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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — John Atkinson Grimshaw

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John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 – 1893) was a Victorian-era painter, notable for his landscapes, usually known as Atkinson Grimshaw.Self-taught, Grimshaw started exhibiting in Leeds in the 1860’s with minutely observed still life paintings.Grimshaw experimented with a looser technique and with classical subjects — historical subjects and contemporary ladies — that were particularly successful.He was interested in photography and sometimes used a camera obscura to project outlines on to oil canvas, enabling him to repeat compositions several times.He also mixed sand and other ingredients with his paint to get the effects he wanted.

Around 1880 Grimshaw suffered some unknown financial crisis and retrenched, returning to Leeds and boosting his output to around fifty paintings a year.

Certain elements of social realism come into his paintings around that time, night being a good time to record less respectable forms of life.

More of John Atkinson Grimshaw’s inspirational landscapes can be found at https://johnatkinsongrimshaw.org/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Martin Wittfooth

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Martin Wittfooth was born in Toronto, Canada in 1981 and currently splits his time between two studios in Savannah, Georgia, and Brockville, Ontario, Canada.Wittfooth earned his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.He composes surreal images of animals, plants, flowers, and landscapes in a way which references the tradition of painters past but is at the same time relevant, unique, and personal.Wittfooth’s paintings, drawings, installations and sculptural works use allegory and symbolism to explore themes of the intersection and clash of industry and nature, and the human influence on the environment.Many of his works explore the theme of shamanism – rituals and practices as old as our species – through which we have attempted to dialogue with nature: the nature outside of ourselves and the nature within.His creative language uses the combination of allegory and symbolism to convey visual narratives.“I hope with my art to bridge the gap somewhat between the subconscious and the conscious – the “visionary” with the “baseline” states of mind,” Wittfooth shares.“The mainstream is what is most in need of a change of perspective right now, so I’d like for my art to be able to dialogue with it.”More of Martin Wittfooth’s surreal paintings can be found at https://www.martinwittfooth.com/.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Tirzah Garwood

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Tirzah Garwood (1908–1951) was a multi-talented artist and designer whose life was tragically cut short when she died of breast cancer aged only 42.

Eileen Lucy “Tirzah” Garwood was a British wood-engraver, painter, paper marbler, author, and a member of the Great Bardfield Artists.

According to Brighton & Hove Museums, Garwood “is one of the most original and distinctive figures of twentieth century British art

Her brilliance as a wood engraver and maker of marbled papers was acknowledged in her lifetime, but her early death meant that few were able to enjoy her captivating, collaged house ‘portraits’ and enigmatic oil paintings.

She prompts us to see the amusing, absurd and uncanny in the detail of everyday life.Garwood’s engravings were imaginatively conceived and precisely executed. They abounded in wry observations and witty juxtapositions.More of Tirzah Garwood’s marvelous wood cuts can be found at https://artuk.org/discover/stories/tirzah-garwood-unveiling-a-forgotten-visionary/

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Maggie Vandewalle

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Maggie Vandewalle was born and raised just outside of Iowa City, Iowa, in a rural setting.She received an art scholarship to the University of Iowa, where she worked towards a BFA in printmaking.After several years she took a break from college to explore life,  determined that art most definitely would in the form of drawing.Vandewalle’s drawings are whimsical and precise, showing a wonderful talent for detail.She is a master of watercolor whimsy whose paintings transport us to a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the impossible seems just within reach.Vandewalle’s clever composition transforms our interpretation from aesthetic appreciation to ecological observation, reminding us with a wink that beauty in nature often serves a practical purpose.

More of Maggie Vandewalle’s amazing art can be found at https://maggievandewalle.com/.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instant Connection

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Last night I went through the blogs I follow and came across my friend’s gallery Tiffany Arp-Daleo Artwork. I have showcased her work in both Humoring the Goddess and Sunday Evening Art Gallery. 

 

Tiffany has a unique way of creating abstract paintings — I love them..

This was Tiffany’s post yesterday:

Shadows Within

6/9” Mixed media on paper

Now I don’t spend a lot of time looking closely at contemporary art. I usually love a painting because of the colors or the shapes or a compilation that somehow attracts me.

The first thing I thought when I looked at this pic is: Is that my body? Are those the black spots of hell showing up throughout my torso?

I then wondered if this was a message from Tiffany. Why did she called it Shadows Within? Was this an attempt to tell her readers something?  A Cosmic Message? Or if it was just painting of orange and pink and black?

Even though I love all sorts of Art, I rarely have an emotional connection with them. There are billions of paintings or quilts or ceramics that are worth a second look, but rarely does one shoot out a bolt of connection between human and object.

I’m tickled to pieces.

This is why I keep encouraging you to open up to the Creative Magic that’s everywhere around you. Not every creation is for you — that’s why there’s such diversity in Arts and Crafts. But sooner or later something is going to resonate with you and it will be extraordinary.

Thanks for the unexpected zap, Tiffany!

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Younguk Yi

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Korean artist Younguk Yi is recognized for his precise, almost digital, paintings, which balance abstraction with hyperrealism.

Yi works in Seoul, Korea. He graduated from Dankook University, Department of Western Studies, and completed his MFA and PhD programs at Hongik University, Department of Painting.His fragmented figures, overlapping and unfolding across the canvas, offer a deep exploration of the form.

Over the years, Yi’s works have evolved, embracing new concepts while maintaining a singular theme: repetition.
The repetition and arrangement of figures create a sense of transformation, encouraging the viewer to reconsider how we perceive the subjects.The artist uses this motif to question representation, materiality, and existence in today’s world.
Yi’s paintings, despite their hyper-realistic style, never allow the viewer to fully construct the forms in their mind.
His figures are distorted—whether human or animal, their identities are lost in the disjointed assembly.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Spinning Tops

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You spin me right ’round, baby, right ’round
Like a record, baby, right ’round, ’round, ’round
~ Flo Rida

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Callen Schaub

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Callen Schaub is an abstract artist based in Montreal, Canada. Schaub’s vivid, illusionistic abstract paintings feature sweeping patterns in colorful hues on rectangular and round surfaces.The artist forgoes paint brushes, instead using tools like pendulums, trapezes, and spinning machines to produce the freeform splatters of paint seen throughout his work.After creating the base, Schaub layered paint into a bucket destined to pass above the canvas while being suspended by a rope.Taking it into his arms, he released a plug on the bottom, allowing paint to flow through two large holes, then sends the bucket swinging over the canvas.The resulting swirls and blends makes for the most magical in-motion artwork.With over a decade of live performances and exhibitions under his belt, Callen transforms movement into mesmerizing color, exploring what it means to make and experience art.More of Callen Schaub’s exciting artwork can be found at https://callenschaub.com.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Leena Nio

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Leena Nio (-1982) is a painter born in Helsinki and currently living in Espoo, Finland.Nio graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2010 and was awarded the Finnish Art Society’s Ducat Prize the same year.Nio is known for her ability to play with different techniques and perspectives through her oil paint.Her choice of theme and technique stems from her profound interest in painting and its potential.She makes use of traditional subject matter — such as portraiture and still life — but experiments with the materiality of paint, creating a range of impressions on a single canvas.Often her paintings look like blown up photos of knitted sweaters, needlepoint and buttons.More of Leena Nio’s delightful paintings can be found at https://leenanio.com/.

 

 

 

Pumpkin (repost)

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A wonderfully warm and bright start to a Saturday morning!

Thank you Tiffany Arp-Daleo!!

 

Pumpkin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Adam Lee

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Adam Lee (1979-) is a contemporary artist from Melbourne, Australia.Lee holds a Bachelor and Masters of Fine Art, and a PhD from RMIT University.With a personal outlook informed by a wide range of sources – folklore, legend and biblical narratives to natural history, music, film and literature – his works on canvas and paper build elaborate worlds where allegory and atmosphere converge.Lee’s work references a wide range of sources including historical and family photographs, spiritual narratives, natural history, and contemporary music, film and literature to investigate aspects of the human condition in relation to ideas of temporal and supernatural worlds.His painting and drawing practices tie together narratives of memory, imagination and transcendence.These explorations find their physical manifestation in Lee’s well-honed individual style, characterized by moody landscapes and a contemporary take on tenebrism (a style of painting that uses strong contrasts of light and dark for dramatic effect.)

More of Adam Lee’s creative artistry can be found at  https://adamlee.com.au/ and https://stationgallery.com/artist/adam-lee/.

