universe of inner-self discovery through meditation daily sessions and self-disciplined rituals. Bala Mani also becomes one of the artist's regular clients,acquiring on a monthly basis a significant amount of his latest New Era contemporary artworks,furthermore coming up with the concept Timeless Time,which indeed turned out to become the title of Pessoa's most recent art productions. Antonio Pessoa reaches his Universal Awareness inner-self discovery, Supreme Meditation interest,passion and commitment apotheosis,thereby giving birth to amazing contemporary fine art wonders such as "Night Gospel", "Living Joy" , "The Belief Generator" , "Spiritual Light " , "Free" , "Night Wits " , "Intuition " , "Mind Explorer ", "Perception "...just to mention a few. It makes perfect sense the obvious association of Bala Mani with the artist's subject mutation,definitely for much better,very particularly in visual abstract neo-surrealistic quality. In spite of the fact that After Midnight doesn't substantially belong to the fine art series of Spiritual Enlightenment - oriented Oeuvre,yet,it is nevertheless inspired by a similar persistent response at this highly emotional relation with life...or in this particular painting...with nightlife metamorphic sensorial metaphysics,definitely the role of a wandering poet across the perceptive mystery of the night time city outdoors. It's Saturday Night,the Queen of nightlife,and tonight I keep the artist company,while we talk about his latest artworks. Actually,I have little interest in the After Midnight scene,but my main motivation is to be as much as possible with the artist,my friend and my work's leading role actor. Being thirty two years older than him doesn't seem to be important.It never did and it never will.On the contrary,our chemistry is incresingly reaching perfection. We have some chinese for starters,that same exotic restaurant downtown,at a specific time when we are the only "innocent bystanders",enjoying our privacy and talking mainly about art and life.In the mean time we both seem to be making the most of the great cuisine selection randomly displayed all over the round table. Spring rolls,Shu Mai dumplings with pork ans shrimp,Egg Custard tarts,Chicken Chop Suey,Zodiac noodles,Won Ton soup,Har Gau...Wow!!!! It seems that the restaurant's owner whole family (but the cook...) are starring at us from the far end of the insence smelling exoctic temple.They don't laugh,they don't smile,they don't talk...just standing still starring at us with this blank,emotionless expression on their marble skin faces.Fair enough.I love the Oriental way,so does Pessoa. Antonio Pessoa is definitely a different man after midnight hour.In my opinion the city's nightlife provides him with an alternate outlook of existence metaphysics.More non-material,rather sensual,abandonely relaxed,almost deliciously blue-mooded in his glamorous lonesome way.A peculiar contrast but true. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship,between the artist and the worldwide art lovers community. I know this has the makings of a good punch line,but it's a good starting point,for whatever is coming up along the communication express on- going stimulating process,concerning the life and Oeuvre of one of the most controversial and unique artists of today's contemporary art times. This is no B movie whatsoever,rather a real- life play,where anything can happen,even the unexpected,unpredictable,unthinkable,unanswered and why not,even the unacceptably unspeakable. So let the dice roll and the show must go on,mysterious,delicious,contemporary, abstract,mystic and Neo-Surrealistic. Day time art studio living or lively night shift wandering,it's just wonderful to know art is being made based upon true facts,meanwhile real- life facts are being put down in words based upon the overview across the realms of artistic imagery. Free expression speech communication provides us once again with the priviledge of being in touch,sharing and exchange criterions of all sorts,tendencies and styles. Most importantly,we are here and now setting the measures of exciting multiple ideas,ideals,concepts and references. Writing and speaking on behalf of a contemporary fine art project,larger than life,and describe what art lovers should know about The Life and Oeuvre of an artist indeed making way for one of the most charming,eclectic and visually awesome art collections in today's artscene ,turns out to be a truly fulfilling and rewarding experience,an exciting daily ritual I certainly wouldn't give up,not even for all the gold in the world. Life is a mysterious adventure for all of us,a wonderful odyssey for many of us who have the pleasurable privilege to be able to enjoy all forms of expression,all forms of art,music,literature,poetry,motion pictures,architecture...and in this particular dimension,visual arts,yet more specifically,contemporary art. And precisely it is in this awesome universe that we are indeed bound to be in touch,able to share and communicate and most importantly looking forward to grow in knowledge,perception,sensitiveness,information,edu cation,culture and artistic erudition. At the contemporary headquarters,Antonio Pessoa's Studio 1,is indeed where everything really happens.Did I say everything? Yes.Everything and anything.Particularly and most important of all within the artist's mind,right where the visualization borns,grows up,gains context and concept and usually takes off like a supersonic idea speeding up across the cybernetic timeless space! Being an artist in today's competitive world requires a whole lot more than self- control,patience,determination,artistic quality,public relations know-how and supreme imagination. As a matter of fact,indeed,one actually has got to be an ultimate genius,particularly when it comes to human resources management,aiming at implementing motivation and the perfect dynamic mindset in everyone,one way or another,among the Project collaborators team. Stimulating and difficult task,at the same time. These days,Antonio Pessoa finds himself in the middle of a truly brainstorming multiple-projects breathtaking challenges full-swing agenda. From San Francisco to Paris,from London to Madrid,his endless list of coworkers contacts and systematic phone ringing interferences,indeed turns out to be a racing unavoidable on-going play on his daily life,providing him with a substantial extra- burden from which inevitably derive scant idyllic moments let alone eventually some headaches to go with. However,in spite of this tension-filled daily- weekly flurry bursts,(what do you know) somehow the artist successfully manages to maintain a pleasurable harmonious atmosphere in his art studio,social life and professional commitments cinematic flux. Definitely,Antonio Pessoa's life could be a quality movie script,always challenging,fascinating,adventurous and new.In the mean time it's rather entertaining and even amusing just to witness the way people continuously respond to his magnet-like positive energy,and particularly witness how he always seems to be living on the edge throughout his eight days a week dynamic working rhythm,managing sooner rather than later to strengthen those whose hearts are fully commited to his multiple projects. That's life,that's the life,that's the larger than life lifestyle! Lately,one of Pessoa's best friends,Boris Dainville,asked him "How much courage does it take to be an artist?".The painter,standing in front of the huge easel,slowly turned around and told him with this childlike enigmatic expression of startled innocence on his face "The question,Boris,is how much courage would it take me not to be one." Remarkable.Fact! Since 1997,when I first met Antonio Pessoa,I've been having the almost preverted privilege to record (and therefore evaluate and consequently report...)amazing episodes,unexpected changes,absolute dillematic crossroads,sometimes turning into a truly nail- biting decision taking struggling urgency,and ending up in yet just another full-swing display of everything-or-nothing spectacular,even unspeakable,love,sweat and tears sort of adventures. Nevertheless,he always did manage to go back to his studio(wherever it might have been at any specific point of his recent past colorful life...) and get down to work once again,totally focused,coming up with new artistic surprises,and most importantly remaining miraculously untraumatized as if nothing had happened.Nothing at all! Boris Dainville,tired of London's full- swing day in day out and social nightlife british gossip,comes once again to spend the weekend with the artist,and in the mean time gets off his chest all that physical and psychological pressure and stress of his current lifestyle circunstances. The both keep each others company,enjoying good conversation as always and in so doing once again establishing their similar outlooks of metropolitan life's pros and cons,existencialism- based black humor fluent literacy,and obviously,modern art,contemporary art,poetry,music,motion pictures,gossip,philosophical frequently asked questions,History,religion and more gossip. Boris loves Antonio Pessoa's latest contemporary fine art series,and sits for hours and hours in a row talking and watching the artist at work,while they go on and on exchanging the most interesting subjects available,still with more gossip updates to go with it. At last,FM Music playing on the cosy restaurant's old 60's radio,it's 8 p.m.,saturday evening,as we have dinner in front of the sea,our visual charming beach bar and grill with a full menu of great mediterranean sea food,after which we enjoy our sunset cocktails,first chatting randomly then inevitably leading to more intimate conversation and at last planning our trip to West Hollywood. However,the artist doesn't seem to share our systematic interest in one of my favorite cities,Los Angeles,let alone leave the comfort of his Home Studio for a ( maybe boring for him... ) cultural calendar in southern California. Antonio Pessoa's Home Studio,always the idyllic fine art cathedral where his intimate friends always seem to be leaving reality behind and enter the world of tomorrow's art fantasy.Fact. That's Life! Antonio Pessoa these days is working on more than twenty canvases simultaneously,let alone the watercolors super-production taking place at his Studio 7. No big deal for the artist,if you ask me.As a matter of fact it seems quite an easy-to-do multi- tasking process for the vital energy generating dynamic studio veteran. Boris Dainville and myself,sunny Sunday afternoon,we take a sit at the artist's Studio 1 as he finishes "That's Life",acrylic on canvas. Another charming symphony of colors,or shall we say,another visual delight symphonic contemporary fine art victory. "That's Life" is obviously reflecting Pessoa's latest full-swing daily-weekly striking motion picture,from his art studio breathtaking performance to his professional commitments overloaded agenda,from his personal life's outs and abouts to the challenging multiple projects he and his brainstorming collaborators from all over Europe,United States and even Latin America,are unquestionably fully commited to and by all means absolutely excited and enthusiastic about. That's Life!That's Antonio Pessoa's colorful and increasingly exciting life at his worldwide performance very best. Eventually breaking traditional patterns,this time it was Boris Dainville who actually came up with the accurate title "That's Life",for this polychromatic polimotion spectacular and even ambiguously entertaining contemporary abstract neo-surrealistic mainstream cutting-edge fine art canvas. Furthermore,I must claim,one of my favorites among the artist's most recent series.My opinion ( as an art critic and art collector ) leading to suggest a special public attention to Pessoa's on- going artistic quality achievements,where the striking visual impact makes a relevant difference between the current average and by all means Antonio Pessoa's unquestionable innovative contemporary new line. That's quality art! That's Life !!!! Antonio Pessoa recently came up with a rather brilliant concept named "MASTERPIECE".Not what you might be thinking or imagining right now.Not a painting,at least for the time being but actually a high- quality concept related with Mind Power and subsequently with art performance and lifestyle know-how.In short,the artist decides to turn his life into a spectacular Masterpiece! Breaking News! A Kingdom where everything fits and everything makes perfect sense,even when apparently the circumstances point out to the red lights of a general puzzling situation and sometimes even chaos. Sitting in his Doing without Doing comfortable leather armchair,Pessoa turns on his striking Mind Explorer search engine and after downloading the latest updates he is ready for another voyage across the Super Mind Universe. No matter how long it takes,he only takes action when his intuitive-logical reasoning makes sure everything makes perfect sense once again and it's action time! Not only deep down inside but throughout his year-after-year journey increasing awareness and self confidence,Pessoa truly knows how - one way or another - order out of chaos,train his brain and body for focused success and thereby once again make a striking Masterpiece out of his personal and professional life. After all he has proven to be a genius,not only in his larger than life high quality art expression,but overcoming disappointment,setbacks and at last check as by magic come the other side emotionally a whole lot stronger. When the contemporary master painted FREE,he sure knew exactly what he had in mind,what he was spiritually and emotionally up to,in short,set himself free of all the negative forces,turn on his super powerful imagination,install his wide Knowledge toolbar and higher,taller and stronger than ever,totally focused on his top of the list priorities,relax,cool down,and now with his easy- to-do intuition machine in full- swing...Abracadabra!Make a sensational Masterpiece out of his life.Free! It seems as if the artist starts everyday with a clean white canvas where he is going to express his top secrets to success and proceed with them in all that he will do 24 hours in a row. Surrounded himself with a team of believers,professionals in all areas,ready to step out everyday and network within his scope of top of the list priorities and Must accomplishments,his life is unquestinably day after day becoming a true Masterpiece.Fact. Antonio Pessoa,inevitably the Captain of his own ship,besides his challenging art studio performance,keeps on developing his mindset, leadership skills and global attitude in order to be able to take risks on a daily basis,confront systematic changes with open arms,thereby amazingly attracting all that he wants and creating his own MASTERPIECE ! Excellent concept.He actually named it to claim it! To turn disadvantages and setbacks into advantages and prosperity,has indeed become one of his most remarkable talents,let alone his mastery when it comes to listen and follow his intuition and instinct,a reference brand of his global reputation. Thereby,no wonder Antonio Pessoa's innovative concept of Life-beautiful and Free,meaning The Masterpiece,is not only achieving the unlimited nature of personal happiness,but actually creating already a consistent now-reality in his professional commitments and most important of all in his Life's rock solid integrity,perfect sense and global success! The way I see it (...and I'm not the only one...) - and believe me,I know what I'm talking about - the artist's fascinating and very specifically,rewarding process of setting himself Free...and consequently lead a truly fulfilling life,excelling in art performance,personal issues and professional systematic accomplishments...is indeed by now coming up with truly amazing positive results. By adding The Masterpiece factor into the Free brilliant equation,Pessoa instantly illustrates this with such a magnificent contemporary fine art king-size canvas precisely titled FREE! Antonio Pessoa thereby uses the Art-Pleasure- Time principle as an instant,also efficient gratification,his transparent secret with a potentially very big result.Emotional Freedom! However,his top commitments more than remaining safely untouched,they gradually gain more and more positive attitude and mind-power togetherness.A truly fantastic combination. Maybe (just maybe ) I have the privilege to be among the few people who actually fully understands the artist's outlook of life and most importantly his sharp perception of his inner- self. That's another reason which contributes to make Free,one of the most significant,important and meaningful paintings of his latest art collection. Let me explain. Antonio Pessoa,more than anyone I came across in my life,fully understands the power of his thought and imagination,enabling him to establish the "Doing without Doing" concept as one of his most dominant omnipresent Zen-oriented visualization of effortless action based in the wise principle that says that in the practice of the way,everyday something is dropped,less and less do you need to force things until finally you arrive at supreme manifestation through powerful action,only this time now with no struggle whatsoever. That is the artist's out in the open secret,the very heart and soul of his Masterpiece conceptual visualization and definitely his stairway to Freedom. Free,is the paradigmatic painting which - for obvious reasons - turned out to get the important task of being the gatekeeper-guarding the emotional freedom visualization that is increasingly growing and gaining solid shape,body,meaning and power in the artist's mind. Antonio Pessoa is by now unquestionably the spiritual forerunner of all contemporary artists.This great truth is known to all his closest friends,and as good news also travel fast,this truth is thereby becoming globally accepted,cheered and admired by a wide community of art lovers and public in general,thereby gradually becoming his faithful followers,as the artist's energetic waves vibrate and are brought near them as a new revelation artistic-spiritual sympathetic resonance. The Masterpiece concept making way for an impressive and remarkable positive transformation coming into his life,is constantly feeding his creative inspiration with brand-new aspects of reality,innovative images and cutting-edge ideas. Free,is the best example so far of this mindfulness,self-awareness and positive beliefs aiming at achieving the most rewarding of all goals.Art Supreme...and Emotional Freedom! A Life quickly becoming a Masterpiece! Virtue elements,such as focus,patience,tenacity and commitment,have been some of the better options in the artist's life throughout the years up to now,providing him with a relaxed,glamorous,fulfilling lifestyle,thereby allowing not only his artistic achievements pursuit sufficient time to grow and develop but also his personal-social life to have a brilliant positive impact on the non-fiction amazing story that his life has been,is and most certainly will be. As for now,prioritizing important issues such as turn his life into a Masterpiece,is where imagination ties in with focus,the dream of yet a better present and an even better future,by placing more value on the steps in between and all along the way! Not only mind-power,inner-self awareness and determination are required,but actually a great deal of talent,yes,talent aiming at reaching the wonderful state of Freedom by making Life the ultimate Masterpiece. The Light by which Antonio Pessoa's life is systematically guided,more than the lamp of experience,is the burning flame of positive thinking and rock solid courage to accomplish higher levels of personal growth,such as total emotional Freedom,a wonderland of supreme happiness inspired by the world's greatest faith.Universal Love! The Masterpiece concept,the artist's ultimate formula,is by now powerfully crushing and eliminating the last negative influences bad seeds and definitely providing him with a grab-it- now,go-for-it super vital energy and consequently with a cutting edge skyrocket quality artistic productivity. Antonio Pessoa's Free,and Live-the-Life-you- dream Masterpiece concept,takes off from his solid mindset,his technique of powerful visualisation as he actually put himself successfully in a privileged situation of global fulfillment. Here we go.You might enjoy reading the next paragraphs to grasp the concept and thereby come closer to fully understand the artist's fascinating universe. For starters,the difference between him and most of today's art scene contemporary artists,believe me,is the very fact that he has developed,particularly throughout the past three years,a very focused,trained and powerful Mind.Now,Pessoa visualises,feels,emotionally reasons and at last he can invent and communicate every innovative idea through quality art expression.Read more... FREE...anf the Masterpiece concept is after all the beautiful togetherness,a global living arquitectural breakthrough entitled to expand his knowledge,perception and every available emotional tools - mind,body and soul - an apparently complex process,however for him,due to his large experience and mastery in this field,a pleasurable easy-to-do emotional and intuitive processor that by now enables him to excel in art studio performance,to live and enjoy life to its fullest extent. Unlimited Freedom!FREE-What is the world public saying by now about Antonio Pessoa's winds of changes...as far as their eyes can see?Is his quality new line of contemporary fine art series an accurate reflection of his successful dynamic lifestyle? Let me explain. The Masterpiece concept is above all the artist's state of mind. The thought that we always have the choice is one of the most relevant notions of the Free canvas process,very particularly Antonio Pessoa's The Masterpiece concept.Through this free options endless Universe,the artist stands before every each of his now life's red traffic lights at the intersection he is eventually and actually daily approaching.That's precisely where experience,knowledge,decision-taking efficiency,talent,perception,intuition and most importantly,imagination,do actually come in. A great living combination is seriously at stake,Life Supreme,Art Emotion,The Masterpiece! And so it seems,as I personally profoudly believe it,there's no way back. He never gives in,never in nothing,great or small,large or petty,he never,never gives in except to convictions of Freedom,Emotional Greatness,Universal Love,global good sense...Life Supreme...The Masterpiece! The Masterpiece concept,as Pessoa visualises it,is really about making a wonderful life-plan and following through,cultivating innovative ideas and the mindset that is by now bringing him joy,fulfillment and excellent artistic performance.The Masterpiece concept turns out to be after all mainly a mental toolkit of practices he does implement to ensure his thoughts and actions lead to a quality level of Life Supreme! In two words - worth two thousand two hundred images - the wise Masterpiece freedom generating process,holds the golden secret keys to unleashing full global togetherness,super potential and definitely a rewarding legendary life. Waking up for a striking new adventure,that is the question and that is the miracle at stake.Values and beliefs,talents and passions,true purpose and life absolute meaning...The Masterpiece,Antonio Pessoa's everlasting partner and lifetime commitment,starting yesterday its fascinating non- fiction motion picture,bound to make a big,big difference and just about to take place in the huge magical screen of Universal Freedom Inn. Pessoa's effective Masterpiece concept generates desire to strive for things that were thought to be impossible before.The greatest reward lies in positive thinking,thereby the artist's mental conditioners to power up his Masterpiece absolute conceptual process,art long programming his whole vital energy and creativity to strive for the dreams he loves the most,setting his sights on higher artistic and public performances as his global abilities and skills grow in structure,quality,effectiveness and communicative chemistry. The stairway to everlasting emotional Freedom! That's absolutely contemporary,that's magical,that's Art,that's the ultimate cutting- edge Masterpiece! Aiming at the ultimate power of