Posts Tagged ‘spanish’

Artist of the moment…….Street Artist Suso33

 

 

Suso33 is a street artist renown for his work with the face and figure.

The artist is based out of Madrid, Spain.

Below a link to the website of Suso33:

http://www.suso33.com/

Suso33 works in many mediums including video art, performance art, painting, and set designer.

The artist is part of several permanent European collections including the Museums of Contemporary Art in Spain and Romania.

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In this clip we view a great work featuring a man’s face in rotation:

I enjoy the feeling of life brought to the work of this artist. He is an excellent draftsman and this helps to give his faces and wonderful sense of life. Suso33 reminds me of the artist Richard Hambleton. Both artists created wonderful figures with unique line work.

Below we watch Suso33 draw another captivating portrait:

 

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Artist of the moment…….Street Artist and Illustrator Belin

 

 

Belin is an amazing Spanish street artist renown for his unique style of work with the face and figure. Belin was born in a city located in the south of Spain called Linares. Belin’s work is a blend of surrealism, realism, and caricature.

Belin is short for the artist’s last name, Belinchon.

The artist often works on murals with other well known street artists including Otes.

When the weather isn’t cooperating with making graffiti, the artist turns to the art of sculpture.

In this clip we view the artist at work on mural in the Netherlands:

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Belin shows remarkable innovation in his work. Often times he uses photographs for resources, but with his style of exaggeration one might think the artist just created a masterpiece from life!

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Artist of the moment………Okudart

 

Okudart ,also known as Okuda, is an amazing street artist renown for his unique style of mixing the human face with geometric shapes.

Okudart’s government name is Oscar San Miguel Erice.

The artist attended school in Madrid, Spain at the Complutense University of Madrid.

In this clip we view a piece made for Movember. This is actually November, but has been renamed Movember as men are encouraged to grow facial hair to help bring aware to prostate cancer and other health issues:

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In this clip we view a collaborative work of Rosh333 and Okudart:

Below a link to the website:

http://okudart.es/showcase/

What a great style the artist has developed. His work has so many facets of different art movements including realism, abstract, the pattern and decorations movement, and Op- Art.

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Artist of the moment………..Btoy

 

 

Btoy is a Spanish street artist renown for her work with the iconic female figures. The artist came to the world of street art after her mother passed away in 2002. Making art was the way she dealt with stress.

In this clip we catch a glimpse of the artist at work on a large mural in Barcelona:

Btoy was born in Barcelona, Spain in the year 1977. Her government name is Anrea Michealsson.

For her composition ideas Btoy is influenced by old pictures of old movie stars of Hollywood, including starlets from the silent era.

The artist enjoys working with new mediums. She works often with acrylic paint, spray paint, and plastics. She often uses photoshop to help form her stencils.

In this clip we view a gallery show by Btoy:

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Btoy reminds me of artists Swoon (American) and Faith47(South African.) All three of these artists do a great job at showing the struggles and faces of the contemporary female figure.

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Artist of the moment……..Street Artist Gonzalo Borondo

 

Gonzalo Borondo is a Spanish street artist who is renown for his work with the face and figure. Gonzalo Borondo was born in Segovia, Spain.

The artist attended college in Madrid and also the Academy of Art in Rome, Italy.

In this clip we view a show featuring Borondo that took place 2012 in Italy:

The artist often uses multiple figures sometimes facing away from the viewer in his work. This helps to make his work very realistic and action. He also enjoys painting the corners where two sides of a building meet.

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Below a fantastic time lapse video of Bordondo working in Istanbul, Turkey:

Borondo has done a great amount of work in the city of London, England.

One artist that has provided a great deal of inspiration for Borondo was the Spanish master Goya.

Below a link to the website of Gonzalo Borondo:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Borondo-official-page/180678938805525

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Artist of the moment………Street Artist Kenor

 

 

Kenor is a street artist from Spain who employs strong color and mixture of organic and geometric shapes to make some spectacular art.

Kenor was born in the year 1976. His father enjoyed photography.

Below a link for the website of Kenor:

http://www.elkenor.com/

Below an interview with Kenor in Spanish with English subtitles:

The artist produces works on canvas, prints, very large murals, and installations.

