George Condo is an contemporary American artist renown for his own style of art. George Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire in the year 1957.
Condo attended the University of Massachusetts at Lowell where he studied art and music.
Condo refers to his style as “artificial realism.” He enjoys portraying things that don’t really exist. Condo works as a painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
The artist is a part participant of the famed Whitney Biennial.
George Condo is currently based out of New York City.
In this clip we visit Condo in his studio and he shares some of his views on painting:
Price range information: Prices range from prints starting at $10,000 to originals in oils or acrylics reaching $1.3 million.
The artist is part of many prestigious collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City.
Below we catch up with the great James Kalm to view a show featuring works over George Condo’s lengthy career:
Condo is an amazing artist with a unique style. I enjoy the high level of abstraction he brings to his work with the figure.
Roger Brown was an American surrealist painter and printmaker who often painted works that featured urban landscapes with Art Deco style decoration. Roger Brown was born in Hamilton, Alabama in the year 1941.
Brown attended the American Academy of Art located in Chicago before transferring to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois where he would eventually earn an M.F.A.
Family and history were very important to the artist and he made references to both subjects in much of his artwork.
Brown was also an avid art collector.
Roger Brown passed away in 1997.
Price range information: Lithographs are very affordable coming in at $2000 or less. Original oils can reach $100,000. Acrylics range from $10,000 to $75,000.
Below a montage of many works of the artist. This clip doesn’t have an audio with it but the pictures are quite remarkable:
Roberto (Bobbie) Aizenberg was modernist painter and sculptor from Argentina. Roberto Aizenberg was born in Federal, Entre Rios, Argentina, in the year 1928. Aizenberg attended the National College located in Buenes Aires, Argentina.
Aizenberg is associated with the Surrealist movement.
Below a montage of works by Roberto Aizenberg:
The artist began his working career as an architect before finding art. Aizenberg had his first solo exhibition at the age of 30 years of age.
His medium of choice was oil paint. The artist employed certain additives that greatly slowed the drying time.
Roberto Aizenberg passed away in 1996 at the age of 73 years of age.
Price range information: Works range from $30,000 to $150,000.
Aizenberg had a great talent for creating unique shapes and giving his work a great feeling of dimension.
William Baziotes was an American abstract expressionist painter. William Baziotes was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the year 1912.
Baziotes attended the National Academy of Design located in New York City. After graduating he worked with the W.P.A., the Works Progress Administration.
In this clip a fantastic montage of works by William Baziotes:
The artist was among the first American painters to work in a Surrealist style.
Baziotes also taught at the collegiate level at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Hunter College, and New York University.
William Baziotes passed away in 1963.
Price range information: The artist worked in watercolors, oils, crayon, and gouache with prices range from $20,000 to $400,000.
The artist is part of the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Guggenheim Museum of Art.
Baziotes had a wonderful talent for creating his own style of shapes that were not usually seen in abstract works.
Theodoros Stamos was an American artist associated with the beginning of Abstract Expressionist painting in America. Theodoros Stamos was born in the year 1922.
Price range information: Works range from $20,000 to $500,000. Stamos worked in acrylics, watercolor, and oils.
The artist was also a teacher at the collegiate level at Black Mountain College and Columbia University among others.
Below a closer look at some works by Theodoros Stamos:
In 1951 a famous photograph was taken featuring Abstract Expressionist painters. Stamos was the youngest artist of the group. The photograph appeared in “Life” magazine.
Theodoros Stamos passed away in 1997.
Stamos is part of prestigious collections including the Tel-Aviv Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art located in New York City.
Mauro Corda is a fantastic sculptor born in Lourdes, France the year 1960. Corda enjoys trying to capture human emotion in the figure when facing stressful and intense situations.
Corda attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in both Reims and Paris.
Corda’s work is unique as a sculptor for what he adds to his work for a patina. The artist often uses chrome, gold and silver leaf, and silver in his sculptures. The artist will often recreate the same subject matter in different materials to try and express a different emotion.
