|
The necessity to be expressed was born very early age in this painter, and
she started to paint to be able to express her feelings. She passes
great part of her life analyzing spirituality and the beauty things
that surround it. During years she drinks of different sources until
she decides frees artistically. The she enter in a frenetic
pictorial process. Often she
says:
" Even dream that I paint and when I don't paint I have the
sensation of being losing the time" she never stops to paint. She
doesn't like classifications, for that reason she thinks that it is
necessary to look the work but not the curriculum.
|
 |
No longer bound by constraints of clothing alone, women may now have the delightful pleasure of deforming themselves from the inside out. Where once ribs were merely moved around and internal organs forced together by outside MAN-ipulations, now ribs are removed, secondary sex characteristics are sucked up and out like so much fatty tissue, and orbic lobes of the new ideal replace God given natural bestowments... Today's self-assertive, self-reliant, independent modern woman is more man made than ever before, still shaped by man's DIC-tates . The titles of Jacobs' pieces, integral to the works themselves, show that the paradoxical irony is not lost on this artist. |
 |
Art is unable to be a server or material. It is also not peculiar to man to be a means. Man is always the purpose. An artist's life is a struggle without stone in heart. It is a struggle for the rights of art in people's consciousness. |
 |
I am a regional south australian artist working in a variety of media. My web
site displays a range of drawings, paintings, prints and mixed media work; and have
influences ranging from cubism to expressionism.
|
 |
I must create art. It is what I do and have always wanted to do. The key words are create and the creative process. I want to find new ways to engage the visual elements. I like to mess around with materials, play with textures,shapes and color. I react to accidents and find excitement in the unexpected. I find the mediums with the widest range of possibilities are water based including watercolor, liquid acrylic and gouache. I like the interplay of transparent and opaque effects and the richness of texture against slick or smooth modeled passages.The subject content or meaning of the piece evolves and often reflects my feelings, experiences and concerns. I usually do not plan a work in detail but as I select the palate before I begin, a mood emerges. I work quickly at first, covering the entire sheet, with color, texturing with tissue,plastic and bubble wrap, careful to leave areas for detailed painting later. I often work on more than one piece at a time and may have several starts before completing a work which can take a day, a week or several months.
One recent work was signed, photographed and entered in a competition before I decided
to completely change it. The most concentrated effort is after the messing around stage.
It is here that all the years of studying art and painting are brought to bear. Opposites are at play-feeling and knowledge, sensitivity and design. Knowing just what to do-no more and no less to achieve a cohesive, exciting, aesthetically pleasing and meaningful expression.
|
|
Marcus Antonius Jansen a contemporary painter noted for his unique portrayal of urban city scapes that he depicts by vague abstractions, rugged old photo look-a-like images combined with forgotten Graffiti elements, refers to his paintings as “Modern Urban Expressionism". His work is typical for thick and chopped layers of crudely applied paint, bold colors and brushstrokes. Jansen sees his paintings as a tool for communication to bridge the gaps between modern and antique, contemporary and traditional, young and old, poor and rich, etc… while addressing and resolving pre-existing obstacles in the minds of our modern society.
Jansen’s work is as diverse as his background. Being born in New York City and partly raised in Germany, he was greatly influenced by both cultures. He uses this unique experience to break traditional doctrines of painting by crossing different art movements and bringing together parts of the Old and the New World – Europe and America. Jansen’s art reflects elements of German Expressionism as known since the early 1900’s, American Abstract Expressionism from the 1950’s as well as the strong and controversial Graffiti art movement of New York City in the 1970’s.
The 37-year-old Gulf War Veteran, who studied the craft of painting in Europe says of his work: "It wasn't until I returned from the Gulf War in 1991 after operation Desert Storm that I started having a more distorted perception on life and things around me. I was determined then to express this in what I do best... in art. I believe the lessons and experiences in a combat zone were a great part of what has lead me to a heightened sense of awareness with things in the world. It forced me to question more. Before I knew it, out of chaos came creativity."
