www.mauritsbeenackers.blogspot.com

New work: For the love.

2011-09-26T11:37:00.001+02:00

www.mauritsbeenackers.nl90x90cm, oil on canvas.

Muze

2011-07-02T20:20:00.004+02:00

80x60cm, oil on canvas, more on my website www.mauritsbeenackers.nl

New work: Incipit vita nova

2011-05-18T11:57:00.001+02:00

80x60cm, oil on canvas.
More on website maurits beenackers

Mont Ventoux loop 11 september 2011

2011-05-12T19:25:00.000+02:00

Sponsers, loper en fietsers gezocht. Goede doel actie voor de longfibrose vereniging.

Kijk op website

New work Maurits Beenackers: 'Invicta'

2011-04-18T13:13:00.004+02:00

80x60cm, oil on canvas
More on: website Maurits Beenackers

New paintings Maurits Beenackers

2011-01-17T10:32:00.003+01:00

Both 80x60cm, oil on panel. First: 'Thoughts'. Second: 'Wait'.
website Maurits Beenackers

Against the forces of nature

2010-11-18T16:17:00.003+01:00

Finally finished this painting (60x80cm, oil on panel), it was a difficult but nice one! More on website Maurits Beenackers

New works Eddy Stevens 2010

2010-10-03T11:52:00.002+02:00

Eddy Stevens

2010-04-19T15:48:00.003+02:00

My most favorite painter: Eddy Stevens and the painting I bought from him. He's my genius, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. More of his work you will find on: www.eddystevens.be. These pictures were made at his opening at Galerie Utrecht (dec. 2009).

'Fear of the water'

2010-04-10T13:44:00.003+02:00

80x60cm, oil on panel. more on www.mauritsbeenackers.nl
click on the image to see more details

'Birdflight'

2010-04-02T20:11:00.002+02:00

50x70cm, oil on canvas, priced on www.mauritsbeenackers.nl

'Overzien' finished

2010-03-22T17:31:00.004+01:00

I finished this painting 'Overzien' (which meens something like 'thinking over' or 'looking over') this weekend. Oil on canvas (linnen), 70x50cm. On canvas again, because I'm planning to paint on a bit bigger formats in the future. More real life sice, which can be impressing when painting people. Panel becomes to heavy then. This one is not so big though. I painted it with Liquin (medium) to be able to work faster because the paint dries faster. Still not used to it anyhow, but that will come. Just practise and time will get me there. I'm painting 3 pictures at this moment and hope to finish them within two months, the first one within a few weeks I think. Well I hope you like it anyway. More of my works you'll find on my site www.mauritsbeenackers.nl. See you soon.

nieuw schilderij 'Vuur en licht' af

2010-02-20T16:20:00.004+01:00

Nou ja, bijna af. Ga nog een paar puntjes op de i zetten in de achtergrond. Het blauwige in het haar is er in werkelijkheid niet, de foto is niet helemaal goed gelukt. Zal het nog een keer beter doen.
Klik op de afbeelding voor een vergroting.
meer op website maurits beenackers

Schilderij 'Toerusting' af

2010-01-03T12:09:00.006+01:00

Maurits Beenackers 60x80cm, olieverf op paneel.
website maurits beenackers
(klik op het beeld voor een vergroting)
Zo, mijn meesterwerk (voorlopig) is klaar. Prachtig schilderij, mooi formaat. Vanaf september mee bezig geweest. Ga dit schilderij misschien binnenkort eens laten fotograferen in Almere waar een specialist zit die schilderijen perfect op beeld kan krijgen. Is ook al een vak apart omdat het heel lastig is het licht goed te krijgen, reflecties te voorkomen en voldoende scherpte en de juiste kleuren op de foto te krijgen. Het schilderij moet nog gevernisd worden. Mocht je belangstelling in het schilderij hebben, kom dan gerust een keer langs om het te bekijken. Op mijn website vind je de prijs en meer gegevens om een afspraak te maken.