spiritual- emotional-social-universal-artistic Freedom,Antonio Pessoa adopts the pace of nature,his Secret leading him fast to the wonderful Life Supreme. Plenty of time researching,studying,thinking and patiently feeling,gut instinct development pointing towards the right direction...when everything suddenly starts making perfect sense and all the natural elements come into place,the perfect life's combination,exactly what it was meant to be,a worthwhile awesome adventure,the Free state of mind,the absolute togetherness,The Masterpiece. Simple as that...in spite of the inevitable complexity and commitment intensiveness of the long but rewarding journey. The artist uses his mind to create the wonderful reality he desires by forming a clear image of the true purposes of his life including his art performance daily living and brilliant creativeness. This spacious Universe of materializing and particularly manifesting this interesting talented and delightful combination,is actually where he is totally focused in driving his full potential into.Basically the idea is to follow a path of mind control that is by now leading him to experience a supreme state of consciousness,powerfully effective and bright like a transparent crystal,thereby accomplishing whatever form of lifestyle and art expression he wishes and decides to explore and consequently achieve. A blissful concept,the ultimate level of quality imagination,the absolute chemistry of higher conceptual elements aiming at a better,faster,richer living experience. Freedom,the ultimate destination of life transformation,is the artist's current key formula he has come up with to indeed being able to influence imagination to such an extent that effortlessly life's whole combination becomes...The Masterpiece! Some kind of Magic! Living in the fast lane of Elite,Pessoa goes on and on and on...inventing his own lifestyle.His philosophy on life is very simple.Life is too great to be little and he isn't specially concerned with what other people thinks of him.He knows he can solve most of the daily problems,his strenght lies within,it doesn't come from any outside forces. Self - Education of the highest merit! Thereby he takes chance after chance,aiming for the ultimate Freedom through imagination,individual style,truth,self- faithfulness and most importantly,a super motivated minset. A hero of his self-made circumstances,Antonio Pessoa travels through the big Art City,visiting systematically the affluent,high-class neighborhood,talks to the art collectors,artists,art critics,gallerists,just to discover the same old thing. There are a whole lot more exciting opportunities out of the art scene zone,just about to be explored.The Keys,so he keeps on telling me all of the time,are quite simple.Whatever he gives his attention to and focuses on, shapes his Supreme Combination,the artist creates the perfect stage to determine and thereby create his ultimate destiny.Creative success,emotional prosperity and absolute happiness,resulting in the magical rewarding cause and effect all in one. The Masterpiece! It's definitely not an illusion.It's a Must on- going now-reality,taking place in every aspect of Pessoa's increasingly exciting life. This larger than life concept,made reality by the artist,holding with rock solid determination the handle of faith,has landed in the Here and Now Wonderland of the one thousand and one secrets of stress-free life. No adrenaline rushes required,even when the art scene pressure gets as hot as hot can be. Consumed with loving,playful artistic performance,enjoying inner,professional and social life fully,Antonio Pessoa is absolutely trusting the supreme flow,connected with a high- level of emotional potential and a perpetual vital energy,a freedom flow of bliss within himself.The ecstasy everlasting state he has achieved successfully using invention and full- swing imagination as the Ultimate Oeuvre,the higher form of Art,where the entire Universe became his playground and Freedom the omnipresent flow of his River of Life! Divine mindfullness in the Now,celebrating the Now state of perpetual ebb and flow of the tides,celebrating his fulfilling existence and in so doing becoming the Master of his Art,of all arts,and most important of all the Master of Life. The Truth shows up as the rising summer sun,showing the wonderful infinite nature of The Masterpiece! Sharp cognitive abilities and imagination are the artist's basic essentials in the exciting process of the making of The Masterpiece. Mind power function efficiently zaps away all negative forces and interferences,and a new striking creative energy flows and his nutrient imagination is optimal to such an extent that putting all the pieces together to solve life's mysterious puzzles and overcome all obstacles and crossroads,suddenly turns out to be a rather enjoyable,entertaining easy-to-do task,and the more he now experiences Life Supreme the better it becomes. Pessoa's now powerful attraction to manifest what he wishes the most,Emotional Freedom and Super Artistic Performance,is the golden key to the Masterpiece concept,to the Absolute Freedom project absolute effectiveness,perception of himself and reality making the whole Universe conspire and thereby providing him with the magical tools to make and update the top quality privilege of living and being alive,while achieving the highest level of self- fulfillment.Life Supreme! At last,Here and Now,so easy to do it in a snap.Just fun ways for the artist to raise his manifesting vibration and thereby reach higher and higher levels of hopefulness,expectation,art studio action perfect alignment,joy,excitement,emotional intelligence,literally taking full control of life and manipulating at will the making of his most adventurous,daring,colorful and rewarding ultimate Work of Art. It seems to be more than perfectly clear,there is no doubt that artist Antonio Pessoa is fully determined to achieve his Masterpiece-Oeuvre resolutions,one by one,one day at a time for ever and starting yesterday.That's his wisest choice and he's doing it today,tomorrow,everyday.He turns his Masterpiece concept resolution in a few,easy-to-do simple common sense steps.He dares to dream,he excells in decision-making,he intuitively defines the abstract notions of living,developing plans,dreams,visions and projects,and he does it on a pleasurable,exciting systematic daily basis.A permanent Life Supreme lifetime resolution,something so wonderful that is with him for good.Furthermore it's pretty obvious he has become a much better artist,a privileged man,he is loving it all the way and enjoying the exciting journey.Free! It's vitally important to put what the artist Free process is all about,into words.The concrete steady meaning of the canvas creates right from the start an enduring set of exciting short- term,long-term commitments,however almost a virtual space in which is spontaneously visualized and emotionally accomplished in one fell swoop the whole concept of quality living. A Big Dream?Definitely.By all means the greatest Artwork Pessoa could have possibly come up with,the most challenging,exciting and rewarding of all dreams. Must I remind you - just in case - the level where all Life elements Must and do Match! The Supreme Understanding as to how the artist deals with his life,relationships and his career path,which fits entirely into the Free - Freedom - process and into the frame of the Masterpiece combination phenomenon. Time out!The artist decided before taking the first steps to make this real commited decision. Freedom was the priority number one,The Prize,and as a result,living a life of excellence turned out to be a current natural process in his awesome agenda. And he is definitely succeeding! The Magnet keeps on growing in strength and alignment,the energy to excel gains more power as imagination keeps on producing more and more creative elements filling up the exciting colorful puzzle-game titled The Masterpiece. However,there is no single secret.It's rather a combination of many different items.A Formula! The following principles,imagination,universal love,strategies,emotional positive heartbeat and daily fully determined action are after all the magical stepping stones leading him to become the paradigmatic high achiever aiming for accomplishing the ultimate artwork ever.Free! Changing artist Antonio Pessoa's entire life and art performance! Surpassing anything that our imaginations can conjure,Antonio Pessoa's Masterpiece concept is yielding mega results by now.Fact. The artist's strong message to share with the world,that's also the Free concept Art to Life,Mind-Power to Freedom,artist to public congeniality. Built on sustained,consistent and honest prescription values,Antonio Pessoa's Masterpiece master phenomenon - definitely not an overnight success - acknowledges on the whole that living a Life Supreme,far from being a whimsical dream,is by all means turning out to be a fine tuned now- reality quickly on it's way up the ladder to absolute Freedom! Antonio Pessoa Delicious Silence Delicious Silence,is one of those paintings that suggests a variety (apparently simple),of ways to affirm the artist's daily religious rituals,moments of pleasurable relaxed meditation,through which he becomes stronger in confidence and in so doing listening in his mind to the diminishing volume of loud and racing city life noise. Also one of those spiritual- visualization canvases that in spite of their simplicity,actually take weeks and even months before the artist finally decides That's It and signs them. Also one of those alternative non- stereotyped day after day mirrors,in which the artist basically performs patiently his most enjoyable and inspiring momentes of inner-self contact silence and high level of perception and insight. Unquestionably to a certain extent the driving force which keeps him essentially magnificent,absolutely positive thinking and thereby immune to the daily challenging picture of professional commitments and quite often feverish burning social life flame. Sunset! Delicious silence! As we walk up the hill the sky was already turning from blue to orange.The anticipation was building with every step.As we got closer to the top of the hill the bright orange sun came into view.It was glorious! Antonio Pessoa was so excited he couldn't stop running to get to the top.As we got to the top of the hill and sat on a bench,the sun was slowly sinking behind a distant mountain range."Goodbye sun!",the artist said as it sank beyond the horizon "I'll see you tomorrow!" It was a most relaxing time. The artist sitting next to me on the bench,said" Delicious Silence! I love it...and I will paint it!" Effective therapy.Said and done.More than you can imagine the artist's level of well-being and happiness is much higher in his Home Studio creative peaceful atmosphere than in the downtown at times emotionally disturbed racing madness. His philosophy and and rock solid concept of emotional brilliance comes out of his systematic research upon the keys to the art of living a fulfilling,rewarding and happy life. Delicious Silence is another of the multiple artistic results of this expanded awareness,optional lifestyle and faithful daily rituals. These patterns of existential preferences and self-therapy,such as peace of mind,serenity and continuous pursuit of higher levels of happiness,creates his art,his life and at last makes his ultimate personal dreams come true. Slowly and rhythmically,artist Antonio Pessoa gets down to work,finding a delicious quiet and peace overcome him little by little.When he has finally reached this stage,then he begins to focus his full attention on the canvas before him.Lovely! That's in this delicious silence where he meets once again this delicious presence of supreme awareness,and that's when and where imagination flows and art expression perception grows. Settled down in his Studio 1,where mainly his important art performance takes place and his most relevant artworks come alive,Pessoa here and then takes again some downtime to quiet his being,and thereby allows his mind to become sharply aware of his silent environment from the input of all his senses.Delicious Silence...Art Action Time! Now that he has reached that high level of awareness inwardly and outwardly,he sinks even deeper into the magical universe of supreme creativeness art making,now with a far greater confidence,stability and attentiveness to the artwork at hand. Worthwhile waves gravitate to the artist.In,around,underneath and beside him. Ascension to a new state of consciousness! Antonio Pessoa rides the serenity energy waves while painting,while I sometimes watch him painting,asking him questions,listening to his vibrational answers as I put them down in brief words on my notepad. Studio 1,in its pleasurable contemplating silence,is a higher dimension on earth,so I feel and I know,a place of reflection,art and creative positive frequencies. Leaving the old,outdated methods to discover new,beautiful ways of contemporary art expression,new color combinations,fascinating mood swings,multidimensional interconnected forms,shifts and levels,gradual chromatic transitions,the quiet Studio 1 space effects making sure every bit of his dancing body is loose,mind without tension,connecting with the art planet,feeling the sources of inspiration within the silence,deliciously bright,as the striking brush strokes take it away onto the canvas until it's glowing with brilliant visual metaphysics. The veil is lifting as the show goes on in Studio 1's heartbeat.The soulful side of life,the art side of life is beginning to take center stage within the artist's creative spirit. Pessoa is now in the cycle of evolution where imagination and art expression is demanding to be acknowledge and allowed to be at the helm of Heavenly life. Antonio Pessoa's spiritual side requires the essential nature of Delicious Silence,where life's interpretation knows no lack,only abundance of all there is.This is the part of supreme inspiration that is desiring to shine and the artist at work is only the mediator and the conduit. So it's in this third- dimensional reality that Delicious Silence has grown week after week,month after month,gradually reflecting more and more the artist's relation with pure abstract poetry,with that level of relaxing awareness,where everything starts to make perfect sense,and the call to art action becomes a religious ritual,totally focused on the Here and Now,where pure art performance takes place aiming at create the alternate perception of reality. As Antonio Pessoa becomes more and more seriously involved in the pursuit of self knowledge through silence,this spirit of Universal Awareness is thereby leading him to a delicious feeling of a special sort,his Secret for all the highly creative sessions in the particular field of his latest abstract neo- surrealistic contemporary fine art series. Visual literature and poetry through the soft colors combinations,reaching the magical very best of its quality characteristics,subtleties and innovative aesthetic atoms. In Delicious Silence,the artist makes therefore evident that there is a purposeful mystery contained in its melting body,in its serene passion and mood that is changing with every moment the viewer contemplates this relaxing work of art. Continuously moving and changing,it can hardly gives us a consistent identity,and the more we surf away across tha canvas space,its planetary motions inspiring infinite interpretative changes,suddenly give us a delicious cosmos understanding,feelings dancing in a continuous state of flux,whispers of truth silently walking on the doorsteps of our hearts. This Spirit- source-Art-Universe that is emmited from the quiet strength of this canvas,supports this inner- self discovery influence the artist displays in his latest work and life. Accessing the Wisdom within this charming artwork,we inevitably embrace its latent sense of spirituality and in so doing we inevitably penetrate much deeper into the nature and the world of Perception,again,Antonio Pessoa conducting us to understand what lies beyond the visual field of our objective imagination. The artist's method to develop this latent,additional senses through silent meditation is skillfully well summarized in the soothing atmosphere of Delicious Silence,softly whispering us the fascinating phrase,Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder! http://antonio-pessoa-lifenews.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/9b94e4571349845d7951899fa8d9fe17_48fee8a4.writeback Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:47:32 -0500 Antonio Pessoa Free Speech It's common knowledge that action expresses priorities.Antonio Pessoa has developed it to such a high level Fine Art degree that he really should get an honorary doctorate,believe me.Now you may be thinking that it would be terrific to have all the art lovers community calling him Genius.However the artist is far more concerned about living in the real world,achieve his personal dreams and most importantly have a fulfilling enjoyable life. What you focus on,expands.Fact. The artist recently found a wonderful definition of abundance,in Art and Life.Flow! Flow gives him such a magnificent movement to the feeling of creative abundance.Pessoa describes it like the flow of a river,there is so much abundance in the nature of Imagination,that at a certain point of his studio performance he begins to see himself as a part of that creative abundance.Creative flow! Studio time!There is an ease and a loss of time ( Timeless Time !) to what he is doing.Art!He then seems to loose track of time and he is so present that he actually experiences a breathtaking joy. Totally connected with Art,he is now surfing in the flow,again,like the river,he steps into it and allows the current to carry him as he creates,works and plays. The art action flow feels good and is fun! I speak about artistic abundance in this review all the time.Why?Because Antonio Pessoa's work is about showing others a pure reflection of himself through Contemporary Art expression,it's true larger than life communicative potential. On the whole,the rock- solid concepts that surround these beliefs,lifestyle,attitude and expression of the artist becomes inevitably his identity and consequently his reputation. The story teller,in great detail or in abstract art fashion,fuels his public identity of being significantly the paradigmatic contemporary communicator and automatically he keeps on finding new people,artists,art collectors,web designers,art critics and art lovers with whom to play it out. Like attracting like,set in motion in the ultimate positive and creative process,format and manners. The author of his own life and the master of the Art,magically motivated to serve the public,which is after all the soul of the artist's natural commitment to use the visual expression tools to share,express,educate,re- design,suggest and communicate a New Era of literate perception and herald the great possibility of a new fascinating world of mutual positive manifestation and interaction,Antonio Pessoa's Contemporary Fine Art Universe proves systematically to be a new potential of quality references in total relation to everything around us,and everything which directly concerns us,affect us and at last can actually change our thoughts and life,attracting the real possibility for a better World. Before and during the making of "Free",the artist already knew too well what was supposed to come up soon.That the future of his life,his Art and most importantly the future of his Art's power to spread,communicate and share,would be a short term product of the Thought which substantially inspired and gave birth to the charming contemporary Masterpiece titled "Free" This had to be a painting totally capable to attract positive energy in every possible direction,namely in his own perception and emotional wisdom and definitely in the public's understanding that a new and innovative inspiring concept and magnet was available and providing new answers,new solutions and a whole lot of surprises. This painting,a truly positive emotional state generator,more than living up to its title,is the artist's ultimate vision of happiness,sharing,fulfillmente and Freedom! Antonio Pessoa's main message,he successfully expresses through his latest contemporary series,much more than just Hope,is the assurance which allows us to actually believe we all can go beyond our boundaries and reach our wildest expectations and dreams through emotional abundance and the magical forces of imagination and creativity. The whole message seems to be clear enough by now,how it is possible to achieve the ultimate condition to actually be able to live fully the "Free" concept,experience abundance in all areas and to grow into Life Supreme,becoming an artist of life and be able to relate and respond to whatever shows up so we all be ready to enjoy the creativity in it and live our existence by expressing ourselves from our authentic beings. The artist's message magic simplified,meaning we all can do anything we like,we all can live the life we desire. A cutting edge new Vision,Pessoa systematically expresses and shares through Arts! After reading this article,we all should have a more thorough understanding as why Antonio Pessoa's Contemporary Fine Art series and all which they involve,have received positive reviews for the past three years.Blissfully reputable. However,strange as it seems,the fact is,the artist on the whole has no idea what professional success is,nor does he cares.It has no importance in his life and the fact that he doesn't give any particular attention or specific worry about fame levels , means that his Art remains pure,healthy,untouchable and most importantly,alive! Thereby the incredible power of "Free" manifesting a Free Speech of significant spiritual models,innovative emotional concepts,new Art and positive intentions,creates a continuous interesting paradox across the universe where creativity,productivity and communication perpetuate the cycle of his endless methods to transform perceptive synchronicities and intuitive opportunities into one of the most charming and stimulating combinations of today's contemporary art. At this point of his fantastic journey,it seems only natural that,if there is something the artist systematically makes his priority number one,is the implied desire to turn Contemporary Art expression into an easy digest worldwide exciting reality.This is after all his reputable process of direct communication through Visual Arts,while he goes on identifying people's general perspective as a prerequisite for providing them with the right attractive formula in order to make them experience the emotional power of visual literature as a most enjoyable,playful,effortless and exciting Must ritual. In short,Art doesn't have to be a boring issue,that's the general idea,on the contrary,Pessoa volunteers his way and style to make Visual Arts seem like fun and magic. This exciting vision of what Contemporary Art should,must and can actually be,after all,once again and once and for all makes the ultimate difference between the ongoing average and his unique communication notion,potential and motion. Antonio Pessoa's "Free" contemporary Masterpiece,actually gave birth to this and made way to this interesting related display of new artworks,an Art Collection "Free" oriented and inspired by the artist's Best Life,Know How To,Anything You Like Project.Easy,said and done. Free Speech was just another spontaneous artistic investment,part of this conceptual abundance and exciting commitment. So far,the huge painting titled "Free",is the paradigmatic canvas,which illustrates and leads into every possible direction,these magical forces inevitably programming his ways to Life Supreme,actually the greatest shortcut to Quality Living,the artist came up with so far. Changing his views,changing his Mind,changing his Art and inevitably changing his Life,is right now Pessoa's cutting edge experience,the ultimate challenge and definitely his most relevant Masterpiece ever! http://antonio-pessoa-lifenews.