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Artist of the moment………….Street Artist Smug One

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Smug One is a street artist who works as a realist painter and cartoonist. Many works have a humorous twist to them. The artist often paints celebrities and characters of pop culture such as the old man from the movie Up.

Smug One is based out of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Most works are made using free hand aerosol spray paint.

Smug One began to create street art masterpieces in 2000.

Below we catch a glimpse of the artist at work freehand painting images about the newest Planet of the Apes movie:

Price range information: Sorry none available.

Below another clip of the artist at work:

Smug One does an outstanding job of capturing unique expressions of people and animals. His subjects have a great sense of life and movement.

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Artist of the moment…………Max Yavno

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Max Yavno was an American photography who is renown for his images of life in the Western region of the United States and Los Angeles and San Francisco in particular.

Max Yavno was born in New York in the year 1911. Yavno attended the City College of New York.  The artist went on to earn a masters degree from Columbia University where he studied finance and political science.

In this clip a montage of works by Max Yavno:

Yavno is known for his street scenes of Los Angeles. Yavno documented the West coast in a similar manner that Paul Strand captured New York City not only with photographs, but with his 1920 movie titled “Manhatta.”

Yavno did was employed by the Works Progress Administration.

The artist served in the United States Army during World War 2. After the war he opened up his own shop where he specialized in landscape photography.

Max Yavno passed away in 1985 from complications he got from falling whilst taking a shower.

Price range information: Most works available from $4,000 to $50,000.

Yavno was known for his images of San Francisco, which include a street car being turned around manually, and for his images of the famed Muscle Beach. These images remind me of another New York City photographer who captured many of the unique people of the Big Apple,  Diane Arbus.

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