Cynthia Westwood

2009-12-07T17:50:00.002+01:00

website Cynthia Westwood

Cindy Wright

2009-12-07T17:42:00.001+01:00

website Cindy Wright

Lisa Bartolozzi

2009-12-07T14:08:00.001+01:00

Forum Gallery

Monica Cook

2009-12-07T12:44:00.002+01:00

website Monica Cook

Debora Poynton

2009-12-07T12:25:00.002+01:00

website Debora Poynton

Casey Baugh

2009-12-06T10:08:00.002+01:00

website Casey Baugh

Antonio Lopez Garcia

2009-12-06T09:32:00.001+01:00

Daniel Sprick

2009-12-06T09:30:00.002+01:00

website Daniel Sprick

Jorge Gallego

2009-11-08T15:31:00.003+01:00

website Jorge Gallego
blogspot Jorge Gallego

Jason de Graaf

2009-11-08T15:17:00.000+01:00

blogspot Jason de Graaf

Jano Munoz

2009-11-08T15:12:00.002+01:00

blogspot Jano Munoz

Pierre Raby

2009-11-08T14:35:00.002+01:00

Blogspot Pierre Raby

Antonio Castello

2009-11-08T14:24:00.003+01:00

website Antonio Castello
blogspot Antonio Castello

Guennadi Ulibin

2009-11-08T14:03:00.006+01:00

website galerie Arte Libre
website galerie Castello120
Ulibin op artbreak.com

Ferdinandez Pinedo

2009-11-08T13:38:00.001+01:00

website Ferdinandez Pinedo

Craig Wylie

2009-11-05T21:57:00.001+01:00

website Craig Wylie

Ben Aronson

2009-11-05T21:46:00.002+01:00

website Ben Aronson

Atsushi Suwa

2009-11-05T21:36:00.002+01:00

website Atsushi Suwa

Ignat Ignatov

2009-11-01T23:40:00.005+01:00

www.ignatovart.blogspot.com
www.ignatovart.com

Daniel Robbins

2009-11-01T15:28:00.003+01:00

www.danielrob
www.dannydoodle.blogspot.com

Nancy Depew

2009-11-01T12:40:00.003+01:00

Website Nancy Depew: www.depewstudio.com

Eerste twee uit de serie gereed

2009-09-28T16:49:00.006+02:00

Zo, de eerste twee uit de serie vrouwelijk naakt 2009 zijn (bijna) gereed. Nog even laten uitdrogen en daarna vernissen. Op een overzichtelijk formaat van 30x45cm. De volgende wordt een stuk groter.
Update 15 nov 09: de onderste is verkocht.
(klik op de afbeelding voor een uitvergroting)
www.mauritsbeenackers.nl

Nathalie Vogel

2009-08-09T15:02:00.001+02:00

website Nathalie Vogel

Javier Arizabalo

2009-08-09T14:59:00.002+02:00

website Javier Arizabalo

José Luis Corella

2009-08-09T11:17:00.002+02:00

website jose luis corella

LA Academy

2009-07-26T23:19:00.002+02:00

website LA Academy of Figurative Art

Sean Cheetham

2009-07-26T20:06:00.007+02:00

Sean Cheetham was born in 1977. He has a Bachelor of Fine Art degree with honors from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He exhibited his work in 2005 at the Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery in London, England. In 2006 Sean had his first one man exhibition with The Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery in Pasadena. Sean has become recognized as one of the most acclaimed young figurative painters today! He was also recently featured in American Artist's Workshop magazine, with a tutorial article. He has taught at LAAFA as a member of our Studio Sessions faculty in the past and now as part of our Visiting Artist Workshops program.
Speedpainting op you tube
video's Sean Cheetham
website www.seancheetham.com
seancheetham.blogspot.com

Duffy Sheridan

2009-07-26T19:26:00.002+02:00

www.duffysheridan.com
(met video's van zijn werkwijze)

Florence Academy of art

2009-07-26T16:48:00.002+02:00

www.florenceacademyofart.com

Jeffrey T. Larson

2009-07-26T15:58:00.003+02:00

Jeffrey T. Larson was born in 1962 in Two Harbors, Minnesota and grew up in the Twin Cities. Jeffrey has been trained in the manner of the Old Masters at the prestigious Atelier Lack, a studio /school whose traditions and training methods reach back through impressionism and the 19th centuries French academies. He followed his four-year formal training with museum study in the United States and abroad.

ART EDUCATION
1988 Minneapolis, MN - Private Foundries. Studied bronze casting and finishing.
1987 Museum art study throughout Europe.
1983 University of Minnesota. Studied human anatomy.
1980 - 1984 Atelier Lack, Minneapolis, MN - Completed the comprehensive four year program in the craft and techniques of the Old Masters.

GALLERY SHOWS
Tree's Place Gallery, Orleans, MA
Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY
Meadow Creek Galleries, MN
Trailside Americana, Scottsdale, AZ
Minnesota River Gallery, MN
Christines of Santa Fe, NM
The Beard Art Galleries, MN
Heritage Art Gallery, VA
www.jeffreytlarson.com

ARC

2009-07-26T14:49:00.001+02:00

ARC the largest on-line Museum on the internet. A work in progress, steadily expanding with thousands of high quality images of the greatest paintings and sculpture in history, the Art Renewal Center is building an encyclopedic collection of essays, biographies and articles by top scholars in the field.
ARC is the Eye of the Storm, at the core, hub and center of a major cultural shift in the art world. With a growing body of experts, we are setting standards to become ARC Approved™ for artists, art schools, systems of training, museum exhibitions and historical scholarship, to bring guidance, direction, goals and reality to an art establishment that has been sailing rudderless for nearly a hundred years.

www.artrenewal.org

Nelson Shanks

2009-07-25T21:05:00.013+02:00

Nelson Shanks, world-renowned painter, art historian, art teacher, connoisseur and collector, distilled the principles upon which Studio Incamminati stands from his lifelong experience and devotion to fine arts.