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/e3c7cea102103f8f38089bf139bfde2d_48fe201c.writeback Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:31:56 -0500 Antonio Pessoa Passion Play By the time you finish reading this article,you'll discover Antonio Pessoa's secret to reaching the peak Art and Life performance level. This secret at this point of his life is responsible for generating successful gigantic projects and innovative amazing artistic concepts,each and everyday. So what's the contemporary Great Master's mindset that makes his Art and Life route extremely easy? This question has been reviewed over and over again and the multiple rewarding results in the artist's life ,that's all one needs to accept the fact that after all it's a matter of positive attitude and his supreme master key,imagination.On the whole,his most important thinking is his infinite beliefs that everything is possible. This Passion automatically sets his creative juices in motion and effective action to play right here and right on time the ultimate role,where invention is the light bulb,Pessoa's magical inner device which connects him anywhere,anytime with the universe of multiple possibilities and opportunities,making way for for him and his team to actually live an exciting and rewarding experience everyday. Antonio Pessoa's Passion-mindset has brought him the lifestyle of perfect abundance he is living and sharing with his friends,co-workers and public,feeling how wonderful it is and it feels to make Art and enjoy life his way and doing the things he desires and is so passionate about. The artist quality mindset keeps brightening his outlook,raising his emotions,and increasingly allowing him to be more and more the magnet,mentor and model to artists and public,and in so doing also allowing them to experience the many benefits of how easy it is to skyrocket Art and Life,just by unleashing the power within,with Passion,joy,excitement,ready to step on the stage and play! The artist's method to attract this New World of infinite possibilities,in Art and Life,has become a Must - much asked for - magical combination of wise steps and master key attitudes. Realistic or not,he may even imagine to walk on water as he splashes colors onto the canvas,even walking on the moon,once he decides it's possible. This analysis of the artist's Passion Play,is brutally applied,as his fulfilling consciousness of his strong points and talents become a clears vision ready for action and interactive communication,as he marks his place in his progress and throughout the process. By creating a dynamic environment with all the elements and features of improvement,to actually provide him with this great emotional payoff. Not like in the movies,but like in real life. The value of this method is once again the power of Passion,something to aim for,a direction in his studio performance and social-professional life. Antonio Pessoa's absolute awareness of how vital Passion is to increase not only his artistic productivity but equally important and very specific concrete pictures of what he really wants to express,communicate,share,where he wants to go and how he wants his life and Oeuvre to be...has made him actually wind up here,playing with passion for fun rather than perfectionism,systematically adjusting along the way,by learning new information and the real feedback he is systematically receiving. This method also includes a daily focused mental visualization,where art performance is a researching process of doing it over and over again,making the picture bigger,the expression- communication more vivid,animated and life absolutely three dimensional. Focused on this exciting process rather than the outcome,Pessoa,the artist,the inventor,the contemporary Great Marter,the Art Expert and definitely the great communicator,covers his favorite topics,such as devoted art studio performance,mindset-attitude skills and most importantly always aiming at living a happier and more positive life. Antonio Pessoa,a professional art veteran since the mid 80's,can be assumed as the paradigmatic self-made man-artist,having learned the tweaks and tricks and extra tutorials of the art business as time went by,and as his artistic skills skyrocketed to an extreme high level quality. Ultimately,Pessoa seems to be a living revival of the twentieth century's Modern Great Masters singularity,independent minded and similarly commited to create something (...anything !) greater than himself. Absolutely aware of the idea that for everything,for every situation,and for every opening night or art business meeting,there is a Best Solution,he has developed this surgical urgency to always perform at his fullest potential,the result of an experienced individual in the art business for quite a length of time now,who knows and has it in his system for good that ultimately the best education is when one has learned,experienced the real world,and gained from it. Definitely a contemporary artist and an art business man fully equipped,fully trained and pragmatically capable. No wonder that Passion and Action is always a definite part of his life,a life that talks about emotional intelligence,law of attraction,but also inevitably about fixing problems,and look good in a dimension called Art Scene,a complex city with so many avenues these days that those unexperienced emerging artists might as well find themselves in a burning hell of a jungle. In a world of art galleries online,online art dealers,online artists and even online art collectors...in a world of newspapers,magazines,television,radio,brochures and flyers,emails,internet marketing,web sites,search engines and cell phones,Antonio Pessoa,the great communicator loves the customer and the public,to such an extent,that his Passion,Action,Fair Play,Know-How and mindset,is a combination ablaze which plays for the best in quality Art,systematically checking out new ways of expression,information,ideas,while increasing his knowledge and providing exciting enough resources that any art gallery owner,art dealer,art collector,would be interested in.And the good news report that they actually are! Another day,day after day staying in the present,focusing on the tastes of Art and Life,sounds,emotions,ideas,projects,dreams and other impressions from this exciting experience of living life the creative way.Antonio Pessoa's default mode is to hang in his intimate triumph,his popular easy going way,spending his time BEING rather than DOING. And the research goes on,delicious moments to acknowledge and appreciate the wonders of other fellow artists work. This time,inspired and motivated to explore Artlease galerie - Kunstuitleen,Utrecht,nl,Pessoa sees an excellent example immediately as he stumbles upon artists such as Ad Arma,Antony de Baat,Jan van Diemen,Jelis van Dolderen,Chris Buursen and also Baldin,just to mention some. This research ritual,is a powerful one,for Pessoa believes profoundly that observation precedes all quality creativity,and hence,creative energy follows this exciting process of being guided by the best of what's being accomplished worldwide in the universe of abstract contemporary art. Wisely represented by Artlease Galerie, Ad Arma surprises Antonio Pessoa by his original selection of paintings,sculptures and etchings,showing a solid foundation of impactful motion through unique color sequences and combinations,which visual results,while incredibly enigmatic,follow a defined path however generating a personal interpretation,even a challenging vacuum,infinitely relaxing,as time slips by,time goes but the visual alignment remain in our senses in a state of eternity. Artlease is thereby infinitely blessed by having Ad Arma among his art collection of quality contemporary artists. Antonio Pessoa very probably finds in Ad Arma the same pure intentions he currently believes in as the high magic of art expression at its very best,assisting and awakening a new consciousness to nurture the process of growth and unfoldment of pure spontaneous metaphysical contemporary expression. One of the best reasons for visiting Artlease on a regular basis,Ad Arma definitely reveals a fulfilling virtual-visual-conceptual and very personal prophesy,which is a compulsory Must. Public,art gallery owners,art collectors,are like Art.They want to be understood. You can almost hear art collectors whispering "You don't even know me " or maybe something like " You're not listening to me",or even, "You're not feeling me"! When are these situations supposed to be resolved once and for all? That's where Antonio Pessoa-the great communicator- comes in. He doesn't waste his time on the false assumptions that the artist is the one to be understood,so therefore his talent for understanding the art collectors true motivational sources,has added amazing response results and made them align with his Oeuvre and worldwide reputation,as one of the few living artists empowered to think differently through connecting the situation with new visions,self- assurance and no wonder this winning attitude has inevitably brought him all positive outcomes. So, after putting this information together,built on ethical and moral standards,Pessoa has established a set of cutting edge rules to play by,marking his highest new starting points for the actions he takes,including inevitably,art studio performance at his very best. Lucky Stars- Passion Play,this is a major challenge for contemporary artist Antonio Pessoa. Although the New Age-New Era art space created in that Contemporary Fine Art model and universe provided the area that he needed to be able to stand up and allow himself to be energetically creative and systematically aiming at further action and global communication... Needless to say that his powerful feelings of having already accomplished a dynamic art-social- time-zone that supports his passion and most importantly his focused desire to celebrate Art and Life with impactful enthusiasm,leads him to choosing to look continuously forward to new experiences to discover and adopt a broader perspective in order to rise above the level of average,meaning,to rise above of the tasks already accomplished and completed. While working from his Home-Studio ( wherever it might be,depending of the year seasons or his moods ) - one of Pessoa's most relevant advantages is living the Big Dream come true,and for so many people working with him,from art critics to web designers,from internet marketers to private biographers,from frelancer art dealers to other artists who come regularly to his studio to learn the latest dancing steps to take right away to boost their art performance and much more... That's how many great beliefs did actually change his life,from the local artist of ten years ago today,and the life of the driving energy of CAN,attracting things,people and rewarding situations to support him and his Oeuvre in having the reputation he-it deserves. It is here,it's Antonio Pessoa's daily life where Passion plays the ultimate role to break through and win,where Passion makes all the difference between average and creative uniqueness. Pessoa's latest paintings are inevitably the perception and representation of emotional intensity. The artist's astounding capacity to articulate shapes by juxtaposing surfaces of different colors,symbolic shapes and various points of perspective,make Antonio Pessoa - Contemporary Fine Art series highly subjective ( and very pleasant to the eye ),even creating in the viewer,perceptual psychological effects,however abstract and sometimes,shall we say,neo- surrealistic,the symbolical meanings form a harmony,even a melody with different optional contexts to it. That's why the esthetical value of artists like Jelis van Dolderen,Baldin,Chris Buursen,Antony de Baat and of course Ad Arma,inspires and stimulates Pessoa's sense of freedom of movement and the abstract beauty of this fantastic flow of energy. Incorporated in the great criteria of Artlease Galerie,these fellow artists provide Pessoa with an accurate stylization of the New World of New Art and beyond. With the power of Passion,Antonio Pessoa plays to win,while getting what he wants.This secret weapon is the artist's charisma,the personal power and attractiveness that enables him to be self-motivated on a around the clock basis,blessed by how he gets inspired to suggest new artistic options and innovative formulas and how he uses his natural influence to network with the right people. One of Pessoa's most relevant elements is Presence as his commanding quality,wherever he is,wherever he goes,even when he is nowhere to be seen. His unique style to stand out and be different in a positive and striking way. A prestigious person accustomed to being in high social circles,Pessoa is never - however "star-struck",simply because his aura of charisma is pure instinct,perception and intuition oriented,working to his advantage as a natural law. To interpret Pessoa's Art and Life,after all has little or nothing with Lucky Stars,however a subtle though rock-solid combination of skills and multiple talents,is more likely to be a reliable source in order to understand the artist's natural involvement in the very best,supreme and excellent that life can bring. Antonio Pessoa's fantastic team,marketing his Art and Life News to millions all over the world,has become a successful operation,with a very important trait in common. They know what they want,what they are promoting,the message in which they invariably believe in,they know the Art Scene world,they know where they are heading to,aiming at,they know what they want to accomplish . This one-on-many communication process,provides the artist with enough valuable time to be totally focused on his art studio performance,in his Home-Studio,his favorite place and art his ultimate exciting passion and devotion. The rule of Antonio Pessoa's dynamic team,is simply the complex task of reaching a large audience of potential art collectors worldwide,and public in general,educated and genuinely interested in high-quality Art. So,dear art lovers,do please,close your eyes and see clearly. Close your eyes and see the title Antonio Pessoa - Contemporary Fine Art written in the sky. What size are the letters? Yes.Larger than life. The size of his Passion. The quality content of his Play...and... The cutting edge possibilities of his Oeuvre! http://antonio-pessoa-lifenews.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/93fe392ec70ad1f5461a54cd60af890c_48fdce2a.writeback Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:42:18 -0500 Antonio Pessoa Visions Antonio Pessoa,more than ever,is well aware that there is a whole system out there running our Universe. He's been intensively working this over for over two years now,as a steady Mind researcher and inevitably his recent contemporary art series reflect faithfully with definity reciprocity this on and on and on Spritual Genesis process the artist is going through. One million stepping stones for his personal,artistic,social life and public journey. The artist's honest evaluation and reputable wisdom dictates that Freedom starts every each moment he takes a look at his life and knows a fullfilling life must be spiritually,personally and emotionally rich,and art action is the priority factor that brings him rewarding results on a daily basis.The one thing that brings him the greatest satisfaction. Visions of Freedom and Life Supreme,provide him with the boosting motivation to make growth a daily commitment.Beyond Antonio Pessoa's Visions excellence comes up not as an act but as a natural effortless habit. Now we all have no doubt he is succeeding in all areas he is commited to. Free! A creative Mind building Visions and make them what he wills.Every hours of his life consciously and unconsciously.An artist creating his own mentality,and in so doing powerfully suggesting and influencing his increasingly rich and exciting reality. By systematically establishing a close connection between the Individual Will and Universal Will,Visions of Life mighty power at his command,the artist experiences the ultimate Mastery of emotional Freedom. Fanciful Visions to Truth and simplicity following his own voice through the magical art performance odyssey as a cheering heavenly audience erupts in a deafening ovation. Let alone being totally focused on his exciting Contemporary Fine Art series,studio daily work,in the spiritual field,Antonio Pessoa in essence systematically develops a sunny bright Tunnel Vision providing him with a powerful ability to focus on what is crucial and relevant for his knowledge enhancement,one of the main reasons his level of life quality is becoming more and more in correlation to his amazing talent to make the most of completely re- programming his Mind and go on walking down the sunny boulevard of Life Supreme. This is an absolute Must thinking Magic,a Psycho Cybernetics exciting adventure,a Vision on the hook for absolute emotional and artistic Freedom. Yes,the artist is successfully performing some effects that suggest what Visions may turn out to be,depending on how you perform them.Remarkable! And fact is,the ongoing effects in his life are proving to b esubstantially good,strikingly magical and surprisingly perfect. The artist's Visions of greater and higher ways to get on acting on his wildest dreams,has long become his number one passion,the next level of Art,his secret tools to celebrate life,applying an exciting whole system of innovative formulas aiming at creating magical results to boosting hapiness and ultimate Freedom. Antonio Pessoa,always particularly talented at generating new ideas and coming up with new schemes to exercise his creative power and instincts,is becoming more and more involved in living his personal,artistic and public life by thriving on adventure,knowing beforehand that some of the best ideas actually come out of the blue and all he has to do is to keep and open mind to see their virtue. Can you actually imagine ever doing what makes you real happy,only ever working with what you are passionate about ? Well,this is the direction the artist's life is taking right now.Bring it on ! Perceptive Visions of one thousand and one ways to live and enjoy Life Supreme,make absolute Art, ( and perfect sense ! ) and reach the highest levels of Happiness,Wisdom,Awareness,Enlightnment,Fulfillmen t and everlasting Freedom. Antonio Pessoa's straightforward steps toward effective and magical Visualization are definitely inner guidance oriented and inspired,as a brave new world of outstanding possibilities come to him through pictures,words and feelings. No need to control or manipulate whatsoever.The artist's open mind allows the Visions to come as messages and possible dreams or even revelations that seem to answer even the wildest and most controversial and complex questions as the ultimate confirmation that emotional potential is after all the most powerful magnet that can indeed attract the wonders of conspiring Universe into real life. Visualizing through high level quality Visions,reaching Imagination's full potential,Pessoa paints his present and paints his future,as in Art performance,making absolutely sure all his dreams come true while the conspiring Universe gives him total permission to believe and beyond,take perceptive and accurate action and finally see them become a reality. Life Supreme Newsletter! If Contemporary Art is what stirs his passions,with an intense sunny gleam in his eyes and a powerful bounce in his steps,his Visions these days keep him deliciously tuning into the multiple wonders that are worth waking for in the mornings. It sounds like Magic,but it is really so simple,when he freely goes on finding Visions of Wisdom systematically floating into his mind as he delightfully fascinated watches what now happens in is life and in his Art,in such a way that even pleases the souls of the ones around him,his friends,fellow artists,web designers,managers,co- workers,collaborators,art critics,family and public. While Pessoa is re-designing his complete profile and outlook of life,his Art is unquestionably a faithful reflection of his emotional Freedom Generator.Himself! Most important of all the artist is growing more and more concerned about his necessity (even urgency!) of aligning his dreams to the Greater Good,including the desire to bring Contemporary Art a fresh new Vision through which he is successfully spreading around and widely communicating the vibrational concept of Universal togetherness. Every each day,proving to be a great believer and a full commited contributor to the expansion and liberation of the Whole,through facts,actions,through attitude,and inevitably through art expression,Antonio Pessoa believes and remains connected to how essential it is to infuse all of our actions and thoughts with positive energy. Evaluating his gifts,talents and abilities we finally come to fully understand Antonio Pessoa's Visions snowball effect and how they are actually contributing to improve the quality of life of others,starting right at his Home Studio,among his friends and soulmates,using his inspiration for attaining abundance and experience the freedom and liberation needed in order to manifest his greatest potential and in so doing inspire others to do the same. Visions of Love within desire,while celebrating Visions of sharing,sharing the secrets of how to create well- being,graduating to Life Supreme,Fulfillment and Freedom. The artist's new invention,new intention,new way of living and feeling and consequently bringing these wonderful concepts to life and making way for Contemporary Art on its way to reach the worldwide public with the explicit message of a better World ! http://antonio-pessoa-lifenews.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/95cff3a0dbfc0494ca1fd630286aa151_48fdcd00.writeback Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:37:20 -0500 Antonio Pessoa Weekend Report Once again,I fly from Canary Islands to spend the weekend with my favorite living artist and one of my best friends as well.Skip intro,for between the two of us,after all these years and after all these countless moments of mutual excellent conversation,shared bizarre episodes and a few unspeakable adventures,by all means no ceremonial rituals required whatsoever,simply put and absolutely true. He picks me up at the densely populated airport and the silent perfect-mannered chauffeur drives us back to his idyllic castle more popularly known as Antonio Pessoa-Home Studio. A new life in the sun,a new weekend in the relaxing and cosy atmosphere of the spacious living area all the more enchanting by the friendly staff,let alone the artist's awesome and most entertaining recent new line contemporary fine art canvases and watercolors.Wall Art at his unquestionable very,very best,if you ask me. After a dimlit mediterranean food dinner at the balcony overlooking the warm summer night,during which we pleasurably break news and get on with our lives latest episodes and metaphysics updates,we have a Scotch while strolling about Studio 1 as he shows me his on- going canvases,drawings and watercolors,a true dream factory,and sooner than I expected it was 2.a.m. and my obnoxious yawning was already warning me it was just about time to call it a night,so next thing I knew I was between sheets and thereby quickly going into night time oblivion.Delicious! Indeed,I actually have to admit I simply adore this recovering and rewarding total forgetfulness of the great oblivion of sleep.So does the artist,for all I know. I wake up early morning just to witness once again the dynamic full-swing stimulating on-going racing activity all over the place. The telephone keeps ringing,business partners,clients,art collectors,friends,family,art merchants,co- workrts,you name it,from all over the world. Pierre Fontanals and Luis Santiago seem to be successfully handling the situation,as in everything-under-control,with their usual experienced,stree-free and that easy-to-do look on their faces,savoir faire and know-how...while the artist is nowhere to be seen. Well,not quite so,actually.Antonio Pessoa is already painting in his sound proof Studio 1,basically relaxed,happy,however totally focused on the huge canvas before him. Antonio Pessoa always faithful to his traditional studio performance unique style,is working on several paintings at the same time,despite today's main artwork at stake happens to be a gigantic canvas on the skyscraper like easel,seemingly succeeding to be grabbing his full attention and his eagle eye concentration. I light my pipe and silently observe the artist at work for quite a long while,genuinely fascinated by his reputable art action speed,as if he were actually only the art making mediator between Divine Guidance and the canvas. I politely coughed lightly twice before I broke the silence."What's going to be the title of that masterpiece ,my friend?" "Free!" said the Pessoa without even bother to turn around."Free,my dear,just what I wish to be above anything else in the world.Free!" As a matter of fact ,I love to admit,Free,indeed turned out to be one of the most awesome and charming king- sized canvases of the artist's latest contemporary series and definitely one of my favorites ever. Laser focused and maximally productive,the artist all of a sudden takes a break and moves about the studio,gladly aware of my dear friendly presence,brush in his right hand staining here and there on the watercolor papers scattered all over the spacious studio. "I have this feeling,this don't know what something about this weekend",he tells me,thoughtfully contemplating- and I think - seriously evaluating one of those unfinished watercolors,with that peculiar self-criticism look on his diamond-white face. One of his cell phones rings.That's the Home Studio "Special One" cell phone as he ironically titled it.As far as I know it's actually the bad news breaker , the last-minute urgent issues cell phone.What do you know! He picks it up and I hear Pierre Fontanal's voice almost screaming from the other side,meaning,from the "Concepts into Action" headquarters,where everything usually looks as if the Universe is conspiring to make business matters an easy-going task and some other times it looks as if indeed all hell broke loose! That was Maxwell Armstrong from San Francisco,California,absolutely anxious and under pressure and demanding (...demanding!)