Denis Mandarino

Versatilism is an artistic movement proposed in 2007, from a literary manifesto, with the intention of freeing people from the expert analysis and promoting the practice of art as a form of self-knowledge and spiritual enhancement. "New ideas are hard to identify, hard to assimilate, and only detachment may be able to evaluate them in a more open way. When a man assumes the role of giving the verdict about what artists are doing, or the society gives him this role, we are one step closer to repeat the greatest injustices that men of science, philosophy, arts and religion have suffered throughout history." – Interview about the Versatilist Manifesto Observation in time'' (1997), 240 × 160 cm, acrylic on canvas s. The ninth point is outside the limits of the canvas. ==Four-dimensional perspective==

After spending four years writing the Theory of four-dimensional perception (1995), Mandarino developed a new method, in a subject for many years stagnant. In the perspective of four dimensions, the observer is not a static element (fixed point), as one sees in traditional processes. In Observation in time (1997) can be found nine different vanishing points and horizon lines, representing different moments of an observer who turns his head and moves vertically and horizontally. This kind of painting admits curved or spherical canvas. == Discography ==

The discography includes the following albums: • Volume 1 – 2003 • Tributo – 2004 • Peças para Violão – 2005 • Instrumental – 2006 • Musa – 2007 • Renascentieval – 2008 • A Sociedade do Rei e o Xadrez – 2009 • Um toque de humor – 2009 • Improvisos, variações, releituras... – 2010 • Reconstruções – 2011 • Tributo 2 – 2012 • Versátil – 2013 • Nem Só para Crianças – 2015 ==Gallery==

Portraits File:Avó do artista - detalhe.jpg|Grandma (detail), 50 × 70 cm, oil on canvas File:Sala das modelos.jpg|Room of models, 80 × 120 cm, oil on canvas File:Paisagem em azul e laranja.jpg|Landscape in blue and orange, 80 × 120 cm, oil on canvas File:Retrato de Samia.jpg|''Samia's portrait'', acrylic on canvas Guardians File:Beduínos.jpg|Bedouins (guardians series), 50 × 70 cm, acrylic on canvas File:Cavaleiro Guardiões.jpg|Knight (guardians series), 50 × 70 cm, acrylic on canvas File:Lanceiros de Maria.jpg|''Mary's Lancers'' (guardians series), 50 × 70 cm, acrylic on canvas File:Soldados Romanos.jpg|Roman Soldiers (guardians series), 50 × 70 cm, acrylic on canvas == References ==