 

 

 

Rock Therapy

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Just returned from a few days camping with the grandkids and their other magical grandparents. It was excellent on one end of the scale, and exhausting on the other.

I now now why God and nature decided that 72 was too old to have babies …

But I digress.

I find I’m hooked on Creativity/Art. All the time. I mean, I don’t eat and drink art (I leave that for smores and morning camp coffee), but I do find it follows me along wherever I go.

Lake and pool swimming over for the most part, my two youngest grandkids and I had a rock painting party one hot late afternoon.

This is our second year of “sharing the art.” We find suitable-sized rocks (preferably light and smooth), bring them back to the campground, paint positive words and/or scenes on them, then place them at various spots around the campground, hoping someone else will find them and take them home.

In reality it’s a karma  kind of thing. It feels good.

So here is a pic of our final batch, and along with a couple of the ones I contributed….

 

You can do this too! Around the campground, around the park, around the neighborhood. Do it! It feels GREAT!!

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — David Stoupakis

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David Stoupakis is an American artist known for his captivating and introspective artworks that blend elements of surrealism, dark fantasy, and emotional narrative.Stoupakis’ artistic journey began with formal training at the Art institute of Boston, where he honed his skills in traditional techniques while developing a distinctive style characterized by haunting imagery and intricate details.His paintings often feature ethereal figures, frequently children, infused with a sense of melancholy and mystery.Stoupakis’ works explore themes of innocence, loss, and transformation, drawing viewers into poignant narratives that resonate on both personal and universal levels.With a meticulous approach to composition and of light and shadow, Stoupakis creates atmospheric pieces that evoke a profound emotional response.Emerging during the Lowbrow art movement, the artist quickly garnered attention for his unique blend of beauty and darkness.His works explore themes of innocence, loss, and transformation, drawing viewers into poignant narratives that resonate on both personal and universal levels.More of David Stoupakis’ beautiful and dark art can be found at https://davidstoupakis.bigcartel.com/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Mulgil Kim

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Mulgil Kim (b. 1988) is a South Korean artist whose work explores emotional landscapes through serene, nature-inspired imagery.She is an artist known for her ability to capture the world’s beauty through the ‘Art Road’ project.This ambitious initiative involved a 673-day journey across five continents and 46 countries, during which she created over 400 artworks, reflecting her daily impressions, thoughts, and discoveries.After returning to Korea, Kim continued the project on a national scale, renaming it ‘National Art Road‘ and exploring Korea’s landscapes, seasons, and communities.Kim’s vibrant and expressive works offer a window into the places she visited, preserving their essence.Through her art, she captures the changing seasons and the beauty of human interactions, highlighting Korea’s natural and cultural diversity.“Ultimately, my art is about connection — to nature, to imagination, to memory, and to the softer parts of ourselves that are often left behind in the rush of daily life,” Kim shares.“At the heart of my work is an invitation to pause — to create a quiet space where viewers can breathe, reflect, and gently reconnect with their own emotions.”

More of Mulgil Kim’s lovely work can be found at https://www.kimmulgil.com/.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Bruce A. Wilson

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Bruce A. Wilson is a painter, designer, and illustrator raised in California and now a full-time resident of Orcas Island.Wilson studied fine art at Art Center College of Design, specializing in figure drawings, portraiture and painting. Changing his major to Advertising Design, it wasn’t until he retired from his advertising agency in 2005 that he retired and turned his attentions back to painting.

He began using a heated environment in 1998 while in Puerto Vallarta Mexico.

His painting strokes were fairly uniform wavy lines to achieve an impression of the beaches and water around him, eventually moving on to hills, plants, clouds, trees and now other worlds.As his interest in this medium continued, Wilson learned to control the heat which would give him thinner and thicker strokes which adds a little more personality to his impressions.

Wilson mixes his own pigments with oil pastels and oils to creamy consistency and applies them to ultra smooth gessoed boards, a technique he calls Thermal Oil and Wax.

The varied thicknesses in his work enables his works to take on a textured  abstract/surrealist feel.

More of Bruce A. Wilson’s wonderful textured paintings can be found at https://www.brucewilsonpaint.com/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Adam Lee

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Adam Lee (1979-) is an Australian artist from Melbourne.Lee holds a Bachelor and Masters of Fine Art, and a PhD from RMIT University. Lee’s painting and drawing practice ties together narratives of memory, imagination and transcendence.With a personal outlook informed by a wide range of interests including folklore and legend to natural history, music, and literature, his works on canvas and paper build elaborate worlds where allegory and atmosphere converge.Lee’s work references a wide range of sources including historical and family photographs, spiritual narratives, and contemporary music, film and literature, to investigate aspects of the human condition in relation to ideas of temporal and supernatural worlds.His artwork and vision is reflected by a community of hermits, shawl-shod women and regalia-laden gentlefolk traversing deserts and reposing in tabernacles or dreamed abodes.These explorations find their physical manifestation in Lee’s well-honed individual style, characterized by moody landscapes and a contemporary take on Tenebrism (a style of painting developed by Caravaggio and other 17th-century Spanish and Italian artists, characterized by predominantly dark tones and shadows with dramatically contrasting effects of light.)More of Adam Lee’s mesmerizing artwork can be found at https://adamlee.com.au  and https://stationgallery.com/artist/adam-lee/.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — David Gentleman

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David Gentleman is an English artist, illustrator, designer and author.He was born in 1930 of artist parents, studied at the Royal College of Art and has lived in London ever since. Gentleman’s artistic style is characterized by its simplicity, elegance, and attention to detail.He often works in pen and ink, using delicate lines and cross-hatching techniques to create intricate and highly detailed illustrations.Gentleman’s use of color is restrained yet impactful, with carefully chosen hues that enhance the overall composition.The artist has a deep appreciation for nature and often incorporates elements of the natural world into his work.His illustrations of landscapes, flora, and fauna are highly regarded for their accuracy and ability to evoke a sense of place.More of David Gentleman’s intriguing art can be found at https://davidgentleman.com/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Cameron Limbrick

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Cameron Limbrick is a self taught American artist who has spent his entire life creating in a wide variety of media.

From traditional painting and graphic design to video and music production, Limbrick’s diverse artistic background ties together a solid foundation for his calling as a full-time visual artist and music producer.

Limbrick went to art school with the goal of becoming a commercial graphic designer and practiced the medium on his own.  

 Many years later Limbrick’s passion for painting resurfaced and revealed itself as his favorite way of artistic self-expression.

The method Limbrick has developed allows him to be spontaneous.

He approaches each piece with the curiosity of an adventurer, following lines like roads around bends and textures like rocky canyons, wondering what is around the corner.

With every painting’s inception, the artist has no idea what the final piece will look like.

The deep mysterious subconscious is revealed to him throughout the entire process, shapeshifting as it advances towards its final frame.

The result is a riddle, its meaning dependent on the viewer.

More of Cameron Limbrick‘s artwork can be found at https://www.cameronlimbrick.com/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Adam Lee

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Adam Lee is an Australian artist from Melbourne, Australia.Lee holds a Bachelor and Masters of Fine Art, and a PhD from RMIT University.With a personal outlook informed by a wide range of sources – from folklore, legend and biblical narratives to natural history, music, film and literature –Lee’s works on canvas and paper build elaborate worlds where allegory and atmosphere converge.His work references a wide range of sources including historical and family photographs, spiritual narratives, natural history, and contemporary music, film and literature to investigate aspects of the human condition in relation to ideas of temporal and supernatural worlds.Lee’s painting and drawing practice ties together narratives of memory, imagination and transcendence.These explorations find their physical manifestation in Lee’s well-honed individual style, characterized by moody landscapes and a contemporary take on tenebrism.

More of Adam Lee’s atmospheric artwork can be found at https://adamlee.com.au/ and https://stationgallery.com/artist/adam-lee/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Wayne Barlowe

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Wayne Barlowe (-1958)  is a world-renowned science fiction and fantasy author and artist who has created images for books, film and galleries and written novels, screenplays and a number of art books.Barlowe is best known for realistic paintings of surreal alien life, hellish landscapes, and esoteric landscapes,  as well as paleoart.He has painted over 300 books, magazine covers and illustrations for many major book publishers, as well as Life and Time Magazine.Barlowe has also created concept art and creature design for films such as Avatar, Harry Potter, Hellboy, and Pacific Rim. His first solo work, Barlowe’s Guide to Extraterrestrials, appeared in 1979. It was filled with 150 full-color paintings depicting fifty of the most famous aliens of science fiction literature.His artwork is often done in acrylics, although he is also well known for his pencil sketches.  Barlowe has a talent for creating believable surface textures, important in creating everything from aliens to space heroes.His art spans alien worlds, alien creatures, and the realms of hell. His work portrays his imagination in painstaking detail. 