Jansen has hit a nerve with private collectors and museums. He was commissioned and is collected by the Ford Motor Company and the Southwest Florida Museum of History as well as the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. He received top honors at the New York City ORB.E Art Competition in 1999 with his painting “Subway82” sponsored by Russel Simmons and was awarded the Angels of the Arts Award New Artist of the Year of Lee County, Florida in 2005. Jansen has recently shown alongside Robert Rauschenberg and other world renowned artists residing in SW Florida at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery in Fort Myers. The soley committed Jansen gallery is the American Art Gallery in Paris, France located in the famous Le Marais art district of the city, where the Galleries primary mission is to make a name for Jansen in Paris. |
|
JAO studied art at the University of Southern Maine and then at the University of
Minnesota. She dropped out after being refused admission to the department of fine arts
for reckless printmaking and insubordination. Her simple and bold style of painting was
and imagining herself as a prehistoric person creating the first art on the planet.
A performance painter for 15 years, she has performed at many Minneapolis venues such
as Bedlam Theater, Patrick's cabaret, Intermedia Arts, and the Southern Theater.
Speed painting in her pick up truck, The JAO Art Mobile, she won second place in the
performance category at the Houston Art Car parade 2004 and is currently planning her
summer 2005 Art Car tour with funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board. As a 2005
Naked Stages Jerome Commission grant recipient, she is in the process of creating a
new work entitled "La Sistina Infinita," a speed-painted reproduction of the Sistine
Ceiling by The Unruly Julies.
|
|
Jeanette Jarville's work shows us a pictorial world in which the figure and abstraction meld through the expressive power of colour. She has created her own language which goes beyond stylistic constraints and captures her intense spirit and boldness. Her paintings point out the versatility of an artist who moves from still-life, floral, landscapes and figures without compromising her identity. Jeanette has developed a distinctive way of painting and use of color that she explores within her own unique style. |
 | Renette Jasphy
One summer Renette traveled to the French countryside for a month to study with Ted Jacobs, an artist who emigrated from New York. She painted directly from nature, battling strong winds and dramatic weather changes.
With the constantly changing light, Renette left France with an unfinished painting. She returned the following year, finished her painting and photographed many beautiful country scenes. These photographs inspired future paintings. It was at this juncture, a hobby became a commitment.
Back in New York City, Renette studied at The National Academy of Fine Arts, where she focused on pastels, oil painting and sketching. The spontaneity promoted by gesture drawing influenced Renette’s work.
At the National Academy, Renette was awarded a scholarship. And her work was chosen to show at The Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center.
She set up poses for compositional drawing, assisting guest teachers, two of whom were members of the prestigious NA. Renette also worked with Wolf Kahn during his annual pastel workshop. He critiqued Renette as having “another worldly sense of color” and advised other students to strive for the same.
For six years Renette ran an open sketch class at the National Academy. Her work is in several private collections. |
 |
His paintings in Oil and Acrylic reveal a colorful tropical richness, where insistent geometric forms stand out among abstract and figurative images. Obsessively a painter of forms diluted in bright and hidden lights, shadowy forms, defined by bright colors that break the serenity of the painting. In some of his paintings there are moments when Jeron lets the abstract impressionism dominate. In others, geometric forms determine the composition. It is the time of sensitive, poetic and lyric geometry. When Jeron said that: “painting is reflection. My reflection is movement”, his word echoed Klee’s.
Working as volunteer in community projects for many years, Jeron defends the contribution of artists that aims at the solution of social Brazilian problems. Jeron has been developing artistic activities with children that are assisted and aided by the Division of Educational and Rehabilitation of Communication Disturbances of PUC-SP DERDIC (http://www.derdic.pucsp.br/). This work has been carried out in a joint procedure with professors and entity directors. It aims at stimulating expression in deaf children through plastic art instruments and visual art in general. In 2004 Jeron developed the project “Mosaics-Kroma Synergy." The work of the children from DERDIC was to elaborate a re-reading procedure of 10 works of this series of the artist's creations, simplifying the forms and ranges of colors in such a way to permit the elaboration of mosaics derived from the artist's works. Ten (10) mosaics were elaborated in sizes 70cm x 70cm that were applied on the concrete coverings of the tables used in the commons of the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC SP). |
|
Through my work I have tried to create a complete pictural independence.
