Yuichiro Shibata: A Contemporary Master
Comes Out of Hibernation
In our media-saturated era, when the higher aspirations of art are all too often hobbled by topicality, Yuichiro Shibata is one artist who "breaks the cultural trance,' to appropriate a felicitous phrase from Russell Targ, the well-known physicist and author of "Limitless Mind."
While the clarity of line and pastel pinks, baby blues, sherbet greens and other confectionery hues that have characterized Shibata's large acrylic paintings on canvas for decades appear to have exerted a superficial stylistic influence on some younger Japanese artists enamored of cartoon iconography and other aspects of popular culture, his concerns and the content of his work, conversely timeless and universal, could not be more remote from theirs.
Indeed, although Shibata wryly acknowledges that the circular forms, which invariably interact with linear spirals in his paintings, could suggest such down-to-earth objects as optic orbs, olives or bowling balls, his cosmi-cally continued....
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Sylvia Hennequin
From the early 15th century to the present, The Netherlands has given us many great artists, including de
Kooning. But it is the post-WWII movement called CoBrA that the contemporary
Dutch painter Sylvia Hennequin (www.sylviahennequin.nl) seems most clearly related. Trained
in Rotterdam, Hennequin wields a loaded brush with as much force as Karel Appel one of the
founders of the CoBrA group and its most accomplished painter.
The resemblance is clear in Hennequin’s powerful painting “Scarface.” Just look at those
impastos (as though the thick, viscous pigment was slathered on with a trowel!); those
intense colors (particularly those glistening, visceral reds—like the ones in Soutine’s flayed
sides of beef); that fleshy slab of a nose and those huge, mad, asymmetrical blue eyes,
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Jean-Marc Calvet : Monkdogz Art Star Calvet Knows Exactly what he is doing
How much of what they say about Jean-Marc Calvet, the painter from
Granada, Nicaragua, who has recently created such a stir in the New York art scene how he supposedly gave up on life, secluded himself in a room to die, and dis covered his artistic vocation and a reason to go on living by painting all over the walls with some discarded paints that he found there — is true and how much is apocryphal I do not know; nor do I care to know.
There is a very real danger for an artist as brilliant as Calvet (whose new paintings can be seen at Monkdogz Urban Art, 547 West 27th Street, from September 6 through October 1 3) in having too colorful a back-story. It is too easy for the legend to flourish at the expense of the art. (just think how
many people know nothing about Van Gogh except that he cut off his ear.).
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*~*~*~*~*~*~* “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Piet Mondrian
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