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Christiane Vleugels - Belgium
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Christiane Vleugels is a traditional Artist from Belgium. Her giant photo-like paintings seem to tell a story and invite you in for the experience. Christiane‘s interest in art began at a very young age and by the age of twelve, her parents enrolled her into the Academy of Fine Arts. She learned the art of drawing and sculpting and continued her art education throughout young-adulthood at SISA and the Royal Academy of Antwerp. Her work eventually began to show in galleries in Egypt, Liverpool and the Galerie Des Beaux Art in Germany. As many artists have designers have experienced, the success came with much pressure and stress. “For years I was forced to take on numberless commissions, many of them reproductions. When I look back at those tiresome years, during which I often felt myself under incredible pressure and even, at times, uninspired, I realize they were a necessary part of my artistic journey. After all, it is by taking on all those commissions that I learned to perfect my technique. I really do think I owe my various skills to that endless list of reproductions, strange as it may sound,” says Christiane. After taking a short break, she could no longer repress the urge to create and find herself in her art again. “Each new painting unveils a certain aspect and makes it clear to me that I have chosen the right path in life. The sole purpose of my work is to tempt people to dream.” sinuousmag.com/2011/05/creative-feature-the-artwork-of-christiane-vleugels Young-Deok Seo - Seoul, South Korea
Young-Deok Seo received a BFA in environmental sculpture from University of Seoul, South Korea, in 2010.
He makes metal sculptures using only bike chain components, comparing the standardization of modern life to the monotonous repetitive movement of the chain in its original function. By repurposing the chain components in his work, he replaces its functionality as a machine part and gives it new vitality and life. ‘I use immobile and cold textured form of a body to express our true nature that turned from the human nature to a property,’ he says. artistaday.com/?p=11768 Jane Aukshunas - Portland Oregon, USA
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I like to work “en plein air” (on location in the great outdoors), but painting outdoors can sometimes be challenging. At times, while working by the side of busy roads, I have had to hold tightly to my drawing board when trucks roared by. I have had to devise ways to keep my oil pastels from melting on hot summer days, and during the rainy season, I occasionally have to work inside my car, using the windshield wipers to clear my view of the landscape. Perhaps because my formal art training is rooted in design, I pare down the world around me to the essential elements, shapes and colors that have become the crux of my imagery. Vibrant color and sensuality of line give my work a playful and contemporary feeling, and the images in my art reflect my love of rhythm, music and movement. I have had a lifelong interest in textiles, and consequently, my imagery is influenced by fabric design. janeaukshunas.com/about-the-art Richard Estes - New York
Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932, Kewanee, Illinois) is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters as John Baeder, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, and Duane Hanson. Author Graham Thompson wrote, "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Estes
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Direk Kingnok - Thailand
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Direk was born in 1976 in a small town in Nakhon Ratchasima,Thailand. He grew up among natural surroundings and interested in art since childhood. At age 9 he won a gold medal from the International Children's Art Competition Japan and several times later, That must be the starting point for his art more seriously. After graduating from high school He attended the Art Institute in Nakhon Ratchasima. In 1999 he moved to Khon kaen to enter the Institute of Arts in Khon kaen university where he studied painting. In 2003 he began to study creativity of watercolor painters and developed a more serious relationship to watercolor painting. Now he live in Khon Kaen and work of art continuously. dir5559.wix.com/direk-kingnok-#!about/c240r Eric Zener - San Francisco
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Eric Zener is an American photorealist artist best known for figure paintings of lone subjects, often centering on or around water. Zener is a self-taught artist. As of 2004 he had created more than 600 works. His paintings, mostly in oil, are photorealist or “super-realist” in nature, a style Zener describes as “Contemporary Renaissance”. In 2003, while living in the Costa Brava region of Spain, Zener became interested in watching bathers, and began a series of paintings of water, and of people interacting with water. Many paintings from this period depict women swimming underwater amidst air bubbles, or diving into the water, and have been described as reminiscent of Hudson River School and Barbizon School painters. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara and has had dozens of solo exhibitions across the US including 3 in 2009 including ones at the Hespe Gallery in San Francisco, CA and Gallery Henoch in New York, NY. artistaday.com/?p=5418 Joseph Zbukvic - Melbourne, Australia
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Joseph Zbukvic is a leading master of watercolour medium of his time. His impressive achievements and enormous success is due to his ability to transform any subject into visual poetic language. Covering an infinite variety of subjects, his sensitive, lyrical and atmospheric paintings have captured people and galleries from all around the world. Due to his exceptional drawing skills and extraordinary abilities in art, he is proficient in any medium. However, it is his passion for watercolours that has led him to become a unique master of that medium. Although greatly admired for his soft moody impressions of rural life, Joseph also produces strong urban scenes and powerful equestrian images. He has always had a deep connection and affection for the labourer and the common man and it is these works that are also his finest paintings ever produced in watercolour. Joseph has continued to explore new subjects and fresh ways to express his vision by frequent overseas travel. He has reached a new level of technical ability, maturity and strength as he enters the fourth decade of his career. jzbukvic.com Tokujin Yoshioka - Japan
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Born in Japan in 1967 and the winner of a large number of awards, with pieces on display at the MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt in New York, the Victoria & Albert in London and the Vitra Design Museum. Tokujin Yoshioka trained along with Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake, opened his own studio in 2000, and has worked with Japanese and international companies such as Hermès, Toyota, BMW and Swarovski, designing showrooms and installations. As a result of the success of the Honey-pop paper chair in 2001, he began establishing increasingly close links with the world of interior design, developing projects for Driade, Moroso and Kartell, amongst others. The signature feature of his creations is their poetic, light, dreamlike quality; his products, interiors and installations are the result of painstaking, complex research carried out on simple materials, combined with experimental technology. mutina.it/designer.php?lang=eng&designer=4 |