Nelson, and his wife Leona Shanks, founded Studio Incamminati to provide a place where artists devoted to realism could study painting and acquire other skills necessary for successful artistic careers.

When Nelson set out to become a painter, he pieced together his own education and training from the limited options available for the study of realist painting. As an 18-year-old student at New York’s famed Art Students League, he earned his tuition by serving as a monitor in the classes of artists such as Robert Brackman, Ivan Olinsky and Edwin Dickinson. Established painters such as John Koch took him on as a private student and provided substantial material as well as spiritual support of his dreams and aspirations.

His own remarkable progress soon earned him grants, including the most prestigious grants made to realist artists: the Greenshields Foundation (twice) and the Stacey Foundation (three times), that enabled him to study in Florence with the legendary Pietro Annigoni and at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

His European education completed, teaching positions took Nelson to Memphis, Chicago and then to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he has maintained a studio for more than three decades. Nelson has taught on the faculty of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League, National Academy of Design, The George Washington University, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, among others. He also established an apprentice program at his Bucks County home and studio, where artists received room, board and instruction at no cost.

www.nelsonshanks.com

Graydon Parrish

2009-07-25T16:28:00.008+02:00

Early in life Graydon Parrish realized that he wanted to be an artist, and while a senior in high school, he was one of the few students accepted to the Dallas Arts Magnet school. Yearning to paint artworks inspired by the classical past, it was not long before Parrish was studying in the New York atelier of Michael Aviano and later the Richard Lack Atelier in Minneapolis: both considered exemplars of classical art. Today, Parrish's work can be found in the New Britain Museum of American Art, Tyler Museum of Art, Mead Art Museum and private collections throughout the United States and Europe.

But it was never an easy road for Parrish—as it is for few artists working in classic principles of art. “Training for representational painting, which includes both realism and classicism, was nearly nonexistent when I was an art student,” says Parrish. “There were few options so it was all the more miraculous that I found Michael Aviano, who not only trained painters but was a master of classical painting in his own right, doggedly preserving a vital tradition. "

It is not only his near-fanatic study of technique that separates him from other classical artists, but also his deep understanding of the art-historical periods in which his favorite artists such as William Bouguereau lived. For instance, Parrish worked for many months as an art-historical researcher for the forthcoming William Bouguereau Catalog Raisonné and for years on the Jean-Léon Gérôme Catalog Raisonné. Most recently, he worked under Art Historian Gerald Ackerman as a research assistant and editor of the recently published Charles Barque Drawing Course, a complete course dedicated to nineteenth-century Academic drawing practice written by two of the French Academy’s greatest advocates: Charles Barque and Jean-Léon Gérôme.

In each of these incredible research opportunities, Parrish not only studied the artist’s technique through their own original drawings and paintings, but also the history of their times, including: business practices, philosophies of art, criticism, biographical information, and how they were received by their contemporaries.

As Parrish notes: "Only through the most arduous study can one create art. Each picture I paint is based on thorough research in the science of light, form, and technique as well as the study of the old masters—and their history. My education, therefore, has been idiosyncratic. Unable to find complete training available to the old masters, I have orchestrated my own program of learning, combining quality academics with the guidance of present-day old masters.”

grandcentralacademy.blogspot.com
grandcentralacademy.classicist.org

Roberto Ferri

2009-07-25T16:24:00.005+02:00

Roberto Ferri - born in Taranto, Italy, in 1978. Graduate of the School of Fine Arts in his hometown. Inspired deeply by Baroque painters (especially Caravaggio) and other Old Masters of Romanticism, Academism, and Symbolism (David, Ingres, Girodet, Gericault, Gleyre, Bouguereau, Moreau, Redon, Rops, etc.) Graduated - with Honors - Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 2003 - first one-man show "Roberto Ferri e il sogno del Parnaso” in the Center of Contemporary Art in Rome. Participated in group shows, e.g., "Animali e Dei", “Angeli, Demoni, Miracoli e Arconti”, and have had one-man show curated by art critic and historian, Prof. Roberto Maria Siena - “Roberto Ferri e la Luce del Corpo” in the gallery "The Labyrinth" in Rome. Winner of the Grand Prix for Scenography "Antonio Valente", II edition, in the city of Sora. Exhibited at 1st and 2nd edition of "Notte Bianca" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. December 2005 - exhibition of drawings at the gallery LoGu's Arte in Rome. 2006 - exhibitions in the gallery "Il Cortile”, Galleria Vittoria, LoGu’s Arte in Rome and in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence (TUSCANY FESTIVAL). 2007 – individual exhibition of drawings in the gallery RDF in Rome curated by Prof. Siena. May 2008 -took part in the group show “Flesh and Passion. The Fervor of Saint Sebastian” in CFM Gallery, New York City. Upcoming retrospective one-man show is scheduled for October 2008 in Castel D’Angelo in Rome. His works are already present in many important private collections in London, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Miami, New York, San Antonio, Rome, Milan, Malta, Dublin, Boston, and the Castle of Menerbes, Provence.
www.robertoferri.net
www.robertoferripittore.blogspot.com

