Fernanda Brunet was born in Mexico City, Mexico in the year 1964. Brunet works in a very unique style, painting realism but with a contemporary Pop twist.
The artist paints mainly in acrylics. Brunet is also a sculptor.
I enjoy the artist’s sense of design. The image of the zebra crossing water that looks like a tribute to Japanese Print Master Hirohige.
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Brunet is based out of Mexico City, Mexico.
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Walter Mariga is a Shona artist from Zimbabwe and the son of first generation Shona artist Joram Mariga. Walter Mariga is renown or his work with the human figure and torso.
As you have noticed in many of these clips of shona artists, it takes many people to finish a work, mainly to execute the variety of textures found in shona art. Walter Mariga learned his skill by assisting his father in the polishing of stones. Walter than started doing his own work in 1993.
In this clip we view Walter Mariga at work whilst he gives us an interview on his artistic background and inspiration:
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Be sure and check out my post on the artist’s father, first generation Shona artist Joram Mariga, who also worked with the figure.
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Krishen Khanna is a modern Indian artist who works with the figure in an abstract style. The artist was born in Faislabad, Pakistan in the year 1925.
Khanna is a self taught artist.
Krishen Khanna attended the Imperial Service College. The college produced guards for the Royal Family and also engineers. Khanna also attended the Government College.
After college the artist worked in the banking industry.
The artist was the recipient of a Rockfeller Fellowship.
In this clip we visit the studio of Krishen Khanna and a great interview is show:
Price range information: Khanna is highly prolific output working in charcoal, watercolor, oils, and pastels. Prices ranges $5,000 to $400,000.
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Beau Dick is a fantastic First Nation’s Artist renown for his wonderful mask carvings. Beau Dick was born in Alert Bay, Vancouver Island, Canada in the year 1955. Dick represents the Kwakwaka’wakw Tribe of the First Nations of Canada.
In this clip we view a trailer from a documentary based on the artist:
Though many mask carvers are featured here, Dick is my favorite because of the emotional feeling he has infused into his art. Much of the First Nations masks are stoic, representing the heritage of their culture. Dick’s masks feature the same characters as other artists, but the characters are seen showing emotions of sorrow, distress, or happiness. This added element of life makes his work my favorite!
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The artist comes from yet another wonderful artistic family. His father, Ben Dick, was a renown carver. Ben has set the record for the largest ever carving producing a 173 totem pole to celebrate Canada’s centennial anniversary.
His grandfather James Dick was also a carver.
In this clip a gallery owner talks about this very artistic family:
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Keever is a wonderful photographer and painter based out of New York City. Keever began as a painter but is renown for his landscape based photography that he creates in his studio.
Keever was born in 1955. Keever is based out of New York City.
In this clip we visit a show featuring the works of Kim Keever with the great James Kalm. An interview with Keever himself begins at 3:30 into the clip. What is most amazing is that Keever creates his work with fishtanks in his smaller 15 by 20 foot or so apartment. The fishtanks hold around 200 gallons of water. Keever creates clouds and atmosphere by pouring paint into the tank!:
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If you are in the Denver, Colorado area be sure and check out his work at the David B. Smith Gallery.
What a unique technique and idea!
Keever is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art located in New York City.
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Smates, a.k.a. Bart Smeets, is a wonderful street artist from Belgium. Smeets works in a realist manner and often paints dogs or children below water.
Below a link to the website of artist Bart Smeets:
The artist is based out of Mechelen, Belgium.
In this clip we view a wonderful mural of a dog swimming underwater by Bart Smeets:
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His work with one of my favorite subject matter, dogs! How unique that he paints items we usually imagine underwater!
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Lukas Samaras was born in Kastoria, Greece in the year 1936. The artist is renowned for his disdain of people and his narcissism. If you have seen the work of Chuck Close, you may recognize this famous image made by Close of artist Lukas Samaras.
One of Samaras most acclaimed series is one of the artist posing for himself using a Polaroid camera. These images remind me of the modern day selfies.
Samaras attended Rugers, University located in New Brunswick, New Jersey.Some of his classmates include the great Claes Oldenburg, already profiled here.
The artist works in many mediums including painting, performance art, sculpture, and photographer. Its not fair to classify him to one medium, the artist works in many mediums and uses a great deal of creativity in his art.
Here we visit a show featuring the work of Lukas Samaras with the great James Kalm:
Price range information: Works range from $12,000 to $400,000.
A documentary was made on the life of Lukas Samaras, below a trailer for this movie:
I enjoy the many subjects explored by the artist. I would enjoy a series of his done on birds, but using all mediums from photography to performance art.
Samaras is part of prestigious collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Museum, and the Getty Museum.
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Anne Faust is wonderful artist renown for her prints featuring birds. Her preferred type of print is the serigraph. Faust attended Boston University School for the Fine Arts.
Faust was born in the year 1936.
The artist is married to a photographer who specializes in birds.
In this clip we view the printmaking process of Anne Faust:
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The artist not only paints and creates wonderful images of birds, her backgrounds are wonderful mix of realism and abstract shapes. The artist makes wonderful patterns using leaves and water to add wonderful shapes to her compositions. My favorite artist who found patterns in the landscape and also in the sky and cloud patterns, was the master painter of animals, Bob Kuhn.
Kuhn found great organic shapes in ice patterns when painting polar bears or leaves and grass when painting the animals of Africa. Kuhn’s work is a marvel to behold because of his use of pencil and acrylics.
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Nancy Cawdrey is a wonderful artist who works with the floral and American West genre. Nancy Cawdrey was born in 1948. Her father was a military officer and growing up she was able to experience many different cultures. For her artistic education Cawdrey studied abroad in Paris, France and also in London, England.
Cawdrey is based out of Bigfork, Montana.
Here we visit the artist at her home in Montana. The artist credits Montana for her inspiration and she often will paint in plein air in the Big Sky Country:
The artist’s work looks different than many of her peers working in the same genre, the artist works with the Asian technique painting with dye on silk and mixing colors on the painting surface. Though she is renown for her dye works, Cawdrey also paints in oils and watercolor.
Cawdrey emphasizes color and texture patterns in her work.
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In this clip we view Nancy Cawdrey at work on painting of bear:
A link to the website of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey:
I enjoy the style of this artist. She brings new life to a centuries old genre. By mixing colors on her painting surface she is able to use color in areas such as the fur of animals or water reflections.
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Enrico Manera is a contemporary artist working in a Pop Art style. Enrico Manera was born in the year 1947. Manera works with the figure.
The artist has a brother who is a well respected film producer and director named Gianni Manera. Enrico Manera has also worked in the entertainment industry being a writer and actor active in the 1970s and 1980s.
Manera has been included in the famed Venice Biennial.
price range information: Works range from $1,000 to $30,000.
In this clip we visit an Italian gallery owner and see many works by Enrico Manera:
Its great to see some contemporary art that is painted in a similar style to Warhol’s 1960s silkscreens, but using modern actors such as Tom Cruise.
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