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By Patrick McIntyre
 Some people
wonder where those who have declared themselves independent artists can show
their colors.
Talent is often not sufficient cause to provide an independent
artist with a quality showcase in an easily accessible venue open to any
interested viewer at any time at little cost or obligation. This is no longer
the insurmountable cause of every working artist.
Christian
Valle is the completely egalitarian, independent artist who has successfully
designed and fashioned the ideal cyber-gallery at theindependentartist.org.
This website is now continuously showing all art forms to anyone willing to
navigate the worldwide web. Artists talented enough to illustrate their efforts
in any genre they choose are inducted into a forum that celebrates freedom of
expression.
This website is not limited to professionals, amateurs, fully able,
disabled or any other division or dissembling of the artistic community. Valle
eschews any interest in acting as a critic.
Christian
Valle declares matter of factly, “I am an artist.” He said that he
creates art to express his emotions with a passion that is too vivid for mere
conversation and that his artwork allows him to engender an emotional
expression in the viewer. According to Valle, he aspires to ignite the higher
ambitions and understanding of all who view his art.
Among the
cadre of diverse artists and modes of expression currently available for
viewing on the Independent Artist website are acrylics, oil paintings, graphite
sketches and drawings, in addition to a wide variety of watercolors by Valle.
The rooms reserved for pastel artists and photographers are avidly recruiting
practitioners desiring this form of exhibition.
Every artist included within the
website is given the opportunity to discuss their background and artistic
influences, thus affording the visitor a chance to enjoy not only the art but
in addition, the impetus behind each of the artists. Links are available on the
website to facilitate further contact with the artists and their work.
Valle
first discovered art as a means of expression when he was still a child. Since
first winning an art “duel” with his older brother, he has never
abandoned the many modes, techniques and media that armed him for expression of
emotional concerns and commitments. His enjoyment and facility at expressing
himself through art has grown over time. Art does not only serve the
artist’s needs. Art reaches the pinnacle of success when it not only
permits the artist to express himself completely, but it reflects an insight
into a spectator’s psyche.
On one occasion, Valle achieved this
transmission of communication with a painting of a chimp. A man insisted on
buying it immediately. In the course of the transaction, the buyer confided in
the artist that he completely identified with the chimp in the painting,
because the chimp expressed the buyer’s innermost emotions about his
career as a clown.
When not indulging his artistic passions or perfecting
the aims of his Independent Artist website, Valle is amply engaged in the
efforts of the New York City Mayor’s Office for the Disabled. He serves as
a member of the squad of mayoral assistants who step up to defend the rights
and needs of the disabled community.
Valle has been part of this community since
1990, when a diving accident in shallow water at a pool caused the compression
of his C6 and C7 vertebrae. He has developed a daily regime of weight lifting
and stretching to maintain the muscle tone and flexibility he finds necessary
to facilitate effective mobility in his wheelchair.
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