More of Wayne Barlowe’s amazing artworks can be found at https://waynebarlowe.com/.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Michael Hussar

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Michael Hussar (-1964) is an American Painter who attended the Art Center in Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.He taught Portraiture-Head Painting for almost 10 years at the same Art Center College of Design, and continues to teach portrait painting workshops in the United States and Europe.Hussar uses a combination of rococo, baroque and other classical styles combined with contemporary subject matter to create intense oil portraits.His paintings are provocative and shocking from certain angles, playing around with religious codes in a universe combining the fantastic and the horrific.Instead of canvas, Hussar prefers to work on gessoed wood panels to create paintings, as opposed to a surface mixing technique.There is an incredible beauty in the harsh colors and nightmarish realities of Hussar’s paintings, dark yet bright at the same time.Hussar describes his work as a voyeuristic snapshot of perceived humanity,  complete with “freaks and fakery; a gothic wonderland illuminating the gray area between truth and lies.”Hussar’s attachment to his paintings runs deep; each piece is a journal of sorts, allowing him to come face to face with his demons and exorcising them with each new stroke of the brush.

More of Michael Hussar’s striking paintings can be found at https://hussar.bigcartel.com/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Richard Mayhew

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Richard Mayhew (1924 – 2024) was an American landscape painter, illustrator, and arts educator of Native and African American descent.Mayhew studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the Art Students League of New York, and Columbia University. His abstract landscapes, which he called mindscapes, convey inner states and feelings through evocative color, diffused forms, and atmospheric space.These mindscape paintings have an ethereal quality to them, in which swaths of color blend into each other.At times, they are electric shocks of violet, magenta, neon green, pink, and goldenrod, resembling negatives for color photographs. In other canvases, they are hazier tones of the same shade that bleed into each other.Mayhew intersected with two midcentury art movements: Abstract Expressionism, which upended the very concept of what a painting could be, and the creation of the Spiral Group, a small but influential New York collective of African American artists that sought a new Black aesthetic.These dialogues solidified his commitment to exploring abstraction and landscape painting in conjunction with race and identity.In the decades since, Mayhew lived, painted, and taught throughout the country including in New York, Pennsylvania and California.

More of Richard Mayhew’s colorful paintings can be found at https://www.richardmayhew.net/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rithika Merchant

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Rithika Merchant is a visual artist from Bombay (Mumbai), India.Born in Mumbai, she studied at Hellenic International Studies in the Arts in Paros, Greece, before attending Parsons the New School for Design in New York in 2008.In Merchant’s beguiling paintings on paper, cosmological charts intersect with mythological, hybridized creatures, plant species, constellations, and geometries.Her work explores both comparative mythology as well as science and speculative fiction, featuring creatures and symbolism that are part of her personal visual vocabulary.Merchant creates bodies of work that visually link to our collective past as well as imagine possible new worlds which we may come to inhabit.

Her paintings and collages are made using a combination of watercolor and cut paper elements, drawing on 17th century botanical prints and folk art. Texture pervades each of the works through mixed mediums, collaged details, and patterns comprised of minuscule dots and lines.

“I’m drawn to works that are rich in symbolism and also have a strong element of storytelling,” says Merchant.

“I love seeing the artist’s hand in the work—I have a huge appreciation for small details and works that draw from a multitude of references — literary, mythical, and visual.”More of Rithika Merchant‘s earthy and magical paintings can be found at https://www.rithikamerchant.com/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Francisco Goya

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Francisco Goya (1746- 1828, Bordeaux, France) was a Spanish artist whose paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters.A Spanish romantic painter and printmaker, Goya is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.As an Old Master, he honored the works of his predecessors like Velázquez and Rembrandt, working in a traditional manner as seen in his many court portraits.At the same time, his bold departure from the artistic conventions of his day earns him a place as one of the first Modern Western painters.  Between the years of 1792 and 1793, Goya suffered from a mysterious illness, which made him deaf, and affected his mental behavior.Some current medical scientists believe that his deafness was a result of the lead in which he used in his paints, whereas others believe it may have been some sort of viral encephalitis.After his illness, he became withdrawn and introspective, and began painting a series of disturbing paintings on the walls of his house in Quinta del Sordo.His earlier themes of merry festivals and cartoons changed into depictions of war and corpses, representing a darkening of his mood.

More of Francisco Goya’s paintings can be found at https://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya and https://www.theartstory.org/artist/goya-francisco/.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Joseph Lorusso

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Joseph Lorusso was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966 and received his formal training at the American Academy of Art. He went on to receive his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute.Born of Italian descent, Lorusso was exposed to art at an early age through several early trips to Italy where his parents introduced him to the works of the Italian Masters.The artist concentrates on urban and natural landscapes and the human figure, rendering his subjects in a naturalistic, impressionistic style.Lorusso believes in the ability and power to tell a story through his image-making, being able to connect with the viewer in the process. He is especially interested in painting ordinary people in everyday settings, which he invests with a sense of pathos and mystery.Lorusso’s paintings have been described as warm and dreamlike, places of restful escape with a sense of spirituality, and share timelessness with the works of other eras.

More of Joseph Lorusso‘s creative paintings can be found at https://www.josephlorussofineart.com and https://www.artsy.net/artist/joseph-lorusso.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faerie Paths — Making Art

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Amy Brown

 

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

~ Andy Warhol

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Otto Dix

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Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix  (1891 – 1969) was a German painter and printmaker noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war.The majority of Dix’s early works concentrated on landscapes and portraits which were done in a stylized realism that later shifted to expressionism.He occupied a lead position in the New Objectivity movement, turning away from the ideas of Romanticism and Expressionism toward a more acidic and non-sentimental perspective to reflect the harsh realities of the interwar German society.Though being a representative of the anti-expressionist movement, Dix incorporated numerous styles into his paintings and etchings.

Although frequently recognized as a painter, Dix drew self-portraits and portraits of others using the medium of silverpoint on prepared paper.As the dark days of the Nazis coming to power grew closer,  his artworks were stripped of value and censored by the regime.He was removed from his position of university professor at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, and his work was included in Hitler’s EntarteteKunst (degenerate art) show, where all artworks that were not within the lines of the Nazi standards were displayed.After he was stripped of his professorship the Dix family moved to the shores of Lake Constance where he painted mostly inoffensive landscapes.Dix is regarded as a pivotal figure for the New Objectivity movement in Germany, who had the courage to portray the uncensored versions of two harsh wars and a bleak, depraved society in between, using his satirical and grotesque characters and themes to make a direct statement through his artwork.More of Otto Dix’s work can be found at https://www.moma.org/artists/1559 and https://www.theartstory.org/artist/dix-otto/.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Michel Delacroix

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Born in 1933 in Paris, Michel Delacroix is a prominent French painter known for his naïf art style (art created by a person who lacks formal education and training), often depicting scenes of Paris in a whimsical and childlike manner.Delacroix’s subjects include street scenes of Paris and other nearby areas of France set during his childhood during the Nazi occupation.

Delacroix began his artistic career by studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.Later, he worked in various artistic fields including graphic design before dedicating himself fully to painting. Delacroix has created a Paris full of magic and atmosphere that holds one’s imagination as it travels back in time.
The works are renowned for their graceful balance of the earthy and the urban, the cosmic and the ordinary.

In 1994, Delacroix was named an Official Artist of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and commissioned to celebrate the 1996 Games in an oil painting Titled “Atlanta 1886-1996.”

More of Michel Delacroix’s lovely paintings can be found at https://www.artlex.com/artists/michel-delacroix/ and https://www.artnet.com/artists/michel-delacroix/.

 

 

Making Art Has Not Always Been Free

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On my way to something else….

