October 6, 2024 3:52 am

PAINTERS

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 …

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JIM TSINGANOS, AUSTRALIAN PAINTER – Real-world’s characters, in various sizes

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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 …

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SALVADOR DALI’ (1904/1989), SPANISH PAINTER – Start to paint like the old masters, then do what you will

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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, …

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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 …

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GEORGE TOOKER (1920/2011), AMERICAN PAINTER – Paint situations with powerful mythic overtones

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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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OWEN SMITH, AMERICAN PAINTER – Artistic influences that come from painted walls in the 1930s

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DRAMATIC AND DYNAMIC ARTWORKS, FOCUSED ON ROMANTICISM AND REALISM

JUAN NOVICIO LUNA 1/4 – That painter was mostly known for his works as being dramatic and dynamic, focusing on romanticism and realism styles of art. He was born in an October day,1857 in the northern Philippines. He became one of the first recognized Philippine artists, not only as a painter, but also sculptor and a political activist. His most …

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