Τετάρτη 16 Φεβρουαρίου 2011

new artists of America


  • Judy Abbott       American realist painter displaying contemporary realist landscape paintings, forest scenes, and Western landscapes\
  • Michael Lynn Adams    Landscape, still life, and figurative art work by contemporary realist painter Michael Lynn Adams.
  • Michele Amatrula Professional pet portrait artist doing commissions for dogs, cats, horses, birds and other animals. Creating realistic pet portraits in both oils and pencil.
  • Monica Araoz  Abstract fine art by a contemporary American visual artist influenced by abstract expressionism and minimalism. Large abstract art for sale direct from artist's studio.
  • Jenny Armitage Showcase for the watercolor paintings and polymer clay sculpture of an American artist. There are links to online and real world galleries, along with a daily painting blog where paintings are for sale.
  • Michael Arnold Original signed acrylic paintings on canvas by an American artist. Includes a selection of art for sale in a wide variety of styles and themes.
  • Diane Barbee  American artist producing acrylic and oil paintings on canvas and on paper. The works are contemporary and colorful, with bold compositions.
  • Drew Beam American illustrator and fine artist with an online portfolio of book illustration, print ads, character designs for animation, contemporary paintings, album art and photography.
  • Sandy Belock-Phippen Contemporary American painter displaying a portfolio of boldly colored landscapes, still lifes, portraits and waterscapes.
  • Pawel Bendisz  Specializes in visualizing your ideas onto the walls of your home. Pawel has many years experience in painting murals and faux finishes.
  • Tara Benet Contemporary realist artist with an online portfolio of murals, portraits and giclees prints.
  • Renata Bernal Website dedicated to the work of New York artist Renata Bernal. Shows a large collection of oil and acrylic paintings, woodcuts, ink drawings, charcoal and pastel paintings, and other media.
  • Berle Bledsoe  Portland artist specializing in portrait paintings of people and animals. Berle prefers to paint from photographs and is an expert at imposing imagination and impression on reality.
  • Linda Blondheim  Original Landscapes and stories about the adventures of an American landscape painter and artist
  • Paul Bond  Fine art painter specializing in magic realism or surrealism. Open for commissions in any style or medium
  • Mayr Boros Contemporary US spiritual artist showing textile art, quilted mosaics, stained glass, mandala art, and labyrinth inspired art. Poetry by the artist is also online.
  • Cecilia Brendel American artist creating original oil paintings depicting landscapes, portraits, and home portraits in the manner of Thomas Kinkade.
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Τρίτη 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2011

FRIDA KAHLO

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Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Leon Trotsky)
1937
Oil on Masonite
30 x 24 in
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington

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The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Me, and Senor Xolotl
1949
Oil on canvas
27 1/2 x 23 7/8 in
Collection of Jorge Contreras Chacel, Mexico City

FRIDA KAHLO

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Tree of Hope
1946
Oil on Masonite
22 x 16 in
Isadore Ducasse Fine Arts, New York

FRIDA KAHLO


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Self-Portrait as a Tehuana (Diego on My Mind)
1943
Oil on Masonite
29 7/8 x 24 in Gelman Collection, Mexico City

FRIDA KAHLO



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The Two Fridas
1939
Oil on canvas
68 x 68 in. (173 x 173 cm)
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

FRIDA KAHLO



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Henry Ford Hospital 1932
Oil on metal
12 1/4 x 15 1/2 in
Collection Dolores Olmedo Foundation, Mexico City

FRIDA KAHLO

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Self-Portrait
1926
Oil on canvas
31 x 23 in
Private collection, Mexico City










Τετάρτη 2 Φεβρουαρίου 2011

Cymande - The Message

Rachel Ruysch

Rachel Ruysch
Dutch painter, 1664-1750

Rachel Ruysch was the daughter of  Frederik Ruysch, a botanist and anatomist. At 15, she was apprenticed to Willen van Aelst, known for his flower paintings. Her highly detailed and well-composed bouquets were very popular, and she became the court painter for Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine. Ruysch died at 85 with only about a hundred works to her name.


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Still-Life with Bouquet of Flowers and Plums
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Elisabetta Sirani
Italian painter, 1638-1665

Elisabetta Sirani was the daughter of Giovanni Andrea Sirani of the School of Bologna. By the time she was 17, she was a successful painter and engraver with over 90 works. And although she died at only 27, she had completed over 170 paintings, 14 engravings and many drawings. She had a very rapid working method, and art lovers from all over visited her studio to see her at work. Sirani's portraits and mythological and religious paintings are her most famous, and she had many wealthy patrons.
 

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                                                                                             Madonna and Child (drawing)
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Women Artists of the Renaissance

Mary Beale
English painter, 1633-1699

Mary Beale's father was an amateur painter and member of the Painter-Stainers' Company, a guild of decorative painters and fine artists. Through this group she knew many local artists including  Robert Walker and Peter Lely. Mary was influenced by the work of Lely, and studied under Walker. Mary became a very successful portrait painter, though not much else is known about her life.

Artcyclopedia page for Mary Beale: Works at museums, galleries and image archives worldwide.
 

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Self Portrait, ca.1675-80

Museum, Bury St Edmunds

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Judith Leyster
Dutch painter, 1609-1660

Judith Leyster was born in Haarlem, Holland. Although her artistic education is unknown, her paintings are influenced by the genre paintings by Frans Hals and Dirk Hals. By 1633, she was a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke where, within two years, she had three male apprentices.

Judith married Jan Miense Molenaer, another artist, and had five children. After her death, her work was forgotten until a painting at the Louvre was discovered to have her monogram on it, under a false "Frans Hals" signature in 1893. Since then, many works that have been incorrectly attributed to Hals have been revealed to have been painted by Leyster.


