Meeting Benches World art in all forms
KENT WILLIAMS, AMERICAN PAINTER – When all play a role in the human story of paintings
ARTICULATED AND NEO/EXPRESSIONISTIC FIGURES – The subjective and boldly figures of Kent Williams
KENT WILLIAMS 1/2 – He was born in North Carolina, attended the Pratt Institute in New York and graduated in 1984. He, illustrator and graphic novel artist, has realized his work through various other artistic channels. Boldly articulated figures are often obscured or surrounded by abstracted, neo-expressionistic environments. His work is characterized by strong, gestural forms combined with areas of …
Read More »JACEK YERKA, POLISH PAINTER – The distant memory of the color perfume, ink, paper and brushes
BETWEEN MATERIALISM AND TRANSCENDENCY – Jacek Yerka: when the nuances of creativity embrace the world of things and that of fantasy
JACEK YERKA 1/2 – Jacek Yerka is a Polish surrealist painter that was born into an artistic family. What he paints not only speaks to the curiosity of our eyes, but calls for emotional responses, from the bottom of each viewer. As a child, he loved to draw and make sculptures, creating and exploring his own world, which resulted in …
Read More »HERMAN WAHLBERG (1834/1906), SWEDISH PAINTER– The sun’s setting is prolonged in that latitudes, while he capture the surprises of light among the hills
WHEN NORTHERN CLIMES OFFER FEELINGS – Herman Wahlberg: by painting, landscape art phenomena become a grand novel
HERMAN WAHLBERG 1/2 – He was born in Stockholm, one day in February of 1834. His father also was a painter. After receiving preparatory education at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, he moved to Düsseldorf, to train to paint. He returned to Stockholm, then moved to Paris, where his art collecting critical acclaim. HERMAN WAHLBERG 2/2 – He started …
Read More »ANTONIO DONGHI (1897/1963), ITALIAN PAINTER – Figures that possess a gravity and an archaic stiffness
THE MAGICAL REALISM OF ANTONIO DONGHI – Strong composition, spatial clarity and populist subject matter
ANTONIO DONGHI 1/4 – Magical realism, is a term that is used both to indicate, in the visual arts, a pictorial trend of the first half of the twentieth century, one that identifies a vision clearly stunned the real. This definition was used for the first time by an art critic, to describe a reality characterized by a meticulous rendering …
Read More »CHIHO AOSHIMA: IN THE BALANCE BETWEEN MANGA AND TRADITION – Japan now: the artistic contamination between different creative genres
AROUND THE AOSHIMA’S UNIVERSE – My work feels like strands of my thoughts that have flown around the universe before coming back to materialise
When your geographical horizon extends – for business or pleasure – you have the wonderful opportunity to hear you inside, like the perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside the Vitruvian approach to life. We have the …
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