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From victorian to sci-fi to beatnik to hippie to gangsta rap to impressionist to indie rock to post modern to imagism to expressionism and all over and back and all over again.
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I am a 35 year old Dutch painter and illustrator who lives and works in
Berlin, Germany. I graduated from the Minerva Art academy (Groningen, the Netherlands) in 2000. My work is made with acrylics and collage on old wooden surfaces like box lids, signs, cigar boxes etc. The materials I use tell part of the story through the stains, old nails,dents and cracks. The other part is told through all sorts of monsters, freaks and oddballs acting out my ideas, and hopefully spark a positive thought in you.
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People, their moods and interactions are an ongoing source of curiosity to me. What I'm searching for is their inner personalities, their thoughts and there are stories I build around them as I work. I like portraying feelings of people when they are alone, lost in their thoughts, caught unawares. Those are the special moments that appeal to me most. I love to experiment and use a variety of medium ranging from oil, charcoal, printmaking, clay to the digital medium but my focus remains fixed on the human form.
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I like to paint awkward social moments as nicely as I can.
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My paintings draw on both religious iconography and modern commercial design. I investigate humanity's tendencies to depict animals and to use them to sell everything from food to god. Early humans drew the beasts they hunted. Mythologies developed featuring holy creatures and anthropomorphized species. Today we have cartoons, mascots, and corporate logos. In each case, animal imagery is a powerful indicator of a culture's priorities. Are they simply a powerful marketing tool, or is there inherent divinity in animals? Are people compelled to represent beasts because we see something human in them, or because we see something animal in ourselves?
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Born in Vienna, Austria, Wolfgang currently resides in Los Angeles. He holds a degree in Fine Arts, Gender Studies, and German Literature from the University of Southern California. Wolfgang also studied at the Hochschule fuer Musik and Darstellende Kunst, (Max Reinhardt Seminar, Vienna, Austrria), and at the Universitaet fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst, (Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria).
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I use photo based printmaking techniques to incorporate scientific illustrations of aquatic algae (e.g. Hypnae), DNA molecules, plant and animal cells, botanical images, and pathogens into my paintings and monoprints. I establish visual connections between my own invented images and these evolutionary forms that I encountered in nature. In addition to evoking an emotional response in the viewer through the manipulation of color, shape, line, and texture, these images also precipitate rational thoughts about both the history and current status of our natural world.
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My work changes each day, and I am finally learning to accept that. Each painting is a new approach that challenges me. I attribute my artisitic A.D.D. to studying Picasso books that covered his career from his Blue Period to Cubism, and my love for eclectic music such as Os Mutantes and Beck. Each song on their records sounds like an entirely new entity from the previous.
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Jake Nelson was born and raised in Southern Oregon, drawing ever since he could hold a pencil. He studied film at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and began a career as a storyboard artist. In 2007 he moved to Brooklyn and has since been freelance illustrating and painting. "I turn my mind inside out, forget the rules, and render my visions as honestly as possible."
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My works reflect my personal ideas of what is beautiful in the male form.
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I want to live in a world where every home is full of art and it isn't illegal to paint the streets. My paintings and drawings explore issues of cultural memory, looking at pop vs. underground culture, the media, and popular mythologies.
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I am an artist who is thoroughly fascinated by the clashes in the visual culture of developing cities between urban/rural, and traditional/modern elements. My painting practice is focused on creating and reinterpreting snapshots of urban life such places, especially Istanbul, where I have grown up. I am interested in elements of my architectural practice into my paintings. This involves both focusing more on my "process"- something that was highly emphasized in my architecture education- and also bringing in perspective drawings and architectural collages into painting as a means of capturing the dynamics of city life that form my subject matter.
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chronicler of bulldogs and interstate trucking. He is also proud to continue the 17,000 year old tradition of mammoth painting, and hopes to spark a resurgence. His deadpan, pop-flavored, post-ironic approach is the result of millions of years of evolution. He aspires to be worthy of the title "gentleman farmer." He is undaunted by the inevitability of death and the ultimate futility of all human endeavor.
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The physical act of painting, the smell of paints and linseed oil, the intrinsic qualities of each brush and palette knife and the intimidating blank canvas, all of this is what makes painting special to me. It's a very personal and intimate act where I question each element, in the end becoming a conversation between the canvas, brushes, and paints. Emotion is my ultimate destination; I search my thoughts, memories, aspirations, and use them as a starting point. I try to solve my problems on the canvas, creating an environment for exploration.
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I explore some sort of human condition in contemporary culture and the relationship between the self and the world. The figures in my work are used as objects to illustrate my own relationship to the world or feelings I have.
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Hailing from Philadelphia, PA, Morgan Thomas has spent the majority of her life in observation of the people around her. She has studied art and art history around the world and graduated in 2007 from Williams College with two degrees (in studio art and sociology). Thomas' main subject is human but strives to examine more emotion and communication than the classic portrait. Utilizing a semiotic vocabulary built up through the existence of the human race, Thomas records the world around her as she perceives it visually and spiritually. She aims to communicate to her audience the honest image and heartfelt meaning of a moment in time as it can be understood through form, color, and symbolic imagery. Thomas' work is sociological, allegorical, and historical record. It does not try to comment on an event, but rather represent it for the audience to bring judgement to.
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Matthew McGowan (Two Sevens) believes beauty can be skin deep. With tattoos becoming more socially acceptable every day, lost on most is how the art form started. By incorporating both traditional Japanese and American style tattooing styles, Matthew tries to bring to the forefront the beauty and courage of those who wanted to tell the story of their soul through their skin, even if society wasn't ready to see it. Whether it be a '50's pin-up or a modern Geisha, the subject is proud of who they are. They tell their life story on their skin, never hiding behind the social norm.
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Growing up in Israel, Nira has always tried to convey her longing for peace for the human race through her art. In Jerusalem, city of all nations, Nira found inspiration for her art. For over 30 years, Nira has been displaying her passion for the harmony between cultures, by painting all humans equally, With warm and colorful details. The love for mankind is shown through her artwork with great passion. She had dozens of art exhibits at galleries, museums, temples and conventions in Europe and the USA.
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mixed media
Most people have a lot of stuff. I mean that literally and figuratively. A lot of it is excess baggage that we carry around or accumulate and don't really need. Creating the mounds of stuff you see in these monoprints, became the primary focus of the prints.
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