Smile, it is cool, but doing it creatively is better Our journey into Indonesian creativity begins with a painter. Even in Indonesia, in fact, there are painters who paint the sun in an essential way, representing it with a yellow spot. We like to introduce one of the painters born in this “Land of the Gods”, a man who has …
Read More »CHINESE BRUSHES AND WESTERN VISUAL CONVENTIONS – Lee Man Fong, the painter who lived among experiments, reflections and corrections
Lit subjects, vigorous brushstrokes and rich colors From the age of 16, he learned the techniques of oil painting and his first oil painting of 1929 showed an aptitude for perspective. The work of Lee Man Fong http://www.artnet.com/artists/lee-man-fong/, an Indonesian painter of Chinese descent, fuses Chinese ink painting with 17th-century Dutch paintings. His elegant representations of the Balinese people focused …
Read More »BRIGHT WATER LANDSCAPES, EXUBERANCE OF STYLE AND VIBRANT COLORS – Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar: Between European modernism, Jain manuscripts and Ajanta Caves
When you have an artistic family background From the very beginning of his life, it has been his aim to be able to express joys and sorrows through colour and line. In 1986, Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar https://www.gallery7.com/artists-work.php?id=NDQ was award the Rayotsava Award from Karnataka State (Karnataka). Leater, he was conferred the Padma Bhushan by Government of India (New Delhi). He …
Read More »A PIONEER OF THE SOUTH KOREAN MODERN ART – Park Rehyun: it is not difficult to have art in mind
If you study traditional paintings in pursuit of art In 1958, she said it is not difficult to have artistry within your mind, because when a precious flow begins to move with your emotions it is a sign the world of art brings to your minds. On the 100th anniversary of her birth, a retrospective was present at the Deoksugung …
Read More »NEIL PASILAN AND THE CREATIVE WAY TO PAINT – Focusing on making art day in and day out, remaining an street artist
A self-taught artist, creative every day His attempts to shape an artistic consciousness are the fruit of decades of practice. From his point of view, an artist is more comfortable when he is true to himself. Born and raised in Bacolod City, he began making art as a young man. Each of his works is a story; in fact, he …
Read More »AN ENCHANTED WOOD, FULL OF DELICACY – Elves and Fairies, honoured also on a postage stamp
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, magic for few people What we are telling you is a story of fairy tales, feminism and an excellent reputation. Benjamin Bear, one of the characters she created in pen and ink watercolors, resembled a teddy bear, but there was also a koala inside him. Ida Sherbourne Rentoul Outhwaite https://documents.uow.edu.au/~morgan/outhwaite.htm, born in Melbourne in 1888, she showed …
Read More »THE INFANT GENIUS OF AN ARTIST – Keith Haring, part of the New York art scene during the 1980s
Scout the life and colourful works of an artist Perhaps by chance, Keith Haring decided to express his creativity on empty advertising spaces. The New York subway https://untappedcities.com/2014/05/02/6-places-to-see-keith-harings-artwork-in-nyc/ became a kind of “workshop,” the art atelier where new and reckless graphic solutions could be experimented. We remember his debut season with his words: «”One day, traveling on the subway, I …
Read More »BIRTH OF A GENIUS OF ART – Urbino, Good Friday of April 6, 1483, at three in the morning
Raffaello Sanzio and his Renaissance season At this moment, when the painter of grace and beauty died, an earthquake shook Rome and a storm obscured the sun. For Giorgio Vasari, Raffaello Sanzio was fond of women and carnal delights. Marcantonio Michiel, on the other hand, narrated that on the death of the great painter from Urbino, cracks were create inside …
Read More »WHEN FLORENTINE CULTURE FECONDED ATTITUDES – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, an artist of the fourteenth century, between Madonnas and allegories
A profound humanity, within complex allegories Widespread in Europe since 1346, the great lawn mower commonly known as the other death or black plague https://www.ilpalio.org/gabrielli_pesteigine.htm had claimed over twenty million human lives before disappearing. In 1348, due to that epidemic and just like his brother, a man named Ambrogio also died in Siena. Fearing the imminence of his death, in …
Read More »SOMETHING BRIGHT AND FUN – Yuki Ogura, a very prolific artist
A Japanese Modern & Contemporary artist The warmth and humanity in her work, makes she endearing to audiences. Her maiden name was Yuki Mizoguchi. Yuki Ogura http://www.artnet.com/artists/yuki-ogura/ was born in ÅŒtsu city (Shiga Prefecture), into a March day, in 1895. Her home-studio were located in Kamakura, where she lived to the age of 105. Her work has been offered at …
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