After years of intense creation, I tried to conserve my physical, carnal
relationship with colors, forms and textures.
A constant research and a subject that comes back like an obsession:
"the look", the human state, how to define the states of mind, attitudes etc...
through colors and fairly simple forms.
How to go deeper and probe into my being and that of others.
Observing, feeling, filtering through myself to transfer this on to a canvas,
paper or other support. Filtering to the point where I have the pure essence of what I have
captured, incarning a soul that "I imprison" in a piece of work.
"Imprison" - here's a word that I employ but which is the opposite of what I want to express!
My works overflow... and we always have the impression that they can extend to the infinite.
"The human being" - here is the most complex and most passionate subject, a
constant search in the "research of the truth".
|
 |
The artist Chong Jit Leong is born in 1972 in Sungei Lembing, Pahang, West Malaysia. At the age of 11, he travelled to Singapore in search of a better future academically. In 1995, he graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor in Architecture Studies.
Armed with a passion for portraiture and art, he did not practise to become an architect. Instead, he pursued his dream of making art his living and delivered Portrait Workshop in 1995.
There was no formal training in portraiture and caricature. Only 2 years of Art lessons during his junior college days and continuous hardwork, polishing his drawing skills. He also worked hard at cross referencing with other artists.
|
 |
I believe a painting reflects nature in its creation, inheriting
characteristics from the last, becoming part of a process, which never begins or ends'' - Joey Holder.
Joey paintings, however, are far from a direct representation of the
natural world. She paints by selecting elements from nature and transforms and manipulates them, forging them with her imagination into a world very much her own, at once familiar and yet wholly foreign. Strange formations appear to mutate, grow and interact across her canvases and which have been likened to the worlds of artists Roberto Matta, Max Ernst, Takashi Murakami and Inka Essenhigh.
The underwater world has always held an incredible fascination for her and
from which she naturally takes an extremely strong influence. The entire submarine ecosystem has so much to offer that even the most sterile imagination cannot help but be profoundly effected by it; for a lively and vibrant imagination it is a goldmine of creative stimuli.
While on land things fight such constraints as gravity, in the ocean, life can go in any direction in an essentially weightless environment. This is the way I see Joey's canvasses - a liquid space, a free space, with no gravitational restraints and the resultant surprises this can allow.
|
|
I have never been good at talking to people, so I learned to talk to my paintings. Conversations of colors, shapes, patterns, and organic elements evolve into words, symbols, and emotions. While we talk and talk, the painting grows organically like a conversation, with me speaking to it and the painting speaking to me, while taking turns with the lead. I experience my world visually; the feelings that I see become the vocabulary that I use to talk with paint. I invite the viewer to eves drop on a conversation or two, and experience the visual sensations. |
 |
Hello my name is Joy and I love capturing the man and female form in its natural state, unclothed. I paint primarily in oil and pastels and love to paint nudes in beautifully places and natural settings. I hope you enjoy my paintings as much I enjoy creating them.
|
 |
Morgan Johnson was born in Santa Monica, California, on November 25, 1952. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla after attending the Lycee du Universite au Dijon in Dijon, France, where he received a Certificate of Foreign Studies in culture in 1968. Although he has received no formal education in art, his work is refined and varied, including the techniques of oil on canvas, linen, glass, cardboard and wood, as well as watercolour, collage and encaustic painting. His styles range from classic realism, pointillism and fauvism to abstract expressionism and minimalism. His impressionist painting has been the object of awards and shows, combined with his interpretive poetry. He comes to his talent rightfully as the son of photographer Arnold M. Johnson and early motion picture publicist Roma Burton.
|
|
Angie Jones got her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at UNC Charlotte.
