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When I am looking at a painting, I realize that it attracts me much more than a beautiful landscape outside. Why? Perhaps viewing a piece of art is similar to a dialogue with its creator, who must have felt and experienced a lot before he picked up a brush and dipped it in paint. Of course, nobody can compete with nature, which works miracles of beauty. Even art fails if it tries to surpass it, but as an artist, I am bound to keep attempting the impossible, for it is the supreme temptation of creativity. The images that I reflect in my art often come to me with the ephemeral streaks of sunset and with the tremulous shadows of night, but even more often they are born of the long and crowded days that line up, striving to linger in my memory. Nothing fascinates and inspires me more than human nature. Storms and calm of the human soul are the preeminent subjects of my art. |
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These days people are living fast and stressful lives and with my paintings I'm trying to slow them down a bit. I'd like if they found my paintings peaceful, got lost in them and forgot the reality if only for just a moment. |
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Renan Kaleli is a painter who lives in Istanbul, most of his works are acyrlic on canvas. |
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Born in 1952 in Gummersbach, Germany. Currently lives in the romantic area of Bavaria. The beautiful landscape not only attracts many foreign tourists worldwide but also provides inspiration for Kamerbeek's art. After high school the artist embarked on a very special education in graphic arts through tutelage and apprenticeship with her grandfather and father, two previous family generations of professional painters. Kamerbeek owned galleries in Kaarst near Dseldorf (1978 - 1980) and in Mchengladbach (1980 - 1982) before creating her own web site which assists other cyberartists to gain exposure for their work. A true inspirational leader and motivator for the cyberarts. Much art exhibiting, on earth and in cyberspace. One of her works, "Global Consciousness", was inducted recently into the online Cyberculture Art Museum. The artist finds time to maintain the position of Co-coordinator for East Hawaii Cultural Center's International Cyberart World Tour and Coordinator of CenterofCyberspace.com |
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Tamas Kaposi was born in 1982 in Budapest. He liked drawing in his childhood as well. His favourite technic is oil on canvas, but he likes taking photographs, making statues. He does not want to follow any trends, but it is sure, that he never wants to make realistic paintings. His personal exhibition was in December 2003 in Budapest. |
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Turkish painter and illustrator Sahin Karakoc's official web site is online now! In this site, you can find the biography of the artist, his original paintings and the illustrations which are the products of his experience of years. |
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I have always tried breaking down the complex pictorial reality to easily perceptible features that make up the essence of an image.In so doing I have developed a creative interpretation that heavily relies on clear lines that reflect my dynamic approach to art.These lines curve and bend and meander through the given space. It is only very recently that I have started to connect my drawings with digital techniques.Since that time my artwork has got a traditional and a digital side with the vectorized creations on the forefront.But I do not know if I can withstand the fascination of an empty mounted frame in case the pc threatens to overwhelm me...The following subjects have been highly on the agenda during the past thirty years; cartoons,landscapes (fancyscapes),partraits (pop art), bottles ("bottlemania",even installations and photos), surreal images,sculptures and objects |
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A Swedish painter living in the country in southwest of Sweden. The artist's works borders between what's present (realism) and what's not (abstraction). If the colours look real, that's because the artist sometimes mixes them with sand from the beach. With brushes, knives and his fingers, he worked at the painting repeatedly, with colours growing atop one another, creating form rich in texture. "A painting should rest in its birthplace". Yet, the artist never let any of his paintings stay in the birth process for long though he advocates just that. He takes the painting a step further, constantly evolving it spontaneously. He may stop painting at the right moment, but acknowledges that more could be created should the process be continued. Each of the images he has created then becomes a continuing process in the mind of the viewer, or at least that's what the artist believes in. What is seen from his paintings, is a moment. Every moment of the working process, whether at the brushstrokes of the artist or in the imagination of the viewer, alters the experience that one can draw from his images. And if anyone should wonder why the predominant colour in the paintings is blue, that's because, as the artist so equivocally puts it - ".is because I fancy red." |
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Czech spiritual painter and performer born in 1981. Studied Faculty of
Fine Arts in Brno (1999-2005), graduated as Magister Artis in May
2005. Interested in spiritual views to reality, meditation and
self-enquiry. One of his main themes is Time. Except his naive
symbolical painting Karpisek perform as conceptual action painter.