In tying up my Gallery blog on Degenerate Art, I came across a biography of Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, a German Expressionist:

 

Living on her own from the age of 17, hers was a stressful life in a society still judgmental of female independence. In her early 30s, she was hospitalized for what has been described as a nervous breakdown. While hospitalized, she was diagnosed as having schizophrenia, although the basis of this diagnosis remains unclear.
During her hospital stay, she drew portraits of fellow patients and herself in a series later referred to as “Friedrichsberg Heads”.
With the diagnosis of schizophrenia, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler fell under the National Socialist “Hereditary Health Act”. After her divorce in 1935, she was incapacitated and forcibly sterilized, regardless of her protests and requests from her family.
The National Socialists branded her work with the stigma of “degenerate.”  Nine of her works were represented at the “Degenerate Art” exhibition in 1937. 
On July 31, 1940 Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler was gassed at the age of 40 in the Pirna-Sonnenstein killing center as part of the “T4” euthanasia program.

Can you imagine — an artist of high caliber, suffering already from a mental illness, being gassed because a government deemed her “not worthy”?

Hope this makes you stop and think. I know my heart is still hurting.

 

 

Sharing Gallery Art — Tiffany Arp-Daleo

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A bright beautiful Saturday! Hope you are enjoying yours!

Today is my “Creativity” Day,” I wanted to share one of my favorite “modern day” (today!) artists — Tiffany Arp-Daleo.

Her art is modern, bright, and full of half-hidden delights in her paintings. I just went through her blog and caught up on what I’ve missed, and found this one.

Do pop over and check her out!

 

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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Chesley Bonestell

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Chesley Knight Bonestell Jr. (1888 –1986) was an American painter, designer, and illustrator.His paintings inspired the American space program, and they have been (and remain) influential in science fiction art and illustration.Bonestell was born in San Francisco in 1888, and as a teenager survived the 1906 earthquake that leveled the city.A pioneering creator of astronomical art, along with the French astronomer-artist Lucien Rudaux, Bonestell has been dubbed the “Father of Modern Space Art”.His first astronomical painting was done in 1905. After seeing Saturn through the 12-inch (300 mm) telescope at San Jose’s Lick Observatory, he rushed home to paint what he had seen.Bonestell created paintings depicting astronomical scenes and space flight explorations decades before the first manned missions.His paintings electrified generations of space enthusiasts: aspiring writers, astronomers, physicists, artists, engineers, and others.For his realistic portrayals of space exploration, the solar system, and the far off galaxies, Chesley Bonestell became known as the “Dean of Astronomical Artists.”

More of Chesley Bonestell’s fantastic art can be found at https://bonestell.org/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Fred Danziger

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Fred Danziger is a painter, art collector, and at times, instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.At first glance, his intricately detailed paintings look more like landscape photographs.They bring a photorealistic quality, intensified with brilliant tones and lifelike depth of color, to the forefront.Upon closer examination, you see the work of a master.Danziger paints with infinite detail, capturing color, light, and texture to express his love of peaceful moments — often streamside or surrounded by environments that speak to the beauty of Pennsylvania woodlands.He also  draws inspiration from walks in the woods, working to depict three-dimensional form as accurately as possible and achieving near photorealism with broad landscapes and up-close depictions of the natural environment.A master of details, his paintings of leaves, water — even dew-dappled blades of grass — become almost abstract compositions that combine nuances of light, texture and color to give the sense of being present in the scene.“I don’t try to emulate photography in my paintings; I try to go way beyond what a camera sees,” Danziger shares.“A lot of it is just a feeling you get. You’re trying to express that sense of air and light and sunlight, just letting nature wash over you.”

More of Fred Danziger‘s amazingly realistic paintings can be found at https://freddanziger.com/.

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Jon Ching

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Jon Ching is a self-trained artist originally from Kaneohe, Hawaii and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.Steeped in the natural beauty of O’ahu, Hawai’i, his island upbringing instilled in him indigenous lessons of appreciation and respect for nature, forming the foundation of his fascination with the natural and wild world, which deeply influences and drives his work.Jon’s devoted art practice and detailed realism is inspired by the interconnectedness of nature.His work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce.New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth through metaphor and allegory.Filled with vibrant images of flora and wildlife merging together to create new imaginary figures, Ching’s work invites us to recognize the “unseen magic” of nature..Jon’s ultimate hope is to inspire love and admiration for the universally unique beauty and intrigue of our planet.“One major concept I’m always trying to express in my work is the interconnectedness of everything.

“I think that seeing similarities in shapes and patterns across the natural world is a way to explore our connectedness, and once I started looking at things that way, I started to see it everywhere.”

More of Jon Ching’s enchanting art can be found at https://jonchingart.com/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — David Hockney

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David Hockney (1937- ) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer.The artist studied at the Bradford College of Art (1953–57) and the Royal College of Art, London (1959–62), where he received a gold medal in the graduate competition. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.His unmistakable style incorporates a broad range of sources from Baroque to Cubism and, most recently, computer graphics.Perhaps best known for his serial paintings of swimming pools, portraits of friends, and verdant landscapes, the artist’s oeuvre ranges from collaged photography and opera posters to Cubist-inspired abstractions and plein-air paintings of the English countryside.In the spirit of the Cubists, Hockney combines several scenes to create a composite view, choosing tricky spaces, like split-level homes in California and the Grand Canyon, where depth perception is already a challenge.In actively seeking to imitate photographic effects in his work, Hockney is a forerunner of the Photorealists.Hockney’s work transcends expressionism, modernism, and even pop art aesthetics.His colors, subjects, and expressive nature have contributed works that have continued to evolve and expand to this day.More of David Hockney‘s bright art can be found at https://www.hockney.com/ and the culture trip.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Il Bronzino

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Agnolo di Cosimo ( Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori, 1503-1572),  more popularly known as Bronzino, was a Florentine painter whose polished and elegant portraits are outstanding examples of the Mannerist style in the middle of the 16th century.Holy Family with St. Anne and the infant St. John

 

An Italian Mannerist painter from Florence, his classic embodiments of the courtly ideal under the Medici dynasty, influenced European court portraiture for the next century.Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi

 

He trained with Pontormo, the leading Florentine painter of the first generation of Mannerism.Chapel of Eleonora da Toledo

 

Bronzino lived all his life in Florence, and from his late 30s was kept busy as the court painter of Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.Cosimo de Medici in Armour

 

He became the official portraitist for the Medici dynasty and soon went to work painting the portraits of the ruling family members, which he is largely known for, and which is Bronzino’s greatest contribution to Mannerism.The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

 

His portrait figures – often read as static, elegant, and stylish exemplars of unemotional haughtiness and assurance – influenced the course of European court portraiture for a century.Eleanor of Toledo and her son Giovanni de’ Medici

 

These paintings, especially those of the duchess, are known for their minute attention to the detail of her costumes, which almost takes on a personality of its own.Portrait of a Young Man

 

His work is clean and crisp, a major accomplishment for his time.Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time

 

More of Agnolo Bronzino‘s amazing paintings can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronzino and https://www.britannica.com/biography/Il-Bronzino.

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Erich J. Moffitt

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Erich J. Moffitt is an internationally exhibited painter and freelance illustrator who resides in Seattle, Washington.

Coin Knight

Moffitt grew up in Europe and studied Illustration and Art History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Time Rook

His whimsical, brightly colored paintings are like modern translations of Romantic-era storybooks, clearly inspired by late-nineteenth century art and culture. 

Wilder Bishop

Many of his paintings are fables, featuring totemic animal archetypes and talismanic objects.

Bow Pawn

Stylistically rendered atop real, artisanal chess sets, this particular art series finds Moffitt recreating chess pieces from the dark side of a chess board.

Word Rook

Pawns, bishops, rooks, and knights are all recast as classic animal characters, saturated with the same magic, fantasy, and romantic symbolism for which the artist is known.

Night Queen

“I make art to connect with others and express and explore ideas feelings, and outlooks,” the artist explained.

Flame Knight

“I can’t quite put into words as well as I can paint them. Pictures condense and crystalize thoughts for me in a way that gives them a life outside of my mind.”

Bone Pawn

You can find more of Erich Moffitt‘s amazing art at https://ejmoffitt.com/. and https://www.archenemyarts.com/erichjmoffitt-foolsgambit. 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Alexis Auguste Delahogue

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Alexis Auguste Delahogue (1867-1953) was a French 19th Century painter who specialized in scenes from Algeria and neighboring countries.He was considered an orientalist painter, which refers to a representation of the East in Western art which often blurred the line between fantasy and reality.Travelling with his twin brother Eugène, Delahogue painted landscapes and genre scenes borrowed from the Maghreb (the region of North Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea), travelling in all directions with a predilection for Tunisia.Delahogue was a member of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes and the Société des Artistes Algériens et Orientalistes.Although there is not a lot of background information on the artist,  he was known a prolific painter of vibrant scenes of Algerian life.Delahogue was able to capture the everyday lives of  people from Algiers to El Kantara and Biskra. He delighted in painting  camels, desert caravans, oases, and various personalities he met on his travels.