...to speak directly over the phone with the artist. By now,Antonio Pessoa is painfully back to real-life again,takes a seat,thinks for a while...and I hear him say... "Pierre,please,just tell him I'm out of order" Silence again,while Pessoa listens to what Pierre has got to communicate... "OK,then tell him I won't be back untill next week." He hangs up. He's never going to change,I'm thinking,the artist definitely hates a life full of problems and the best way he knows to get rid of them all once and for all,or at least for a peaceful while,is the same old formula. Get back down to work and once again life is Heaven,just Paradise! With the happy ending of the canvas fast approaching,the artist quickly recovers from the interruption.Obviously the key to full and fair recovery is to get on with what he was doing and that's precisely what he does.Congratulations! There are always unplanned occurences that prevent him from painting just the way he simply adores.Peacefully! Getting caught up in the day to day activities of his team,isn't precisely his idea of indeed getting a kick out of art studio performance. Talking about the devil,the cell phone rings again ( ...at the right time...at the wrong place ...),as the artist gets ready to get back down to work.How convenient! My eavesdropping is supposed,more than basically tolerated,fully accepted,just for the record... "Not again!",he sighs. However,he picks up the phone while looking at me with that funny helplessness expression on his face. Pierre once again screaming from the busy room,just to tell him Maxwell Armstrong wishes to know whether the artist is once and for all decided to deal with him directly or not. "Tell him...well,Pierre,just tell him...Or Not" He hangs up the phone. I must say that in real-life philosophy this is theoretically a definite "Leave me Alone!". One of Antonio Pessoa's most peculiar secrets is that deep down inside- unquestionably - he sure loves this art studio daily ritual,delicious silence,this self-imposed exile...well,in a manner of speaking. What turns out to be his big What and Why,that's for us to know and for you to find out throughout all it's been said and written about the artist's Life and Oeuvre. Strange how this weekend seems to be shorter than I would like to expect,just in the exact proportion to my delight to stay by his side and enjoy the making of all this scattered collection of unfinished canvases,drawings,sketches and impactful watercolors. Whatching him build on the fine art dreams factory always creates me an exciting state of antecipation.Inevitable fact. However,the cell phone is persistent enough and there it is once again ringing and once again inevitably forcing the artist losing steam and probably reminding himself that indeed at last check Paradise will be only possible in a far away tropical exotic island between the Pacific Ocean...and Eternity! So it seems - from what I can make out of my legitimate eavesdropping - Maxwell Armstrong just comes up with a brand-new proposition,fair enough to put a broad smile on the artist's face and probably a helpless curiosity expression on mine. "It's alright then,Pierre,please let him know he can have those six canvases for that price...oh,and by the way,please tell him that next time he calls us four times in a row I won't negotiate..." We have lunch on the balcony,a nice mexican food combination,served hot...and how! One of the benefits of his lifestyle,by all means.Now we concentrate only on the tasty good smelling positive aspects of the mexican cuisine,while wandering about this and that...as a fresh,almost sweet wind breeze starts blowing from the seaside. Just two good friends and Art Connoisseurs making the most out of being together again. Harold MacArthur is in town,so the three of us decide to go for a rejuvenating long walk along the seaside Avenue,it's just a beautiful day,clean cloudless sky,Sprigtime just smells fun,the sea is light blue contrasting with the light-golden-blue sky and it's just wondeful to be here in this idyllic scenery of western world tropical life, as we easily overcome procrastination and stroll further and further away while pondering and review several topics,including the artist's current and upcoming projects. In spite of the inevitable fact that Pessoa is actually more than twenty years younger than we are,he proves systematically to have reached this mature-like unmutable consistency,this inspiring effortless reliability charisma,wherever he is and whatever he does,a remarkable combination of qualities playing an important role in our unique mixture of logical and philosophical reasoning inter- exchanging chemistry. Nothing like a six- kilometer boulevard stroll with such distinguished company,along the clear blue waters,crystaline sand and dazzling coral reefs,the ideal place to take full advantage of excellent conversation focused on interesting issues,including Art. Nevertheless,let's face it.Sir MacArthur current situation seems pretty obvious both for me and for the artist as well.His personal increasing interest in Antonio Pessoa's latest artworks,his definitely his main motivation to pay him a visit from time to time,well...more accurately at least once every month.Define this simply as art collector's persistence would be basically unfair,for I know that apart from his main reasons to fly from London on such a regular basis,roughly twelve times a year,his admiration for the artist is by all means clearly genuine to the point of true growing friendship.That much is transparently in the air. However,the high price of the artist's canvases,namely and very specifically his latest contemporary fine art series,New Era-New Line,if not being precisely beyond his financial reach (definitely not!!!) at least have achieved a global demand effect,feverish enough for a drastic rise in prices,eventually rather unexpectedly and as far as Harold MacArthur is concerned,from his strict point of view,fairly acceptable,on the other hand,painfully unfair. In spite of the inevitable everlasting situation of being systematically "blessed" with new exciting and painfully unexpected challenges,Sir MacArthur is never going to change his faithful sense of personal commitment concerning both his friendship with the artist and his private art collection growing reputation,continuously updated integrity. No big deal,whatsoever.Hard working art collector's self-consciousness.I like that...and so does the artist. Anyway,just as with the tides in the sea,there is an ebb and flow to the tides of Antonio Pessoa's Home Studio leisure weekends. Swimming in the art world,understanding its awesome Universe and eventually,of course,swimming through the sand of bizarre timing and close encounters with unannounced visitors. What all this reminds me of is how great is to have the world in our hands and time by our side. At last check I find myself wondering. Visitors...or Invaders? Miriam Di Rosa! A Lady in the Water!The water of the Art Ocean.Atlantis? It's tea time,in the contemporary Fine Art Shrine! Miriam sits down at the steaming good smelling table with her gentle jet-set complexity although grotesque proportions. She starts by complaining about the weather,then seriously complaining about her love affairs setbacks,then about the art market impractical foolish unpredictable roller coaster unreliable flux and flows,then she goes on complaining about the enough of non-sense world we live in,and at last she complains about all topics in a row,she says she's had it...and by then,surprise,surprise,believe me or not,crazy as it seems,forty five minutes had gone by and tea time was over. Miriam Di Rosa and the artist,they are actually so used to share whatever-you name it together,yet so aware of the intentions of one another,that they don't permit themselves anymore to become ruffled or victimized. Sir MacArthur looks mildly tolerantly patient and me,well,I fortunately have reached that level of after- walk,after-tea.who-cares,accomplished calmness. Tea time is over and Antonio Pessoa looks bored,slightly standoffish,I suppose a bit tired.Miriam somehow always succeeds to set this mood paradigm shifting in the artist emotional mechanism.He accepts her exactly how she is and she remains in his life playing the important role of art critic,art curator,although systematically,hopelessly expecting to keep the artist image strangely tuned in what he was six years ago...still illuminated by the pure oil smelling Romantic Period's Modern Art bulb. On the whole,Miriam Di Rosa regards Pessoa's contemporary series as a road-map to something which hasn't yet been achieved and I think she secretly believes it never will. I understand her feelings(let alone her old fashionad artistic concepts ) however,by all means I don't subscribe her point of view. Pessoa in my opinion is actually going through his fine art very,very best up to now,and that's the general public perspective,except for Miriam who still has this secret hopeless hope to re- convert the artist to the old models of Modern Art.Too late,if you ask me. Pessoa wastes no time climbing back aboard the now urgent loneliness of his studio,while the fictional Lady Miriam keeps me company as we sadly watch him go,leaving us behind...and he's gone. After a long silent while Miriam Di Rosa stands up and gets ready to go. I light my pipe as I hear her say "It's not all,isn't it?Antonio doesn't need my company nor my advice anymore.Enough Genius IQ,I suppose." I say nothing.I know exactly what's going on between the two of them,and I also know it's none of my business...well,at least while she is around. "If he's aiming for Genius IQ Perfection that's his problem." she goes on as she walks towards the door."But my previous experience tells me he was a much better artist,before.Anyway,the great Antonio Pessoa will never be successful if he sticks to this contemporary abstract non- sense.That much I can tell you.He's just trying to be a little innovative but definitely losing the Great Master's touch.It's a shame,really,it's a shame,but there's nothing much I can possibly do about this weird situation.Anyway,guys,take care,all of you.I'll be in touch...I think.Goodbye." She closes the door behind her.And she's gone! Under my circumstances I kept on smoking my pipe,while recognizing she couldn't have been more mistaken. If to much art studio action can be at times responsible for making the artist's mind dense,it's also true the his controversial relationship with Miriam - always on the verge of actually going down the drain ( which miraculously never seems to happen )- hasn't helped much to improve his mood after our tea time nail-bitting session. So after sunset,Jasper drives us to the Meditation Center,nº39.The ultimate shrine for total peace of mind,discernment and relaxation. The most valuable thing you can learn about Meditation multiple benefits is that it indeed shapes your character,provides you with a rewarding inner- self awareness and asures you this happy and healthy well-being,the great foundation that enables you to wake up every single day ready and steady to get up and literally go fot it,whatever that might happens to turn out to be,particularly concerning Antonio Pessoa's challenging life,a great powerful mindset and a solid self-centered unbreakable motivation,more than enough to overcome professional obstacles and general serious commitments. It's imperative by now to understand how these systematic meditation sessions and rituals have contributed immensely for the artist's amazing personal growth and his latest increasing artistic performance success. The power of balance,minimizing all external and internal clutter,recalibrating the artist and assess his direction regularly,implementing higher love principles,clearing out inconsistent behaviors that may eventually push him off track,discerning when it is appropriate to let go or move forward,making honoring his truth in art expression his top priority,honoring and encouraging his continual growth and learning,setting a clear and focused intent so he can share it and follow through to completion,and discovering how to strengthen his character and soul so they can't be bought nor manipulated. Antonio Pessoa has embraced these commandments at Bala Mani's Meditation Center,and since then,he has been teached and coached surrounded himself with Masters of the Mind he believes and trusts,and consequently adopting naturally and gradually a surprising new line attitude,actually the key element that has been a positive and successful step towards his current genius efficiency not only in art performance but in his personal,social and professional life,with remarkable results so far,providing him with the inevitable super easy going skills and know-how to get out and play to win. Pessoa's weelky sessions at the Meditation Center have been setting his mind to face and overcome all professional obstacles plus providing him with a remarkable Know-How and easy- to-doingness when it comes to make the most of his multiple projects,challenges and dreams,let alone his highly effective art performance. The Age of Aquarius has given us the great possibilities of Quantum Physics. There is an infinite universe of intelligent and highly creative energy where the artist pulls out the Quantum Ocean,enabling him to continuously accomplish with little time and effort,his personal lifestyle concept,artistic projects and professional commitments. As an art collector,art critic,art coach and counselor,supporting and reviewing Antonio Pessoa's Life and Work,has proven to be probably the most exciting experience of my seventy-two years of multiple interesting projects all over the world so far. Thereby,as a matter of fact it's rather rewarding just to witness how the artist has actually increased his artistic performance to such an extent of quality,visual impact providing art lovers with a substantial new contemporary literacy,furthermore making it possible for a huge amount of public realize the full potential of his Oeuvre and very particularly of his innovative capacity. Systematically exposing himself to exciting new ideas and perspectives,Antonio Pessoa,with a relevant help from his impressive mindset proceeds with the right attitude,progresses into the future on a full determined one million-steps- forward journey,with the energy,feel,style and proficient imagination,plus his absolute clear purpose serving him and all his collaborators in all important specific areas,possible and "impossible" ways. Back home,we spend the rest of the evening just the two of us,listening to soft music and relaxing at the balcony,emotionally at ease and enjoying the spendid warm night atmosphere and the ongoing cheerful crowd celebrating life down at the charming square. We have dinner,confidently sharing our viewpoints over so many interesting subjects and next thing we know,the square is empty,it's 1 a.m. and we call it a night. Saturday morning,I woke up before the house got really busy,so after having breakfast delivered by Arturo and his wife,consisting in a cross- between mediterranean food and english ham and eggs,I took a stroll along the seaside avenue,not too long a walk,just enough to stretch my legs and let the blood quicly flow into my grey cells as the bright sun rays provided me with enough energy for the rest of the day. When I got back to the artist's Home Studio it seemed as if all hell broke loose. James Babel was once again feeling pretty lousy over David Medina and his usual dread failures. Life basic essentials teach you different ways to look at life.In this specific area,mine and Antonio Pessoa's traditional detachment was indeed being used to our great advantage. As everybody seemed just about to start crawling up the walls,only Pierre Fontanals,the artist and myself,seemed to remain cool,calm and collaborating aiming at finding a snappy solution for what seemed to be the financial crash of the century. Twenty minutes later we all went out for lunch.An early,struggling and out loud speaking nerve- shattering lunch.Bad news is we had Pietro Fabricci to join the club...he and his humorless sense of humor. The artist and the sophisticated and versatile Pierre Fontanals might see him as a smarty-arty sort of clown,or should I say,multifaced juggler clown...never mind... The circus entertainer was after all James Babel and his out of breath manifestation of blame on the guilty one,David Medina for having sold nine valuable masterpieces for a substantial incorrectly measured price. Eating at random and struggling to get his message across,James Babel was losing his self- made man public relations strategy as Antonio Pessoa was getting seriously bored and so was I,just for the record and for all that matters. We left the restaurant in a quite remarkable polite hurry and made our way back home,fortunately quickly recovering from the embarassing sort of everything-you-need-to-know about how to throw a lousy lunch party. Pessoa once again looks slightly bored,moody blue. I suppose so many types of people around him quite often actually succeed to take his concentration away,or at least to a less effective level in which he inevitably can't help feeling awkward enough to continuously avoid situations that might turn out to interfere negatively with his deliciously silent philosophical universe. Very far from being some corny sort of ethereal spiritual mumbo-jumbo,Antonio Pessoa's lifestyle is definitely based upon a practical wisdom and vision of emotional abundance,aiming at making his art performance,private and social life,professional commitments,flourish,grow and expand. Thereby,no wonder his Studio 1's celestial peace is for the artist his ultimate heaven,favorite playground and his divine castle where all ghostly apparitions dissolve and melt away making way for spiritual lightness and proficient creativeness. The artist has become more and more conscious,concerned and aware that what he expects to happen in his art studio - specifically when it comes to excel in art expression is determined by the thoughts he dwells upon plus the intensity of the emotions behind those thoughts. Systematically using imagery to create innovative contemporary art patterns he knows how to give himself the freedom to reach for the stars of supreme awareness (inspiration!),one idea leads to another,and the momentum he generates with these mind tools,one thousand and one visions and beyond,will begin a magical fast shift in his creative power so is art performance becomes a passionate flow of emotions where he finds himself mastering the process of being the ultimate mediator between the reality circus and visual poetry.Art! The mystery about the current amazing chemistry between Antonio Pessoa and Boris Dainville is after all very clear,so it's no mystery al last check whatsoever. They are both emotionally concentrated on the power of all forms of Art,including human relations. They hop on the strong rules of spiritual energy,learning together how to prioritize the great Truth known to all mystics and ancient sages. What they mean to each other,more than sympathetic resonance,is an absolute like attracts like effortless harmony,sharing the same life approach in which basically the only possible option is to be and feel absolutely alive. So this Saturday,once again,they keep in touch over the phone,as the artist goes on working on several canvases and watercolors at the same time and I keep him company as I sit quietly reading,taking notes or simply watching him suggest awesome visual propositions with every painting brush stroke as time goes slowly and pleasurably by in Studio 1 and as the sun beams keep coming in anticipating yet another delicious warm subtropical night. Once again we're having dinner at the comfy balcony.Antonio Pessoa looks relaxed now,however thoughtful,sharing the silence with me,plenty aware that I,more than anyone else in the world,can make out the essence of his pondering,even in the silence,or when we talk exchanging ideas,projects,secrets,concepts,dreams,you name it,I'm able to read the underlines,able to accurately interpret the inner-areas of the artist's intimate reflections and thereby succeed to come up with a rather clear picture of his current perspective of the whole field of life,world,art...and beyond. He is a complex,informed,wise distinguished man.He has embraced the whole creative process,art studio,lifestyle and beyond.This is the big one,and this is the main reason why I've been reviewing his Life and Work for the past ten years up to now. Some of Antonio Pessoa's top qualities are definitely his increasing capacity to keep his mind on task,it actually gets easier and easier for the artist to become fully focused on what's more important,beginning with his art studio daily action,indeed a creative ritual which has become a pleasurable and inevitable part of his life.Also using his subconscious to accept that what he desires is possible to achieve,even his wildest dreams,keeps him steady on the right track and mastering the art of being ready when the magic happens,like something he will most certainly will enjoy,even when it comes in the most unexpected ways.Pessoa handles this emotion- charged feelings aiming at expand his multiple issues and areas,an ever growing display of fascinating projects,leading him to reach higher levels of living the ultimate Life Supreme! After dinner we move back to the studio,where Scotch is served in cognac snifters by the silent- polite Arturo.He leaves us alone as the phone rings announcing an incoming call fromm Felix Nuñez. Felix Nuñez is taking care of the artist's affairs in San Francisco,CA, and he has been doing it for over two years already,now.From the five minutes conversation I can figure out Nuñez has successfully added three more reputable art collectors to the artist's U.S.A. crème de la crème clients list.Fair enough.Pessoa hangs up the phone with a broad smile of satisfaction on his face. "This young man is just about to hit the big time,Jacob,and so are we"he says. "You are,not me" I say "I'm just an innocent bystander.But I like it!Are you hearing me complaining?" We're laughing out loud,now...making a toast to good health. The Art World! Bigger names have come and gone,but few careers in contemporary fine art have been more consistently interesting over the last ten years than Antonio Pessoa's.Painstakingly careful and accurate the artist goes on this Saturday after midnight exhaustively staining here and there,living up to his art studio wizard reputation. His latest paintings are just amazing,passionate and so chromatically beautiful and at the same time deliciously absurd in their successful attemp