Archive for May 3, 2015

Artist of the moment……..Anton Kannemeyer

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Anton Kannemeyer is a South African artist renown for his cartoons depicting modern day problems with an emphasis on race relations.

Anton Kannemeyer was born in Cape Town, South Africa in the year 1967. He sometimes uses the moniker Joe Dog.

Kannemeyer earned a M.F.A. from the University of Stellenbosch located in South Africa. Price range information: Sorry none available.

The artist receives much hate mail from fellow South Africans about his views on race relations.

Below a clip featuring Kannemeyer talking about a show that took place in 2011:

Other artists I have profiled that include racial satire as a key element in the work include Kerry James Marshall and Kara Walker.

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Artist of the moment………Photographer Willy Ronis

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Willy Ronis was a French photographer (The first image is the artist himself.) Willy Ronis was born in Paris, France in the year 1910. His parents had left their home countries of Odessa and Lithuania because of their treatment of Jewish people. His father ran a portrait photography studio and his mother gave piano lessons.

His father would pass away from cancer in the mid 1930s and Ronis took over the family business of shooting portraits. This business would fail soon after his father’s death, and Willy Ronis would go on to be a free lance photographer.

Price range information: Most works priced between $2,000 and $20,000.

The artist became the first French photographer to work for the magazine Life.

Ronis was the recipient of a gold medal award at the 1957 Venice Biennial.

Below a wonderful selection of images by Willy Ronis:

Willy Ronis passed away in 2009.

Similar to other luminaries such as Diane Arbus, Willy Ronis did a wonderful job at capturing the feeling of a moment. Be it romance or a cat that is taken by a bird or a something in a window, the artist was magnificent at documenting fleeting moments of time.

For sure my favorite photographer of cats!

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Artist of the moment……..Street Art Collective Hygienic Dress League

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Hygienic Dress League is a street art collective based out of Detroit, Michigan.

The company was started as an art project by artists Steve and Dorota Coy. Below a great interview with the duo talking about what inspires them and their artwork:

In this fantastic clip we see a wonderful street project by H.D.L. that involved streaming images over steaming sewer caps creating exciting holograms:

Price range information: Sorry none available.

With the concepts of marketing, branding, and advertising Hygienic Dress League reminds me a great deal of Andy Warhol when he first moved to the factory. Warhol at the time was just making his foray into mass marketing with his reproductions of the Brillo Box.

Hygienic Dress League also tried to sell shares in their collective. This reminded of when the artist Thomas Kinkade successfully listed his company on the N.Y.S.E.

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