Since then, she has been working with the visitor guide for Charlotte,
NC and painting in her free time. Her website includes paintings,
drawings, photography, and design.
|
|
I started painting from the confines of a hospital bed after a near death illness for the first time at the age of 33. From the second my brushes touched the paper I knew that my only purpose on this earth was to create. And when my brushes are dry I will have completed my earthly destiny.
|
 |
Portrait Artist
|
 |
I consider my art representational realistic artwork. I use colored pencil and oils, all mediums that render subjects realistically. However, for me the joy is not in the medium, but the ability to capture an image and make it timeless. Although I paint landscape, portrait and floral art, my obsession has merged toward representational realistic still life oil art.
As wives and mothers, we provide food, comfort and many basics for our families. My still life art contain items of food (fruits), flowers or plants and other household items, put together in various arrangements, which symbolize the pleasantries and comfort of the home.
The items for my still life that I use are ordinary items, often taken for granted during our daily routines. These items put together however evoke emotions and give visual beauty, much the same as a musician put notes from a scale in an order that can delight its audience or how a poet changes ordinary words and ideas to bring tears to it’s readers.
|
|
In addition to her painting and illustration commissions, she creates and
exhibits paintings in oil, egg tempera and watercolor, and painted works on glass.
Her work has been recognized by the Illinois Arts Council with Artist's Fellowship
Awards in 1998 and 2004. She teaches painting at the Chicago Botanic Garden, the
North Shore Art League and the Suburban Fine Arts Center.
|
 |
My first influences came from graffiti art, comics and cartoons. I attended some art classes to build a foundation which I then combined with my self-taught art, to create my own unique style. I enjoy experimenting with different styles and mediums, never just settling on one in particular., always trying to broaden my horizons. . This keeps me inspired and gives me a drive towards a different goal all the time. Influences come from skateboarding, graffiti, street, experimental,surreal, fantasy, pop, and abstract arts, people on the street, moods, facial expressions, and every day experiences that inspire me to draw and paint. I am glad my art can connect with someone in any way, whether it be spiritual, emotional, mental, or with humor. Our daily lives are ever-changing second by second and I try to capture the different moods,emotions, and spiritual beliefs we are faced with. |
 |
I show you my best feelings for the beginning of this year. This way, I put online a new gallery in the ART part, in the "forgotten" theme. This is a story told in black and white with natural lighting, taking for theatre a magical place of the french maincity : the Esmeralda hotel. Here are some freshes and fascinating pictures, soft as an Autumn morning |
|
Award winning satirist artist, Tony "Baloney" Juliano is
not your normal painter. With his single, panel, lush comic like
paintings dealing with quick puns, whimsical sayings, ironic sadness, and his
penchant for parodying other famous artists, Tony makes art laughable in colorful
complimentary painted frames. Tony is a graduate from Paier College of Art with a
BFA in Illustration and has been a successful free-lance artist since 1997 to the
present.
|
 |
A lot of the inspiration for my work comes from past hardships. Often the paintings are a kind of outlet which I can use to vent anger in a constructive kind of way. So when I paint I don't just do a dragon or a wizard I do something that has a lot of meaning to me and thats what makes it all worth the time taken. |
 |
I like the thought of a mental time travel back to the spirit of medieval painters and then getting lost on the way, somewhere in between the world of Bosch and Gruenewalfd creatures and science fiction – movie aliens. The first ones were scary, because they were meant to be so and viewers were convinced. The others try much harder and some seem quite effective, but there is nobody to convince anymore…
Not that my “Neighbors” were meant to be scary, but they are stuck someplace, confused, not sure what their purpose might be. Are they nature or decoration or monsters? Waiting nervously or staring at the viewer – one of their kind or at least a relative?
The viewer might wonder the same.
|
 |
She is an abstract painter, who paints in forms full of energy, in a directly, raw and strong personal way. Energy, women, hidden bodies and elements of stagnationmoments. The compositions often have more than one center - because it is made in a lot of coating. You can not see it all at first - you have to look closely and discover behind the immediate. |
|
|
|
