Painting titled "solipsismo_22" by Salvatore Balice, Original Artwork, Wax Mounted on Wood Stretcher frame

solipsismo_22 (2022) Painting by Salvatore Balice

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Wax / Oil on Wood

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One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 39.4in, Width 48in
Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Paintings under $5,000 Abstract Abstract

Radical Solipsism preaches that everything I can know about the world is inside my head. For the subject, all that he can know about an external object is the sensation that this object gives him and the mental image that derives from it: from the sensations ideas will be generated and from the ideas images will be produced.
According to Descartes we cannot know with certainty, if we rely only on the senses, that external reality really exists.
So the idea of solipsism is that we cannot prove that external things exist and that consequently the only reality we can claim to know is that of our ideas.
According to J. Locke, however, if our sensations are passive, that is, we receive them from the outside and therefore we are not creating them with our mind, it means that necessarily there must be something outside that is giving me those sensations.
The concordance between subjects who see the same object, albeit with slight differences, could prove the existence of external matter.
Having the eyes of the philosopher, therefore, means seeing things outside the prejudices that society imposes on us, to see how much complicated beauty there is under the alleged simplicity of this world.
As expressed by a good part of Eastern mysticism, the truth can only reside within us and never outside.
Solipsism, in its most positive sense, gives us new eyes, those of the solitary being, useful for looking for the hidden (often lost) treasures within us.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Wax

Sculpture technique using a mixture of pigments diluted in melted wax.

Oil

Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Salvatore Balice

Italy

Salvatore Balice, painter and photographer, was born in Bari, capital of the Puglia region, in southern Italy. A self-taught artist, he has a background in architectural interior design. All his works[...]

Salvatore Balice, painter and photographer, was born in Bari, capital of the Puglia region, in southern Italy. A self-taught artist, he has a background in architectural interior design.

All his works go beyond the mere phenomenal and earthly character of expression. They are the fruit of an individual research that he has been carrying out for more than twenty years, where the direct intuition of the thing itself, of its essence, is his only path. Like a hollow bamboo inside, it creates a space in itself to listen to what resonates without the crushing noise of the voice of the tumult, to no longer visit but to be visited, notably by silence... Salvatore Balice s' interested in the aura of the image, in the impermanence of the structure.

Born in 1967, he lives and works in Bari, Italy. It is in this city that he finds his inspiration and brings his artistic works to life, exploring the multiple dimensions of painting and photography. His self-taught journey allows him to express his personal vision of the world through unique compositions, where the sensation of the ephemeral and the search for essence mingle harmoniously.