to reproduce the artist's serious sensory experiences. Saturday's featured artist,takes the midnight express absolutely motivated and comfy in the spacious comfort of Studio 1.Into art action now completely,his burning fire seems to go higher and higher,and once again I feel helplessly inspired as I watch him dancing about the awesome scenario,mainly furnished by huge easels,gigantic and medium size canvases,oak tables covered with an apparent chaotic display of finished and unfinished watercolors,drawings,collages,mixed medias and small sketches here and there and everywhere. There's a beautiful abstract acrylic on watercolor paper on a chair I hadn't noticed the day before.I ask him where did it come from.The artist tells me he started doing it yesterday,and that's where he was actually writing this wonderful weekend poetry.What poetry,I just asked,not because I didn't know what he was talking about,I did,but just to get my private kick,well,mainly to make conversation. "Momentum takes over " he says "It's easy enough to dream and plan big projects,but when it comes to see a particular weekend measurable progress,nothing like a watercolor to draw the whole map.It's like an episode.That's what it's meant to be.The Weekend Report!" So that was it,I thought.Antonio Pessoa's intention generator was on once again,with the rushed busy flow of his eclectic style,the artist's ever present amazing capacity to see artistic challenges as supreme opportunities working toward innovative ideas,as he goes on and on staining here and there filled with passion,creative fire and almost childish excitement. Suddenly he stops and looks at me as taken by surprise,slightly puzzled and definitely amused. "I don't know why I bother to go on painting,it's almost 2 a.m.,you must be tired and I'm keeping you here,Jacob.We should be going to bed and call it a night." "Let your inner light shine,my friend,go on with what you were doing and please do not worry about me.I'm quite alright and very entertained if you ask me." The artist shrugged and said. "Just a few minutes more and then we'll have another scotch on the balcony." I watch him as he gets back down to work. Antonio Pessoa's amazing power of persistence,I thought,that's the real secret for his artistic success.It's always been as far as I can recall.And it was indeed 2 a.m. by then. As soon as I discovered it was already 11:30 a.m.,I jumped out of bed,simultaneously recasting my priorities,such as a good cold shower and a late breakfast delivered by a silent Jasper at the spacious kitchen,all part of a process of treating me like a special honor guest. After taking a look a the ongoing situation in the artist's Home Studio as I watched my energy level raise up by witnessing the energetically vibrating excitement of everyone's pleasurable working flux and flow,every step I take toward Antonio Pessoa's contemporary Fine Art shrine,Studio 1,the clearer it became that he had company this morning.As I got closer to the door,I knew the artist was facing a new challenge today.Listening patiently to Boris Dainville's latest episodes. I let myself in and after taking a sit and picking up my notepad,I had to face the fact that Boris Dainville had just been through yet another love affair setback with a strange woman from Dublin who at last check proved to be a tough pill to swallow for the millionaire and enthusiastic art collector's delicate emotional attachment,another overwhelming failure to join his rich content love affairs diary. Now that I come to think of it I have to admit The Beatles were right when they came up with "Can't buy me Love" song. No matter the stage of art performance Antonio Pessoa finds himself in,he can't help run through a whole fully concentrated working day,without being almost systematically interrupted by unexpected visitors out of his endless list of unique soul mates. Although this list seems to be the list of an artist with a pretty wide and diverse social life,unquestionable fact,the pros and cons of this circumstance after all very often provides him with a rather awkward momentum,sometimes in the form of a focus saboteur,when art action remains stuck,eventually totally inactive,while these overwhelming unexpected last minute visitors,may prove to be long lasting gossip overloaded whimperish meetings,classified information sessions,where his best and closest friends,as bizarre as it may sound,come to his Studio and to his arms seeking wise advice on multiple emotional subjects,soul mates who at a certain point of their lives seem to know little or nothing about how to handle a specific situation,particularly concerning matters of the flesh,of course. Although I know and have to admit that running away from this almost daily inevitable scenario may be Pessoa's first instinct,somehow he ethically finds it more beneficial to meet it head-on,taking a different approach to every different situation.A valuable exercise! The artist's good listener magic is thereby created from being a giving person who gives to giving people,such as Boris Dainville. The day goes by as the three of us continue the communicating process,through lunch,another art session time,tea time,a sunset walk along the boulevard and by dinner time we were basically emotionally exhausted,literally almost passing out on the dining room floor,a simple way to put down in words how Boris Dainville's love affairs setbacks can turn out to become a totally thumbs down negative feelings network. Anyway,just before midnight the lover boy goes away for good after seven seasons with the saints,leaving us alone in a sea of sighs in the ultimate effort to pull ourselves together,having the last one for the road double Scotch on the rocks at the exotic balcony overlooking the stunning bay.Some Sunday! I woke up monday morning to join the temper- based complaints of Miriam Di Rosa at the steaming breakfast fancy round table. Contrary to what she seems decided to believe,the artist is not bound for getting easily trapped on her nightmarish reality,nor is he willing to be mistakenly dropped off on her outmoded planet. "Why isn't your Art the way it should be? Just the way it used to be?" She complains as Antonio Pessoa copes as best as possible with her sadness,with his traditional well-being,tolerance and joy- even detachment- as a pure realization that after all her opinion matters,in spite of her stubborn unwillingness to take the ultimate step and expand her vision into the larger and far more innovative world of contemporary art. This hard to deal conversation goes on for about one hour,while Miriam's unsuccessful attempts to overcome her hidden desperation became more and more obvious till the moment the artist and I get up and leave the kitchen,however no fast enough to miss her last disappointed remark. "If you don't change your artistic style I don't know what I will do!" That's the high price for artistic freedom. I watch his amazing latest artworks as we once again enter Studio 1.This room has become his holy retreat,his world,his destiny. There was only one particular mixed media on watercolor paper which had been puzzling me throughout the whole weekend. "One last thing...why don't you have it finished yet?"I asked the artist. "Well...I suppose I'll do it tonight,my friend...this one is a special combination of our latest interesting events...including yourself"He smiled.A naughty smile. "What do you actually have in mind?" I asked as I came closer to the unfinished artwork. "Because this one is The Weekend Report". Jasper took me to the airport after lunch.While we zipped along the highway,suddenly I got the whole picture. After all that has been his secret all the way during these days. The ultimate relationship between real life and artistic interpretation. The Weekend Report ! http://antonio-pessoa-lifenews.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/63ba5996370680e79d8195f48e9186b0_48fdcbaf.writeback Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:31:43 -0500 Antonio Pessoa Delicious Silence Delicious Silence,is one of those paintings that suggests a variety (apparently simple),of ways to affirm the artist's daily religious rituals,moments of pleasurable relaxed meditation,through which he becomes stronger in confidence and in so doing listening in his mind to the diminishing volume of loud and racing city life noise. Also one of those spiritual- visualization canvases that in spite of their simplicity,actually take weeks and even months before the artist finally decides That's It and signs them. Also one of those alternative non- stereotyped day after day mirrors,in which the artist basically performs patiently his most enjoyable and inspiring momentes of inner-self contact silence and high level of perception and insight. Unquestionably to a certain extent the driving force which keeps him essentially magnificent,absolutely positive thinking and thereby immune to the daily challenging picture of professional commitments and quite often feverish burning social life flame. Sunset! Delicious silence! As we walk up the hill the sky was already turning from blue to orange.The anticipation was building with every step.As we got closer to the top of the hill the bright orange sun came into view.It was glorious! Antonio Pessoa was so excited he couldn't stop running to get to the top.As we got to the top of the hill and sat on a bench,the sun was slowly sinking behind a distant mountain range."Goodbye sun!",the artist said as it sank beyond the horizon "I'll see you tomorrow!" It was a most relaxing time. The artist sitting next to me on the bench,said" Delicious Silence! I love it...and I will paint it!" Effective therapy.Said and done.More than you can imagine the artist's level of well-being and happiness is much higher in his Home Studio creative peaceful atmosphere than in the downtown at times emotionally disturbed racing madness. His philosophy and and rock solid concept of emotional brilliance comes out of his systematic research upon the keys to the art of living a fulfilling,rewarding and happy life. Delicious Silence is another of the multiple artistic results of this expanded awareness,optional lifestyle and faithful daily rituals. These patterns of existential preferences and self-therapy,such as peace of mind,serenity and continuous pursuit of higher levels of happiness,creates his art,his life and at last makes his ultimate personal dreams come true. Slowly and rhythmically,artist Antonio Pessoa gets down to work,finding a delicious quiet and peace overcome him little by little.When he has finally reached this stage,then he begins to focus his full attention on the canvas before him.Lovely! That's in this delicious silence where he meets once again this delicious presence of supreme awareness,and that's when and where imagination flows and art expression perception grows. Settled down in his Studio 1,where mainly his important art performance takes place and his most relevant artworks come alive,Pessoa here and then takes again some downtime to quiet his being,and thereby allows his mind to become sharply aware of his silent environment from the input of all his senses.Delicious Silence...Art Action Time! Now that he has reached that high level of awareness inwardly and outwardly,he sinks even deeper into the magical universe of supreme creativeness art making,now with a far greater confidence,stability and attentiveness to the artwork at hand. Worthwhile waves gravitate to the artist.In,around,underneath and beside him. Ascension to a new state of consciousness! Antonio Pessoa rides the serenity energy waves while painting,while I sometimes watch him painting,asking him questions,listening to his vibrational answers as I put them down in brief words on my notepad. Studio 1,in its pleasurable contemplating silence,is a higher dimension on earth,so I feel and I know,a place of reflection,art and creative positive frequencies. Leaving the old,outdated methods to discover new,beautiful ways of contemporary art expression,new color combinations,fascinating mood swings,multidimensional interconnected forms,shifts and levels,gradual chromatic transitions,the quiet Studio 1 space effects making sure every bit of his dancing body is loose,mind without tension,connecting with the art planet,feeling the sources of inspiration within the silence,deliciously bright,as the striking brush strokes take it away onto the canvas until it's glowing with brilliant visual metaphysics. The veil is lifting as the show goes on in Studio 1's heartbeat.The soulful side of life,the art side of life is beginning to take center stage within the artist's creative spirit. Pessoa is now in the cycle of evolution where imagination and art expression is demanding to be acknowledge and allowed to be at the helm of Heavenly life. Antonio Pessoa's spiritual side requires the essential nature of Delicious Silence,where life's interpretation knows no lack,only abundance of all there is.This is the part of supreme inspiration that is desiring to shine and the artist at work is only the mediator and the conduit. So it's in this third- dimensional reality that Delicious Silence has grown week after week,month after month,gradually reflecting more and more the artist's relation with pure abstract poetry,with that level of relaxing awareness,where everything starts to make perfect sense,and the call to art action becomes a religious ritual,totally focused on the Here and Now,where pure art performance takes place aiming at create the alternate perception of reality. As Antonio Pessoa becomes more and more seriously involved in the pursuit of self knowledge through silence,this spirit of Universal Awareness is thereby leading him to a delicious feeling of a special sort,his Secret for all the highly creative sessions in the particular field of his latest abstract neo- surrealistic contemporary fine art series. Visual literature and poetry through the soft colors combinations,reaching the magical very best of its quality characteristics,subtleties and innovative aesthetic atoms. In Delicious Silence,the artist makes therefore evident that there is a purposeful mystery contained in its melting body,in its serene passion and mood that is changing with every moment the viewer contemplates this relaxing work of art. Continuously moving and changing,it can hardly gives us a consistent identity,and the more we surf away across tha canvas space,its planetary motions inspiring infinite interpretative changes,suddenly give us a delicious cosmos understanding,feelings dancing in a continuous state of flux,whispers of truth silently walking on the doorsteps of our hearts. This Spirit- source-Art-Universe that is emmited from the quiet strength of this canvas,supports this inner- self discovery influence the artist displays in his latest work and life. Accessing the Wisdom within this charming artwork,we inevitably embrace its latent sense of spirituality and in so doing we inevitably penetrate much deeper into the nature and the world of Perception,again,Antonio Pessoa conducting us to understand what lies beyond the visual field of our objective imagination. The artist's method to develop this latent,additional senses through silent meditation is skillfully well summarized in the soothing atmosphere of Delicious Silence,softly whispering us the fascinating phrase,Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder! http://antonio-pessoa-lifenews.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/acd0ba7161f6b71b80b7e7cbc5dd4b19_48fdca3f.writeback Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:25:35 -0500 Antonio Pessoa That's Life This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship,between the artist and the worldwide art lovers community. I know this has the makings of a good punch line,but it's a good starting point,for whatever is coming up along the communication express on- going stimulating process,concerning the life and Oeuvre of one of the most controversial and unique artists of today's contemporary art times. This is no B movie whatsoever,rather a real- life play,where anything can happen,even the unexpected,unpredictable,unthinkable,unanswered and why not,even the unacceptably unspeakable. So let the dice roll and the show must go on,mysterious,delicious,contemporary, abstract,mystic and Neo-Surrealistic. Day time art studio living or lively night shift wandering,it's just wonderful to know art is being made based upon true facts,meanwhile real- life facts are being put down in words based upon the overview across the realms of artistic imagery. Free expression speech communication provides us once again with the priviledge of being in touch,sharing and exchange criterions of all sorts,tendencies and styles. Most importantly,we are here and now setting the measures of exciting multiple ideas,ideals,concepts and references. Writing and speaking on behalf of a contemporary fine art project,larger than life,and describe what art lovers should know about The Life and Oeuvre of an artist indeed making way for one of the most charming,eclectic and visually awesome art collections in today's artscene ,turns out to be a truly fulfilling and rewarding experience,an exciting daily ritual I certainly wouldn't give up,not even for all the gold in the world. Life is a mysterious adventure for all of us,a wonderful odyssey for many of us who have the pleasurable privilege to be able to enjoy all forms of expression,all forms of art,music,literature,poetry,motion pictures,architecture...and in this particular dimension,visual arts,yet more specifically,contemporary art. And precisely it is in this awesome universe that we are indeed bound to be in touch,able to share and communicate and most importantly looking forward to grow in knowledge,perception,sensitiveness,information,edu cation,culture and artistic erudition. At the contemporary headquarters,Antonio Pessoa's Studio 1,is indeed where everything really happens.Did I say everything? Yes.Everything and anything.Particularly and most important of all within the artist's mind,right where the visualization borns,grows up,gains context and concept and usually takes off like a supersonic idea speeding up across the cybernetic timeless space! Being an artist in today's competitive world requires a whole lot more than self- control,patience,determination,artistic quality,public relations know-how and supreme imagination. As a matter of fact,indeed,one actually has got to be an ultimate genius,particularly when it comes to human resources management,aiming at implementing motivation and the perfect dynamic mindset in everyone,one way or another,among the Project collaborators team. Stimulating and difficult task,at the same time. These days,Antonio Pessoa finds himself in the middle of a truly brainstorming multiple-projects breathtaking challenges full-swing agenda. From San Francisco to Paris,from London to Madrid,his endless list of coworkers contacts and systematic phone ringing interferences,indeed turns out to be a racing unavoidable on-going play on his daily life,providing him with a substantial extra- burden from which inevitably derive scant idyllic moments let alone eventually some headaches to go with. However,in spite of this tension-filled daily- weekly flurry bursts,(what do you know) somehow the artist successfully manages to maintain a pleasurable harmonious atmosphere in his art studio,social life and professional commitments cinematic flux. Definitely,Antonio Pessoa's life could be a quality movie script,always challenging,fascinating,adventurous and new.In the mean time it's rather entertaining and even amusing just to witness the way people continuously respond to his magnet-like positive energy,and particularly witness how he always seems to be living on the edge throughout his eight days a week dynamic working rhythm,managing sooner rather than later to strengthen those whose hearts are fully commited to his multiple projects. That's life,that's the life,that's the larger than life lifestyle! Lately,one of Pessoa's best friends,Boris Dainville,asked him "How much courage does it take to be an artist?".The painter,standing in front of the huge easel,slowly turned around and told him with this childlike enigmatic expression of startled innocence on his face "The question,Boris,is how much courage would it take me not to be one." Remarkable.Fact! Since 1997,when I first met Antonio Pessoa,I've been having the almost preverted privilege to record (and therefore evaluate and consequently report...)amazing episodes,unexpected changes,absolute dillematic crossroads,sometimes turning into a truly nail- biting decision taking struggling urgency,and ending up in yet just another full-swing display of everything-or-nothing spectacular,even unspeakable,love,sweat and tears sort of adventures. Nevertheless,he always did manage to go back to his studio(wherever it might have been at any specific point of his recent past colorful life...) and get down to work once again,totally focused,coming up with new artistic surprises,and most importantly remaining miraculously untraumatized as if nothing had happened.Nothing at all! Boris Dainville,tired of London's full- swing day in day out and social nightlife british gossip,comes once again to spend the weekend with the artist,and in the mean time gets off his chest all that physical and psychological pressure and stress of his current lifestyle circunstances. The both keep each others company,enjoying good conversation as always and in so doing once again establishing their similar outlooks of metropolitan life's pros and cons,existencialism- based black humor fluent literacy,and obviously,modern art,contemporary art,poetry,music,motion pictures,gossip,philosophical frequently asked questions,History,religion and more gossip. Boris loves Antonio Pessoa's latest contemporary fine art series,and sits for hours and hours in a row talking and watching the artist at work,while they go on and on exchanging the most interesting subjects available,still with more gossip updates to go with it. At last,FM Music playing on the cosy restaurant's old 60's radio,it's 8 p.m.,saturday evening,as we have dinner in front of the sea,our visual charming beach bar and grill with a full menu of great mediterranean sea food,after which we enjoy our sunset cocktails,first chatting randomly then inevitably leading to more intimate conversation and at last planning our trip to West Hollywood. However,the artist doesn't seem to share our systematic interest in one of my favorite cities,Los Angeles,let alone leave the comfort of his Home Studio for a ( maybe boring for him... ) cultural calendar in southern California. Antonio Pessoa's Home Studio,always the idyllic fine art cathedral where his intimate friends always seem to be leaving reality behind and enter the world of tomorrow's art fantasy.Fact. That's Life! Antonio Pessoa these days is working on more than twenty canvases simultaneously,let alone the watercolors super-production taking place at his Studio 7. No big deal for the artist,if you ask me.As a matter of fact it seems quite an easy-to-do multi- tasking process for the vital energy generating dynamic studio veteran. Boris Dainville and myself,sunny Sunday afternoon,we take a sit at the artist's Studio 1 as he finishes "That's Life",acrylic on canvas. Another charming symphony of colors,or shall we say,another visual delight symphonic contemporary fine art victory. "That's Life" is obviously reflecting Pessoa's latest full-swing daily-weekly striking motion picture,from his art studio breathtaking performance to his professional commitments overloaded agenda,from his personal life's outs and abouts to the challenging multiple projects he and his brainstorming collaborators from all over Europe,United States and even Latin America,are unquestionably fully commited to and by all means absolutely excited and enthusiastic about. That's Life!That's Antonio Pessoa's colorful and increasingly exciting life at his worldwide performance very best. Eventually breaking traditional patterns,this time it was Boris Dainville who actually came up with the accurate title "That's Life",for this polychromatic polimotion spectacular and even ambiguously entertaining contemporary abstract neo-surrealistic mainstream cutting-edge fine art canvas. Furthermore,I must claim,one of my favorites among the artist's most recent series.My opinion ( as an art critic and art collector ) leading to suggest a special public attention to Pessoa's on- going artistic quality achievements,where the striking visual impact makes a relevant difference between the current average and by all means Antonio Pessoa's unquestionable innovative contemporary new line. That's quality art! That's Life !!!! http://antonio-pessoa-lifenews.