Tristan Schane

2009-07-25T16:14:00.004+02:00

Artists statement

I was born in New York City in 1968 where I grew up and have spent nearly my entire life. I have been a full time professional artist since I was 18 years old.

My art career began when I was in my teens doing professional comic book illustration. Soon I was doing work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, First Comics, and Continuity Comics. Then my work turned toward fully painted illustrations in watercolor, gouache, acrylics, and oils. I produced paintings for promotional art, covers, posters, and various comic books and horror-related published merchandise for these companies as well as Eclipse Publishing and horror writer Clive Barker. In this industry it was necessary to be adept at painting almost anything and everything, from the most imaginative and fantastic to the very prosaic: from landscapes and cityscapes to people, animals, monsters, weird settings, vehicles and machinery of all kinds.

I have shifted from illustration work to the pursuit of my own imagery and vision in fine art. I paint now exclusively in oils in medium-to-large format. Since 1998 I also began to produce life-size sculpture, working free-hand in oil clay and then casting from rubber molds in various materials, principally Ultracal gypsum cement and plastic resins.

My inspiration as both a sculptor and a painter comes from various influences some of which are considered unorthodox for a fine artist.
As a sculptor I draw a lot of technical and visual cues from the sculptural work being done in cinema special effects. It is that industry�s trailblazing use of new techniques and materials and its exploration of radical new imagery that has helped to fuel the direction of my own sculpture.

The painting style that I have been developing over the past few years I have come to call Subversive Realism. Subversive Realism represents a fusion of the skills and sensibilities which I have acquired over the years working as an illustrator and a fine artist. I began to explore sculpture first with straight life-sized, figurative work. After the first two pieces I also adopted this Subversive Realistic style for my 3-D work, where I create pieces that marry life-sized figural, detailed representationalism with equally vividly rendered, otherworldly elements.

For my painted work, my rendering style continues to be influenced both by classical painters and by illustrators working mainly in science fiction book cover illustration. In my sculpture, I feel little affinity with most of the work being done in the fine arts field. Though I am exclusively devoted to creating for a fine arts audience, by and large the sculptors with whom I exchange ideas and whom I plumb for new tips are a few artists who produce make-up and entire creatures for the movie industry.

In both my paintings and my sculpture I am striving to produce images and ideas that are contemporary to people of the 21st century, both those who are familiar with the different artistic movements of the past, and those who may have little or no experience of fine art at all.

I started my fine arts painting as a surrealist but quickly felt that the visual language of surrealism was to atavistic for the modern world, too reliant on visual structures and styles that while beautiful were out of touch with the flavor and sensibilities of today�s world. Sort of like trying to describe a punk rock concert while writing in Elizabethan English. However expertly this could be done, to me a new age and new experiences needs a new language. Though I continue to use hyper-realism as my technical framework, I am trying to evolve in both my 2-D and 3-D work a new and autonomous visual language that represents my ideas in today�s society. Subversive Realism is for me in it's infancy. It is a direction which I can feel just out in front of me. The work I am producing now feels very authentic and on track in this new direction, but for me this direction is just beginning to take shape and each of my recent pieces has been a baby step.
www.tristanschane.com

William Bouguereau

2009-07-25T16:10:00.005+02:00

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (La Rochelle, 30 november 1825 - aldaar, 19 augustus 1905) was een Frans academisch schilder.

Bouguereau studeerde aan de Académie Julian te Parijs. Zijn realistische genre-schilderingen en schilderijen over mythologische thema's werden gedurende zijn hele actieve leven tentoongesteld op de jaarlijkse tentoonstellingen van de Parijse "Salon". Na zijn dood werd hij lange tijd veronachtzaamd, wellicht vanwege zijn hardnekkige verzet tegen de impressionisten, maar de laatste 20 jaar is er weer nieuwe waardering voor zijn werk gekomen.

In zijn eigen tijd werd Bouguereau algemeen beschouwd als een van de grootste schilders op aarde en zijn werken werden gretig gekocht door onder meer Amerikaanse miljonairs, doorgaans tegen hoge prijzen. Na 1920 is hij op merkwaardige wijze in diskrediet geraakt, mogelijk als gevolg van een bewuste lastercampagne van de kant van het nieuwe "establishment van kunstcritici", dat hem zijn verzet tegen de nieuwe richtingen in de schilderkunst niet kon vergeven. Waarschijnlijker is evenwel dat diepere maatschappelijke krachten ten grondslag liggen aan deze opmerkelijke omslag in smaak en gevoeligheid. Tientallen jaren lang werd zijn naam niet eens in encyclopedieën vermeld!

