Showing posts with label artist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artist. Show all posts

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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Unique painting shows by Phillips curates

Unique painting shows by Phillips curatesPhoto courtesy of MFPA
Working with artists who are internationally recognized Brom Wikstrom is displayed in the exhibition "Artists Above All," curated by E. Bruce Phillips. After a diving accident left him a quadriplegic, Wikstrom learned to paint with her mouth.
By Turia Stark Williams
Published: Friday, March 2, 2007

E. Bruce Phillips, director of the reach communities in Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta, recently had the opportunity to curate exhibition of artists with disabilities.

"Artists Above All" - exhibited at the Art Gallery for All VSA arts of Georgia Healey Building 57 Forsyth St. until April 20 - features work by 10 members of the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists, a painting with a brush held in their mouths or feet as a result from defects which forbids them to use their hands.


"When I eagerly accepted an invitation to curate this exhibition ... I started to reflect and consider how I will run my own art work using only his mouth and / or my legs," Phillips said. "The next thought that crossed my mind is how people can learn to craft foreign to both legs. I have also considered the impact of lost or never had use of my hand. [Title of show] speaks to the fact that the artists are composing a beautician and capable obtain income through the arts, outside the limitations of public perception that they live. "

With the motto "Self help - not charity," said MFPA is an international, non-profit association entirely owned and managed by artists with disabilities to help them meet their financial needs. Cooperative organization, which represents more than 600 artists around the world, to reproduce and sell members' artwork as notecards, calendars and books. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see original works of such renowned artists as MFPA Brom Wikstrom, Dennis Francesoni and Robert Thorne.

Sophia Viola, Scad-Atlanta director of Student Counseling and Disability Services, said, "Artists Above All" focuses on the ability, not disability.

"An exhibition like this shows that despite the challenges, they do not have to limit what you can achieve: it just might be an alternative way you might need to do to achieve your goals," he said. "And when challenges are recognized, even a work of art that much more moving and appreciated."

Viola also said he hoped to work with the gallery show to discuss the work of students and alumni with disabilities Scad in place.

Jaehn Clare, director of artistic development for VSA arts of Georgia, said, "I want students to know that there is an organization with showrooms opportunity to bridge the gap that includes our culture for artists with disabilities."

A reception for "Artists Above All" will be held April 5, 5-8 pm As part of the Turner First Thursday Downtown Art Walk, reception, free and open to the public.


source : http://www.thecampuschronicle.com/scadatlanta/features/070302b.cfm

Last 100 Years Painter : Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Last 100 Years Painter : Rembrandt Harmenszoon van RijnRembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age.

Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, his later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardship. Yet his drawings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high and for twenty years he taught nearly every important Dutch painter. Rembrandt's greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. The self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.


There are some Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's painting :


Last 100 Years Painter : Rembrandt Harmenszoon van RijnThe Martyrdom of St. Stephen. 1625. Oil on panel. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons, France.


Last 100 Years Painter : Rembrandt Harmenszoon van RijnThe Ass of Balaam Talking before the Angel. 1626. Oil on panel. Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris, France.


Last 100 Years Painter : Rembrandt Harmenszoon van RijnTobit and Anna. 1626. Oil on panel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.


Last 100 Years Painter : Rembrandt Harmenszoon van RijnChrist Drives Money-Changers from the Temple. 1626. Oil on panel. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.


Last 100 Years Painter : Rembrandt Harmenszoon van RijnSt. Paul in Prison. 1627. Oil on panel. Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany



source : http://www.makefive.com/categories/entertainment/art/best-painters-of-the-last-100-years/rembrandt

Last 100 Years Painter : Frida Kahlo

After the accident, Kahlo turned her attention away from the study of medicine to begin a full-time painting career. The accident left her in a great deal of pain while she recovered in a full body cast; she painted to occupy her time during her temporary state of immobilization. Her self-portraits became a dominant part of her life when she was immobile for three months after her accident. Kahlo once said, "I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best." Her mother had a special easel made for her so she could paint in bed, and her father lent her his box of oil paints and some brushes.