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/5cb23238644d6c2f6f97ef4e585a0e5b_48fdc907.writeback Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:20:23 -0500 Antonio Pessoa After Midnight Going out,wandering about downtown,walking around and maybe pay Louise Ragot a visit,always that dimlit place,Ragot's Art Deco looking den,of what once breathed like life and love,however now it's just a dimlit den of sorts. Delightful art clocks,Pop Art paintings and the old record player handsomely showcased in the solid wood and veneer cabinet.Fancy! At Ragot's there's always the chance of hearing the door bell ring and one of her After Midnight friends showing up for a free psychotherapy session. Urgent cognitive- behaviour techniques with the After Midnight intervention secret resources of Lady Ragot. Besides the Pop Art small size paintings of her art collection,five oils on canvas signed Antonio Pessoa,(A Pessoa!),among a carefully curated selection of elegantly framed Nude Art photography. It's the new city,the Now town,the After Midnight twilight zone,the time of the eternal open relationships,the kinky preferences network,tasteful mysterious moves,and "professional" lifestyle...bizarre and sometimes even stimulating! Oh my God,the artist told me,that night at 5:30 a.m. he stumbled upon Nadine,a silent night angel,blonde and freezing and dressed to kill.Smashing!She didn't have much to say,so he told me with that peculiar smile on his face.She was like three personalities in one or at least he thought so or maybe that's what she pretended,in a silent ultimate effort to make him believe that behind the apparently dull looking doll there might as well be the inner special one.Give me a break! Furthermore the four things she told him she liked actually sounded absolutely unspeakable.So what?What did he expect? After Midnight,the weird designed ride! When yoy think you actually can do whatever you want...I suppose something the artist always wanted to believe was true. And then,what?The Chinese Restaurant! Pessoa goes in,there's nobody in the big exotic room but the cook...it's almost 6 a.m. and he tells him "Too late,we close,no,we no see girl of yours,no more ask please..." Another bar,and he told me later what had just crossed his mind.True love!Sometimes you know it the instant you see it across the bar.However,and I truly believe him,there was no one there but the same old bald wrinkled bartender. Really amazing,inspiring awesome surrealism. After all,it seems After Midnight's twilight zone can set his imagination free.Blind faith,I told him,because thinking is hard.However,the artist was already aware of it... Time goes by. So here comes the night,here comes the night once again,the After Midnight express entering the Twilight Zone one more time. Tonight ( must be Wednesday,Thursday...or even Friday...who cares...),James Babel,one of the artist's regular art dealers is off to Madrid with no paintings in and no joy,Boris Dainville is breaking no news from London town and Louise Ragot is nowhere to be seen,let alone reached. Antonio Pessoa tells me over the phone about his "nerve-shattering" negotiations (in a manner of speaking ) with Maxwell Armstrong and Sylvia Abbot. He tells me sometimes he feels he would be better off living in the tropical Canary Islands for good,after telling the whole godforsaken art business to get lost. I know he is just overreacting ,he says it but doesn't mean it...or at least deep down inside I still don't believe he has reached that point of absolute detachment to actually say goodbye,so long,I've had it,that dit it and flip- flop and fly away. He tells me yesterday night he didn't feel like going off to bed,so he went out for another After Midnight real-life explorer delicious Let's- see-what-Happens ride on his own. After a while driving around he goes to the Meditation Center,managed by Bala Mani,an indian art collector,a wealthy prematurely retired businessman from New Delhi who decided to spend the rest of his life providing others with the wisdom and knowledge of Universal Awareness and Silent Meditation. One of the After Midnight available spots the artist loves the most. Open twenty four hours a day,it provides emotional- support for anyone willing to experience the mindfullness well-being with the powerful inspiring easy-to-do methods of deep spiritual relaxation and cosmic insight. Martin Faber introduces Bala Mani to the artist back in 2004,during his second art show in Chicago,IL.However only in the past two years Antonio Pessoa becomes seriously involved and emotionally ready and motivated to fully commit himself to the wonderful universe of inner-self discovery through meditation daily sessions and self-disciplined rituals. Bala Mani also becomes one of the artist's regular clients,acquiring on a monthly basis a significant amount of his latest New Era contemporary artworks,furthermore coming up with the concept Timeless Time,which indeed turned out to become the title of Pessoa's most recent art productions. Antonio Pessoa reaches his Universal Awareness inner-self discovery, Supreme Meditation interest,passion and commitment apotheosis,thereby giving birth to amazing contemporary fine art wonders such as "Night Gospel", "Living Joy" , "The Belief Generator" , "Spiritual Light " , "Free" , "Night Wits " , "Intuition " , "Mind Explorer ", "Perception "...just to mention a few. It makes perfect sense the obvious association of Bala Mani with the artist's subject mutation,definitely for much better,very particularly in visual abstract neo-surrealistic quality. In spite of the fact that After Midnight doesn't substantially belong to the fine art series of Spiritual Enlightenment - oriented Oeuvre,yet,it is nevertheless inspired by a similar persistent response at this highly emotional relation with life...or in this particular painting...with nightlife metamorphic sensorial metaphysics,definitely the role of a wandering poet across the perceptive mystery of the night time city outdoors. It's Saturday Night,the Queen of nightlife,and tonight I keep the artist company,while we talk about his latest artworks. Actually,I have little interest in the After Midnight scene,but my main motivation is to be as much as possible with the artist,my friend and my work's leading role actor. Being thirty two years older than him doesn't seem to be important.It never did and it never will.On the contrary,our chemistry is incresingly reaching perfection. We have some chinese for starters,that same exotic restaurant downtown,at a specific time when we are the only "innocent bystanders",enjoying our privacy and talking mainly about art and life.In the mean time we both seem to be making the most of the great cuisine selection randomly displayed all over the round table. Spring rolls,Shu Mai dumplings with pork ans shrimp,Egg Custard tarts,Chicken Chop Suey,Zodiac noodles,Won Ton soup,Har Gau...Wow!!!! It seems that the restaurant's owner whole family (but the cook...) are starring at us from the far end of the insence smelling exoctic temple.They don't laugh,they don't smile,they don't talk...just standing still starring at us with this blank,emotionless expression on their marble skin faces.Fair enough.I love the Oriental way,so does Pessoa. Antonio Pessoa is definitely a different man after midnight hour.In my opinion the city's nightlife provides him with an alternate outlook of existence metaphysics.More non-material,rather sensual,abandonely relaxed,almost deliciously blue-mooded in his glamorous lonesome way.A peculiar contrast but true. http://antonio-pessoa-lifenews.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/e656b556b8707fd6d7bc2f41f720af2f_48fd02f4.writeback Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:15:16 -0500 Antonio Pessoa Journal Antonio Pessoa Art Maker A self-made man,a self- made artist,sometimes disguised as simply a life lover undercover,an original gracious wonderful human being since his early teens simply enjoying to let feelings and emotions out in the open through fine art expression. So much has been said at random of the mystery behind the artist profile and very particularly about his adventurous life roleplaying,indeed a breathtaking episodes roller coaster live show... However,in spite of all this systematic amusing speculation,Antonio Pessoa's true and basic motivation therein lies the first key leading to the ultimate conclusion,that his personal success is after all his pure relation with art expression,not necessarily a religious ritual,but actually very simply the natural spontaneous happiness he always feels mixing colors and concepts,and in so doing coming up with specific visual results,invariably the meaningful reflexion of the heart and soul of a boy who once discovered during his early teens the great emotional symphony he could indeed experience throughout his all day long private art making sessions. Throughout the years up to now,Antonio Pessoa has been showing us basically all possibilities concerning the worldwide visual arts universe,from Modern Art to contemporary cutting edge. However,most important of all,he has been showing us the ultimate paradigmatic attitude of a truthful artist,systematically and inconditionally honest and completely faithful to his deepest beliefs,and in so doing very often,strange and crazy as it seems,putting his professional art carrer on Standby,regardless of consequences,by making solid sure that attending to the present mindfulness personal life self- commitments would always be his priority number one! "I Did It My Way" could eventually become one day the title of a book or even a motion picture about Life and Work of the artist,easily. Jazz musicien,adventurer or art maker,Pessoa has been leading a life inner-voice oriented,being unbreakable self-confidence and dynamic determination the main strong and powerful characteristics of his unique and creative personality.Fact! From a public global perspective,one could freely assume that his life could have been better or could have been worse.Speculative time- wasting,if you ask me. The art maker's life has been and it is what his heart told him and tells him to do,how to do it and at last but not the least,who to do it with! Antonio Pessoa,the Art Maker,specifically since the early nineties gets down to absolute art action,with such a striking energy to such an extent that by the end of 2002 he had actually accomplished an impressive encyclopedic art collection of over seven thousand artworks,namely oils on canvas,mixed medias,collages,acrylics on paper,watercolors and drawings. He soon excelled at the craft,through this intensive eight days a week art production twelve years in a row hallucinating odyssey,exploring all there was to explore and in so doing,reaching at light-speed a truly remarkable technical high quality level,expertise and mastery,let alone his well developed now easy-to-do talented composition and invention capacity,all this and all that,turning him into one of the most striking artists of our times. These words of mine,based upon true facts aim at capturing the global awareness to identify,gaining clear understanding and consciousness of Antonio Pessoa indeed as a living artistic phenomenon in today's worldwide art scene. One actually has to see it to believe it! Fact. Entering the artist's studio,take a sit and watching him painting,is by all means a truly unforgettable experience. It's always indeed very exciting to attend the Art Maker's studio and witness his live performance rhythm and style . Like an expert ballet dancer moving about the titanic easel,filling in the blank canvas space through successive moves of brush strokes striking precision,only to be interrupted by sudden short moments for totally focused perspective measurement and deep thoughtfully reflective mental-emotional full-swing evaluation before the composition,the show definitely goes on and by the way extremely entertaining indeed. The artist's spectacular performing style through the act of creating and arranging several aesthetics advanced essentials,managing with astounding mastery a mixture of ingredients step by step but rather quicky resulting to form the unified whole of a finished contemporary fine art masterpiece,is astonishingly cinematic,something to actually witness in order to believe it.Believe me! Absolutely,that's the way to do it. Among the hundreds of contemporary artists that I came to get to know personally,unquestionably the Art Maker,live studio performer,is by all means a unique super fine art wizard beyond compare. Anytime,anywhere,anyhow...and,well,anyway...with more or less worldwide projection Antonio Pessoa is a top reference for all art lovers from all over the planet,the best investment for the major art galleries,a solid choice for the most passionate and distinguished art collectors and at last but not the least,a great contemporary positive influence for all emerging artists on their winding way to be under their personal achievements glaring spotlight. Antonio Pessoa Heartbeat Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,but by the moments that take our breath away. The artist's systematic visualization of a new- innovative contemporary communication outflow,is unquestionably the Heartbeat's heart and soul. Previously designing this worldwide- oriented concept,inspiring an entirely revolutionary and powerfully positive attitude towards the on-going art scene,Antonio Pessoa,once again,shows up as the perfect reflexion of his reputation,by suggesting with contagious determination and enthusiasm,a brand- New Age of art-public intercommunication,aiming at empowering the mutual relationship precisely between art,artists,gallery owners,art scene in general and the gigantic community of art lovers,art collectors,media,worldwide public. What else could actually be more exciting and new than this pro-life,pro-art,pro-future and pro- global communication striking futuristic concept,a truly innovative approach for even greater dynamic flexibility directly concerning this art-public interactive universal togetherness? Here we go again,so let's propose a toast to the Heartbeat's larger-than-life divine inspiration,heroic epic Project visualising a New Era of intimate closeness between art and public! Limitless possibilities,now that everything seems to come so easily,the artist's secret to living successfully,feeling and acting by the passionate rhythm of his heartbeat. The mindset two by two dance "get-to-it- iveness" and "stick-to-it- iveness",creates the larger than life action super positive mood,all he actually needs to move him towards entrepreneurial artistic freedom,and in so doing his blazing desire for daily creativity keeps on accumulating new concepts and inspiration flow for future awesome oeuvre. A New Year is upon him,and once again the almost industrial stimulating studio art production is in full swing,pestering the artist to slim down,starting a brand-New Era,a better phenomenon and inspiring star. Antonio Pessoa didn't just get lucky but instead was proactive within his life as opposed to simply reacting to things as they occur. How does that work? Positive Hearbeat leads to positive feelings,these feelings lead to fantastic emotions,this striking super emotional flux promote amazing inspiration,finally this magical inspiration creates supreme lifestyle and artistic outcomes! Antonio Pessoa's amazing capacity to make art public show up to express flat-out unbarred flipped out excitement,throughout the past recent years got him in a very happy spotlight,identifying him as an important symbol among contemporary top artists. His Heartbeat seems to be the key component of intentionally causing his wild happy attitude to naturally bring smashing results into everyone's life. I cannot stress this point enough! Almost telepathically communicated to the worldwide art lovers community,expressing through art awe and wonder,he is increasingly bound to systematically experience this enthusiastic public effect on his overall worldwide reputation level. Heartbeat's overwhelming force,more than the artist's intelligence,skills,talents,money,relationships,hi s fabulous collaborators team,reputation,you name it...has been and it definitely is,his internal powerful tool just to get the whole job done and most importantly what actually takes to make his Oeuvre absolutely achieve the now on- going contemporary smashing new line and its global recognition. Creative visualization has been Pessoa's main faith and persistence provider,for all I know.The art studio veteran surely knows by now that following through without a plan and thoughtful action,means nothing but helplessness. Thereby,no wonder Antonio Pessoa,among the thousands of artists I know,he stands out prominently because he has made a success of getting what he wants out of life. He is successful in art studio performance,in his career,in his personal life and in leading a stimulating adventurous life and exciting projects. This is the secret and many people know it.He knows that the power to direct himself wherever he wants to go in art and life,is provided by his striking Heartbeat influence,energy and unbreakable flux,systematically empowering motivation,solid beliefs and cultivating burning imagination. The Heartbeat's law of attraction is not a new idea in the artist's daily rituals.It has always been there throughout his feverish art action times...in the continuous process of managing his professional and personal life commitments with the sudden decision taking skills and the miraculous ways he always indeed did manifest attaining his dreams,one by one,step by step...as new brilliant ideas and concepts kept on popping up in his mind and in his intuition. Years of intensive training has shown Antonio Pessoa that brainwaves not only provided insight into his mind and body,but they could manage to stimulate him to such an extent to actually enhance artistic performance,bringing about a large variety of mental states and emotional reactions for the incredible benefit of great creativeness. When Pessoa comes up with an artwork such as Heartbeat,it's once again quite obvious he is unquestionably climbing up the hill of the super exploring multiple magical possibilities of mind power and very specifically emotional intelligence. And why is he so much involved into this interesting sort of experiences? Actually,the answers to this question are quite simple once we fully come to understand the artist's current challenges in agenda. The whole scene concerning his life has become indeed a complex and rather exciting chess composition in which checkmate is definitely not an option whatsoever and the "Knight" is not supposed to resign even when the situation apparently looks hopeless and the going gets somewhat tough. Heartbeat and exact timing! What most of us aren't quite yet aware of is that Pessoa's public image has little or nothing to do with the real picture of the artist's private life ,which is actually a fascinating constant stream through the Universe's all possibilities accelerated learning and sharing wonderfully mysterious "Wondertopedia"! It seems Pessoa these days only shows his latest Oeuvre to very few people.Not anyone is actually allowed to visit his holy Studio 7,let alone his Studio 1,where most of the interesting things really happen. Therefore,Heartbeat,acrylic on watercolor paper,Antonio Pessoa 2008,might as well be a nice unexpected surprise or even an entirely unique revelation for most of his closest friends and the extra regular curious cats,such as Ian Dadley,always in his well-disguised effort in order to show not too much interest,his traditional attitude to helplessly keep the artist underpriced. Basically enjoying his highly productive semi- solitude,the art studio worm keeps on painting life itself,with the neo contemporary vision approach which is unquestionably changing on a weekly basis,if you ask me...definitely always for better,signing his artworks with the typical detachment of someone who doesn't feel the urgency to herald his own supreme greatness,and giving his paintings the titles always faithfully based upon his deepest beliefs.Remarkable accuracy! In the meantime,as time goes by,the after midnight express is always available downtown,where nothing really important seems to be happening,however - in particular when after a pleasurable Heartbeating creative working day,when he can't help feeling a bit stale and in need to liven up his soul and inspiration a bit and for a while- it turns out to be the perfect place at the right time with the wandering crowd...to break with the delicious routine and get that creative something back on the track and right on time. Antonio Pessoa's Heartbeat is essentially a universe of endless interesting amazing possibilities,where art and life coexist all together,as a family of dynamic concepts,intuitively aiming at approaching world public for an apotheosis celebration of art expression and universal communication. Heartbeat represents the soul of Studio 1,The New Era,the artist's updated outlook of the basic essentials of what the worldwide role of contemporary art expression must be,particularly in times of general doubt and emotional - conceptual fragmentation,in a world where the urgency to achieve a global strong focus on a truly solid catalog of new values,perception,ideals and most important of all,cultural togetherness at last check turns out to be a Must top of the list number one priority ,among the worldwide art lovers vibrating community. Antonio Pessoa Art Dealer It's no big surprise,actually it's no surprise whatsoever that Antonio Pessoa comes up with this watercolor entitled ART DEALER. It might sound funny that I put it this way,but fact is,they had it coming. Ever since his fine art first steps in Amsterdam up to now,his relation- chemistry with art dealers has always been an immense display of funny,even shocking episodes marked by enough glaringly vivid sensationalism,to become an excellent movie script and consequently a very probable worldwide successful motion picture. Along the past ten years,throughout our punctual ( off the record ) late evening,sometimes all night long pleasurable conversations,I've become more and more familiarized with the artist's rich content memories,particularly concerning this behavior pattern of the art merchants he has been stumbling upon along the way. The harassed petty annoying process of transforming them into business partners,in spite of always having provided him with interesting,handy,global promotional and specifically financial facilities,there was always the other side of the coin,so very often growing up in the form of politely disguised suspicion,generally ending up with a mutual resigned attitude based upon "if you can't beat them,why not join them" sort of idea,if you get my drift. Antonio Pessoa's strategy of using the art dealers passion for fast profitable income,has increased in quality and know-how expertise,systematically provoking raised eyebrows and cold shoulders,a situation sometimes rather difficult to fit well into the general décor,thereby issuing no guarantee to both one-of- a-kind parties that the Grand Pipe of Peace smoking session was about to be the next step of the almost take it or leave it negotiations meeting. Thanks to this year-after- year educational intensive experience and real- life tutorials,a considerable immunological tolerance has been remarkably developed as time went by,gradually providing the artist with a rather cool shoulder- shrugging indifference towards ruthless art market soul destroying tricky ways. No wonder Pessoa's impressive healthy detachment toward the worldwide art scene racing struggle,keeps him psychologically safe and sound,basically neutral to all different forms of pressure,such as silent treatment,hard to get playing,pseudo-snobbery high fevers,curriculum vitae obsessed go-betweens,you name it... Thereby it's only natural that the extent of the artist's evasive give me break