Participated on more than 20 exhibitions including International
Bienale of Contemporary Art in Prague 2005.
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These contemporary artworks are represented with Fumihiro's Own Painting Technique that no one has never created before . If you click on the images on the web site, you will find their painting traces. Open up whole New Art World To Discover. |
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Since the initial trip to the U.S., Kayukawa’s artwork has taken on a life of its own: A mix of Japanese tradition and Western pop input, with the natural world intertwined to share the spotlight. She incorporates Japanese iconography and pop symbolism, along with the vague (and not-so-vague) sensuality of the female figure, to draw in and engage the viewer. In this way her paintings reflect how life titillates and distracts, while nature plays its role as our true underlying life source. |
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I paint dramatic landscapes in watercolors and oils to unveil luminous realms.
Ocean sprays, rock formations, storm clouds and wild grasses waving in the wind
are my starting point. They suggest something powerful and enigmatic, peaceful
and permanent, beautiful and unknowable that underlies and animates all that
lives. My goal is to explore this "something" that is always changing and always
present. I like to suggest this through a refinement of pictorial details and with
controlled intensity of light and depth of color. Working slowly I apply multiple
layers of paint made translucent with the use of wax, allowing new depths and
tones to develop in surprising ways. |
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My painting expresses the things that touch me spiritually. Peoples’ faces, the natural world, dream images are among my favorite subjects because they can evoke the spiritual in the everyday world.
My style is a combination of realism, surrealism and impressionism. I am interested in evoking a mood or an emotion in the viewer. Rather than render an image as the eye sees it, I look for a way of making the connection between the divine and the natural. So I may paint a tree from crown to roots because its roots, though normally unseen, are a vital, living element of a tree. I like combining realism with the abstract (realism in the foreground, abstract in the background) because it combines focus with mood. I am well aware that this is considered a transgression by many: I employ it as a technique because it allows me to express the intersection between the real and the surreal, the natural and the supernatural, the seen and the unseen.
I am continually experimenting with style, and also with the medium. Oil is extremely versatile, and I can get effects ranging from watercolor-like transparencies to more traditional opaque layers. I often combine these effects in the same painting by isolating each layer of paint with varnish. This prevents the leaching of colors down into previous layers, permitting me to employ different techniques as I build up each layer in the painting. |
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My artistic mission is to create images, which reveal the unseen but attentive fragments of dreams and memories. |
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As I create a painting I am taken into each location. I choose a subject by how it makes me feel at that time. Most of my subjects are of Polynesia due to my great love and respect for the culture. I have recently been exploring my dreams and emotions in my art. Painting my dreams I have had while I was sleeping is a very spiritual experience for me. This awakens my soul. Dreams can tell a powerful story and bringing my dreams to a visual state brings the story to life. I work in oil, watercolor, pastels, colored pencil and acrylic and I enjoy mixing some of these into a single painting the most. This technique can give a painting much more depth and strength. I enjoy the life and variation this can bring to a single painting.
Painting is in my soul and if I can bring out what is in my heart and place in on paper or canvas I feel complete satisfaction --- especially if I can make someone who views my art feel the same way.
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My work explores the physical and psychological effects that space can have on an individual. Through the use of various mediums and materials, I address the intimacies that exist between an individual and their relationship to their surroundings. By manipulating the associations that are created as a result of this relationship, we become aware of their value. Through the use of abstraction, performance, and viewer interaction my work asks the audience to examine the shared space, which exists between themselves and their surroundings.
