domingo, 9 de octubre de 2022

Gottfried Helnwein

 

Presentation in the Templo





















Child of light

Adoration of the Magi




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Gottfried Helnwein is Austria’s most successful modern art identity and a major celebrity on the global art stage.  He has been described as the artistic manifestation of Austria’s post-World War Two social anxiety, confronting hidden guilt and exposing it to unflatteringly bright daylight.  He involves himself in many different forms of visual art; oil and watercolour paintings (including portraiture and landscapes), drawings, photography, installations, and even theatre and film.  He is noted for his photo-realistic oil paintings, as well as his expressionist pieces using acrylic and ink.  He became well-known for photographic prints featuring celebrity subjects and is regarded as a stylistic influence on modern rock video imagery.  The predominant theme of his work is the intersection of purity and corruption, where goodness and guiltlessness are confronted or co-opted by an often disguised evil.  A signature theme of his work is the approach of malevolence towards an unknowing child – innocence meets the armband.

Much has been made of the fact that Helnwein grew up in post-World War 2 Vienna, in a German-speaking country that collaborated with the Nazis and witnessed terrible atrocities.  He acts as a tour guide through realms of unnecessary human sadness and also chronicles how easily beauty can be destroyed.  He is a perceptive documentarian, contrasting the banality of evil with the innate beauty of goodness.   This beauty is easily damaged, often severely, but it retains unmistakable nobility.  A pre-eminent motif is his use of stylised military looks and the sense of authority these impart.  He leaves viewers to determine for themselves the moral implications of the imagery.

Many of Helnwein’s painted works are unusual in that they feature a photo-realistic style most identified with classical art, a style that fell away almost completely in the modern era.   After the invention of the camera, artists chose not to depict (this task was now redundant), but rather to express.  Techniques other than direct, naturalistic representations of a subject were favoured.  As such, a new art movement was born – “Expressionism.”  Helnwein, however, manages to straddle both worlds comfortably.  His striking “classical” representations, particularly of children’s faces, are noteworthy because they are uncommon.  The seldom-seen becomes the cause célèbre.   And yet he also freely creates expressionist works, typically mixed media pieces on canvas using acrylic and ink. (Ironically, he often also uses a camera for this purpose).  Helnwein is so proficient in this style that he was once described as the heir to throne of European expressionism.   Either way, he is capable of delivering a jolt to audiences – sometimes one of joy at beauty, sometimes one of shuddering recognition that innocence is always at risk of predation and that evil can appear before us in disguised forms.

viernes, 7 de octubre de 2022

ROBERTO FERRI "NEL POZZO" olio su tela 110 x 80 cm anno 2017

 


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" 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

CLAUDIO BRAVO


 

miércoles, 14 de septiembre de 2022

Sergio Garval

 


" Construcción" Oleo sobre tela, 2008

















Sobre el autor, Garval es un artista reconocidoa nivel mundial, tiene una amplia trayectoria, cuenta con 40exposiciones individuales y 150 colectivas. Su primera muestra fue“Pasajeros” en la galería Jorge Martínez, de la Universidadde Guadalajara en 1994. Su obra ha trascendido fronteras, pues hallegado a centros culturales importantes en Latinoamérica, Europay Asia. 

Escuela de ArtesPlásticas de Guadalajara, tiene múltiples premios, entre susgalardones figura el Premio de Adquisición del II Concurso deEscultura a Caballo, en el 2002 fue acreedor al Premio deAdquisición del X Concurso Nacional de Grabado José PosadaGuadalupe en Aguascalientes, y le otorgaron la Presea Alfredo Zalceen la Cuarta Bienal de Pintura y Grabado en Michoacán.


lunes, 12 de septiembre de 2022

Serge Marshennikov

 










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ROBERTO FERRI

 


ACHILLE" oil on canvas 170 x 199,8 cm - 2017

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Johfra Bosschart


 Witches Sabbath, Johfra Bosschart, 1972

Richard Ahnert


 Richard Ahnert

Broken
20"x 20"/ framed 21"x 21" Oil on Canvas

 

Nova Czarnecki
Snakes and Swans
24"x 24" Oil on canvas

Nova Czarnecki
The Battle that Winter Lost
30"x 30" Oil on canvas



Chet Zar
SkullFlower
12"x 12" oil on canvas

Casey Weldon
The Bird
24"x 18" Acrylic on Wood

Travis Louie
Floyd
14"x 11" Acrylic on board

 Robert Steven Connett
Water Language
17"x 14"/ framed 21"x 17" Acrylic on wood panel
$5,000