Model Citizens Magazine Italy

18/03/2024

https://johnjosephdowlingjr.com/galleries/

American Graffiti drawings/paintings are made on the computer manually taking photographs of paintings and then drawing every square inch of them until the original photos become nothing more than the color pallets. The new resulting compositions are now completely complex drawings (paintings) ofte...

21/02/2024

17/02/2024

This is why my art is called the American Graffiti Collection.

07/02/2024

Dowling’s odyssey began in the ’80s in the traditional darkroom experimenting with multiple exposure photography and hand-colored black and white prints. Once diagnosed with an incurable genetic mutation and forced to walk marathons to grow arteries because his organic arteries were being destroyed, his downtime was put to good use while recovering from this devastating illness. Utilizing his laptop, Dowling spent his time scanning and painting his photographs as a form of art therapy. Dowling is known as a master photographer and has created a tremendous amount of professional portraits including sittings with countless celebrities, models, and politicians, as well as “walking portrait” sessions featuring wildlife, nature, as well as once in a century photojournalistic events, and life in general. Later Dowling would superimpose numerous digital paintings, taking the most attractive and interesting portions, to create exquisite works of art.

What makes Dowling’s work so unique is his use of digitally painted abstract layers that cause each viewer to have different perceptions of what they are observing. It is a unique technique that leads viewers to have false affirmations of what they see, as well as challenges to the conscious mind to see what actually exists. The term for this psychological effect is scotomisation. These shapes, patterns, and illusions often lead to the viewer working to find objects in his pieces and to moments when the individual has a “eureka moment” or epiphany.

05/02/2024

I am curious if any of you would like to own art from some of the most talented undiscovered artists in the world? I have searched for over five years through every artist I could find, often collaborating on pieces myself with these artists. Now artists from around the world are seeing a downturn in the art market as war rages and economies struggle. Many artists are forced to sell their art at below industry standard pricing creating incredible deals on art that would usually cost 10 times as much! REALLY GREAT artists whos inventory does them little good in their own countries. Would you like to bid on these? If so put in your comments the type of art you would like to acquire and maybe I can make it happen. I am not just an artist but also an art dealer who has worldwide reach.

05/02/2024

WHO WOULD LIKE TO BID ON ART FROM SOME OF THE MOST TALENTED UNDISCOVERED ARTISTS IN THE WORLD?

01/02/2024

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31/01/2024

New DREAMS AND WONDERS ON SALE 30ETH
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22/01/2024

ABSTRACT MASCARADE 51 ETH INCLUDES 100 COPIES IN PRICE. THE AVERAGE PRICE PER NFT IS ABOUT 2K.

"ABSTRACT MASCARADE" a one-of-a-kind hand-painted digital composite image and own a

10/01/2024

Being in the middle is a pretty damning description. Middle of the road, middlebrow, middle-aged—hardly gets the juices flowing. So it is with the “middle art market”, the art world’s unloved child, a grey area between the elite and affordable. And yet the middle market has made some surprise headlines of late. In December 2022 Dowling sold of 1 of 1 print for $85,000.

The, um, billion-dollar question is: what is the middle market? Dowling defines it as the market “below $100,000”. Some call it the “core” market; some the “collectibles” market. I would call it best art market.

People are buying new artists like me very much and paying $20,000-$100,000 for original acrylic pieces and $2500 and up for signed limited edition prints.

Whatever its name, Covid-19 has given this area an uncomfortable, but understandable, psychological boost—one that is being felt across many luxury purchases. In May, on the back of record 2022 sales Dowling sold another $100,000 in middle market pieces ending a record number of sales for the preceding 12 months.

The high-volume, medium-price model is the opposite of the marquee-sale approach of Christie’s or Sotheby’s. The time and effort to sell a $20,000 item doesn’t differ enough from an item at $2m or even $20m, and certainly doesn’t carry as much PR potential. But it is profitable and art like Dowlings with go up in value every year!

30/12/2023

THE BIG BANG 48" X 48"

Dowling is known as a master photographer and has created a tremendous amount of professional portraits including sittings with countless celebrities, models, and politicians, as well as “walking portrait” sessions featuring wildlife, nature, as well as once in a century photojournalistic events, and life in general. Later Dowling would superimpose numerous digital paintings, taking the most attractive and interesting portions, to create exquisite works of art.

What makes Dowling’s work so unique is his use of digitally painted abstract layers that cause each viewer to have different perceptions of what they are observing. It is a unique technique that leads viewers to have false affirmations of what they see, as well as challenges to the conscious mind to see what actually exists. The term for this psychological effect is scotomisation. These shapes, patterns, and illusions often lead to the viewer working to find objects in his pieces and to moments when the individual has a “eureka moment” or epiphany.