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Peace Pipe Poster - Tom Masse - 22" X 32"
Growing
up in the small, Appalachian town of Dublin, Virginia, Tom remembers
always having some drawing utensil and paper in hand, trying to
duplicate on paper everything he saw. His parents, who have always
encouraged his talents and interests, paid for art lessons at the age of
ten, where he recalls sketching with pencil and pastel the surrounding
lakes and mountain-scapes. He continued with art classes through high
school, where as a teenager he won a national competition and scholarship
in Anaheim, California for painting and sculpture. His interest in
fictional and historical literature soon turned into an obsession with
fantasy art and films. He started collecting everything he could find on
visionary themes, from science fiction magazines to graphic books on
mythology and ancient history. After high school, deciding that his true
passion lied in art, he passed up all other opportunities and pursued his
goal, enrolling into the art program at Virginia Commonwealth University
in Richmond.
At
the university level it was soon revealed to him how little he actually
knew about art. Besides the formal elements of compositional design, he
discovered numerous ways to see and interpret his insight; that an
emotional response can be evoked just by the use of line, shape, or
color. He then delved into a boundless universe of art history,
fascinated by the entire evolution of art, from cave paintings to the
post modern era; how each discovery and idea is eternally built upon and
added to the next step. Particularly in the modern age, when art
evolved beyond the visual to the psychological, he was captivated by the
Surrealist of the early 20th century. A movement attracting artist from
the turbulent mood of the Dada era and the World Wars, Surrealism used
imagery from the subconscious mind to conjure spiritual and emotional
responses, while still using traditional, realistic methods. From the
desolate cityscapes of Georgio de Chirico, the exotic figures of Rene
Magritte and Max Ernst and the dream-inspired illusions of Salvador
Dali, Surrealism merged into his personal style. In studying the art of
filmmaking, he was intrigued with the combination of sound and image and
how kinetic pictures are connected together in order to compose a story.
Film has also profoundly affected his art in not only borrowing imagery
for viewers to identify with, but in the narrative display and
theatrical settings in which he places his characters. In 1991 he earned a
B.A. in Illustration and Cinematography and Minors in Art History.
After
graduating, he worked as a freelance illustrator along with other odd
jobs for a number of years. In 2000 he moved back to
the South picking up a number of skills over the past few years,
including faux finishing and art restoration, in which he found his
illustrative ability ideal for inpainting. He currently lives in a small
town outside of Asheville, North Carolina, where he continues to create
elaborate art and expand his business.
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