More of Alexis Auguste Delahogue’s paintings can be found at https://www.artnet.com/artists/alexis-auguste-delahogue/6.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ferdinand Hodler

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Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) was one of the best-known Swiss Symbolist painters of the nineteenth century.Hodler was the son of a carpenter and a woman of peasant stock. His parents and all five of his siblings had died of tuberculosis by the time he reached adulthood.The works of Hodler’s early maturity consisted of landscapes, figure compositions, and portraits, treated with a vigorous realism.Many of Hodler’s best-known paintings are scenes in which characters are engaged in everyday activities.In the last decade of the nineteenth century his work evolved to combine influences from several genres including symbolism and art nouveau.Hodler developed a style he called “parallelism” that emphasized the symmetry and rhythm he believed formed the basis of human society.Throughout the latter part of his career, Hodler’s depictions of Swiss patriotism and historic scenes became increasing popular with his countrymen.More of  Ferdinand Hodler‘s art can be found at https://wooarts.com/ferdinand-hodler/

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Iris Scott

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Iris Scott is an American professional contemporary finger painting artist based in Brooklyn, New York.Graduating from Washington State University in 2006 with a degree in art, Scott was a pioneer in the field of finger painting.Using just gloved fingertips, Scott works with paint like a malleable, nearly clay-like medium.Her vibrant rainbow palette depicts a parallel, but familiar universe, emitting an energetic optimism and a respect for the natural world.Scott stumbled upon finger painting when a serendipitous lack of clean brushes prompted her to finish a painting with her fingertips.In that moment she recognized how fingers could scoop oil paint better than brushes, and overnight she committed to leaving her brushes behind.“I was excited to force myself to stop using brushes because I was learning to ‘survive’ in uncharted territories,” Scott explains.“I recognized that although finger painting couldn’t do some things that brushes could, there were important advantages finger painting actually did have over brushes—and I am still discovering new ones every day!”More of Iris Scott’s marvelous finger paintings can be found at https://www.irisscottfineart.com/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Guy Buffet

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Guy Buffet was born in Paris, France in the district of Montparnasse on January 13, 1943.

His father took young Guy for walks in Montparnasse to show him famous landmarks where artists such as Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and George Braque would spend most of their days and evenings.

At 14, he moved to the south of France with his mother, and enlisted in the Beaux Arts School of Toulon to study art full time.

Buffet joined the French Navy in 1961 at the age of eighteen, and was assigned to the cruiser, “De Grasse”, headed for a seven month journey around the world.

The French Navy recognized Buffet’s artistic talent and named him their official artist.

Buffet’s famous images depict restaurants, people, landscapes, and cities with a humorous and light touch.

Buffet’s depictions often reflect the everyday working world, along with his love of people and food and exotic locations.

His whimsical rendition of sommeliers, chefs and waiters and other images are found not only in his paintings, but on every day items as dinner plates, napkins, tablecloths, and fashion.

More of Guy Buffet‘s light hearted and wonderful work can be found at https://www.guybuffet.com/ and https://lahainagalleries.com/guy-buffet-art.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Raymond Logan

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Artist Raymond Logan paints a wide range of subjects with exquisite depth and color. His layered palette resembles sculpture, crafted of hue and shadow.

Frederick Douglass

The works have reverence and gravitas, coupled with a lively playfulness, born of both the artist’s execution and the connections he evokes between the viewer and the subject.

Benjamin Franklin

While each portrait is often recognizable, they are not realistic in the truest sense of the word.

John Coltrane

It is as if an explosion of colored confetti had descended from the sky and reshaped itself into the personification of a human being.

Harriet Tubman

Created in oil paint, using both palette knife and brush, all the elements are there, but it is those many disparate pieces that form a realistic whole.

Charlie

“My work is born through solid draftsmanship plus a liberal application of paint via a brush or a knife or anything I can get my hands on, plus plenty of color experimentation and the carving of my medium,” Logan explains.

Charles Darwin

“It is truly gratifying when a viewer, while being up close to my work, stares in wonder at the surface, then, while backing away, witnesses all that texture and color (that an art textbook tells them shouldn’t work) and abstraction somehow mysteriously develop into a recognizable subject.”

Ernest Hemingway

“That ‘somehow’ is me.”

Frank Sinatra

More of Raymond Logan’s wonderful paintings can be found at http://www.raymondlogan.com/.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was a Dutch-born painter whose scenes from everyday life in the ancient world were immensely popular in its time.Alma-Tadema, the son of a Dutch notary, studied art at the Antwerp Academy (1852–58) under the Belgian historical painter Hendrik Leys.During a visit to Italy in 1863, Alma-Tadema became interested in Greek and Roman antiquity and Egyptian archaeology, and afterward he depicted imagery almost exclusively from those sources.Moving to England, he became a naturalized British subject in 1873 and was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1879. He was knighted in 1899.Alma-Tadema excelled at the accurate recreation of ancient architecture and costumes and the precise depiction of textures of marble, bronze, and silk.His expert rendering of settings provides a backdrop for anecdotal scenes set in the ancient world.His paintings are marked by clarity of color, exactness, and smooth finish; he imagined a Rome of splendor, sunlight, and gentle sentiment.Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century British art.More of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema‘s classical paintings can be found at https://www.wikiart.org/en/sir-lawrence-alma-tadema and https://artrenewal.org/artists/lawrence-alma-tadema/8.

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Arabella Proffer

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Arabella Proffer is an artist, author, and co-founder of the indie label Elephant Stone Records.She attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA before receiving her BFA from California Institute of the Arts.Considered a pop surrealist painter, Proffer’s work combines interests in portraiture, visionary art, the history of medicine, and biomorphic abstraction.She delves into her practice of oil painting by creating surreal organic environments related to biology, nature, and emerging sciences.Although she started from a place of abstraction, her art became filled with strange hybrids of flowers, cells, and symbols that appeared like organisms from another planet.When her doctor showed her scans of her cancer tumor and close-ups of the cells, it looked almost identical to what she had been painting – tentacles and all.“Insects, flowers, human organs all come from the same process at the core, but within these works visualizing their fictional evolution at any given stage comes from instinct,” the artist explained.“Creating my own fragile beings and nature within these little worlds, alien forms mesh with what might be viewed under a microscope or through a telescope. Perhaps it is a wider vision of awareness, of what is seen and unseen.”More of Arabella Proffer‘s marvelous paintings can be found at http://www.arabellaproffer.com/.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Jan van Eyck

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Jan van Eyck  (before 1390 – July 9, 1441) was a painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting.

Arnolfini Portrait

 

van Eyck must have been born before 1395, for in October 1422 he is recorded as the varlet de chambre et peintre (“honorary equerry and painter”) of John of Bavaria, count of Holland.

Man in a Red Turban

 

van Eyck was one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art who perfected the newly developed technique of oil painting.

Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon

 

His naturalistic panel paintings, mostly portraits and religious subjects, made extensive use of disguised religious symbols.

Lucca Madonna

 

His artistic prestige rests partly on his unrivaled skill in pictorial illusionism.

Ghent Altarpiece

 

Securely attributed paintings survive only from the last decade of van Eyck career; therefore, his artistic origins and early development must be deduced from his mature work. 

Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata

 

The artist’s paintings achieved an astonishingly sophisticated level of realism, heretofore unknown in the art of painting.

Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele

 

Glimmering jewels, reflective metals, lush satins and velvets, and even human flesh were each rendered with their own distinctive qualities with such a high degree of naturalism it seemed he had conjured a new artistic medium.

Portrait of Margaret van Eyck

 

More of Jan van Eyck‘s amazing oil paintings can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jan-van-Eyck and  https://www.theartstory.org/artist/van-eyck-jan/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rukiye Garip

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Rukiye Garip was born in 1964 in Bartin, Turkey.She graduated from Gazi University Vocational Education Faculty in 1985.

After her graduation she lived in Ankara, working as a graphic designer.

Garip went to a ceramic workshop in 1987 with a group of friends, and in 1989, started working as an art teacher.

After working in different provinces and schools for 20 years, Garip retired and opened up her own workshop in Balıkesi.