Drawing on personal experiences, including her marriage, her miscarriages, and her numerous operations, Kahlo's works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain. Of her 143 paintings, 55 are self-portraits which often incorporate symbolic portrayals of physical and psychological wounds. She insisted, "I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."


Kahlo was influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, which is apparent in her use of bright colors and dramatic symbolism. She frequently included the symbolic monkey. In Mexican mythology, monkeys are symbols of lust, but Kahlo portrayed them as tender and protective symbols. Christian and Jewish themes are often depicted in her work.


Some Frida Kahlo ArtWork :


The Two Fridas

Last 100 Years Painter : Frida Kahlo





















The Two Fridas, 1939, Oil on canvas, 67" x 67", Collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City




Self-portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States

Last 100 Years Painter : Frida Kahlo


















Self-portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States, 1932, Oil on metal, 12 1/2" x 13 3/4", Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Reyero



Self-Portrait with Monkey

Last 100 Years Painter : Frida Kahlo






















Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1938, Oil on masonite, 16" x 12", Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York


Diego and Frida

Last 100 Years Painter : Frida Kahlo






















Diego and Frida , 1949, Oil on masonite,
11 5/8" x 8 13/16", Collection of Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Arts, New York.



Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Iraqi Artist Painting memories of home

iraqi unique painting
Karim Alwali is using his unique painting skills to tell the powerful story of his war-torn country of Iraq while he is living in San Jose. Chronicle photo by Michael Macor.



source : http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/03/16/MNHQVJANP.DTL&o=0

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Last 100 years Painter : Mark Rothko

Mark RothkoBorn in Dvinsk, as Marcus Rothkovitch Russia, he immigrated to the United States at the age of ten and shortened his name. Rothko 
studied at Yale University and the Art Student's League in New York, is also his style gradually developed over the years spent teaching for a living. The early works of expressionist portraits and urban landscapes, followed by the Surrealist phase Arshille influenced by Gorky. Rothko began to paint the color of his famous pieces of the field in 1947. Although this work a success, his personal life tortured by depression and alcohol, which ended in suicide in 1970.





There aresome Mark Rothko artwork : 
Mark Rothko artwork

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Last 100 years Painter : Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine artist, one of the great teachers of the High Renaissance, which is also celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineers, and scientists. Love-depth knowledge and research is the essence of both artistic and scientific efforts. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and scientific studies-particularly in the field of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics-anticipated many of the developments of modern science.

Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in the small Tuscan town of Vinci, near Florence. He was the son of a wealthy Florentine notary and a peasant woman.
In the mid-1460s the family settled in Florence, where Leonardo was given the best education that Florence, the intellectual and artistic center of Italy, could offer. He quickly advanced socially and intellectually. He was handsome, persuasive in conversation, and a fine musician and improvisation. About 1466 he was apprenticed as a garzone (studio boy) to Andrea del Verrocchio, Florence's leading painters and sculptors of the day. In Verrocchio workshop Leonardo was introduced to a variety of activities, from painting altarpieces and panel pictures to the creation of a large sculpture projects in marble and bronze. In 1472 he entered the painters guild of Florence, and in 1476 he was mentioned as Verrocchio's assistant. In Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ (c. 1470, Uffizi, Florence), the kneeling angel at the left of the painting by Leonardo.


There are some Leonardo's Painting :


Adoration of the Magi
Last 100 years Painter : Leonardo da Vinci

La Belle Ferroniere
Last 100 years Painter : Leonardo da Vinci

Lady with an Ermine
Last 100 years Painter : Leonardo da Vinci

Skull
Last 100 years Painter : Leonardo da Vinci

St. John
Last 100 years Painter : Leonardo da Vinci

source : http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/l/leonardo/biograph.html
 
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