attitude has indeed by now reached an effortless degree of pure automatism in which the "no pain no gain" old recipe sounds rather like a senseless,useless outmoded quotation. However,in spite of all these mysterious slippery shadows of the past,on the whole,Antonio Pessoa should have no reasons to be complaining about. As a matter of fact,let alone his reputable working capacity,talent,skills,technical level and prolific gifted imagination,he actually got pretty lucky along the way by coming across real gentlemen in the art business who managed his art career with absolute transparency,vision and punctuality,furthermore managing to establish a truly lifetime friendship relation with the artist. Thanks to these highly ethical and efficient art mediators and gallery owners,Pessoa became a premature wealthy artist and next thing he knew he was climbing fast up the hill,provided with the proper stimulation,at the right place and at the right time,feeding him with the dynamic incentive for super art action,and consequently moving his technical improvement process forward with such a force,to indeed such an extent of burning creativity and passionate working combustion that a whole lot sooner than it was to be expected,Antonio Pessoa had become a true art studio wizard and his brand-name an unquestionable contemporary visual arts phenomenon. As confident as can be,from then on,the painting machine magic had a sponsored one way ticket to the exciting life of a successful young professional artist. Overcoming the inevitable series of up and down momentum shifts,Pessoa increasing faith and belief in his oeuvre and project,was obviously sustained by his public,clients,family,close friends and very particularly by those exception to the rule distinguished art mediators. Antonio Pessoa today recalls all his endless collection of cinematic episodes with art dealers,with a contagious smile on his face,definitely not a bitter smile but actually a smile of cool retrospective amusement,taking this with the right measure of healthy detachment,all out in the open,no hard feelings whatsoever,and absolutely not like things one would rather have left unsaid. I'm not going to mention names obviously to ensure my genuine respect for individuals right to privacy,neither is Pessoa particularly interested in stain on whoever's reputation and public image. However,the general image and prototypical pattern of the average art dealers,those who have become the backstage actors of Antonio Pessoa - Fine Art productions play,after all these years turned out to become a rather hazy in outline cartoon-like caricature representing a cross- between something like a raptorial bird,card shark,buoyant bluffer,wishy-washy salesman,tricky wily,small-time streetwise,slimy schemer,tricky Dik,foxy-sly wiseguy... The eighteen years old young artist for the first time experiencing back in the 80's,downtown Amsterdam,Holland,the standard territory of weekly appoitments with veteran art dealers,soon finds out that ironically his strong spot ( super art production speedy capacity and artistic quality ),turns out to be his fragile weak spot as well.How come? Even back then,any art dealer entering Antonio Pessoa's Damstraat Studio for the very flashy first time,knew right away he had just found a gold mine and that the priority number one was to show no special interest whatsoever. On the other hand the art dealer also knew that the option of letting the bird fly away ...or shall we say,letting the gold slip through his fingers was totally out of question.Period. Thereby,after a short while of morbid pondering,the edgy agressiveness was on aiming at making the artist feel helplessly puzzled and most important of all,slippery insecure and anxious across the nail- biting business meeting. The young artist's huge art production let alone his naive good-hearted innocence were the main substantial ingredients for him to have to go through this short-term although painfully hard art marketing empirical apprenticeship. The art dealer's eyes were by then already glittering with the Overstocked and Underpriced smiley emotions greedy scintillant gleam. Nevertheless,the smart young artist sooner than they expected,learned the tweaks and tricks of the art business secrets.More than enough talent was available in order to cover both art production and art dealers fast efficient taming operation. Furthermore,there was extra bad news for all of them small-time artist's soul corrupters.Antonio Pessoa at the age of eighteen was already a full-swing professional musicien,if not a millionaire at least definitely already making a pretty decent living out of playing solo or with local dutch bands. This and that plus all the other gifted resources systematically pushing the creative sharp young man back on the right track,turned out to be a flash splash surprise for the mistaken victory assuming art dealers suddenly in a wink of an eye all at once switching from business meetings conductors to passive resigned restless spectators. Throughout the years Pessoa indeed meets a diversity of art dealers each and everyone of them from different backgrounds,from various cultures,perspectives and inevitable with different personal attitudes specifically when it comes to deal with an artist,obviously aiming at the essential motivation.Achieve fast profitable right on the spot financial goals. Always in the process of improving his ability to previsualize any art dealer's profile before shooting,the artist's judgment accuracy and precision became gradually more and more in tune,like a super efficient detecting radar on the look out for those red light warning signals of fraudulent intentions,abusive behavior and that obnoxiously disgusting greedy ruthlessness of the mediocre kind. Once passed the Trial by Fire test,in the very early nineties,Pessoa has become unquestionably an experienced soldier in the art business "battlefield".A true surviver,ready for the tough going,a real-life academy graduate ready to step on the art stage."Fait accompli"! However,before he actually comes to meet Mr.Doright,he still has to deal with another one of the nasty kind. Antonio Pessoa in his late twenties is willing to drop music for good,at least professionally and get fully commited with fine art,switching from noisy smoky,crowded wild night life to more suitable lifestyle in which he feels a whole lot more well-fit for his concentration enhancement and decreasing after midnight distractions therefore get down to an intensive experimental period through which he is indeed going to do his very best in order to make his art performance consolidate into a rather mature,impactful and enduring style. Once again in a few months his art production bacomes an awe eliciting colossal canvases,watercolors and drawings collection,the result of yet another prodigious storm of feverish creative art action. Obviously,after a short period he reaches that stand by point in which the artist wishes to get rid of his average quality oeuvre in the process of making a wise quality art selection.He always did it and still does it this way.However,not for any price,and most importantly not giving in by surrendering to no art dealer's whimsical,capricious and at the art business time sensible to no other passion but avarice. Easier said than done! In spite of the artist's doctorial how to deal with art dealers master diploma,this one proved to be a raging lion in the art business Coliseum. Pessoa actually bullfights him during almost one year the best way he knows how. Every business meeting turns out to be a Sergio Leone like movie,maybe "once upon a time in hell" or "run,art dealer,run". These play and rewind heated sessions indeed might have looked like a truly surrealistic two- players no card deck required Poker Game,where in this particular comedy-drama situation the general rules were "mix a lot of skill with a lucky charm spell" and maybe...you'll get out alive well! The artist had long assumed that if you take art business too seriously besides the possibility of end up getting an overnight headache you might as well wake up mid afternoon with one of those reality twisted smiling hangovers just to find out you're on your own with no art stock whatsoever and just a few bucks in your unpatched-hole pockets. This stressful period's happy ending was when the artist finally met Mr.Moreira,with whom he was about to have definitely the biggest break of the nineties. As time goes by and his grand piano gradually becomes an untouched abandoned dusty Steinway at the south end of his living room,Antonio Pessoa throws himself into his most striking art production odyssey up to then. The Golden Period great adventure had just begun.During these super creative smashing times the reciprocal link between the artist and his new art agent-gallery owner and friend,couldn't possibly have been better indeed. Not only the gallerist provided him with a rather impressive substantial financial punctual assistence,for the artist to have become almost overnight a wealthy young art maker,but also Antonio Pessoa knew how to make the best out of this only once in a lifetime opportunity,by becoming a fully commited eight days a week fine art professional,furthermore improving at light speed,technically,aesthetically and conceptually.Indeed an amazing combination of motivation,positive energy,innovation,intensive studio action,let alone his ever-present incandescent imagination. Nevertheless,on the whole,I wouldn't dare try to make you believe that from the early nineties on,the beating around the bush art dealers eventual negotiations were over and out for good in the hill climbing artist's life. Not quite just yet,I'm afraid.However, the past likewise situations quantity were severely minimized in equal proportion to Antonio Pessoa's increasing success,financial status and oeuvre sales rates. One way or another this specific idea of the streetwise wiseguy art dealer,far from having traumatized him,whatsoever,on the contrary it provided the artist's imagination with that spicy something which over the years,now and then,actually managed to ignite his inspiration just enough to come up with a reasonable amount of artworks representing his own light-hearted( almoust hilarious ) interpretation of this art market small-timers who unfortunately never seem to successfully grab the intelligent dynamic context of what a long-term profitable business relationship between artist and mediator is actually all about.What a shame,if you ask me! Anyway... Antonio Pessoa Stage Time Going pleasantly through the process of imprinting new values,innovative artistic concepts and multiple changes into his life and career,absolutely clear on the on-going and upcoming procedures,mind made up and totally focused on a positive affirmation of his beliefs,directing the visual arts to the end result he wants and the World simply adores,feeling the emotion that goes along with self-discovery,sharing,art action,live performance and worldwide communication,Antonio Pessoa's life and work manifest in direct proportion to the stimulating communication frequency between art and public. Mainly for the past two years Pessoa has been working with a particularly powerful creative attitude and in the meantime in these two years he has been able to completely change his life and consequently his artistic message and style.It seems like there has been a blessed miracle after miracle since he has adopted the new attitude,outlook of life and developed his positive energy. Antonio Pessoa's course changed the way he dared to imagine,therefore paint and act. He's a much better person and artist today and he has attracted wonderfull people into his life.He has a new circle of friends,all positive,like minded people who help him with extra-studio work,such as clients mailing lists,exhibitions art curating,public relations in Europe and United States ,you name it. His new wonderful lifestyle and attitude provide him with an infinite sense of inner peace translated to creative extra- imagination and consequently it's obvious his life is heading in the right direction. The artist's success naturally is religiously following his positive thinking optimistic rock- solid attitude and his determination to focus on making art the best way he knows how.And,by the way,believe me,he definitely does know how! Enjoy this amazing contemporary fine art that already has become even more colorful,lively ,exciting and new.Stage Time,acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2008,tells us about certain events ( eventually! ),magnetic experiences and unique people he systematically draws into his life,apparently almost as by magical currents. Stage Time,more than visioning,it reflects the artist's day-to-day studio,social and professional outs and abouts,explicit prevailing challenges,in short,the essential factors in the positive influences Universe around him,life's dynamic articulation itself,a whole of summarized activities,of mastering intense living efficiency and the inevitable art vision always ready to create new worlds,as the artistic alternate reality.What is indeed interesting is that Pessoa in Stage Time seems to be willing to define his adventurous real-life episodes as aesthetic and convincingly abstract. Exploring life,illuminating the viewers and imagining anyplace,anytime between the present and the future...or even maybe,eternity. Systematically growing and coming up with innovative art expression possibilities in an ever-changing global contemporary art scene,Pessoa proves to be driven by his solid commitment to continuous quality improvement and to exceeding our expectations. Let the dice roll,seems to be the message of this canvas punctually entitled Stage Time,as if shouting "the show must go on",maybe another artwork aiming at cultivating living burning desire,enough plausible arguments to be found in this painting's almost random magnetism,or to put it in another way,very probably the artist is actually underlining the guidelines of super- living,stating it's about time for full swing action,spectacular situations,glamorous moments succumbing to the temptations of the flesh? Apparently to many ifs and buts.At last check,maybe what's at stake it's for him to know and for the viewer to find out.After all,that's the beautiful mystery of art,if you ask me. It's obvious Antonio Pessoa doesn't forget to take time to visualize life's edge,no boundaries required whatsoever,probably the most important and exciting might as well be the exhilaration he feels upon creating visual situations pretending they have already happened ...and Bingo!He is right there where he wants to be! Fabulous,flashy,ambiguous and unique,leaving the art lover waiting until tomorrow for the next chapter of the artist's Stage Time. Nevertheless,one way or another, the idea and most importantly the unbreakable Stage Time attitude has always been Antonio Pessoa's omnipresent playground. A professional musicien since the age of fourteen,no wonder he is definitely a stage veteran,a Life Stage veteran,experienced in the art of direct communication,and at last check,familiarized with the fascinating real-life divine madness,in a manner of speaking. Throughout his life,musicien,traveller and artist,experiences life stage performance while developing his views and thereby empirically learning what's absolutely required and necessary to be a sovereign master of this reality show like real- time communication. Antonio Pessoa's insight as he here obviously proclaims that life is a stage and we are the actors on that stage,leads him to come up with another charming painting whose title combines and heralds his vision of what the essential nature of existing and sharing a world such as our planet is actually all about. Basically random thoughts inspired by his everyday living,a range of conclusions sources plus a whole sea of people admitting and fully understanding that indeed after all life is but a stage. Stage Time engages the viewer by clearly projecting and helping to identify this Playing- Living-Learning-Acting positive attitude,a difference that after all makes the difference between small-time nickel-and-dime mediocrity and big-time personal success. According to the artist's cognitive latest experiences,Stage Time had to be born sooner or later pointing out this concept,inevitably supporting the evidence of the explicit message of this canvas. The author's beliefs and feasible approach to perceiving,experiencing,living,learning and consequently adopting a truthful and reliable role as a star on life's stage,as far as I can recall it has always been one of Antonio Pessoa's priorities,whenever it comes the time to be once again inevitably involved in the fascinating and sometimes stressful display of events and very often unexpected awkward situations,the educational how-to Bible,life's stage,this only in a lifetime mysterious performance we all have to experience,deal with,share,play the best way we know how and preferably enjoy. Through this increasing process of giving contemporary art a new voice,Pessoa goes on and on surprising us with his natural gift and ability to congratulate the art lovers with a large field of immortal subjects,looking at the outside world's orchestra as a composer listening,hearing,watching and observing in order to capture and thereby express the music and poem of life's adventure,flame and challenge,using the visual tools as an accurate interpretation of existence,adding some magical special effects,however clearly and truthfully reporting what we intimately already know,but yet love to see it rearranged by the delicious reality filter only art can provide. Experienced in dealing with real-life with means at hand and circumstances as they are,he is by now supposed to be seriously accepted as a truly reliable wisdom source and a valuable reference,not only in today's art scene but mainly within the whole of the worldwide talented observing greatminds,determined to reach the highest level of awareness and most importantly,share valuable conclusions,after all and as time goes by the infinite greatest contribution for,indeed a better world to live in. Antonio Pessoa's communication power through art is based on his intention and sharp conscience and on how he actually proves systematically to be more and more capable to draw on the creative process as a spiritual path. After endless examinations of how Pessoa indeed manages to make the soul visible through abstract fine art,challenging us to aim high with his punctual visual literature,bringing beauty and a fresh outlook of life to our depleted and cynical world,I easily jump once again to the final conclusion that his Life Stage concept talks basically about the key role of our inner mind,perception and ideology when it comes the time to open the doors and get in the racing flow of passionate actions creating successive magnetizing waves of causes ans effects as the ultimate commitment to something so eternal and wonderfully essential as the challenging process of making our dreams come true! Antonio Pessoa STUDIO 1 Now that the mild mediterranean winter is gone once again the whell of the year has brought the warm air and the sugary smell of springtime,inspiring bursts of colors exploding in the sky then landing in the artist's studio up for a happy display of art sessions as they float down the river of Antonio Pessoa's imagination,the magical springtime creative fuel inspiring wall-size images,gorgeous motions,amazing tales and awesome contemporary fireworks! Now that the hibernation is over the create- criteria is back again,a warm welcome back Mr.Art Magician,after the festive cold December Saturday Nights,it seems we now have a full calendar of live studio performance,the one thing about Pessoa we fortunately can always count on. The artist is once again inspired,motivated and willing to share that gifted talent with others.We expect him to remain rock-solid back in business in order to approach his art magic in better and more powerful ways. So let's take a trip through the world of the charismatic fine art storyteller,meet the man,see his ideas,feel his emotions and enjoy his lastest oeuvre. Welcome my friends to Antonio Pessoa's Studio 1,the space where it's taking place another intensive,unpredictable art action period. The artist's Home Studio is now divided in seven departments,each one of them specially equipped with huge stocks of art material for different specific functions performances.With this plurality of art labs,the artist moves about the mansion,his living and creative domain,a professionally organized art factory,where the upcoming fine art wonders are just about to happen,certainly bound to give birth to another astonishing art collection. That's the life,that's the way to do it,Ladies and Gentlemen,in order to accomplish his traditional , reputable super art production,from drawings to collages,from watercolors to king- size canvases. Here comes the sun and consequently here comes another artistic marathon which surely will culminate in yet another amazing series of striking contemporary artworks. During the year 2007,Antonio Pessoa becomes one of the most reviewed artists in the world,thanks to my spare time retired reporter condition and a very special thank you to Pierre Fontanals,Luis Santiago and Nancy Anderson,just to mention a few,who had the ability to know how to establish and maintain a fantastic teamwork spirit and light atmosphere.Also a very special thank you to the artist for his punctual,regular collaboration concerning our private and group sessions,providing us with truthful and accurate information about his past and current life outs and abouts,plus his remarkable assistance related to helping us to understand and decipher the deep meaning of his huge oeuvre artworks,one by one. Like old valuable manuscripts,translating,interpreting Pessoa's past and current artworks plus rather relevant aspects of his past and current private life,providing exemplary and valuable information to our customers and public,has been and it is always a rather intensive laborious task,let alone putting it all down in words,turning them into easy-digest literature articles aiming at a wide range of art lovers and public in general,which is the final process,however definitely not the easiest one. Since the extravagant golden years of Antonio Pessoa's renown,even mythical and legendary Romantic Period,1997-2202,Studio 1 in the year 2007 succeeded becoming one more time a brand-new version of the late nineties artistic production phenomenon,this time now featuring the positive prominent aspects and best characteristics of a serious full-lengh commitment to a totally original new line of striking contemporary fine art. Financially supported by a list of more than five thousand regular clients,local and international,Antonio Pessoa uses this particular privilege to create totally stress-free,focused on his studio work and most importantly making truly artistic wonders with no negative interferences whatsoever,let alone the highly annoying stigma of worry,rush,hurry and smashing pressure. Therefore,it's been within this pleasurable and relaxing microclimate that the positive atmosphere of Studio 1,gave and gives birth to the most genuine Antonio Pessoa's quality art performance up to now.Fact. 2007 has been a year of great ideas and new accomplishments,increasing the artist's composition level and skills.Most importantly it's been a year throughout which Pessoa has proven to have the proper knowledge,determination and vision to reinforce his style and brand,and in so doing building a general idea and reputation concerning his new oeuvre,the wonderful purity of his contemporary fine art cutting edge. Easy and readable for the average viewer,transparent and impactful for the erudite art-connoisseurs educated taste,in spite of the great amount of mystery and ambiguity,purposefully challenging the eye and the senses with the sweet-bitter flavour of vagueness,that playful misleading multi-defined symbology with a value which arouses our aesthetic pleasure before a specific oeuvre when the boundaries of meaning are indistinct. Still too premature to tell and comment from such a short perspective the extent to which Studio 1 is going to become another mythical historic prodigious phenomenon such as Antonio Pessoa's Romantic Period,we might