The main distinguishing feature in Garip’s artwork are hidden in the details. She enjoys the peaceful effect of blue and green in her pictures.“Everything that looks good to me in nature can be the subject of my pictures,” Garip explains.

“I want to illustrate as much as possible natural beauties that disappear rapidly and cannot be returned. Not getting rid of the details — I want my work to be noticed for the tiny, beautiful, happy details.”More of Rukiye Garip‘s enchanting paintings can be found at https://www.instagram.com/rukiyegarip/ and https://wooarts.com/rukiye-garip/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Mark A. Pearce

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Mark A. Pearce is like many of the artists showcased in the Sunday Evening Art Gallery – there are so many fascinating facets of his craft (painting, print making, linocuts) that showcase his marvelous eye for nature.Pearce learned the art of printmaking at Carlisle College of Art, then continued his studies at the Norwich School of Art in England.A professional printmaker and landscape artist living and working in the coastal village of Ravenglass, the local landscape provides much of the inspiration for his work.Of all his many creative talents, Pearce is his well known for his vibrant multi-colored reduction linocuts.A design is meticulously cut into a linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge, with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a reversal (mirror image) of the parts to be printed.

The linoleum sheet is inked with a roller and then impressed onto paper or fabric.Pearce’s work shares the colors and serenity of his world with a steady hand and precise determination. More of Mark Pearce‘s paintings and linocuts can be found at https://markapearce.co.uk/.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Maria Prymachenko

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Maria Oksentiyivna Prymachenko (1908-1997) was a Ukrainian village self-taught folk art painter who worked in the naïve art style with drawing, embroidery and painting on ceramics.A peasant woman, Prymachenko was born in the village of Bolotnya in the north of the modern Kiev region of Ukraine.Born to humble means, Prymachenko earned fame in her lifetime for dazzlingly colorful and wildly inventive scenes of animals — lions, birds, horses, and other beasts — covered in riotously hued, almost psychedelic patterns.Born to a peasant family near Chernobyl, the artist suffered from polio as a child, an illness that left her confined to bed for much of her childhood (a later surgery would enable her to walk independently).Her illness instilled a great sense of empathy for the suffering of others, and her caring for all living creatures was to become an important element in her art.Prymachenko found her sources and themes in the decorative wall paintings that were prominent features in Ukraine, in lullabies, folk legends, and fairy tales, and in the nature that surrounded her.In her pieces, the artist unites her marvelous internal world with the age-old tradition of folk  and pagan culture.In 1966, Prymachenko was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine, one of the country’s highest honors, and in the last decades of her life admirers supplied Prymachenko with materials to create larger format works.More of Maria Prymachenko’s inspirational ethic art can be found at ArtNet and WikiArt.

Two Fun Creative Blogs to Check Out!

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Happy Friday Friends!

Today I read two fun, amazing, creative people and their blogs that I follow that  you must check out!

One you have already heard me talk about — Daily Fiber with Laura Kate. This quilt is just amazing. And so different.

 

Friday Finish: Badlands

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The second is from a blog I just started following — jingersnaps …by Jinger. Her knitting is fun and amazing and different — as is her enthusiasm!

Zau. Ber. Ball.

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I love Creativity in ALL its forms!  Any referrals?
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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Matthias Jung

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Matthias Jung is an artist and graphic designer based in Germany,  known internationally for his surrealist collages.Jung worked as an illustrator before making his way to painting, developing an unmistakable collage style.The artist takes individual photographs in different locations, mostly in northern Germany, before carefully assembling them into one cohesive piece, abstaining from sensational effects and superficiality.By artistically arranging scraps of reality, Jung intensifies the picture in a way the human eye can only partially detect – and it is through our own associations that his constructions come alive.Jung often sets fantastic building facades afloat amidst vast landscapes,  their pointy domes and tall arching windows reflecting a possible surrealistic yet realistic world.Jung calls his surreal works “short, architectural poems”, incongruous images that are intended to challenge perceptions of space and architecture.According to the artist, the individual elements of the image tend to generate an electric tension with each other.  This tension leads to new worlds in which the entire beauty of his art is revealed.“Collages are like dreams,” Jung reflects.  “Or maybe dreams are like collages.”More of Matthias Jung‘s surrealistic artwork can be found at https://www.lumas.com/artist/matthias_jung/ and https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/matthias-jung-12125.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Micah Ofstedahl

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Micah Ofstedahl is an artist from Austin, Minnesota who enjoys creating what some have called abstract surrealism.Inspired at a young age by the art of Salvador Dali, Ofstedahl went on to study sculpture in college before focusing on surrealist painting.Ofstedahl’s paintings are semi-representational, and in creating his abstract art he is drawing on the rich diversity of forms found in nature.He explores in his work the hidden sides of reality, his focus often on such things as microscopic patterns in nature and the composition of the cells in our own bodies.These are subjects that biology and microbiology continue to explore, from the neurons in our brains to the fabric of the universe.Upon immersing observers within the acrylic painter’s inspirational environments,  the artist’s glassy, shimmering spectrum ripples are finally visible.“In my quest for inspiration I am constantly being amazed by the hidden beauty and complexity of the world and this is largely what I hope to convey to my audience,” Ofsterdahl explains.More of Micah Ofstedahl‘s unusual paintings can be found at https://www.micahofstedahl.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/micahofstedahl/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Giuseppe Arcimboldo

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527–1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.

He was a conventional court painter of portraits for three Holy Roman Emperors in Vienna and Prague, also producing religious subjects and, among other things, a series of colored drawings of exotic animals in the imperial menagerie.Arcimboldo’s conventional work on traditional religious subjects has fallen into oblivion, but his portraits of human heads made up of vegetables, fruit and tree roots, were greatly admired by his contemporaries and remain a source of fascination today.

Art critics debated whether these paintings were whimsical or the product of a deranged mind, but the  majority of scholars hold to the view that given the Renaissance fascination with riddles, puzzles, and the bizarre, Arcimboldo, far from being mentally imbalanced, catered to the taste of his times.Arcimboldo did not leave written certificates on himself or his artwork.After the deaths of Arcimboldo and his patron, the emperor Rudolph II, the heritage of the artist was quickly forgotten, and many of his works were lost.When the Swedish army invaded Prague in 1648, during the Thirty Years’ War, many of Arcimboldo’s paintings were taken from Rudolf II’s collection.His paintings have been cited as precursors to Surrealism and were highly prized by Salvador Dalí and other members of the movement.

More of Giuseppe Arcimboldo‘s wonderfully strange paintings can be found at https://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ and https://www.wikiart.org/en/giuseppe-arcimboldo.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Jennybird Alcantara

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Jennybird Alcantara is a Contemporary Surrealist painter from Oakland, California.

Deeply inspired by mythology, transformation, and the logic of liminal, dreamlike states, Alcantara is celebrated for her oil paintings of fantastic worlds populated by whimsical creatures and symbols.Characterized by ornate forms painted in luminous colors including pinks and reds, Alcantara’s style appears to be influenced by both academic realism and popular Surrealists.

Her art has been described as morbidly romantic, with a dreamlike narrative at its core, reflecting the connections between living beings and their environments.

Some works combine human and animal forms as well as flowers and decorative objects in a single composition that resembles a portrait or silhouette.Alcantara combines these motifs to create a symbol of the universal connection between all beings.She claims that she takes an intuitive approach to creating her brilliantly hued paintings.Alcantara’s art uses the symbolism of duality to explore the connection of life and death and the veil in between, as well as the relationship between the beauty and cruelness of nature, that of the natural world as well as human and animal nature.

More of Jennybird Alcantara’s wonderful art can be found at https://www.jennybirdart.com/.

 

 

Faded Memories — Tiffany Arp-Daleo Art (repost)

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I love the colors, I love the thought of Asemic writing. Tiffany always seems to capture my mood through her paintings. Especially on this Saturday night.

Maybe her colors and her style will capture your mood, too….

There’s something mysterious about Asemic writing. What does it say? What does it mean? What language is it?? The answer is nothing. Asemic writing is just scribbles, marks, and nonsense. It adds whimsy and character to abstract art. It can suggest a love letter, a dear John letter, all kinds of scenarios! I’m constantly reminded […]

Faded Memories — Tiffany Arp-Daleo Art

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — The Art of Food

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The article “The Fascination with Food in Art History” by Elena Martinique at Whitewalls states that, as a cornerstone of our very existence, food has always played a significant part in our social and cultural lifestyles. Thus, it is no wonder that the depiction of food in art spans across cultures and all of recorded human history.

