Meeting Benches World art in all forms
CARAVAGGIO / MICHELANGELO MERISI (1571/1610), ITALIAN PAINTER – One of the founding fathers of modern painting
AUSTRALIAN SURREALIST PAINTERS
The surrealist painters, even in Australia, they express the energy and enthusiasm of expressive vitality. Among these artists, skilled in combining sublime painting with the enthusiasm, we also wanted to collect some of their creative suggestions. Not always what you perceive corresponds to what you see. Observing what they paint, you will never forget this basic concept. Four Australian surrealist …
Read More »THE SURRELIST PAINTER WHO CONCEPTUALIZES ALL – Jim Tsinganos, a world of rich, vivid colors
JIM TSINGANOS 1/4 – His characters, come in various sizes, but most of his images are based in the real world. His illustrations distantly remind of Goncalo Viana’s work (for their rich, vivid colours). Surrealist, Conceptual painter and Illustrator. http://www.tsinganos.com/ He is Australian, with more than 25 years of editorial experience in illustration and collaborations with Time, Penguin Books, Amnesty …
Read More »JIM TSINGANOS, AUSTRALIAN PAINTER – Real-world’s characters, in various sizes
SURREALISTIC WORKS, SUGGESTIVE AND BIZARRE IMAGES – The wonderful world of Salvador Dalì
SALVADOR DALI’ 1/4 – He was born on May day, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age, he was encouraged to practice his art. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began interacting with many artists (such as Picasso, Magritte and Miró). This Spanish artist and Surrealist icon, is perhaps best known for his painting of melting clocks, “The …
Read More »SALVADOR DALI’ (1904/1989), SPANISH PAINTER – Start to paint like the old masters, then do what you will
WITH THE SHOES OF A PAINTER
In London, there is the Museum of Empathy http://www.empathymuseum.com/ the brainchild of British philosopher Krznaric, with the aim of creating a space of experience and sharing. Almost like putting in the shoes of others. Obviously, entering a museum full of famous paintings, you can also use the shoes (understood as artistic sensibility), of an famous painter. The creative life styles, …
Read More »CAPTURING MODERN ANXIETIES – George Tooker: modeled sculpture forms and mask like faces
GEORGE TOOKER 1/4 – His works often reveal eerie situations, in a mechanical and hostile society. He was born in an August day, in Brooklyn (where he spent the first six years of his life). He took art lessons as a child, and spent much of his young adult life at the Fogg Art Museum. He graduated from Harvard University …
Read More »GEORGE TOOKER (1920/2011), AMERICAN PAINTER – Paint situations with powerful mythic overtones
PAINTING WITH PULPY STYLE, LIKE A BLACK FILM – Owen Smith: an almost proletarian sensitivity
OWEN SMITH 1/4 – His influences come from the walls paintings artists of the 1930s. While living in New York, he was commission to design a set of mosaic murals – permanently installed in a New York Subway Station at 36th Street Brooklyn – as a celebration of the working people who have made the subway what it is today, …
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