Tegenwoordig zijn er weer heel wat mensen die Bouguereau beschouwen als een van de grootste schilders uit de 19e eeuw. Het Art Renewal Center zet zich heel energiek in voor zijn "rehabilitatie".

Op gevorderde leeftijd trouwde Bouguereau voor de tweede maal, en wel met een leerlinge, de schilderes Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau. Hij wendde ook zijn invloed aan om een groot aantal Franse instellingen op kunstzinnig gebied, waaronder de Académie Française, voor het eerst open te stellen voor vrouwen.

Claudio Bravo

2009-07-25T16:08:00.006+02:00

(b Valparaíso, 8 Nov 1936). Chilean painter and draughtsman. He studied painting in Santiago in 1947–8 with the Chilean painter Miguel Venegas, then lived in Spain from 1961 to 1972 before moving to Tangiers. His entire artistic career has been conducted outside his native country.

Today’s Masters: The Precisionist
By: Vanessa Davidson
11/01/2007
Claudio Bravo’s teachers are literally right out of an art history book: Piero della Francesca, Leonardo, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Velázquez and Zurbarán, among others. The renowned realist began his apprenticeship with these masters at the age of 11, copying reproductions of their works during a scant three years of academic training in his native Chile. A precocious youngster with exceptional ability, Bravo had his first exhibition at 18, became a professional portraitist at 21 and, at the age of 25, in 1961 left Santiago to explore new horizons in Europe.

It was in the museums of Madrid in the 1960s that Bravo finally met these Renaissance and Baroque mentors and completed his education. At the same time, he became better acquainted with modern masters like Picasso, Matisse, Dalí, de Chirico and Morandi, artists who at once celebrated and subverted the painting traditions he so admired. Drawing inspiration from these sources, he developed the distinctive synthesis of tradition and innovation that has become the hallmark of his work.

His art bridges worlds and eras, melding hyper-realism with abstraction. Whether painting mundane objects or exotic collectibles, society portraits or modernized mythological scenes, the artist works with a meticulousness, which reflects the life-long quest for what he calls "a classical type of precision." Working within the parameters of traditional painting genres (landscape, portraiture, still life and mythological, history or religious painting) Bravo confounds expectations by employing these conventional formats as scaffolding for modern and postmodern themes and imagery. This synthesis of classicism and contemporaneity is at the crux of Bravo’s art. As he recently remarked, "My work is a combination of realism, abstraction and classicism. What I try to do is go against the grain of the trends of art today." And so he has, painting in a realist style in the 1960s when abstraction and minimalism reigned, eschewing the urban emphasis of 1970s and ’80s photorealism for the visual culture and colors of Morocco, and inserting incongruous, exotic, erotic and everyday elements into compositions painted with Old Master precision.

Bravo’s imagination is as nimble as his brush, but it was his capacity for creating elegant, accurate likenesses that earned him portrait commissions upon his arrival in Spain in 1961. These in turn afforded him entrée into certain elite social, cultural and political circles that applauded his technique as well as his taste. (He requested that female sitters pose in Balenciaga garments, which he found "very Renaissance.") While still in Chile, he had developed a portrait-painting formula to save time for other passions, like poetry, dance with the national Compañía de Ballet de Chile and work with the Teatro de Ensayo of the Universidad de Chile. (Bravo was a professional dancer with the national Chilean dance troupe, but gave this up to paint full time.) Though adventurous sitters gave Bravo leave to incorporate surrealist elements into their portraits, most clients in conservative, Francoist Spain favored the formulaic, prompting him to seek other arenas for experimentation. Bravo found creative freedom and inspiration, along with international acclaim, in still life.

"In my experiments with still life it occurs to me that my art really does look very modern; it sometimes almost looks abstract," Bravo observes. This is an apt description of the "package paintings" he began in the early 1960s as a means of "investigating the abstract possibilities of forms while still creating recognizable objects." Inspired by paper-wrapped parcels left on a table ("I was fascinated by their forms and I painted them," he recalls), these trompe l’oeil packages are Bravo’s best-known works. (His 1972 "White Package" sold for more than $1.4 million in 2002.) The parcels’ contents are invariably veiled, but the paintings themselves showcase the intersection of close observation, erudition and invention at the heart of his creative process. Perched on a shallow ledge as in a Zurbarán bodegón, posed against enigmatic backdrops reminiscent of Magritte or encompassing the entire expanse of the canvas like a color-field or monochrome painting, these mysterious parcels are stylistic chameleons. Bravo refers to them as "abstract-realist paintings," citing Antoni Tàpies and Mark Rothko as inspirations for their compositions and colors. "What I really wanted to paint was the wrapping," he relates. "I wanted to give a sense of trompe l’oeil tactility." Exhibited in New York’s Staempfli Gallery in 1970, these works’ paradoxical fusion of realist technique and abstract sensibility wowed critics and collectors alike. (Today, he is represented by Marlborough gallery in New York.)

