Archive for the ‘Fine Artists’ Category
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Sam Dolman was born in Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire, where he lived until he was 18. He then moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to study Accountancy, where he spent the next four years. After graduating it soon became apparent that figures were not the life for him. Following a year in Leeds and ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Born 1954, Wroclaw, Poland. Lives and works in Wroclaw. Members of The Association of Polish Artist and Designers.1980 - 1983 University Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan1980 - 1985 University of Wroclaw1994 - 1995 Graphic Practice on Academy of Fine Arts Wroclaw.
Artist Statement:
”My mind has always perceived painting as a process in which ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Work with abandoned places and desolate spaces, Mie Olise work is primarily painting, as well as building models of wood and cardboard and sometimes sowing. Also trained as an architect she is interested in constructions, perspectives, scales. Often spaces left by human beeings.Artist Statement:“I find the uncannyness of discovering a ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Painting as View of the World Only at a first glance do the works of Kevin A. Rausch (born in Carinthia, Austria) attest to a brittle, bleak apocalyptic mood; to desolatedness, grey battlegrounds, catastrophes, isolation, and the appendant weltschmerz. Once one takes a closer look, one can discover ironical associations ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
The current project “Engage” explores each particular subject’s personality and how those attributes are expressed on both a outward physical and psychological level. Through each individual work, the viewer can become intimately aquainted with the subject not only representationally, but on an emotional, intellectual, and moral level.Anatomical incorrectness with impossible ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Artist Statement:
While working on my MFA at the University of Illinois, I 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 ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Outstading figurative/portrait contemporary artist
Biography
1964 Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil
1993 Meisterschüler
1987 - 1998 Studies at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe / Prof. Max Kaminski and Prof Helmut Dorner
1999 Helmut-Stober-Prize
www.hardingmeyer.de
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Artist’s Statement:
“As an artist I intend to empathize with people and the world through the visual mode. I use art as a reflective tool to understanding my self and the environment I inhabit. I feel that style and meaning is inextricable to form and composition; in that way, I ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Plínio Palhano was born in Recife, Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil, in 1954. He belongs to the group named Seventy's generation, from Pernambuco. It's a figurative, but a figurative that "attracts" and "abstracts" the figure, mending it by the "inflamed" form through which he develops his work.
More than the vision ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Carrie Anne Baade imaginative portraits and narratives are informed by religion and mythology. Gods, rulers, demons, and monsters play out the complexity of the human condition in her works that incorporate forgotten paintings to quote and interpret. She has traveled around the globe in search of inspiration; her works manifest ...
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