Artcyclopedia page for Judith Leyster: Works at museums, galleries and image archives worldwide.


                                                                                                                         A Youth with a Jug


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Women Artists of the Renaissance

Artemisia Gentileschi
Italian painter, 1593-1652

Artemesia Gentileschi, the daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, was one of the most recognized women artists in the Renaissance. She was trained by her father, but was rejected from the academies because of her gender. She then continued her studies under Agostino Tassi. Tassi raped Artemesia and her father subsequently brought charges, leading to a seven-month trial during which she was required to give testimony under torture.

Tassi was convicted and Artemisia was vindicated, and married the artist Pierantonio Stiattesi shortly thereafter. However the trauma of the sexual harrassment and assault she experienced have been said to appear in her works. These include several depictions of the violent stories of Judith and Holofernes (right) and Jael and Sisera, as well as versions of Susanna and the Elders in which Susanna exhibits genuine terror.

After her death, most of Artemesia's works were attributed to her father and other artists until recently. Since the reappearance of her work and story, there have been many feminist studies of her paintings.

                                                                                                 Judith Beheading Holofernes, ca.1620


       

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Fede Galizia
Italian painter, 1578-1630

As the daughter of Nunzio Galizia, a portrait painter, Fede Galizia was an accomplished artist by the age of twelve. Taught by her father, Fede had a great eye for detail and her skill at painting clothing and jewellery made her a very popular portrait artist.

She was also commissioned for both religious and secular paintings, and she painted several depictions of Judith and Holofernes. Fede was also interested in still lifes, for which she is perhaps best known. She was a pioneer in the genre for women and her style has influenced the evolution of still life painting.

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Women Artists of the Renaissance

Lavinia Fontana
Italian painter, 1552-1614

Lavinia Fontana was the daughter of the School of Bologna painter Prospero Fontana, who trained Lavinia in painting.

Lavinia painted in many different genres. She worked with portraiture as well as with religious and mythological scenes, which included male and female nudes. She is documented to have painted over 100 works, though only 32 are definitely known today.


Artcyclopedia page for Lavinia Fontana: Works at museums, galleries and image archives worldwide.
 

  Self-Portrait in a Tondo, 1579

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Women Artists of the Renaissance

  Sofonisba Anguissola
Italian painter, 1532-1625

Sofonisba Anguissola was the oldest of seven children in an aristocratic family. Her father ensured that Sofonisba and her sisters were educated in the fine arts. Sofonisba was an apprentice ofBernardino Gatti.

In 1554 she traveled to Rome and met Michelangelo, who recognized her talent. Michelangelo even sent her some of his own drawings so that she would copy them and send back to him for critique.

Sofonisba was invited to join the Spanish court ofPhilip II in 1559, and became the painting tutor toQueen Elisabeth of Valois.

Note the delightful painting she is working on (a very informal scene of the Virgin Mary with John the Baptist perhaps?). Presumably this was an actual painting, but I can't find any record of its existence today.

                                                                                                                  Self-Portrait, ca.1556
 Lancut Castle Museum, Poland


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Florida’s Newest Dalí Museum

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WHEN a Cleveland-based art-collecting couple put word out that they needed a home for their extensive Salvador Dalí holdings back in the 1970s, St. Petersburg, Fla., heeded the call. The city made an impressive offer — to build a museum for Eleanor and A. Reynolds Morse’s trove of works by the Surrealist master. That museum opened in 1982 and has played a large part in making the city a destination for culture vultures from around the world.

Alan Uglow, Abstract Painter, Dies at 69


The $106.5 Million Anonymous Bid




Why spend a record-setting fortune on a painting and then keep your name out of the press? In this Sunday’s Week in Review, Roberta Smith explores the mystique of the mystery bidder:
The superrich have always sent very public mixed signals about their need for privacy. In this case the headline-making price and the anonymous buyer made that paradox and its manipulative aspects especially clear. But how private does someone who buys a painting at public auction for a world-record price want to be?
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Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society, New York, via Christie’sPicasso’s 1932 painting “Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur (Nude, Green Leaves and Bust).”Picasso’s 1932 painting “Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur (Nude, Green Leaves and Bust).

Meet ‘Vera Stark’: Sanaa Lathan To Star in Lynn Nottage’s Follow-up To ‘Ruined’


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A plate depicting the photographer David Douglas Duncan’s dog Lump, as painted by Picasso.
When forgotten Picassos aren’t turning up in the most unlikely places, they’re depicting the most unlikely subjects. A piece of dinnerware he painted on and gave to the photojournalist David Douglas Duncan, which Mr. Duncan has donated to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, may not compare to the cache of nearly 300 works that a French electrician says he was given by Picasso’s second wife. But the plate is noteworthy for what it depicts: a dachshund named Lump, owned by Mr. Duncan in the 1950s.

The Man With a Thousand Faces

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'What is art?" the Barcelona and Paris-based sculptor Jaume Plensa asks me over breakfast at a hotel hard by his monumental and iconic $17 million Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park. "Art should be an echo," he continues, "a feeling of your heart . . . a mirror, a container of memory." At his Crown Fountain, we see aspects of the childhood memories animating Mr. Plensa's work.
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"I didn't grow up with art but with books," he says, "including medical books, but I had more of a fantastic than a scientific interest. I loved the body. In fact I was obsessed by it."

The MFA's New Art of the Americas Wing . . .


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Art dealers enjoyed 'one of the greatest years ever' in 2010


ANDY Warhol once remarked that he liked "money on the wall".
"Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting," he said. "I think you should take that money, tie it up and hang it on the wall. Then, when someone visited you, the first thing they would see is the money on the wall."
Warhol's satirical notion of art as showstopping status symbol may just have reached a new peak, however, to judge by the record-breaking picture of last year's art market that emerged yesterday.