Perhaps, Croatian artist Joseph Zbukvic is the best watercolorist among contemporaries. The only disappointment is that he only paints urban landscapes, sometimes featuring horses. The world deserves more 🙂 Take a look at his works! I always watch watercolorists with great interest and admiration because their technique does not forgive mistakes.
I continue my series on fascinating artists. Artist Vladimir Davydenko (born in 1966) currently resides and creates his art in Moscow. His expertise spans several genres: portraits and still lifes, landscapes, and paintings with religious themes, yet all exhibit a photorealistic style. All posts similar to this can be found at https://beinginamerica.com/category/art-rauf-likes/.
American artist of Chinese descent, Mary Qian (born 1973 in Shanghai) currently lives and works in Chicago, engaging in graphic design, but also dedicates several hours each day to painting. Primarily using oil paints, the main subject of her work is the female figure. Stunning works!
Albert Anker was a Swiss painter and graphic artist of the 19th century. He has about 500 paintings of children of various ages and social statuses. I hardly found a couple of his works where there are no children or old people—these are still lifes. His paintings look like a photo album from the past, and it becomes clear that not much has changed over the next 100 years in many parts of our world.
Artist James Swanson hails from a small town in Wisconsin. Life seemed to guide him towards a career as a forester until he realized that painting trees was much more convenient than sitting on them. His latest project was spurred by the passing of his dog, Amber. In her memory, James decided to initiate a series of paintings featuring dogs, one per day. Eventually, he painted so many pictures of wet dogs that it probably just became uneconomical to paint anything but dogs. By the way, he also has a painting featuring giraffes.
Today I would like to show you the works of a great American artist Daniel Gerhartz. Remember, you can see more than 30 collections under the tag
Facebook is dumb. It has had tags forever, and I decided to use them for the first time — #artrauflikes. I thought it worked like this — you click on a tag, you get all the posts with that tag. No dice! Right now, when I click on #artrauflikes in my browser, it only shows just over half of the 36 posts. The rest, even though tagged, can’t be found. Overall, it seems older posts suffer more. But then, Michelle Osman was tagged on April 19th, just four days ago, and her posts don’t show up under the tag.
If you simply search by the keyword artrauflikes, some posts that don’t show up under the tag start to appear. For example, Quang Ho. But most are still left out. You can find them by names and filtering by me. But of course, that’s hardly a substitute.
Sad.
(ENG below) Interesting artist — Ron Hicks (born in 1965). In his paintings, people are either already kissing, about to kiss, suffering, or there’s a house (I found one). Everywhere, the palette is muted, with almost no pure colors.
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Interesting artist, Ron Hicks (born in 1965). In his paintings, either people are already kissing, about to kiss, suffering, or there’s a house (I found one). Everywhere there is a muted palette, with almost no pure colors.
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I completely forgot about Norman Rockwell. I’m even subscribed to the Saturday Evening Post, and it was this artist who actually sparked my venture to the Library of Congress for archives of this magazine. That’s how magazine cover illustrations were made— the artist painted a large-scale oil painting on a topical subject, then it was photographed and placed on the cover, and he would go on to make the next one. And look at the attention to detail! It’s certainly not routine. That era has passed; now the artists are different, and their work looks quite different too. Each painting was accompanied either by a story or served as a form of self-expression by the artist, boosting circulation. For example, the girl with the black eye was the model Mary Whalen Leonard, the principal’s door and the setting were from a school in Cambridge, New York. The artist even managed to physically transport the door from the school to his studio. Some paintings were illustrations for stories in the magazine. But I think all his paintings tell a story, whether fictional or real, and that’s what makes them interesting to look at.
In 1943, a fire in his studio destroyed all of the work stored there, as well as costumes and props that he had collected over the years. Also destroyed was his collection of pipes. Rockwell said that he may have dropped an ash from his pipe onto a chair that sat under the light switch when he turned off the lights to leave the studio that night. Friends who visited him at the studio said that he had a habit of lighting his pipe and then tossing the match into a large iron pot in which he stored his turpentine rags.
Even before the fire, Rockwell discarded some of his own original oils and sketches. He would send a painting to the Saturday Evening Post to be used for a cover and, when it was returned, he would rip the canvas off the frame, toss it away and stretch a new piece of canvas onto the frame for the next painting.
When a fan wrote to him, asking if she could buy some of his original work, he called her “the crazy woman from Chicago” and charged her $100 a piece for seven canvasses. The “crazy woman’s” family sold the paintings in the 1990s for $17 million
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