PAINTERS

JOSEPH KALIHER 1/3 – An exquisite unmistakable style and cheerful, full of deep reflections on the human soul. This is the creative world of a painter who comes from Texas, to put on canvas with the colors his Symbolism and Surrealism. After marrying an Italian girl, he – born in an American hippie communities – has chosen to live in …

JOSEPH HENRY SHARPS 1/3 – He was born in a September day, 1859 and lived a long life (with a prolific career as a painter best known for his realistic portrayal of the American Indians). Over his lifetime, Sharp had produced around 10,500 works of art. He was the first painter to visit New Mexico, before Phillips and Blumenschein made …

PRIMO CONTI 1/3 – 1911 is the year of his artistic debut, along with the youth studies on the human figure, the precocious interest for the Fauve art, a prelude to the brilliant futurist. He has been able to receive the most alive and fruitful moods of Futurism, creating a fresh paint and filled with poetry. Always ready to question …

MARGARET KEANE 1/3 – She created a unique, popular artistic aesthetic during the 1960s, though unknown to the public for some time. She was born on September day in 1927 in Nashville (Tennessee). She immersed herself in art from an early age, and had a penchant for creating characters with large, looming eyes, her distinctive way to paintin of large-eyed …

SATURNINO HERRAN 1/3 – His work was part of a movement called “syntheticism”, of which he was the best representative. Though he died at 31 years old, his legacy is solid. The only child of a Mexican father and a French Swiss mother, he was born in Aguascalientes on a July day, in 1887. He showed early talent and at …