Happy Halloween!

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Halloween is this artist’s favorite holiday! Right now I am drinking my morning coffee and watching a Vincent Price classic, the Tower of London!

When it comes to pumpkins no one creates more exciting works than the Pumpkin Picasso Ray Villafane. In this clip from the Martha Stewart show we catch the artist in action!:

 

This wonderful and creative painting is by Bo Bartlett:

Here is a great example of text and frankenstein from Ben Eine:

 

This work is by the artist Frank Frazetta:

 

 

These interesting spider webs by conceptual artist Rosemarie Trockel:

This work featuring pumpkins by the great Yayoi Kusama:

 

 

And this last piece titled Vampire by artist Sterling Ruby:

 

Happy Halloween!

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Artist of the moment…………….Guy Goodwin

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Guy Goodwin is a contemporary visual artist and painter. Guy Goodwin was born in Birmingham, Alabama in the year 1940.

As a youngster Goodwin developed a respect and admiration for art. He grew up in a small town that had a wonderful museum. When his mother had some errands to run she would drop him off to see the many paintings it contained. She knew he would never leave the museum.

Goodwin earned a  B.F.A. from Auburn University in Alabama. He went on to earn a M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Champaign- Urbana.

Price range information: Sorry none available.

Most works are compiled using a combination of acrylics, tempera, cardboard, staples, glue, and screws.

The work of Guy Goodwin is a hard to describe. Its seems to take some design ideas from 1960’s and 1970’s master Verner Panton. Goodwin’s works always contain a great deal of movement blended with many interesting organic shapes.

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Artist of the moment……photographer August Sander

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August Sander was an internationally renown portrait photographer and documentary film maker from Germany. August Sander was born in Herdorf, Rhine Province, Germany in the year 1876. His father was a carpenter.

In this clip examples of wonderful portraits by August Sander:

Sander served time in the military as a photographer’s assistant from 1897 until 1899.

Sander began working for a photography studio located in Linz, Austria in 1901. In 1902 he was a made a partner in the firm. In 1904 he became the sole owner of the company.

The artist relocated to Germany opened his own photography studio in 1909 located in Linz.

Sander was renown for his portraits of people from all classes and all walks of life. In the mid 1930’s he began to focus on architecture and nature as his subjects.

Price range information: Works range from $10,000 to $750,000.

August Sander passed away in 1964. He was 87 years of age.

August Sander had a great talent for capturing interesting looking people. His work with people strikes me as similar to that of the great Diane Arbus. Both found very interesting subjects for their portrait work.

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Artist of the moment……………Rosy Keyser

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Rosy Keyser is a contemporary painter and printmaker. Rosy Keyser was born in Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1974.

The artist earned a B.F.A. from Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York. She went on to earn a M.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago.

Keyser is renown for her innovative use of materials not usually found in paintings. One painting might contain enamel, acrylic paint, steel, and sawdust. Keyser also works on a very large format.

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In this clip Rosy Keyser talks about creating a painting based on the singer Jimi Hendrix who burned a guitar on stage at the Monterey International Pop festival in 1967:

 

The artist is based out of Brooklyn, New York and Medusa, New York.

With her use of non traditional materials including string, sawdust, and steel gives her work a dimensional and sculptural feel.

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Artist of the moment………Street artist Dodo Ose

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Dodo Ose is a French street artist based out of Montreal, Canada. Dodo Ose was born in Lyon, France in the year 1985.

Price range information: Sorry none available.

Dodo Ose attended college in Cannes, France.

The artist’s government name is Doryan Ose.

In this clip a brief interview with the artist:

Dodo Ose belongs to two crews, the A’Shop Crew and the K6A crew.

The artist works in watercolor and spray paint.

Dodo Ose is a great example of contemporary street art. I enjoy his work because he always adds something you wouldn’t expect in his composition. This could be text or even a picture super imposed over another.

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Artist of the moment………..Andrea Belag

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Andrea Belag is a contemporary abstract painter. Belag enjoyed a prolific collegiate education attending Boston University, Bard College, and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture.

Belag is based out of New York.

Since 1995 Belag has been a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Price range information: Sorry none available.

Belag turns to other art forms including photography and film for inspiration and new ideas.