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Art integrates that other me that isn't being allowed to perform. I can paint a
pose, but these concepts go beyond that. The figure-- it has to be a yearning with
every part of the body. It has to be the thoughts. Each new painting answers
different questions and makes other answers less important. It is an evolution.
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Lives and works in New York, New York.
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Creating representational sculpture compositions for the gallery, garden and architectural site. Sculptures can be privately commissioned or purchased directly from the website. Mr. Keropian works at any size and in a number of mediums. The website covers a wide range of sculptural works and projects: portraiture and figurative, historic monuments and memorials, stadium tigers, anatomy studies, restoration and an area devoted to sculptural techniques.
Mr. Keropian's sculptural compositions of figures and animals are combined with the elements of nature and architecture in a spiritual celebration of movement, shape and form.
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I paint mostly abstract interpretations of the natural world or
commentaries on the experiences of my working life.
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I Paint DEAD PEOPLE. I'm a healthy 29-year-old who reads the obits. I will be 30 in a few days. Will you make my birthday wishes come true. I'm a Chicago resident.Thats the first place I turn to in the Chicago Sun times. I like the stories. I memorialize many of the newly deceased in 36”x48” canvases – rendered in Kiwi shoe polish and house paint.
I begin by outlining the face in the obit photo, then make a small sketch of the outlined image. I paint the 36”x48” canvases with house paint from Home Depot – a premixed gray that someone else had returned. After the background paint dries, I pencil in the face from the sketch, then cover the lines with black Kiwi shoe polish. I display the work with small placards that include excerpts from the obituaries.
My objective is to honor the lives of everyday men and women. I have not recieved any awards for my work. I have sold quite a few pieces in the last two years. I have had the oppurtunity to show at the Gavin Glenn galery in LA, Gallery 364 in Bay Ridge, Black Walnut gallery in Chicago. These are a few places I have had the pleasure of showing. Here is the info that one would see on the placards. |
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KI the Finagler
Perpetual Esoteric Duality is the underlying concept behind Knowledge
Infinites work. A visual journalist, dream merchant and displayer of
how the world is viewed from both sides of the chessboard. The friend
of my enemy is my friend and thus KI the Finagler is constantly grappling
with Kevin Bradshaw to seize control of his creative soul. The work
that comes forth is therefore a mosh pit of war & peace within the
same breath.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, circa 1972, raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, the Finagler has allowed his virtue to coincide with personal demons to bring forth a hyper realism that is both selfish and selfless, cartoon like yet classic in terms of style and concept. Looking at the work of KI the Finagler is seeing what goes on inside oneself dying from the horror and being reborn through enlightenment.
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I m fond of drawing, music, intellectual games, football and travelling. I had
exhibitions in kutaisi, several times. I was the champion of kutaisi in the game
What? Where? When? five times.
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The glass is neither half-full or half empty, it is 100% full….half with water and half with air.
My designs combine industrial and artistic processes with a love of the arcane, exotic and whimsical.
Growing up in 60's, 70's and 80's Southern California was a big influence in my love of cultural whimsy.
Interesting, Internal and Intense, Metal remains my first artistic passion.
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My name is Ela Schwartz (but as an artist i prefer the synonym "kiluga")
I´m german and i´m a freelanc painter. My main point of interest are
abstract-paintings. There are often tell me question like : "what kind of style
are your paintings?" I never thought about this and I never will do
that in future. art and painting are individual expressions for me.
My painting are like air to breath, power, energy, a free move of thoughts.
And so I try to suit this action to the world. |
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Alan King’s interest in the artists of the surrealist movement combined with his love of architecture, lead him to utilize the qualities of computer generated images to invent bizarre, immeasurable environments which results in the creation of strong vibrant alive and playful digital surrealism. Strong, bold, and rich with colour, these digital images are extremely well created.Brilliant and well thought out I can recommend that you visit his Website. |
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Through using emotions; fear, anger, love and jealousy I explore fundamental components of human existence. In my work I question to what extent we are ruled by emotions and what we would be without them.