Though he never stopped painting traditional still life compositions, Bravo resumed his experiments in the late 1990s, blurring the lines between realism and abstraction with pictures of draped linens, skeins of wool and crumpled papers whose vibrant colors reflect the warmer palette he adopted after moving from Madrid to Tangier in 1972. Seeking "a total change" in his life and work, he found new vocabularies of form, texture, pattern and color in the landscape and especially the markets of North Africa. "Although my work is constantly developing, there’s little change in my style," he once acknowledged in an interview. "What I do change is the subject matter." In Morocco, he put the packages aside and embraced the formal challenges posed by everything from light bulbs, ostrich eggs and sacks of local spices to ancient and Renaissance sculpture from his own collection. No longer overloaded with portrait commissions, he reconsidered his approach to figure painting, inviting visiting friends and members of his domestic staff to join a rotating cast of characters in contemporary variations on masterworks by Velázquez, Zurbarán, Titian and others.Like canvases that represent wrapped canvases, the majority of Bravo’s works are self-referential: In a sense, his paintings are about painting itself. In each work he establishes dialogues with other artists, refers to and often reworks pictorial traditions and tests the technical limits of oil paint, pastel, charcoal and pencil. He always paints and draws from life, rarely doing preparatory sketches and never takes shortcuts. "I work between eight and 10 hours a day," he says. "And I’m a seven-day-a-week painter. I never rest."

While Bravo admits to obsessing over even the smallest details (in his view, "the more obsessed an artist is, the more he strives to make his art better") his works are not literal reflections of the outside world. "You’re not exactly copying reality; it’s something more, the painting is a concept," he explains. Pictures like "The Warden and his Son" (1979), a hybrid portrait, self-portrait and vanitas painting, encapsulate this approach. Bravo is present in this surreal scene as subject, object and artist: He is reflected in the mirror à la Velázquez, visible in the classical self-portrait on the wall as well as materially present in his signature. Yet in contrast with his postmodern approach, the date below the signature is inscribed in Roman numerals, as in all of his works. "I do it because my art is classical," he asserts. "It’s been that way since childhood. It’s something I can’t deny."

Neither the art nor the artist represented in such paintings exudes a marked Chilean identity, though Bravo’s work is invariably marketed at auction as "Latin American." Having lived in Europe for 11 years and in Morocco for more than three decades, Bravo considers his artwork a "cultural cocktail" and cares little for labels. "I am only South American because of my passport," Bravo says. "My art has nothing to do with my heritage. I am very connected to the European past—to ancient art, to Renaissance art. Even when I do a painting of a contemporary scene, as in my New York pictures, its roots are in Italian art of the 15th century."

Vanessa Davidson is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at New York University, where she is researching her dissertation on conceptual art and alternative communication networks in Brazil and Argentina during the 1970s.

www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bravo_claudio.html

Seth Garland

2009-07-19T19:54:00.004+02:00

Seth Garland was born in Cornwall in 1977. His passion for painting stems from his background as his parents are both top professional illustrators, his father being best known for illustrating the Tolkien book jackets. This constant connection with the visual arts created a vibrant illustrative environment in which to grow up and where his obsession for painting began. During his study at Central Saint Martins, Garland won second prize in 'The Art of Imagination Open Competition', held at the Mall Galleries, London and was their youngest prize winner at the age of 20. His paintings are influenced by the works of the Italian High Renaissance. By reviving a Renaissance method (the same used by Leonardo da Vinci and Holbein) and marrying it with the compositional approach of fashion photographers, the result is a sumptuous hybrid of modern beauty and Renaissance nuances. His work shows an understanding of histories present within the painting process, his contemporary approach to panel painting uses contemporary subject matter to employ these techniques in a modern context.
www.sethgarland.co.uk

Douglas Flynt

2009-07-19T19:51:00.005+02:00

Douglas Flynt's (b. 1978) artistic education includes a BFA and a BA in History and Criticism of Art from Florida State University as well as a MFA from the New York Academy of Art. While studying at Florida State University he apprenticed with the vice chair of the Portrait Society of America, Edward Jonas. Later he studied under Jacob Collins and Michael Grimaldi at the Water Street Atelier. In addition he has studied drawing with Anthony Ryder.
www.douglasflynt.com

Diego Gravinese

2009-07-19T19:48:00.004+02:00

Diego Gravinese was born in La Plata, Argentina in 1971. His work has been shown internationally over the past 15 years in New York, Paris, Madrid, Turin, Buenos Aires, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He worked with Ruth Benzacar and ZavaletaLab galleries in Buenos Aires and with DeChiara gallery in New York. He currently lives and works in Buenos Aires
www.diegogravinese.com

Joseph Todorovitch

2009-07-19T13:31:00.008+02:00

Biography

Joseph Todorovitch (1978) is a young contemporary painter who has developed a reputation for his highly representational figure paintings. Growing up in Southern California, he became interested in traditional drawing and painting at an early age. His training introduced him to many artistic influences including notable ateliers and instructors.

