tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54834486016566376362025-12-02T09:45:01.941-06:00Art BitesA collection of articles, art and artists we admire and appreciate. wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-18416819511801576832025-04-06T06:55:00.003-05:002025-04-06T06:55:58.340-05:00Artist Samuel GillisSamuel J. Gillis, Chicago, has spent a lifetime serving his passion and appreciation for art. Gillis’s early exposure to cartooning developed into an obsession that led to a formal education in fine art. Sam has been fortunate to study in some of the finest art programs, including Columbia College Chicago and The Atelier Alternative. He was a proud recipient of a scholarship to attend The School wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-48465618310561208492025-03-20T17:16:00.002-05:002025-03-20T17:16:17.760-05:00What Made Picasso Who he is Part OnePablo Picasso, the influential Spanish painter and sculptor, was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain, and died on April 8, 1973, in Mougins, France.
His FUll Name: Full Name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso More info at WikipediaPablo Picasso, what made him a famous artist? His father Jose Ruizwrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-19803858728259677672025-03-17T07:23:00.003-05:002025-03-17T07:23:22.197-05:00Dali Beyond Reality What drives Salvador Dali and his realm of creativity? The first thing that comes to mind is maybe his mind and perhaps it is just wired that way to create unbelievable worlds within his art. Trauma in his life could have led to the way he makes his reality or is it that he is that he thinks outside the box.Dali is an artist who breaks away from the norm and dives into the world of dreams wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-20749015941584352832025-03-16T06:50:00.004-05:002025-03-17T17:58:27.691-05:00 AI Art is it Real Art and Does it Have its Place in Creativity AI is new to many and does it have its place in the arts. Many are afraid of AI and more embrace it. will it drive the art world or can it destroy it. As an artist, I have not used AI for my creative works. A couple years back when NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) was the fad AI was a tool used to create variants of NFTs.AI had some interesting effects on my art. AI tools were not something wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-6519186080865853742025-03-14T06:06:00.006-05:002025-03-14T06:06:56.940-05:00Banksy Love or Hate Image provided by Banksy Explained On 5 October 2018, a version of Balloon Girl with the artist’s frame sold at Sotheby’s London for GBP 1,042,000. However, shortly after the gavel dropped and the sale was final, an alarm sounded inside of the picture frame and the canvas passed through a shredder hidden within the frame, partially shredding the image.The prank wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-23732999225901829172019-03-19T09:53:00.000-05:002019-03-19T10:10:49.482-05:00******ENTER THE CONTEST win a work of art by Samuel Gillis*******
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wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-36961894161299030142018-08-31T12:32:00.000-05:002018-08-31T15:28:10.097-05:00Gerhard Richter a Contemporary Artist and Switching Gears
Gerhard Richter (German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces.
In October 2012, Richter's Abstraktes Bild set an auction record price for a painting by a living artist at $34 million (£21 million).[1] This was exceeded in May 2013 when his 1968 piece Domplatz, Mailand (wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-29648843937649955192018-08-12T13:22:00.000-05:002018-08-12T13:22:02.933-05:00Samuel Gillis and His Blue Period it not about the emotions its about how to afford more paintPicasso and his Blue Period might have been dark emotional roller coaster ride for the famous Pablo Picasso but who knows.
Pablo Picasso's Blue Period - 1901 to 1904. The Blue Period of Picasso is the period between 1900 and 1904, when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors.
more can be found at: https://wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-2441006302381207282018-08-09T09:43:00.000-05:002018-08-09T09:43:19.259-05:00Van Gogh Beginnings
Van Gogh was born upper middle class at a young age he was serious
about drawing. In his early years he worked as and art dealer became
depressed which in turn he dove into religion. He spent time as a
Protestant missionary in southern Belgium where he felt the way to god
was to live like the people. As he was training to become a preacher he
felt the need to interact, work and live like wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-30499994148537254042016-11-22T15:15:00.000-06:002016-11-22T15:15:17.740-06:00
On November 4, 1966, flood waters rushed through the city of Florence, Italy, destroying thousands of priceless artworks in museums and churches. Santa Croce Basilica became a leading symbol of this destruction, as water and mud engulfed the historic structure, severely damaging several treasured paintings, among them Giorgio Vasari’s monumental 1546 panel painting The Last Supper. Now, fifty wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-32594182866542886652016-11-13T07:12:00.002-06:002016-11-13T07:12:40.329-06:00
Matthew Marks announces Terry Winters, the most recent exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street.
The exhibition’s sixteen chromatically rich paintings have been built up with layers of marks in oil, resin, and wax. Their imagery derives from diverse sources, among them botany, geology, and chemistry, as indicated by their titles, which include Shell, Cluster, and Dioxazine Shift. Each wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-13311911181273456662016-11-07T04:22:00.001-06:002016-11-07T04:24:31.634-06:00
Bob Dylan, music legend and Nobel laureate, is also a prolific painter whose works depicting the landscapes and culture of the United States are now the focus of a major London exhibition.
Around 200 paintings by the US singer-songwriter, produced by the 75-year-old in the last two years, are on show from Saturday at the Halcyon Gallery in the British capital's plush Mayfair district.
The wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-12258438616357349952016-11-04T12:49:00.001-05:002016-11-04T12:49:26.402-05:00
An exhibition of paintings by Nashvillebased filmmaker and artist Harmony Korine will be on view at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts from November 4, 2016, to January 16, 2017. Korine, who is best known as the filmmaker/auteur of such films as Kids, Gummo, Trash Humpers, and Spring Breakers, is also an accomplished painter, having shown works in museums throughout the United States, as well wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-13713289945365685392016-10-31T12:31:00.000-05:002016-10-31T12:33:36.663-05:00
On November 22th, Christie’s Paris will organise a thematic sale dedicated to Rembrandt Bugatti. This sale will commemorate the 100 years anniversary of the artist’s death and the new edition of Véronique Fromanger’s monography on the artist. The 17 lots offered in this sale will pay tribute to this remarkable artist, including exceptional pieces selected from the collection of Alain Delon.
wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-72893893306429166512016-10-16T20:49:00.003-05:002016-10-16T20:49:55.200-05:00
Parrasch Heijnen Gallery announces Deborah Remington: A Life in Drawing, 1950 – 2006, the first ever career survey of the late artist’s works on paper.
This exhibition comprises over thirty works from fifty-six years of Remington’s practice in drawing, encompassing the artist’s diverse styles: from the more traditional abstract works of the late fifties, to her closely rendered signature shieldwrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-67711879347346177662016-09-04T18:38:00.000-05:002016-09-04T18:38:53.155-05:00
Artist Eric Fischl stands near his piece "Tumbling Woman" at a preview of the new exhibition at the 9/11 Memorial Museum titled "Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11" on September 1, 2016 in New York City. The exhibition at the museum on the site of the former World Trade Center towers features thirteen artworks that were created in response to 9/11, including paintings, wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-8360775684410756272016-09-01T09:18:00.000-05:002016-09-01T09:19:34.974-05:00
Opera Gallery Hong Kong is thrilled to announce its Autumn exhibition showcasing celebrated Chinese abstract painter Liu Jiu Tong alongside a collection of figurative sculptures by American artist Richard MacDonald.
Interplaying the abstract and the figurative, Liu Jiu Tong’s unrestrained landscapes are inspired by renowned Chinese poets of the Warring States and Tang Dynasty. Eluding to wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-47346505232949871142016-08-30T07:16:00.000-05:002016-08-30T07:16:15.729-05:00
Skobeev Vitaly
Skobeev Vitaly was born in 1968 in Kazan in the family of the artist. In 1987 he graduated from the Kazan Art School. After serving in the Army (1990) he continued his studies in the workshop of his father, National Artist of Russia, V.N. Skobeev.
He held more than 20 exhibitions from 1991 to 2015, more of them are personal. His works are in the State museums and private wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-63032311563313920682016-08-22T09:41:00.001-05:002016-08-22T09:41:32.041-05:00
David Hockney, OM CH RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer.
Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, David Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. There, he painted his famous swimming pool paintings. In the 1970s, Hockney began working in photography, creating photo collages he called joiners. Hewrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-81187194326009429322016-08-21T17:09:00.001-05:002016-08-21T17:09:40.692-05:00
De Buck Gallery announced United States representation of the Estate of Bernard Aubertin, the French avant-garde artist who is best known for his monochromatic red nail paintings and for his association with the global ZERO movement.
Following a visit to the studio of Yves Klein in 1957, Bernard Aubertin was inspired to follow in Klein’s footsteps and work within the field of monochromy, wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-41655365350785823492016-08-19T16:34:00.003-05:002016-08-19T16:34:35.432-05:00
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) celebrates its first decade of collecting and the tenth anniversary in its Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed facility with the largest and most ambitious presentation of its collection to date. First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA features over 100 works by seminal artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Louise Bourgeois, Nick wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-19762429706418946452016-08-17T16:41:00.000-05:002016-08-17T16:41:08.356-05:00
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, the first institutional survey exhibition to explore the evolution of the celebrated Japanese artist’s immersive infinity rooms, will embark on the most significant North American tour of her work in nearly two decades. Following its debut at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on Feb. 23, 2017, which is the organizing institution, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-81396440375135983082016-08-14T06:26:00.002-05:002016-08-14T06:28:49.252-05:00
Vitaly Gunaza was born in 1980 in the Pskov region, Russia. He studied at the Art College of Zaporozhye (Ukraine). In 2007, he graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (Minsk, Belarus), department of painting. Since 2001 he participates in exhibitions in Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Serbia, Germany. Lives and works in Minsk, Belarus.
wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-18620072303231045672016-08-12T19:09:00.000-05:002016-08-12T19:09:12.018-05:00
First exhibition focused on Basquiat's notebooks opens in Miami.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), a cultural icon, is one of the most original, influential and prolific artists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn to a Haitian father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat was raised in a cross-cultural and multilingual family becoming fluent in Haitian Creole, Spanish and English—languages that wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5483448601656637636.post-15682787875703126462016-08-10T13:36:00.002-05:002016-08-10T13:36:51.416-05:00
Joel Shapiro (born September 27, 1941, New York City, New York) is an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. While serving his Peace Corp time in India, Shapiro saw many Indian art works, and has said that “India gave me the sense of … the possibility of being an artist.” In India “Art was pervasive and integral to the society”, and he has wrinklearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16000971216203792900noreply@blogger.com0