Meeting Benches World art in all forms
SANTIAGO GARCIA (1974), URUGUAYAN PAINTER – Converse shoes and wild animals
NEW FIGURATION by SANTIAGO GARCIA – where we’ve been and where we’re going.
SANTIAGO GARCIA 1/4 – the artist was born in 1974 in Montevideo, Uruguay. When Santiago Garcia was growing up, he often explored the fields and meadows that surrounded his home. He was fascinated with the animals that roamed the countryside. He studied biology in college first. As self-taught painter, Garcia produced an immense body of work in his early years. …
Read More »VASKO TASKOVSKI (1937), MACEDONIAN PAINTER – the idea is not a flash and theme of horses
Post modern surreal fantasies by VASKO TASKOVSKI – provoking spectators to think
VASKO TASKOVSKI 1/4 – He was born in 1937 in the village of Nižopole, Bitola in the southwestern part of the Macedonia (former Yugoslavia). As the first post-war generation of children, there were no books for primers in school in Macedonian language. Children learned more verbally and without a program. His first teacher was Slavjanka (a partisan), dressed in a …
Read More »CORNELIS VAN HAARLEM – Looking paintings at 16:9
A PAINTER WHO SOMETIMES ENCHANTS, NEVER OFFENDS AND NEVER OVERWHELMS – Hans Memling: sense of detail and image quality
HANS MEMLING 1/4 – He was a German painter who moved to Flanders, working in the tradition of Netherlandish painting. His portraits is special in many aspects: it shows the high quality and sense of detail, and the man is portrayed in front of a landscape (he was one of the first painters to add a background to his portraits). …
Read More »HANS MEMLING (1440/1494), GERMAN PAINTER – High-quality portraits, with landscapes in the background
A WOMAN FREE AND PROUD – Artemisia Gentileschi: to paint when women were denied access to schools and at work
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI 1/4 – She was a Baroque-period painter, known for such works as “Susanna and the Elders” and “Judith Slaying Holofernes.” She lost her mother when she was 12 years old, and suffered another tragedy five years later (when she was raped by one of her father’s colleagues). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEa0ibrXqSk She married a painter from Florence, but their union wasn’t …
Read More »ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI (1593/1652), ITALIAN PAINTER – A raped woman, an artist violently combative
THE WANDERER, POOR AND IMPROVIDENT PAINTER – Lorenzo Lotto, between portraits and historical scenes
LORENZO LOTTO 1/4 – His work appeals to a modern audience, particularly because of the way he identifies with his subjects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-d-ZhfeylE Well known for his perceptive portraits (and mystical paintings of religious subjects), he represents one of the best examples of the relationship between the Venetian and Central Italian schools. In the earlier years of his life, he lived …
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