Just as majestic as any portrait or landscape, the depiction of food through painting is an arduous and creative talent.

As we sit and enjoy our Sunday dinners, let us wander through the world of food artistry and enjoy some of the more famous interpretations of the sight and taste of food.

 

Apples and Oranges, Paul Cézanne, 1895

 

Vertumnus, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1590

 

Mound of Butter, Antoine Vollon, 1875-1885

 

Still Life with Apples, Vincent van Gogh, 1887

 

Viva la Vida, Watermelons, Frida Kahlo, 1954

 

Eucharistic Still Life, Salvador Dalí, 1952

 

Fruit and Vegetables with a Monkey, a Parrot, and a Squirrel, Frans Snyders, 1620

 

Still-Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels, Clara Peeters, 1615

 

Still Life with Cherries, Strawberries, and Gooseberries, Louise Moillon, 1630

 

Cauliflower And Pomegranates, Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1890

 

Still-Life with Ham, Lobster, and-Fruit, Jan-Davidsz de Heem, 1652

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Jenny Foster

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Growing up in a small town on the Colorado River in Arizona, Jenny Foster gravitated toward art at an early age.Foster studied fine art at Arizona State University and graduated with a degree in graphic design.Her style is both primitive and contemporary, and she delivers it with a combination of abstract shapes and happy colors and symbols.To many artists, it is a great challenge to express feelings of personality in their art without injecting some realism.But Foster has mastered the art enough to do this through symbols and abstract forms.Foster’s works are inspired by her appreciation of nature, happy colors, and the spirit of life.The artist lets her palette and brush express her imagination.She prefers to achieve quality without adding too much detail or sophistication, keeping everything simple and fresh.

More of Jenny Foster’s inspirational artwork can be found at  http://jennyfoster.com/.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Emily Kame Kngwarreye

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Emily Kame Kngwarreye (or Emily Kam Ngwarray) (1910 – 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory of Australia.She is one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Australian art.Her remarkable work was inspired by her cultural life as an Anmatyerre elder, and her lifelong custodianship of the women’s Dreaming sites in her clan Country, Alhalkere.Kngwarreye began painting on canvas in her late seventies after decades of ritual artistic activity and batik fabric painting.Unlike most desert painters at the time, Kngwarreye did not use stylized representations of animal tracks or concentric circles in her designs.Instead, she employed richly layered brushstrokes or dabs throughout her abstract compositions.Her free handling of paint using various implements, keen sense of color, and dynamic compositions earned her international fame.It was in Alhalkere that the essence of her being resided, and it was her Dreaming that was the source of the creative power, of her knowledge.So profound was her identification with Alhalkere that it infused her life and her belief system, and governed her kinship relations and connections with other people.More of  Emily Kame Kngwarreye‘s  amazing original works can be found at https://www.wikiart.org/en/emily-kame-kngwarreye and https://artguide.com.au/art-plus/emily-kame-kngwarreye/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Armando Mariño

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Armando Mariño is a renowned painter, sculptor and installation artist, and one of the most popular Cuban contemporary artists.Born in Santiago de Cuba, living and working in the U.S., Mariño received his art education at the Pedagogical Institute of Arts from Havana, and the prestigious Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

He is widely praised for his mesmerizing works that offer a unique and sarcastic approach to art as a space of power and exclusion.The imagery in Mariño ’s work is usually part of media reports about everyday social issues like refugees, war, economy crisis, and ecology that he incorporates in his art.

Mariño’s paintings are characterized by his distinctive and highly saturated color palette – bright pinks, oranges, greens and yellows that are offset by deep, dark shadows.

Influenced by periods of time living in the varied landscapes of Cuba, the Netherlands, France and New York’s Hudson Valley, the artist’s large-scale works explore relationships between the figure and the natural environment.

Each of his paintings is build up with multiple layers of a strong, vivid, intense, and fluorescent palette of oil or watercolors.

Indeed, Mariño has described painting as an idea that uses color in order to think.

More of Armando Mariño‘s colorful artwork can be found at http://armandomarino.com/  and https://www.widewalls.ch/artists/armando-marino.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Diana Rosa

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Diana Rosa is an established Cuban painter based in Canada, whose works have featured in prizes, publications and exhibitions across North America, the UK and Asia.Influenced by her festive Cuban childhood spent surrounded by an abundance of creative energies, Rosa creates works that reflect her distinctive use of rich exoticism of tropical vegetation.She employs a Naïve Folk-Art style, along with  elements of Cubist and Surrealist schools, to explore questions of identity, love, relationship and environment in our society.

The artist aims to show our relationship to the world around us through the versatile medium of acrylic paint.

She uses sharp brush strokes, contrasting textures, and a variety of acrylic mediums, commenting on our human emotions, mixed realism with fantasy.

Bright and whimsical images with a touch of modernism, Rosa’s  art brings to life thoughts and impressions dancing with imagery.

“I am always fascinated with the human story that all of us are living — often untold, sometimes unrecognized, but always significant,” Rosa shares.“My paintings reflect the natural beauty of human emotions.“They are a bridge from my imagination to theirs, and although the story I mean to tell may differ from what the viewer ultimately takes away, what is most important is that we have shared the tale.”

More of Diana Rosa’s delightful art can be found at https://www.artfinder.com/artist/diana-rosa and https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/diana-rosa-3851. 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — John Singer Sargent

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John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was the most successful Impressionist painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist.Born in Florence to expatriate American parents,  Sargent received his first formal art instruction at Rome in 1868, and then sporadically attended the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence between 1870 and 1873.In 1874 he was accepted at the Paris atelier of the portraitist Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran, and attended drawing classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.Throughout the 1880s, he regularly participated in the Paris Salon — most often, his works were full-length portraits of women, which generally received positively.Sargent’s best portraits expertly reveal the individuality and personality of his sitters.This ability set him apart from others portrait painters of his time—he made the sitter shine on the canvas while capturing the essence of their being.Noted for his dazzling technical virtuosity and painterly technique, he influenced an entire generation of American portraitists. By the turn of the century Sargent was recognized as the most acclaimed international society portraitist of the Edwardian era, and his clientele consisted of the most affluent, aristocratic, and fashionable people of his time.Around 1906 he abandoned portraiture and worked primarily in watercolor, a medium in which he was extraordinarily gifted.More of John Singer Sargent‘s paintings can be found at https://www.johnsingersargent.org/. 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Amy Brown

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Amy Brown is one of my all-time favorite artists. I’ve loved her work since I role-played a faerie woman 20 years ago.

Brown has always been interested in fairies, but never considered painting them as a career option until one day her boss asked her to paint something to fill an empty frame that had been sitting around the art gallery where she worked.Brown  asked what she should paint and her boss said,  “I don’t know, paint a fairy or something.”  So she did.It was like the faeries were pushing her to paint their portraits.After selling prints and originals at street fairs and in local shops for a few years, Brown  opened a website and began selling her work online worldwide.The business has since take on a life of its own.Using colors, designs, and background, Brown has truly captured the world and the imagination of the faerie world. Each faerie glows with a personality all their own. “My passion to paint is like a living creature inside me,” Brown said.

“All the ideas in my head churn and beg to get out. I’m driven to get them onto paper and out of my head as soon as possible.” “Once I’ve conjured one creature, another is waiting impatiently for its turn.”

