December 26, 2024 4:44 am

Author Biography

PAINTING ENIGMAS – Bikash Bhattacharjee: reality sets the rolling ball and fantasy assume new reality

BIKASH BHATTACHARJEE 1/3 – He was an Indian painter from West Bengal, who lived in Kolkata all his life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXxtAG1P1Pw Through his paintings he depicted the life of the average Bengali middle-class. He painted with oils, acrylics and water-colours. He achieved commercial success early in life with his Doll Series in the 1960s. He is credited with bringing realism back …

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ROSA DE JONG – AMAZING TINY HOUSES IN TEST TUBES

ROSA DE JONG 1/3 – She was born in Amsterdam in 1987. After studying for commercial art direction and working for one or two agencies, she started working as a freelance art designer and animator in Amsterdam. Her personal goal is to tell the real story of the brand and set it apart from the crowd, making every piece of communication …

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CUBIST, WHOOSE TEACHING SKILLS WERE COMPARABLE TO SIREN’S SONGS – Andrè Lhote

ANDRE’ LHOTE 1/3 – He was a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life. His way of painting? Complex of interacting systems and geometric shapes, with no precise modulated colors. He was born in Bordeaux and from the age of twelve he began to carve and sculpt the wood. He enrolled at the School of Fine …

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FRANCISCO GOYA (1746/1828), SPANISH PAINTER – The father of modern art

FRANCISCO GOYA 1/4 – The son of a guilder, who spent some of his youth in Saragossa. Francisco José de Goya y Lucient was considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries. He studied painting from age 14 and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Mengs. He submitted entries for Real Academia de Bellas …

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DANIEL ARISTIZÁBAL – Candy-Colored NEO POP Art

DANIEL ARISTIZÁBAL 1/3 – He is graphic designer and art director from Colombia. He studied graphic design in Medellín and Motion graphic in Barcelona, where he became interested in the emergence of 3D rendering technologies. He works as a freelance graphic designer doing work primarily for different brands and magazines focusing on surrealism, experimentation, typography, colors and odd stuff. DANIEL …

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PAINTING SWEETNESS, WISDOM AND CHARM – Ivan Generalic, the man without guides

IVAN GENERALIC 1/3 – He is rarely moved from his land continuing to live a life identical to that of the peasants, loving pigeons and fishing. As a young man he worked in the fields, drawing in his spare time, even above paper bags. He was a naive painters representative of the Hlebine School, named after a village on the …

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WOODCUTS AND LITHOGRAPHS – echoing patterns, space and transformation

MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER 1/3 – He was born in Leeuwarden (Netherlands) as the fourth and youngest son of a civil engineer. He was enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem, but after one week he informed his father, that he would study graphic art instead of architecture. In his early years he sketched landscapes, but also insects …

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