My current work is bold, large and immediate with mostly single human figures ruling the picture plane. I attack the canvas with large brushes and let the paint spill and drip as I work. Traces of previous layers of paint are left visible to reveal the history and evolution of the painting. In this way the canvas becomes more than a layer of paint on a surface; it becomes a space to enter into. The colors I use erupt from human substance: meat, blood and dirt - creating a visceral image.
I expose my own life experiences in an attempt to understand the larger picture of humanity, often using the image of myself or people close to me. This guarantees that my creative process remains deeply personal. I sometimes will use metaphor or Norse mythology to tie my personal experiences to the history of human experience. Living between two cultures and traveling to places like India has challenged my reality. I paint to extract and visually process hat is true to my experience of living and being, to translate personal trauma into universal terms. |
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Human behaviour and social interaction in space and time is the essence of my work. I am cosmopolite with Danish and Mexican roots trying to fuse the original from archaic cultures with our contemporary accelerating lifestyle.
I believe that there is a liberating and vital strength in my art. Through my work I seek to express the intuitive, the original in our being, the magic of imagination and the joy of life.
I find inspiration in the universal in myself, in the archetypical, as seen through my subjectivity.
My visual expression consists of the intuitive in abstract art and the rational ore specific elements from figurative art.
I use certain elements from abstractionism like dots, lines and the picture surface. With those I create known figures in shapes of silhouettes. At the same time I play with foreground and background. Most of the elements are re-created along the way. The original idea goes through several metamorphoses.
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I've been painting since I was a child and have exhibited my work nationally for the past fifteen years. To me, art is a dance…a profound relationship of movement, colors, lines, textures, and shapes. Picasso, Miro, Georgia O'Keefe and Jackson Pollock are some of my all-time favorite artists. |
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The picture work collection by the oil painting. Based on Jung's being consciousnessless collectively, I am picturing the darkness of the world peace, the life, the heart in the theme. |
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Bachelor of Fine Art, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
I am born In Beirut (Lebanon), live and work in The Netherlands. The human condition and the women's
rights are the subject of my work whereby my experiences of life and emotion become source material in the
creation of my art.
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There is a lot of variety in my works of art. I make drawings, paintings,
computerart and graphics art. Especially the making of etchings in the classical way is my specialty. I also make use of printing techniques, so that work can be printed on linen. The sizes of this work can be ordered up on request. |
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To search for an visual idiom, where a reconcilation between structured action, defined
in the handling and constructiveness of paint, and impulsivity should prevail. To optimalise
the turmoil of battle by trying to solve the enigma of painting. To slumber to a state of
continuous resolute innovations and conspicuous painting, taking warning from the modern
society, and myself. The complexity of loneliness and sweet sorrow are examples of topics
that are of importance in my work. By visualising ordinary individuals it is my goal to
express something about the emotional life of an contemporary individual.
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After lecturing in art and its history the artist became a
professional painter in 1978, since when, his distinctive interpretations of the English
and Welsh countryside have become much sought after by discerning collectors.
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The wildlife painter François Knopf exposes his strange paintings: different kinds of animals, often of big size, moving in an unadapted world. Animals painted in a realistic way but atmospher lightly surreal or in all cases strange. The bison at breakfast and bisons on a training way, the hippopotamus looking for the river, the elephant on the bank of a lake or in a field covered with snow, the bear on the railway or lying in front of a shop, the pig in the sand box, the cat on the butterfly, the horse and the chess game or the horse in the bedroom etc. |
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My work in visual arts reflects the constant changes,experience in my personal life.I am guided by my feelings, thoughts, dreams and visions. The sources of my inspiration are many:an appreciation; I love to look for traces of the people who came before and clues about what they did there and why.