More of Amy Brown‘s magical art can be found at https://amybrownart.com/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Kim Tschang-Yeul

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 Kim Tschang-Yeul’s most well-known paintings, in which droplets of water appear to protrude from monochromatic canvases, are in fact optical illusions, melding abstraction and figuration. Born in 1929 in the north of the then unified Korea, Tschang-Yeul migrated to the south to escape the communist regime.He subsequently left for New York to pursue his artistic dreams before finally settling in Paris in 1969.There, he began to nurture, over a period of forty years, a unique motif: the drop of water.This motif stems from traditions of Eastern philosophy, acting both as a therapy for the artist’s traumatic memories and a meditation on eternity.“My water drop paintings are accomplished under the encounters of my life experiences and my plasticizing experiences,” Tschang-Yeul explains.“Each clear, impeccable water drop is in its initial state since purification, as if it is a recurrence of absolute nothingness; the water drop is also what it finally returns to.” More of Kim Tschang-Yeul’s  wonderfully unique paintings can be found at Tina Kim Gallery and Artnet. 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Oscar-Claude Monet

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Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926), born in Paris, was raised on the Normandy coast in Le Havre, where his father sold ships’ provisions.Banks of the Seine, Vétheuil

He gained a local reputation as a caricaturist while still a teenager, and landscape painter Eugène Boudin invited the budding artist to accompany him as he painted scenes at the local beaches.Chrysanthemums

Monet went to Paris in 1862 to study painting and there befriended fellow students Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille, who would later form the core group of the original impressionists.The Cliff-at Etretat Sunset

By the end of the 1860s Monet had largely abandoned ambitious, large-scale figurative painting in favor of smaller, spontaneous landscape works executed en plein air.The Water Lily Pond

Monet fled to London during the Franco-Prussian War, and in late 1871 settled at Argenteuil, a suburb just west of Paris, which soon became known as the hub of impressionist painting.Boats on the Beach at Etretat

Financial difficulties forced Monet to relocate to Vétheuil in 1878, and a few years later, in 1883, he settled in Giverny, where he would live for the rest of his life.Water Lilies

Executed outdoors, he employed seemingly spontaneous brushstrokes to capture the ever-changing effects of light and atmosphere.Woman with a Parasol

In the 1880s Monet expanded his motifs, turning his attention both to the Mediterranean and to the rugged vistas along the Normandy coast.View of Le Havre

In the 1890s he undertook a number of paintings produced in series, including pictures of poplars, grainstacks, and Rouen Cathedral; each work captured a specific atmospheric effect and time of day..Haystack

More of Claude Monet‘s magical paintings can be found at https://www.claudemonetgallery.org/ and https://www.claude-monet.com/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Arnau Alemany

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Arnau Alemany was born in Barcelona in 1948, at the foot of a hill in one of those neighborhoods that have grown in an anarchic way, without order or planning.Up the mountain in a range that imprisons the city, buildings were built in unusual places with difficult access, creating an unusual urban complex, close to nonsense.Alemany is Spain’s foremost painter of surrealistic environments and industrialized cities of the past/future, and is recognized worldwide as one of today’s leading surrealists. He conceives his work as an effort to challenge the viewer, not to leave him indifferent, be it for better or for worse.The artist creates imaginary urban landscapes, either with signs of destruction or general abandonment, which he hopes will show that visual surprise is possible through the use of magical realism.With the security of long years of drawing, graphic, pictorial and sculptural training, Alemany works to elaborate plausible and unreal landscapes.In his world, non-existent cityscapes with a perfect geometry and coherence in their individual elements, impossible to achieve in the real work, form what he calls an “imperfect landscape”.Surreal or not, his art makes us wish we could visit his world in person.

More of Arnau Alemany‘s amazing landscapes can be found at http://www.arnaualemany.com/. 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Viktor Schramm

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Viktor Schramm (1865-1929) was a Romanian painter and illustrator.He was a member of the Munich School, an association of artists either active in Munich or who had studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München.Schramm’s paintings offer an intimate and staged glimpse into the everyday life of the upper middle class.His oil paintings are characterized by a special devotion and sensitivity to materiality and décor.Schramm not only staged the intimacy of the presented moment, but also created a detailed description of the bourgeois salon, which was characterized by its stimulations of touch and motion.Among other things, Schramm’s specialty was depicting elegantly dressed young women.The artist was able to capture the texture and light of dress fabrics and the play of colors over the silk.Information across the Internet is scarce, but more on Viktor Schramm can be found at https://areaofdesign.com/viktor-schramm/.

 

 

Artists Are My Friends

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I know I’ve shared my friend Carsten Weiland‘s watercolors before — there is something about the rough strokes and hues of his paintings — especially mansions and landscapes — that bring an authenticity to all his work.

I used to live in a Second Empire home/mansion — a beautiful bed and breakfast in a small town. Times as they were, after eight years it was too hard to keep the business profitable. It was with a bittersweet sigh that we sold it and moved on. A wise and positive decision.

But Carsten’s paintings bring back the days of mansard roofs, balustrades, and stained glass windows, a delightful memory on a winter’s eve.

Do stroll through his website some time — it will be well worth your wandering.

Weathered Mansions in Watercolors

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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Salman Khoshroo

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Iranian painter Salman Khoshroo uses a palette knife and sizable layers of paint to create the emotive portraits in his recent series, “White on White.”In contrast to his previous work that relied on swirling reds, blues, and yellows, Khoshroo’s latest impasto pieces are monochromatic.Starting with a hunk of paint, the artist then forms the portrait’s outline before shaping the rest of the face that lacks distinct physical features.Viewers can follow his creative process step-by-step by looking at the edges of each stroke.Khoshroo hopes to capture a human spark with minimal intervention and create portraits of people that make you feel something, people you didn’t even know you were looking for.Painted with a single pigment in a sandbox method, these faces are the result of taking a chunk of paint and molding it.It is amazing that one can see so many features in such few movements.

More of Salman Khoshroo‘s diverse art can be found at http://salmankhoshroo.com/ and https://www.ignant.com/2019/12/30/a-portrait-of-anonymity-salman-khoshroo-molds-emotive-faces-from-smeared-paint/

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Tia Crystal

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A Visionary Artist, Jewelry Designer, and Energy Healer, Tia Crystal always knew there would be a deeper meaning to her life.Some of the most valuable expressions under the umbrella  of “Spiritual Art”  relates to the inclusion of crystals, spiritual quotes,  and affirmations woven into the art.Crystal has long attracted a select and international circle of collectors, drawn by her organic style and enchanting persona.Years ago, a vision came to her in a dream guiding her to Italy. In response, and with complete trust, she left to embark on a journey that would have a profound life changing impact on her.While walking in silence in the countryside of Assisi, Tia stumbled upon an old paintbrush lying under a bush. Next to it, there was a bottle lid with a T on it.Everything within her told her to pay attention to the message  of these discoveries, and so began her journey of creating Art that leaves one not only mesmerized but intoxicated with inner and outer peace.Crystal’s work is unmatched in its color’s, scope, variety, and deep spiritual meaning.More of Tia Crystal‘s magical art can be found at https://tiacrystal.com/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — William Blake

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William Blake (1757-1827) was a English Romantic painter, printmaker,  poet, and radical visionary who expressed his mystical views through paintings, engravings, and poetry.

Isaac Newton

 

Born in London into a working-class family with strong nonconformist religious beliefs, Blake first studied art as a boy, at the drawing academy of Henry Pars.

Jacob’s Ladder

 

He served a five-year apprenticeship with the commercial engraver James Basire before entering the Royal Academy Schools as an engraver at the age of twenty-two.

The Angels Hovering Over the Body of Christ in the Sepulchre

 

Although William completed much of his commercial work in line engraving, for his own projects he used his skills as an engraver to expand on the traditions of “stereotype” (a 16th century process whereby a metal cast is made of a wooded engraving) and created a new procedure called relief etching.

The marriage of Heaven and Hell

 

Yet Blake was the archetypal romantic painter, always depicting his subjects in heightened colors and scenes.

The Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun

 

He was a master of allegory and often raised eyebrows and even ire by his choice of expression.

The Ghost of a Flea

 

Although the majority of his early work was inspired by religious or classical figures, much of his later art was fuel by his inner landscape and informed by his religious visions. 

Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve

 

Many of his contemporaries considered him quite mad as he readily spoke about his visions and fantasies with people and it was common knowledge among the artistic community of the day. 

The Temptation and Fall of Eve

 

Whatever his inspiration, William Blake has left a legacy of poetry and paintings behind.

The Ancient of Days

 

More of William Blake’s wonderfully imaginative paintings can be found at http://www.williamblake.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Viktor Mikhailovich Zundalev

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Mikhailovich Zundalev is one of those artists that have very little personal information online, yet whose paintings bring a warm, fresh feeling to the heart.Zundalev was born in 1953 in Ryzan, Russia.After graduating from the Art School named after G. K. Wagner, Zundalev began painting colorful flower arrangements. According to his scant biography, he paints, participates in exhibitions,  and at the same time works as an artist for many years in the Art Fund of the city of Kaluga.In 1989, he was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR.His paintings are textured, colorful, and full of life. One can only dream of having one of his vased bouquets  in the center of their table.

Zundalev may or not be an actual painter, but his works reflect the beauty of light and scent and nature.

Viktor Mikhailovich Zundalev‘s lovely paintings can be found scattered throughout the Internet, including ArtNow .