"To me, art is an expression of the rapture of being… hopefully unveiling a fragment of the radiance within all form. I believe that art can awaken the soul to the timeless presence of beauty and truth" - Mark Missman🎨.
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Mark Missman - Arian🎨 spent many hours throughout his youth in museums studying the painting techniques of the masters.
From the third grade when he was taught to draw in perspective, his first taste of Realism, Arian’s artistic passion was awakened and his destiny became apparent.
His formal art education began at Northwest Missouri State in Marysville, Missouri. At age twenty-one Arian made a commitment to live the spiritual life of a monk and for the next eighteen years his artistic endeavors were nurtured by his spiritual order, as he was given abundant opportunities for advanced study and worldwide travel while devoting many hours a day to painting.
After studying at a private academy in Florence, Italy, Arian returned to the U.S. and was offered a full scholarship to the New York Academy of Art, but after meeting master sculptor Angelo Frudakis, he opted to attend the Frudakis Academy of Classic Realism in Philadelphia instead.
His studies continued at the Barnstone Studios in Pennsylvania, before becoming the Art Director at the Palace of Gold in Wheeling, West Virginia. Arian was heavily involved in creating the ambiance of the opulent Palace of Gold including large murals for West Virginia’s largest tourist attraction, the subject of numerous articles in publications such as the Washington Post and Time Magazine.
Upon seeing Arian’s two twenty-foot murals that had been commissioned for the Wheeling Civic Center, then Governor Jay Rockefeller remarked that they were, "extraordinary and beautiful… works of art rarely seen in this country today".
After his world traveling, Arian felt drawn to Southern California, where he broadened his art education still further by attending the Athenaeum School of Art in La Jolla and the Watts Atelier in San Diego.
As Arian continued to reach out to the world through his art, his work took a new direction resulting in the development of "Figurative Modernism", yet spiritual way of expressing the human condition… a fusion of the spiritual and romantic inclinations inherent in mankind. Often featuring sacred geometry and the golden mean, this new direction seeks to reveal visual relationships that have foundations in the essential qualities of life. As Le Corbusier states in Towards A New Architecture, "Man has discovered rhythms…rhythms apparent to the eye and clear in their relations with one another. And these rhythms are at the very root of human activities. They resound in man by an organic inevitability".
The exceptional work of master painter Arian is the product of natural artistic talent and heartfelt passion tempered by more than 30 years of study, observation and realization. His strongest artistic influences are the Dutch Masters -Johannes Vermeer 1632-1675🎨, Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640🎨, and Rembrandt Van Reijn 1606-1669🎨, the French artist and master draftsman William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905🎨 and american John Singer Sargeant🎨. Arian's expansive use of subtle color variations, creative use of light and shadow and exquisite figurative rendering reflect these influences and infuse his paintings with breathtaking life, realism and beauty.
Nato a Des Moines, Iowa, Mark Missman - Arian ha trascorso molte ore in tutta la sua giovinezza nei musei a studiare le tecniche pittoriche dei grand imaestri.
L'eccezionale lavoro del maestro pittore americano Arian è il prodotto del talento artistico naturale e della passione sincera, temperati da più di 30 anni di studio, osservazione e realizzazione.
Le sue forti influenze artistiche sono i maestri olandesi: Jan Vermeer (1632-1675), Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), e Rembrandt Van Reijn (1606-1669), l'artista e maestro disegnatore francese William Bouguereau (1825-1905) e l'americano John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).
L'uso esteso di sottili variazioni di colore, il gioco creativo di luci e ombre e la squisita rappresentazione figurativa, riflettono queste influenze e infondono ai suoi quadri realismo e bellezza.
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