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viernes, 11 de diciembre de 2020

Laura Williams

“Becoming” by Steven DaLuz

"The American focus on the sublime continues within work by Steven DaLuz, a great artist from San Antonio, Texas, whose work is firmly in the tradition, yet lifted off from its foundations in the American landscape into an imagined, golden world, in which angelic figures rise from tumultuous seas of gold and chemical patinas. His work is transcendent, rich, and dramatic, and absolutely American.

And if the inauguration of museums is indicative of cultural shifts, then the arrival of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles flags the 21st-century cultural turn toward art for aspirational bourgeois Americans rather than art for an elite baptized by an unholy avant-garde priesthood preaching a political gospel. George Lucas needs no introduction as the iconic creator of the legendary Star Wars series of movies that has provided America with its own great mythical narrative — an allegorical saga equal to the British Lord of the Rings, or the Mahabharata, or “Monkey King,” or the Iliad. The museum’s collection includes examples from American giants in the history of narrative art, including paintings by Bellows, Benton, Dixon, Homer, and Remington. Illustrators, for a century unjustly separated from fine art by the avant-gardists, are returned to the fold, with paintings by Rockwell, Parrish, and Leyendecker offering foundational background to more recent fantasy art by Frazetta, and of course the artwork of Star Wars in concept paintings and set and prop designs.

What are the characteristics of American revolutionary art? Traditional but evolving skill-based technique; connoisseurship; attention to detail; narrative; sentiment; a moral message. These characteristics are found in the paintings and sculptures of the flourishing 21st-century representational art movement.

“Ship of Fools” by Carl Dobsky

" There are many imaginative representational artists plying their trade in the United States, producing exceptional bodies of work. Carl Dobsky produces uniquely American paintings, using remarkable technique to shape dynamic, passionate, and moral paintings that are not afraid of that most human experience, sentiment. His “Ship of Fools” immediately brings to mind the folly of political and intellectual leaders and their reckless descent from respectabilities

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jueves, 24 de octubre de 2019

Daniel Graves

Born in 1949, in Rochester, New York, Daniel Graves graduated from the Maryland Art Institute of Art in 1972 where he studied with Joseph Sheppard and Frank Russell. He continued his studies at the Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Art in Florence, Italy, with Richard Serrin. Following a course of training with Richard Lack in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he taught at the Atelier Lack Studio of Fine Art. In the late 1970s, Graves returned to Florence and undertook individual study with Nerina Simi, who maintained a classical nineteenth-century studio. Ms. Simi was the daughter of the Florentine painter Filadelfo Simi, who had studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme, the head of the French Academy in Paris in the 1870s.

With such a rich background of training, Graves has created a style of oil painting that blends the Florentine tradition of Simi and the realist painter, Pietro Annigoni, with the draftsmanship of the French artist, Charles Bargue. Graves was the first to discover Bargue’s, Cours des Dessins, and to integrate this masterwork into the Florence Academy’s teaching curriculum.

Daniel Graves joined Charles Cecil to found Studio Cecil-Graves in Florence, which for nearly a decade trained many practitioners of classical realism. Graves then established The Florence Academy of Art in 1991. The Florence Academy of Art has been in the forefront of classical realist art education for more than twenty years.

In “Tradition in the 21st Century,” an essay published in the exhibition catalogue, Realism Revisited: The Florence Academy of Art (2003), Graves described his training in Old Masters techniques and heralded the classical realist renaissance in aesthetics and art education. The exhibition traveled throughout Europe and the United States. Practitioners, connoisseurs and scholars of modern representational art recognize “Realism Revisited” and its accompanying catalogue as defining moments in the appreciation of classical realist art. In April 2008, Daniel Graves and The Florence Academy of Art received the Excellence in Art Education Award from the Portrait Society of America.

When he is not teaching, Graves is an active painter of figures, portraits and still lifes in his studio in Florence. He pursues landscape painting during his extensive travels. His work is in both public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.