Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Robert Raushcenberg (1925 - 2008).
Recognised as an heir to Dada and precursor of Pop Art, he glued, assembled and happily combined all sorts of images and materials from his era, playing on their interaction in terms of shape, texture and colour. In 1958, Léo Castelli took him under his wing ...
Posted in Contemporary Icons, United States | Comments Off
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
May 17 is the last day of the solo show of Howard Hodgkin at Gagosian Gallery (April 3 - May 17, 2008). His first show of new work in London since 1999, and his first at the Britannia Street galleries.
Hodgkin's paintings are unmistakable with their assertive, compressed gestures, brush-swept, complex ...
Posted in Contemporary Icons, UK | Comments Off
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
"Just like in his painting series, Fernando's photographs bring a new perspective to every image and everyone's imagination. You are invited to be more than a beholder, you are drawn to become part of his world." Heather Barker - Transart Editor.
Ferreira de Araujo's Solo show in Miami - Crossroad, The ...
Posted in Brazil, Fine Artists | Comments Off
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Iberê Camargo is an artist of singular strength and feeling, and one of the great names in 20th century art. Ibere created an extensive body of work which includes paintings, drawings, gouaches and prints. He was born in November 1914 in Restinga Seca, in the interior of Rio Grande do ...
Posted in Brazil, Contemporary Icons | Comments Off
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
While working on his MFA at the University of Illinois, Joe Goodwin became interested in the work and ideas of C.G. Jung, especially his concept of the collective unconscious and his interest in dreams. Dreams defy physics and amplify experience with their ambiguous spaces, symbolic meanings, and sensations that seem to speak from ...
Posted in Featured Artist, Q & A, United States | Comments Off
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Fernando Ferreira de Araujo is a Brazilian artist based in New York City. Born in 1962 he has been painting since 1989. His paintings are strongly identified by vivid colors at the same time by some sort of Chiaroscuro element, as well as by a sharp Abstract Expressionism influence. However, he ...
Posted in Q & A | Comments Off
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Paintings Paper
Posted in Portfolios | Comments Off
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Featured Artist
:: Portfolio :: :: Q & A :: :: Fernando F. Araujo ::
Fernando Ferreira de Araujo’s series of paintings, are both evocative of and inspired by experiences he witnessed in his native Brazil, and those he continues to explore as a prolific artist in New York. His loose painterly brushwork ...
Posted in Featured Artist, Home | Comments Off