Journeys are an integral part of the inspirations. I am always intrigued by the human cultural elements and visual stimulation that I enconter. I find that every place and culture reveals its beauty to me in the everyday life.
I like to use symbols in my art work and creating my personal iconography. The symbols are the clues to many aspects of my life,but my paintings usually start with a color idea,than evolve into composition in which color is the primary subject.
I work in collage , various media on paper and canvas ,mixing everything possible together and bring it to others in a visual format. Much attention is given to the surface texture adding different materials,carving,scratching,gluing...creating visual dialog.
I complete my work using drawing techniques and whatever else it takes to communicate my intended vision. |
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I'm a multi subject painter/printer from Edmonton, Alberta,Canada. My current focus is on abstract landscape paintings. Using poured paint, mixed media, found objects,brush techniques and the random act of painting; My work sometimes takes more than a year to complete and is definitely based in abstract expressionism.
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A canvas is not simply an underlay for paintings. It is three dimensional, having
a kind of deepness. I incorporate this property into the creation. I cut the canvas
and the space behind it becomes visible. This can either be the wall, the picture is
hanging from, or I create a background where I fix another fabric or paper to the back
of the frame. An interaction between the foreground and the shrouded background
emerges. Textures on the surface arise from incorporating even, rumpled or teared
paper, sand, fabrics and cord by using acrylic paint. This is why the picture becomes
not only a visual experience but also a tactile one.
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My work primarily deals with the expressive potential of paint. Through the use of this medium I am striving to communicate in ways that words cannot; by attempting to transcend it's materiality in order to communicate a “visual thought”. My goal is to create a visceral experience free from unproven theoretical bindings or the supremacy of an idea. Color, form, gesture, spatial relationships and light are the building blocks of this language, and the means I employ in order to communicate the inexpressible. |
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Ukrainian modern artist, has received higher education from the best professors of painting in Ukraine. Has completed study at the Ukrainian Academy of the Fine Arts and Architecture - faculty of painting. Has received a higher diploma in painting. The member of the National Union of artists of Ukraine. Olga since 16 years of age actively participated in international exhibitions of modern painting. She participated in numerous art projects, both in Ukraine, and abroad. The sphere of her creativity is basically - Abstract-Figurative. This young artist does not depend on traditional themes and technique. Her credo - " that which is conditional for eyes - is really for sensations ". Her searches for aesthetics of colour combinations are connected with her own vital aesthetic views. |
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After studying at The Royal Academy of The Hague Ed van der Kooy has become fascinated and strongly influenced by eastern cultures. Many of his paintings are life size portraits of Asian women wearing traditional dress. The rich, intricate designs and colours of the fabrics illustrate and complement his talent as a portrait artist. The exuberance, detail and sheer grandeur of his paintings are the result of many months of work. Only a few paintings are produced each year. They have to be seen to be believed. Over the years Ed van der Kooy has had regular exhibitions in the Netherlands. |
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The transcendental part of human nature always looks for its own Eternal source and inevitably has doubt regarding visible reality. The conditionally perceived illusionary surroundings require examination and overcoming... Surrealism, through it's inner absurdity and paradoxes, destroys trust in reality. It is an aesthetic play of the human imagination with a nostalgia for everlasting spiritual liberty. But Visionary Art has a different field of the play, the Contemplative artist is a participant of the action himself, he doesn't play with the help of mind by the symbols and their mechanical constructions anymore, but operates with energies, forces which bear the images, intuitive way, acting spontaneously, just "letting" the painting to manifest itself. ... A Visionary artist can not be Atheist, he always serves a certain Highest Power and represents it by own creative activity and life. |
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Hiroaki Koshiba, a Tokyo-based Japanese abstract painter is interested in colors, dots, lines, surface,composition,construction, harmony and relation between music and images, also he has launched series of live painting show in Tokyo, Beijing, Columbia and New York, US with some musicians, Jerusalem and the Starbaskets or Channing Kennedy. |
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Born in Holland, Bloemendaal, 1952. Currently lives and works in Malaga, Spain. His work, acrilics or mixed techniques, on canvas, paper or other support, belongs in the first place to the abstract field of contemporary art. Occasionally he works in graphic design, photography and commisions. His studio in the Barrio Santana in Mijas Pueblo (Malaga), is visited by collectors, fellow artists and other interested persons. He exhibits his work internationally in galleries, cultural exhibition rooms and international fairs of contemporay art. In 2003 the Archgallery has organised an individual exhibition of his latest paintings in London. His work has been exhibited in group and individual shows in Spain, Holland, the UK, and Germany amongst other countries, such as at the Bienal of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy, or the Bienal of Arad, Rumania, and as part of the DIN A4 collection in Bosnia, Germany, and Mexico. |
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Szn Kraft lives in Palo Alto, CA in live/work space and is involved with several group art projects.
