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Artist of the moment………Street Artist Evol

{ June 29, 2014 @ 11:58 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: berlin, buildings, cardboard, Evol, germany, photography, street artist, urban landscape } · { Leave a Comment }

Evol is a fantastic street artist renown for his buildings. If Evol involves graffiti in his work, it is on his fantastic miniature buildings. Evol is based out of Germany and was born in the year 1972. The artist earned a college degree and studied product design.

Price range information: Sorry none available. The artist cells C-prints of his art.

The buildings of the artist are sometimes painted on cardboard. The artist has a great palette for capturing the greys of the urban city. The artist uses the color of the cardboard as a base and to it adds many shades of grey, black, white.

In this clip we view the artist at work doing some art in Europe. I love this clip because we get to listen to how noisy it is. Sometimes we forget how easy we have it in the studio where we as artists control most of the noise that takes place in our home studio:

In this clip a longer version of the artist at work on a piece. His buildings are simple installations of his completed cardboard paintings:

What a great artist! Any artist that can make the ordinary into something extraordinary earns my respect. This artist is a paint painter, installation artist, and photographer all in one! Awesome!

Artist of the moment……Jan Vormann

{ April 26, 2014 @ 8:51 am } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: architecture, berlin, german, germany, jan vormann, legos, otto friedrich unviveristy, street artist } · { Leave a Comment }

Jan Vormann is a wonderful street artist who incorporates lego’s into decaying houses or buildings giving the works a humorous and artistic vibe. Vormann was born in Bamberg, Germany in the year 1983. Vormann attended Otto Friedrich University and also in Russia where he studied how to preserve and restore public monuments.

Vormann is based out of Berlin, Germany, but has worked in St. Petersburg, Zurich, Amsterdam, and Tel Aviv among many other locations.

Vormann had his first solo exhibition in 2009.

In this clip we view Vormann in action.

With the success of the Lego movie this year I thought it was important to use how various artists use Legos as their medium of choice. Other artists working with the medium already profiled here include Nathan Sawaya and Matteo Negri.

Price range information: Sorry none available.

What a creative way to use Legos and what an artist!

Artist of the moment…….Street artist MTO

{ April 25, 2014 @ 12:52 am } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: berlin, france, french, germany, MTO, street artist } · { Leave a Comment }

MTO is a street artist who was born in France, but is now based out of Germany. MTO might be called a photorealist when it comes to painting street art.

The artist works quickly finishing smaller pieces in less than 6 hours with larger pieces taking up to one week.

Celebrities play a key role in his work and some artists he has captured include Louis Armstrong the jazz great, singer Ray Charles, and Jimi Hendrix.

In this clip we view many portraits of MTO:

MTO usually signs his work in red and sometimes outlines his work with a red line.

Price range information: Sorry none available.

In this clip we view a work that shows the most remarkable thing about this artist, his ability to draw hands very large and with great perspective:

Artist of the moment……photographer Erwin Blumenfeld

{ November 16, 2013 @ 3:02 am } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: berlin, erwin blumenfeld, fashion photography, german, germany, jewish, photographer, photography } · { Leave a Comment }

Erwin Blumenfeld was a fantastic photographer born in Berlin, Germany in the year 1897. Blumenfeld worked in a very modern style and specialized in fashion photography. Blumenfeld was published in the leading fashion magazines of the day including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Blumenfeld enjoyed creating and made collages and drawings in addition to his photographic works.

Blumenfeld received his first camera as a gift when he was 11 years of age.

Blumenfeld was drafted into the army and had to enter World War 1 and fight for Germany. The artist had planned to desert the army, his mother had a different idea and turned him in and he was arrested.

After the war he moved to the Netherlands and opened up a women’s accessory store located in Amsterdam. He moved the store to a new location and the new building included a fully equipped dark room. Blumenfeld photographed some clients of his, sometimes even taking nudes.

In 1935 he was published in a national magazine in France.

His leather store failed in 1936. It went bankrupt and closed it’s doors. Blumenfeld moved to Paris, France and immediately started a successful photography studio taking pictures of artists and celebrities including Josephine Baker, the famous dancer of the Moulin Rouge.

In 1950 Blumenfeld was the highest paid photographer in the world. Later in the decade he would start to make movies and short films with the idea of using film to sell beauty supplies. Blumenfeld was certainly ahead of his time in that regard!

In this clip we view some of his short movies made by Blumenfeld that were to be used to market beauty supplies:

Erwin Blumenfeld passed away in 1969 in what could be called a suicide. Blumenfeld had a heart condition but didn’t take his medication. Then to cause himself to have a heart attack, ran up and down the Spanish steps in Rome, Italy where he was living. The plan worked and he died on July 4th of 1969.

I love the very modern look the Blumenfeld achieved in his work. Like a great painting, its very important to leave somethings out to inspire the viewer to think. Blumenfeld did this is much of his photography work. In addition he wasn’t afraid to experiment with different techniques.

Price range information: Works range from $5,000 to $120,000.

And to close we look at a clip from a documentary about Erwin Blumenfeld:

Artist of the moment…..photographer Thomas Struth

{ October 22, 2013 @ 9:46 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: architecture, Becher family, berlin, cityscapes, Dusseldorf, german, germany, museum visitors, photographer, portraits, thomas struth } · { Leave a Comment }

Thomas Struth was born in Geldern, Lower Rhein, Germany in the year 1954. For his artistic education Struth studied with the husband and wife team Bernd and Hilda Becher at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art. Some subjects the artist has explored include portraits, interior design and decoration. Struth was also very interested in architecture and also did a large body of work showcasing the fronts of buildings.

Other popular series include skyscrapers and cityscape.

In this clip a retrospective of Thomas Struth’s career:

Thomas Struth has received commissions from the King and Queen of England.

Struth has exhibited at the Tate Liverpool and was also included in a Venice Biennale.

Struth divides his time amongst Berlin and New York City.

The artist is married to an author named Tara Bray Smith.

In this clip a brief interview with Thomas Struth:

Price range information: Works range from $10,000 to $100,000 for the most part. At auction a work has broken the one million dollar barrier.

The Becher family were great teachers!

Artist of the moment…..Rebecca Horn

{ September 24, 2013 @ 2:35 pm } · { Uncategorized }
{ Tags: berlin, conceptual art, german, germany, Hamburg, installation art, kinetic art, rebecca horn, video art } · { Leave a Comment }

Rebecca Horn is contemporary artist born in the year 1944 in the city of Michelstad, Germany. Horn is a superbly well rounded artist that paints, sculpts, works with film and video, and also produces installation art. Horn uses very unique materials in her art including ostrich eggs, fossils, and 18 karat gold. Many of paintings are very abstract. Butterflies are recurring theme of the artist.

Rebecca Horn also enjoys writing poetry.

In this clip we view a gallery show from 2011:

For her artistic education Horn attended a school in Hamburg, Germany called the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, from the age of 20 to 26. Saint Martin’s School of Art located in London, England. Whilst in college in Hamburg she developed an awful lung infection due to working with materials such as fiberglass. She then made the switch to different materials including ostrich eggs.

The artist splits her time between Paris, France and Berlin, Germany.

In this clip we view an kinetic work of art by Rebecca Horn. How whimsical!