His work is a culmination of these forces with a deep respect for the knowledge and sensitivities of the past. Joseph has been able to sift through the vast amount of information, be selective, and utilize what's necessary to achieve an impact that speaks about a personal experience with his subjects. His paintings emote, and convey a care and sensitivity that is reminiscent of the naturalist painters of the 19th century. Utilizing subtle value and temperature shifts, fine draughtsmanship, and pure intuition, Joseph weaves a world of breathable air and psychological nuance in his work.

He has participated in many group shows including the 15th annual U.S. American Artists Fine Art Show in Pennsylvania; the Artist for the New Century assisted by Art of the West, Fine Art Connoisseur, Southwest Art, and Wildlife Art magazines; Ontario History Museum invitational; the Antiques and Fine Art Show at the New York Armory; and the Richard Schmidt Fine Art Auction 2005, 2006, 2007. Joseph has been awarded First Honor and Peoples Choice at the 10th annual National Portrait Society of America's international portrait competition. He was awarded first place at the Chaffey Community Art Association 2009. His latest accolade was the Draper Grand Prize at the 2009 11th annual International portrait competition given by the Portrait Society of America and he is currently a semifinalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

Joseph Todorovitch is proud to be newly represented by Arcadia Gallery in New York.

www.onejoseph.com
www.wendtgallery.com

Arantzazu Martinez

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arantzazu martinez op wordpress.com
Aranzuza Martinez op www.artelibre.net

Scott Waddell

2009-07-19T12:17:00.009+02:00

1.bp.blogspot.com

Pamela Wilson

2009-07-19T12:15:00.006+02:00

sarah bain gallery

Lee Price

2009-07-19T12:14:00.003+02:00

www.leepricestudio.com

Sergei Marshennikov

2009-07-19T12:12:00.004+02:00

Herman Smorenburg

2009-07-18T17:37:00.005+02:00

www.hermansmorenburg.com
www.hermandsmorenburg.exto.nl

Eddy Stevens

2009-07-18T17:26:00.005+02:00

www.eddystevens.be

Jeremy Lipking

2009-07-18T16:21:00.007+02:00

www.lipking.com

Will Cotton

2009-07-18T16:19:00.005+02:00

www.willcotton.com

Margaret Bowland

2009-07-18T16:14:00.004+02:00

www.margaretbowland.com

Ryohei Hase

2009-07-13T23:44:00.004+02:00

www.ryoheihase.com

Fred Einaudi

2009-07-13T16:56:00.004+02:00

www.fredeinaudi.com

Jeremy Geddes

2009-07-13T16:55:00.002+02:00

www.jeremygeddesart.com

Michael Hussar

2009-07-13T16:53:00.004+02:00

http://www.michaelhussar.biz/

Golucho

2009-07-13T12:23:00.008+02:00

www.golucho.com

Jeffrey Hein

2009-07-13T12:21:00.002+02:00

www.jeffreyhein.com

Jacob Collins

2009-07-13T11:32:00.005+02:00

www.jacobcollinspaintings.com

David Kassan

2009-07-13T11:07:00.004+02:00

www.davidkassan.com

Alyssa Monks

2009-07-13T10:45:00.012+02:00

www.alyssamonks.com

Blogje voor Frank

2009-07-05T23:00:00.006+02:00

Blogje voor Frank. Omdat het weer zo'n tijd geleden is dat ik hier wat plaatste. En waar ik zoals mee bezig ben? Met deze vooral. Dit is de eerste van de serie van vrouwelijk naakten waarmee ik (naast zo af en toe een portret) voorlopig zoet zal zijn. Ben met een model het bos in gegaan en heb een paar mooie foto's geschoten.Heb de beste foto's geselecteerd, wat bewerkt en uitgesneden. En nu maar schilderen. 80x60 cm, olieverf op paneel. Dit is de monochrome onderschildering in wording. Die moet eerst helemaal goed zijn voordat het kleuren in olieverflaagjes gaat beginnen. Zal er wel een half jaar mee bezig zijn denk ik. Maar dan heb je ook wat.....Verder is het schilderij van Fred bijna af. Maar dat moet nu even 'rijpen' voor ik er de laatste hand aan leg. Ik heb ook de teksten en foto's aangeleverd voor het boek van Nederlandse portretschilders dat na de zomer uitkomt. En ten slotte heb ik een opdracht voor twee kinderportretten gekregen. Hoef me dus niet te vervelen deze zomermaanden.