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Kenor has a very bold sense of shapes and color that remind of Brazilian artist Romero Britto.

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Artist of the moment……Pichi and Avo

 

Pichi and Avo are two highly talented street artists who work in a realist style. Pichi and Avo hail from Valencia, Spain. The duo are sometimes known as PichiAvo and are renown for their blend of realism and surrealism in their street art work.

Avo studied product design in Valencia and also in Finland.

Pichi started making street art in 1995. Avo began his street artwork in 2003.

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Below Pichi and Avo work on a painting of a lightbulb:

In this clip we see a magnificent portrait made on the side of a shipping container:

 

To close we take a look at a time lapse video of Pichi and Avo painting Santa Claus:

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Artist of the moment…….Remedios Varo Uranga

 

 

Remedios Varo Uranga was born in Angles, Spain in the year 1916. Remedios Varo Uranga was a painter who worked in a Surrealist style. The artist attended the Academy of Art San Fernando located in Madrid, Spain. Her father was an industrial engineer and as a young child the artist would copy the technical drawings her father brought home from work.

Whilst the artist was attending college a civil war began in her native country so she relocated to Paris, France. It is her that Varo Uranga became influenced by the Surrealists and starting painting in a Surrealist manner.

She was first married to a painter named Girardo Lizarraga. After they separated she lived with a French poet.

When the German’s took over Paris, France during World War 2, the artist relocated to Mexico City, Mexico where she would remain the rest of her life.

Most works are painted with oils on Masonite.

Below a wonderful montage of works by Remedios Varo Uranga:

Just as her career was flourishing the artist had a heart attack and passed away in 1963. Remedios Varo Uranga was only 54 years of age.

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What a great surrealist painter. The artist is often compared to a contemporary already profiled here named Leonora Corrington.

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Artist of the moment…….Joaquin Mir Trinxet

 

Joaquin Mir Trinxet  was a wonderful artist from Spain working with the landscape in a modern style that combined impressionism and abstraction.  In his artistic statement Trinxet speaks about wanting to enlighten the heart and fill the soul with light as a goal of his paintings.

Joaquin Mir Trinxet was born in Barcelona, Spain in the year 1873. His family was from the Catalan region. For his art education Mir studied at the Llotja School. An influence on Mir was the artist Luis Graner who painted portraits of people in the landscape very similar to the way John Singer Sargent might portray a figure outside.

At the beginning of his career the artist painted landscapes that were very abstract. He then switched to a slightly more realistic approach that launched his career to the next level. The artist would then return to painting nature in a more abstract manner with an emphasis on color.

His palette was similar to the Impressionists and the artist refused to use the color black.

Joaquin Mir Trinxet passed away in 1940.

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In this clip a great montage of works by Joaquin Mir Trinxet:

What is fascinating to me about this artist is his use of color and emphasizing the abstract areas in his landscape paintings. A rock and its reflection become so abstract without their surroundings the viewer might not know what the subject was. The artist excelled at capturing mood and feeling in his landscapes.

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Artist of the moment………Lorelay Bove

 

 

Lorelay Bove is a wonderful artist and illustrator who has worked with Disney and Pixar animation studios. Bove was born in Spain. Bove attended the famed California Art Institute and then worked for Pixar and Disney studios.

Bove had a great hint at how to improve your illustrations. Take a great work like Alice in Wonderland, and create your own scene. Bove also loves to paint whilst traveling. Her works in this style remind me a great deal of American travel poster artist David Klein, already profiled here.

Price range information: Prints range from $100 to $500. No pricing on originals.

The artist was in charge of developing important sequences in the modern comic movie titled “Wreck it Ralph.” This was a great and successful movie about a video game character coming to life. In this clip Bove talks about this work:

 

As a huge fan of former Disney artist Mary Blair, I found Bove’s work to be similar in creativity and childlike freedom.

Below another great interview which also shows some artwork at various stages of development:

Below a link to the blog of Lorelay Bove. Very up to date and unique perspectives animation:

http://lorelaybove.blogspot.com/

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