In this clip we catch up with the great James Kalm to view some works by Abstract painters including Motherwell and Belag. The part featuring Belag shows up at the 26 minute mark in the clip:

Below a link to the website of the artist:

http://andreabelag.com/

The artist often paints with oils on linen. She paints with the piece lying flat, rather than on an easel to avoid dripping paint.

Andrea Belag has a wonderful sense of composition. Her style reminds me of painters James Nares and Roy Lichtenstein. These artists all placed a great deal of emphasis on the brushstroke.

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Artist of the moment………….German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch

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Albert Renger-Patzsh was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity movement. Albert Renger Patzsch was born in Würzburg, Northern Bavaria, Germany in the year 1897.

The artist served his country in the first World War. After finishing his service the artist studied chemistry at Dresden Technical College.

Renger-Patzsch was given his first museum exhibition in 1927.

The artist also did a great job capturing the industrial revolution. His work in this genre is similar to the husband and wife duo of Bernd and Hillla Becher.

Price range information: Works range from $5,000 to $80,000.

In this clip some works from a current exhibition featuring Albert Renger-Patzsch that is going on now in Paris, France:

Albert Renger-Patzsch passed away in 1966.

Works by the artist are found in many prominent collections including the Museum of Modern Art in Strasbourg, France and Corcoran Gallery of Art located in Washington D.C.

Albert Renger-Patzsch was a photographer with a great eye for finding abstract compositions in everyday life. Another photographer who had a similar knack for finding abstraction in everyday life was the great Ed Weston.

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Artist of the moment……….Agustin Cardenas

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Agustin Cardenas was a sculptor from Cuba. Agustin Cardenas was born in Matanzas, Cuba in the year 1927. His family was descendant of slaves from the countries of Senegal and the Congo.

Price range information: Cardenas worked with watercolor, gouache, aluminum, bronze, wood, and marble. Prices range from $10,000 to $300,000.

Cardenas attended the Academy of Art San Alejandro located in Havana, Cuba.

In 1955 the artist relocated to France. In 1957 Cardenas joined the Surrealist movement.

Below a montage of works by the artist:

 

Works by Cardenas can be found in the the Museum of Art and Industry located in Saint Etienne, France and the Hakone Open Air Museum in Japan.

Agustin Cardenas passed away in 2001.

The work of Agustin Cardenas is very interesting. From certain angles it appears for certain the viewer is looking at the silhouette of the human form. Then the line and structure changes and the eye tries to decipher the new shape. His work is very intriguing to the human eye and spirit.

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New artsy movie release……………………….Loving Vincent

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This is an amazing new animated film about the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Although the movie is animated its not done in the traditional sense. The animation was done not by using digital technology and computers, but rather by more than 60,000 individual oil paintings.

To produce the art necessary to make the film used 125 specially trained individual artists to make the paintings used in the film.

Below a behind the scenes look at the creation of the movie:

The movie took more than six years to produce. The movie features 12 paintings per second.

In this clip a trailer for the movie Loving Vincent:

The movie focuses on last days of Vincent Van Gogh and brings to mind the question if the artist did indeed take his own life.

I am going to see the movie on the upcoming Wednesday and I can’t wait!

Below a link to the website about the movie:

http://lovingvincent.com/

If anyone has seen this movie please share your thoughts!

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Artist of the moment………Craig Alan

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american, craig alan, human pixels, new orleans, painter, people, portraits, street arts, university of alabama at mobile

 

 

 

Craig Alan is a contemporary visual artist renown for his mixed media portrait images made up of human pixels. Craig Alan was born in San Bernardino, California in the year 1971.

Price range information: Sorry none available.

Below a closer look at artist that includes how the process of producing his artwork:

 

Alan became interested in art after his family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana when he was youngster. Whilst there he was inspired to learn how to draw and eventually went on to earn money as a street portrait artist. His prices at the time were 15 for black and white and 30 for a watercolor portrait.

The artist is best known for his Populus series. This is his signature series that organizes people into recognizable shapes and portraits. It was inspired after looking down from a balcony at the shape of people attending a wedding party.

The artist studied studio arts at the University of Alabama at Mobile. Whilst in college Alan also studied theater and set design. Alan was on scholarship for soccer.

Below we view an exciting work featuring Marilyn Monroe:

Alan also worked in the frame industry at the beginning of his artistic career.

Below a link to the website of the artist:

http://craigalanart.com/index.php

What an interesting style of painting! I love the idea of human pixels!

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