as well however consider the possibility that this previously explored area,might actually already be moving upwards in such an apparently invisible manner we can't afford to detect,let alone see,for the results haven't quite yet turned out to be unquestionable facts,nevertheless,knowing the artist's creativeness,imagination and power of attraction,one should already safely assume,presume and even take for granted that eventually anything is possible,even our wildest dreams and expectations related with Pessoa's upcoming soon future,no matter how skeptical our worldly common sense tells us our outlook should be. Five breathtaking years have gone by since the last days of the Romantic Period,definitely not an eternity yet a space in time adventurous enough to launch the idea that indeed Antonio Pessoa should be by now a different man from the light cheerful one from those extravagant days of Atlantis. However this concept or evaluation could easily make it sound like the overstatement of the century. In spite of the inevitable facts,priority issues plus the artist's current general situation aren't what they used to be,the man's nature remains intrinsically the same whereas his maturity has developed a trained discernment,inevitably conducting to a substantial body of new and stronger capabilities,a new fundamental inner-self emotional autonomy and obviously a remarkable updated approach to contemporary art expression and communication. The artist's 2007 Timeless Time Art Collection - http://timelesstime- artcollection- ap.blogspot.com - can be used as the most reliable mirror,reflecting,witnessing,reporting and consequently helping us to reinforce this theory and subscribe to this point of view,for it's plenty understood by now that Antonio Pessoa's latest oeuvre has the conspicuous self biographical caliber and attitude of a diary. Paintings such as Universal Time,Free,Out of the Blue,Cosmic Cognition,Spiritual Light,Night Wits,Burning Flame,Living Joy,Night Gospel,etc,show us clearly the artist's full commitment to an evolutionary path for a self discovery therapy intensive apprenticeship. Through this systematic daily ritual focused on exploring health and wellness,self- discipline,personal growth and spiritual power,Antonio Pessoa reaches a dimension of art expression of broad sensorial horizons and consequently attracting and leading the viewers to this wonderful,fulfilling experience,embarking them on the realms of the mind's infinite inner potential. This spiritual transformation steadiness,has been so far the step by step progress to mastery,which made way for a considerable amount of followers willing to share,learn and grow with the available intructing support,tutorials and guidance of Pessoa's knowledge and wisdom. Even some of his pragmatically irrefutable pro- real-life skeptical good old friends such as Ariana Sabugal,Marie Louise Lambert,Carmen Olaya and Marc Gilot,seem to have unconditionally surrendered to the tempting delights and well- being excellent prospects of the artist's spiritual method at last check. Marie Louise Lambert and Marc Gilot after a couple of weeks living in the relaxing peaceful comfort of Antonio Pessoa's Studio 1,went back to Paris with a new outlook of life and most importantly genuinely converted to the Universal Awareness rewarding principles. No big surprise after all.These purifying winds of changes blowing across the artist's life and perception,driving him to looping and swirling into a more relaxed spiritual state,have proven to be the expected prophetic reference featuring an entirely new living formula and lifestyle,opening windows overlooking a freshwater river of freedom,happiness and heavenly joy. Thereby,no wonder that creative visualization,spiritual growth,mind power,free inspiration,turned out to become the essential keys for Antonio Pessoa's increasing personal success,let alone the materialization of one of his most striking quality contemporary fine art series. Striving to provide an affordable alternative to average contemporary art,Antonio Pessoa's approach to developing a totally new concept of abstract fine art came up with brilliant results mainly during the past two years,by creating through spontaneous action art an absolutely free style,in which an impressive traffic of colors and symbols play an important role in providing the viewer with thousands of interpretation options prominently featured like a magic engine,and in so doing the artist manages to pull in a significant immediate steady stream of awesome visual illusions. In spite of going on using the traditional fine art thecnical concept of the great modern masters,Pessoa indeed succeeds creating a cutting- edge innovative visual potential with additional subjective codes,the viewers readily join and enjoy with effortless increasing curiosity,enthusiasm and amusing uncertainty. If Antonio Pessoa - Romantic Period's Studio Atlantis was characterized by an extravagant atmosphere,the soul of a vast scenery of hiper- intensive art performance,modern art- oriented,Studio 1,has been so far cultivating a worldwide attitude and a flamboyant outlook of today's art scene,fact which results flow turned out to be a dynamic on-going project inspired by a strong,impactful contemporary fine art prototype plus an artistic unmistakable stamp and brand. The immense potential of Pessoa's Studio 1, is as yet far from being fully worked out and for a long time to come will have to prove the effectiveness of its intentions,by meeting international specific targets and furthermore be able to understand the demands and timing of a whole new generation of art gallery owners,art collectors,art lovers,media and worldwide public. Studio 1's Project is surfing through multiple waves of fresh ideas and new concepts,not only related with the creation of a relevant new abstract formula of contemporary art but also inspired by Antonio Pessoa's increasing interest in the rewarding process of the discovery of inner self and subconscious mind infinite potential. These and those issues are actually succeeding creating a rather amazing togetherness making way for both a new spiritual vision and the new art vision already an on-going full swing experimentation,which results are by now available for the world's eye throughout the artist's latest series. However unpredictable as life itself,Antonio Pessoa's Studio 1 already highlights an overview into the future,personal methods of extracting innovative artistic and practical solutions,by now stimulated by the public reactions and effects to the artist's latest creative proliferation let alone his quality art expression achievements and striking improvement. Antonio Pessoa Perception Nothing is ever too much,nothing is ever too universal,nothing is ever too wonderful when it comes the time for any art lover to enter Antonio Pessoa's world of Perception,Art,Poetry and Awareness. As in the final countdown,his life has developed the wildest ride of a thrilling cyclone roller coaster,pleasure mixed with Blues,quickly become a firm creative power,one of those that turns you upside-down.If you don't know what it is like to really live on the edge,then take my good advice and start reading all you can about Antonio Pessoa,the most brilliant and thrilling adventure of today's contemporary art scene.Fact! All reviews and information about the artist are essentially a breathtaking unique biography,mixing chills with fun,mixing art with life itself. Danger,passion,intense emotions,blues and Opera,Comedy and Drama,are the face of one of the world's most spectacular cutting edge artists. PERCEPTION? Find the answer to this question and millions more,in this enjoyably dark,yet still very sensual and romantic lifestyle. Straight right up to the tension filled final of every of his artistic and real-life performances,when he will have you on the edge of your emotional box. Perception,acrylic on canvas,Antonio Pessoa 2007,is unquestionably a result of many years of studio art action experience,research and reflection,a brilliant colorful abstract painting where the viewer is face to face with images propagating amazing waves of colors,light and sound being pleasantly thrown to the eye and our senses right from the canvas surface. One of the most charming artworks of Pessoa's 2007 art collection,Perception has that special buzz of excitment,rapid vibration,motion and strong visual impact,yet it's soothing something projects almost a healing energy for mind,body and the eye,inspiring poetic sensations of pure organic fountains,plus that chromatic quality in the whole of its exuberant,abstract,sensuously radiant affinities of colors and symbols. Expressing a new vision and a totally new artistic vocabulary,Perception has that abstract expressionism unique lyrical style,nevertheless also clearly influenced by surrealism,conceptual art,yet never missing the futurism artistic design Pessoa is so fond of,thereby creating that linear decorative dynamic impact,plus a reaction leading to subjective and entirely free interpretation. Regardless of his increasing artistic skills and striking creativeness,Antonio Pessoa becomes more and more popular mainly for his unique lifestyle and his inner-self personal achievements,acquiring world-renown prestige and wide credibility,through the stimulating and rewarding process of how to unlock his full potential for striking artistic performance,personal success and a high quality professional level,becoming his international autograph,the significance of how his impressive fast self-improvement in all areas and attitudes has indeed accelerated his echoing reputation as a fully commited spiritual guide,expert,let alone his highly-respected artistic vision,inner and universal Perception. Paying tribute to him and in faithful recognition of his multiple achievements,close friends,collaborators,art critics,clients,art collectors and soul mates of the fine art trade,now frequently honor him with a natural awestruck approach and genuine admiration. Entering his studio,very often demanding his wise advice,show us clearly how so many people enjoy being in the realms of his glowing positive energy,happy,free,safe and at ease before his charismatic and charming manner in which Pessoa's ambiguous relation with life,people and the Universe,translates a highly advanced Perception,making obvious that living feeling alive is not a special gift or a way of going through life,but actually the only one. Perception,the dream of life creativeness as outcome of Antonio Pessoa's number one priority,it starts in the character of a solid experienced artist,reinforced through daily research in all areas with inspiring enthusiasm,attracting affection,love and respect among all his friends,collaborators and public in general. If indeed Pessoa is helplessly becoming a inevitable life coach,that's not what's at stake right now,for most importantly is the fact he is becoming one of the most inspiring art wizards of today's art scene. Antonio Pessoa's Perception creates clarity and eliminates doubt,invents a higher level of positive motivation,his confidence in himself and in his abilities grow,the artist actually sees what he can be! Often,the hardest thing about visioning is actually having the Perception of what we want to bring into existence can actually be accomplished. To really make it happen,and he sure does,Pessoa supersedes his own doubts and has a sense of certainty that what he wants can be accomplished. The artist on his vision has a faith in Perception that is greater than his fears and it's willing to open his mind to see beyond the confines of what he is facing today.Remarkable,indeed! Antonio Pessoa Trial by Fire Once again the artist delivers the ultimate thrill,as we all look genuinely awestruck before one more It's Hard to Believe sort of challenge,through which the art creator's puzzling experiments insist in preparing us yet for another public Watchout session.Fair enough. What is this all about,after all,you may ask.Let me explain. Commited himself to the achievement os self- development all areas highest levels,Antonio Pessoa combines information...or should I say,Knowlrdge ...from multiple resources,thereby getting instant access to this fascinating dimension of living magic and most importantly to this highly effective mind power multilateral expertise. Emerging across all the information available,the artist's determination and traditional straightforwardness seem to be once again tough enough to track the whole of this advanced tutorials,leaving us to absolutely expect the upcoming high-impact all this wisdom structure and mastery are going to have in his private life,art performance,lifestyle and most importantly in his public projection,as the paradigmatic entrepreneur artist of our times and obviously as the new generation great communicator. Getting ready to indeed operate a daring new artistic enterprise and worldwide venture,Pessoa inevitably assumes a great deal of accountability for the inherent risks,setbacks,stand bys,ins and outs and general obstacles,definitely a scary process ( not for all ) where getting accurate valuable advice and cutting edge information never seems to be enough in the new start-up stage of his current and coming soon king-sized challenges where sharing his responsibilities and vision with his collaborators international team definitely requires a proficiently advanced How- To immediate decision making skills,where his mind tools productive effectiveness will be unquestionably on Trial by Fire! Taking a good look at the tools,modus operandi,and processes Antonio Pessoa continually uses in his rich and colorful day to day life,we helplessly can't resist to get a glimpse into the artist's life latest news,always expecting the next episode to be far more striking and exciting than the ones before. People from all over Europe and United States write to me telling us they indeed do spend a lot of time researching and reading about the artist's methods,deliciously grabbed and entertained by how he systematically manages to get off to a new blazing start just about to a always unexpected new series of brilliant and satisfying conclusions,as one of the art scene world's most unique,amusing and amazing on-going profiles. The extent to which Pessoa exhibits various and interesting characteristics,provides us with sufficient visibility to fully understand his increasing degree of positive exposure to public notice.Fact. Therefore,extinguishing the fire with a calm spell seems to be right now the hardest accomplishment for anyone within the artist's friends circle. Besides,anyway,nobody seems to have no reasons to actually wish that to happen. Slowly but surely turned on by the tempting idea of living feeling today everything is possible,even his wildest dreams,Antonio Pessoa uses his mind's full potential to wish things to happen and surprise,surprise,fact is that then they actually do. However there is after all the secret,the special trick,which enables the artist to deal with challenges he has to face,by astonishingly quadrupling his vision,knowledge,meeting the goal achievement proper balance with his traditional rock-solid determination to make the seemingly impossible a now-reality. Sensitive,selective,fast and accurate,the artist faithfully keeps on following a truly effective method,which unfortunately for most of us,strange as it seems,remains a one million dollars secret! No doubt Pessoa must have enough good reasons to have entitled this painting "Trial by Fire ".Pure abstract art,caughts the eye of the viewer,regardless the message or meaning,however as we all become more and more familiarized with the content-intent of this particular artwork,which is after all,and most important of all,the mirror reflecting the powerful heart and soul of a life veteran sort of artist,once again stubbornly committed to change his mind's orientation,a current challenging issue which has clearly shown itself to be by now a striking method both proficient and highly effective in all areas and in every step of the way. Banking on proving to himself and to the world that beyond the boundaries of conscious self- evaluation,of conscious global awareness,there is an endless wealthy empire of possibilities,we so very often can't make out,lost through our own mismanagement of our own inner potential scenario,Antonio Pessoa records in " Trial by Fire " the expanded universe available to anyone willing to spend a reasonable full time research aiming at reaching a level of global expertise,the fuel of a dynamic and happy life,wealthy innovations and new ways of viewing the world through self-growth,after all the magical counselling therapy providing a lucid,original and effective practical guide to how accomplish our most cinematic dreams taking off from the deep valuable resources of our inner mind. "Trial by Fire" definitely doesn't pretend to suggest doubt about this high-efficiency method,however clearly points out that the golden results basically depend on absolute true passion,daily focusing,solid motivation,a patient step by step mind fitness plan,an increasing magnitude unbreakable perspective and a whole lot of multiple positive intentions,the ultimate goal setting made easy. Pessoa couldn't have chosen a better title for this mountains beyond mountains of research and observation endless miles and miles and miles to cross,climb and crawl,indeed a Trial by Fire,engaged in fierce emotional tournaments and daring journeys bound to where the glowing pot is placed,solving ancient mysteries hidden in plain sight from our perception,knowledge and wise mindset awareness. This painting once again rises an impressive new set of questions. First and most important of all,is Antonio Pessoa going to pass this stiff examination entitled "Trial by Fire"? We all believe he will,despite also acknowledging that arriving safe and sound at the shining palace at the end of the long and winding road,it's not going to be a twelve minute extravaganza of boiling fun. A mission impossible or a successful accomplishment? I would rather emphasize a mission accomplishment as an already now-reality fact,running like a well-oiled machine. However the big challenge is out there,waiting for an artist willing to be playing with fire,by the book and by the rules,a free trial available for anyone,nevertheless a tough enough match only the brave players can undertake when it comes the time to jump into the titanic overwhelming arena of the Trial by Fire! Antonio Pessoa Colors Update Pessoa stains on watercolor paper,both generously or feverishly adding water to the tissue,following the spontaneous instructions of his experienced intuition. His untouchable imaginative endeavour,makes his fine art activity an effortless almost unconscious undertaking,apparently with no doubts about the whole art action enterprise,whatsoever. His quality work is thereby delivered and accomplished by miracle,showing us once again clear evidences of his privileged gift he gracefully received and gratefully developed and improved through this well-known systematic exceptional working method and highly professional attitude. Enchanting the world with his inmitable visual flavours,colorful motions by projecting his peculiar dynamic kaleidoscope of pure contemporary poetry,Pessoa provides us with this pleasant artistic metaphysics,visual literature where elemental beauty of adventurous power of invention leave art lovers deliciously dazzled by the mastery through which he artistically speaks his mind as his work becomes more and more notorious like something truly magical in today's contemporary art scene. From a modern critical standpoint,Antonio Pessoa has indeed this unique capacity to make us see things that aren't actually there,that completely high level when the viewer awakens suddenly and contemplates the awesome abstract nature of inspired combinated creative cutting edge. It's work and play,flowing from one idea to another as he walks us through the multiple artistic possibilities,not only the quality evidence of a life's work but a rather original style,powerfully magnetic,intensive and new. Ups and downs,ins and outs,don't seem to be able to stop the artist,let alone take his burning fire away.No stormy Monday,foggy Twesday or rainy day seem to be capable to put his fire off,neither thunderstorming,freezing or snowing events or even setbacks,seem to succeed to list him among the lost stars. If it's true that vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit,then Antonio Pessoa's burning flame fading out is definitely out of question. Back in business after a good night sleep,no matter what's at stake,no matter what it takes,the Show must go on for today's visual arts most adventurous and dynamic entertainer. Even feeling quite often a bit burned out by pressure and life in general,Pessoa's trained pro- life attitude grants him what seems to be indeed a life time heavenly Guardian Angel assistance,a whole great amount of vital positive energy,showing him the way and lead his project in full swing with the hot fusion of mind power daily updates. Therefore,COLORS UPDATE,watercolor and acrylic on watercolor paper,Antonio Pessoa 2007,now it sure seems like it was an accurate predicability of the on-going art action and visual results of the making of an impressive collection of cutting edge mixed media artworks on watercolor tissue and most importantly using a true revolutionary method in the art of painting,which essential characteristics is the magical experience of the color stains taking spontaneous and absolute control plus cellular autonomy of the art action,just as in one of those amazing Walt Disney best of productions animation fiction wonders.Can you believe it? The art studio wizard is back in business,a paradigmatic inspired fine artist performing a striking number of art magic ...or should I say ...contemporary witchcraft? What do you know!Optical illusions appear on the watercolor wet tissues,exhibiting a breathtaking fairy magic fantasy festival . Art reviews heralding "welcome back to the art studio,Antonio Pessoa,sure thing,the place where you definitely do belong." Breaking news never seemed to be so easy,breaking news never seemed to be so fulfilling,breaking news never seemed to be so exciting,sensational,rewarding,delicious and magical. The art studio wizard at work shows us inevitably once again a truly special profecy of contemporary art current-upcoming cutting edge,as time goes by and the show must go on,and it does,it's definitely a Must,Must,Must flash point art performance,a Must elated blissed-out phenomenon! Freeze,read my lips and mark my words,one has actually got to see it to believe it. Pessoa opens his studio doors for his faithful,best and closest friends,the only ones allowed to enter the cathedral of contemporary fine art and thereby witness live and ablaze,a landscape of chaotically displayed dozens and dozens of watercolor tissues all over the floor,miraculous visions on top of other textured multicolored victorious artistic wonders. Theoretically and apparently one could come up with the possibility of an artist working chaotically,which isn't definitely what is happening. Colors in the air,that's more like it,up they go and next thing you know they are fast landing in artland,it's best to get down quickly,for red,yellow,orange,brown,black and blue color pigments are flying all over the place like party decorations gone mad,precisely when time awareness seems to have been suspended,sense of reality expired and the artistic madness now hitting us hard,nevertheless too late to warn us how deliciously crazy we can go standing before Antonio Pessoa's art action glowing exuberance and original style extending well beyond the inherited tradition of reasonable self-contained art making.Too much of too much,believe me. Much more than simply a Colors Update,the artist's effortless studio live shows,leave us no doubts of how far into artistic mastery he has already gone,and a clear clue of how his strikingly spectacular upcoming special effects aesthetic achievements are unquestionably going to hit the highest possible standards of quality contemporary art,surely bound to inspire not only the new generation of talented emerging artists but also today's art collectors special recognition of his creative skills and top of the line awesome artistic accomplishments