In this clip a montage of works by Mauro Corda:
Price range information: Works range from $10,000 for works in graphite to $80,000 for a bronze or aluminum work.
Corda has been based out of Paris, France for nearly three decades.
Below we view an exhibition for the artist that took place in Monaco. At the end of the clip more of his surrealist work such as animal creatures are shown:
The artist in me would like to see what Corda would come up with for a modern design for the Rolls Royce female figure. Corda’s work is very reminiscent of the Art Deco period.
Méret Oppenheim was an Swiss artist renown for her Surrealist art. Méret Oppenheim was born in Berlin, Germany in the year 1913. Her father was a doctor.
Oppenheim attended the Basel School of Arts and Crafts and also the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere located in Paris, France.
The artist was also a muse for Man-Ray appearing nude in many photographs.
The artist had her first solo show in 1936.
In this clip the niece of Méret Oppenheim recalls her aunt:
Méret Oppenheim passed away in 1985 at the age of 72 years of age.
Perhaps the most famous work by Méret Oppenheim was a cup that was covered with fur from a gazelle. This work is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art located in New York City.
Here we view a show celebrating the 100th birthday of Oppenheim in 2013:
Price range information: Oppenheim produced many lithographs and also worked in oils, gouache, collage, and bronzes. Works range from $10,000 to the low six figures.
Russell Drysdale was one of the most prominent painters in the history of Australia renown for his work with the Australian outback. Drysdale was born in Bognor, Sussex, England in the year 1912. He grew up in Melbourne, Australia and attended college in London, England at the Grosvenor School of Art and also in the Grand Chaumiere in Paris, France.
From the National Gallery of Australia we view a signature work of Drysdale showcasing his thoughts on the Australian landscape:
Drysdale was an outstanding painter despite having very poor eyesight. He was nearly blind in his left eye due to a detached retina when he was only 17 years of age.
The artist had a very successful solo show in 1938 which established him on the international art scene.
In his landscapes, Drysdale was particularly admired for his depictions of the drought ravaged region in New South Wales.
The artist received his knighthood in 1969. Drysdale passed away in the year 1981.
From ABC of Australia we view a show that took place in 2012 in Sydney featuring the work of Drysdale:
Price range information: The artist worked as a printmaker and also used watercolor, oils, and inks. Prices range from $5,000 to $750,000.
On a personal note, Drysdale lost two important people in his life. His son Tim took his own life at the age of 21. In the year that followed his wife also took his own life.
Drysdale was great at capturing the emotions and different physical traits of people.
Jorg Immendorff was a fantastic painter and sculptor born in Bleckede, Lower Saxony, Germany in the year 1945. Immendorf was perhaps better known for his left wing political ideas than for his Surrealist paintings.
Immendorf attended the Academy of Art located in Dusseldorft, Germany and also with Joseph Bueys.
Immendorf studied with a theater set designer named Teo Otto. Immendorf designed many stage sets over his lengthy career.
The artist would go back to teach at the Academy of Art as a professor.
In the early 2000s Immendorf with several prostitutes and cocaine. In Germany small amounts are okay for personal use but he surpassed this amount. He was put on probation and given a large fine.
In this clip from 1987 we visit the studio of Jorg Immendorff:
Jorg Immendorf developed A.L.S. otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. This disease came to the forefront of the media earlier this year with many celebrities and C.E.O.s including Bill Gates taking the ice bucket challenge. Immendorf passed away in 2007 at the age of 61 years of age.
The disease forced him to paint with his right hand after being a lefty. Eventually he was wheelchair bound and unable to paint.
Price range information: Works range from $5,000 to $300,000.
What an extraordinary painter and in incredible life. Another American painter who died from A.L.S. was the American artist Wilson Hurley renown for his paintings of the American West.
To close we look at many paintings by Jorg Immendorff:
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.
Price range information: Sorry none available.
What a great surrealist painter. The artist is often compared to a contemporary already profiled here named Leonora Corrington.
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