As an artist, Ms Kraft has shown locally, nationally, and internationally since 1982. Her work ranges from portraits to abstractions.
As an art-entrepreneur,Ms. Kraft developed a new approach to galleries by merging poetry, jazz, wine tasting, theatre and a coffee shop in a historic building in downtown Palo Alto.
As a speaker, Ms. Kraft describes different paths to bring art out to the public domain. She educates artists with the techniques and resources available, in business-to-business models, display techniques, or electronic images. |
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KEN KRAUS’S PAINTINGS have the chromatic burst and formal strength that can only come from the eye of a natural colorist and the hand of a trained architect. His abstract landscapes evoke sun-soaked days in deserted cities or on Mediterranean beaches, a world of royal blues and cheery oranges seen through optimistic eyes. Bold strokes of pigment surround the occasional found image — like a tiny photograph of a cityscape — striking a pitch-perfect balance between energetic sweeps of color and clear, tight detail. |
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The paintings of Francien Krieg show the body as a silent and hard to get through mass.Monumental bodies which are depersonalized and seems to be within themselves because most of the time they don't have a face. But even if they do have a face , this face is not clear and with no meaning.Krieg exposes the body as a thing, as a meat becoming mystery.To emphasize this depersonication she puts the body within the painting in all kinds of impossible poses and radically cuts of parts.These bodies have nothing to say , these bodies don't really do anything.They are nothing more but naked facts, who show themselves from all sides.They are the subject of Kriegs investigation. |
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Barbara van der Kruk (1956) was born in Nieuwer Amstel (near Amsterdam). After highschool
she was admitted to the Rietveldacademie in Amsterdam to study arts. Despite this fact she
decided to study English language and literature at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. In
this period she took art classes with J. Ploos van Amstel. Inspired by his classes, she quit
her study of English, and resumed her study in arts (VLVU, arts and textiles). After
graduation she became an art director for several leading international advertising agencies.
(Saatchi & Saatchi, DDB, Young & Rubicam) During this period she kept on painting. Her passion
for painting is still a prominent part of her life. Most of the time she paints women; her
last series of these paintings were inspired by the seven sins by Thomas of Aqcuino and is
called Femmes Fatales. Crowds is another group of paintings showing people in large and small
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Artist from Istanbul. Works with symbols of ancient Anatolian civilizations including Hittite, Hellenistic, Byzantine, Seljukid and Ottoman heritage. Acrylic and natural paints on natural paper.
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Most of my works bear some reference to war, mortality and fragility of culture. The extreme experiences of war and genocide, as collective madness, evoke an element of chaos and transform our collective consciousness, bringing out both its creative and destructive elements. I think of my paintings as investigations into the unreliable nature of safety, possessions and knowledge - and the search for spirituality of some sort, as a promise of compassion. |
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Girish Kumar a self taught artist from Kerala , India. Started painting after his left leg was amputated in an accident. To him painting is a trip to humanity and non-violence. A trip to peace. |
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