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Artist of the moment…………Achilles

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Achilles is a street artist from Greece born in the year 1986. He is renown for his work with the figure in humorous and intriguing compositions.

One of the favorite parts of the figure that Achilles enjoys painting is the eye.

The artist is based out of Athens, Greece.

Price range information: Sorry none available.

Below a link to the website of street artist Achilles:

https://www.facebook.com/Achilles86/photos_stream?ref=page_internal

The artist works as a mural painter and illustrator.

Its very interesting the way he portrays the human figure with flesh and even showing the bone structure underneath. The artist has a great sense of modernist composition and great use of color.

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Artist of the moment…….Agnes Weinrich

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Agnes Weinrich was painter renown for her modernist and abstract style. Agnes Weinrich was born in Des Moines County, Iowa in the year 1873. Her parents were immigrants from Germany and were very successful as farmers in America.

Her father was able to retire from farming and move to the city. Her father also started to visit Germany and acquaint himself with his old relatives. Weinrich’s father passed away, and each of his children inherited enough money to live out the rest of their lives without taking a job. Her father must have been quite a farmer!

Weinrich graduated from Burlington Collegiate Institute. The artist also attended the Art Student’s League of Chicago in addition to studying with painter Charles Hawthorne.

The artist began her career as an Impressionistic painter. Later in her career as she became an active printmaker, Weinrich would focus on color and flat images that can remind one of Alex Katz.

Agnes Weinrich passed away at the age of 73 years of age in 1946.

Price range information: The artist worked in oils, pastels, crayons, and as a woodblock printmaker. Works range from $3,000 to $30,000.

The later works of Weinrich are wonderful examples of a mixture of painting schools including Cubism and Abstraction.

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