Als je op de foto dubbelklikt zie je het werk wat beter.

Groetjes, Maurits.

Zef af

2009-06-01T11:18:00.002+02:00

klik op het werk voor een vergroting

schilderij Nova af

2009-04-25T12:25:00.006+02:00

Eindelijk. Drie maanden mee bezig geweest. In vrije tijd wel te verstaan. Omgerekend ongeveer 2 tot 3 weken uitgaand van een fulltime week van 8 uur per dag. Een flinke investering. Hoeveel kan ik er dan per jaar schilderen? Vijf ongeveer. Niet zo veel dus. Maar goed wat is belangrijker: kwantiteit en kwaliteit? Kwaliteit natuurlijk. En in deze werkwijze zal ik ook nog wel wat snelheid ontwikkelen. Het schilderij van Zef en Fred gaan al iets sneller. Het schilderij moet nog een paar maanden uitdrogen en kan dan gevernisd worden.
(klik op het werk voor een uitvergroting)

Onderschildering nieuw schilderij Fred en eerste kleurlaagjes Zef

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Klik op het werk voor een uitvergroting

Schilderij Nova richting afronding

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Bezig met het schilderij van Zef

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volgende fases Nova en Zef

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Nova nadert de afrondende fase, bij Zef is de onderschildering bijna klaar. De foto's zijn rechts iets te donker uitgevallen en links zit er een schittering in. Foto's zijn ook niet helemaal scherp. Het origineel is natuurlijk sowieso veeeeeeeel mooier; een foto valt altijd wat tegen (zeker een niet zo goede), maar goed het geeft even een indruk.
Leuk is dat er eind 2009 een boek met Nederlandse portretschilders uitkomt waar ik ook voor ben gevraagd. Deze schilderijen kunnen daar mooi in. Was al een beetje van plan af en toe eens een portret te gaan schilderen. Dit past mooi in die ontwikkeling. Wil nog twee andere portretten schilderen die in het boek kunnen. Daarover later meer.

Volgende fase Nova

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(klik op het werk voor een vergroting)

Volgende fase ondergrond schilderij Zef

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(klik op het schilderij voor een vergroting)

Fase 3 schilderij Nova: daar komt het kasteel

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De foto is van niet zo'n geweldige kwaliteit omdat die even snel in het atelier uit de hand geschoten is met bijschijnlamp waarvan je het licht ook rechtsboven duidelijk ziet. Hij is niet helemaal scherp en de randjes zijn niet helemaal recht. Als het schilderij af is, komt er natuurlijk een betere foto waardoor ook de kleuren wat beter tot zijn recht komen. Je krijgt zo wel even een indruk van de ontwikkeling van een schilderij in wording. Vooral ook voor mezelf wel eens leuk om te zien. Als je op het werk klikt, krijg je een uitvergroting en kun je de details beter zien.

Volgende fase schilderijen in wording

2009-02-01T10:58:00.008+01:00

Met dank natuurlijk aan de geweldige schilderlessen van Herman Smorenburg die het ambacht van de renaissance schilder nog beheerst. Zie www.hermansmorenburg.com. Klik op het werk voor een uitvergroting.

Mijn eerste schreden op weg naar het echte werk ....

2009-01-28T00:09:00.012+01:00

Althans, zo voelt het wel een beetje. Laten we het hopen. PS: klik op het werk voor een vergroting!

Les van Herman Smorenburg

2009-01-25T23:59:00.010+01:00

Heb sinds twee weken les van Herman Smorenburg. Kijk eens naar dit schilderij 'De wijze en de dwaas' van hem. Onvoorstelbaar dat een mens zo kan schilderen! Zie meer van zijn werk op www.hermansmorenburg.com of hermansmorenburg.exto.nl. Binnenkort hier de eerste resultaten van mijn lessen van hem. Het is een sprong vooruit, dat kan ik je alvast wel vertellen!

10 nieuwe schilderijen op www.mauritsbeenackers.nl

2009-01-10T17:16:00.010+01:00

Waaronder dit schilderij 'Uit het water' van Nova. Een van de eerste schilderijen die geglaceerd zijn geschilderd. Opgezet zoals ze dat eeuwen geleden deden: eerst een monochrome bruin witte onderschildering, dan laagsgewijs opbouwen met transparante (glacerende) lagen verf en opgehoogd met wit. In olieverf. In deze methode ga ik me de komende tijd verder verdiepen. Ik ga aan de gang met een serie vrouwelijk naakt op wat groter formaat (80x100cm). Twee eerste kleine schetsen in deze serie staan op de site onder de titels 'Zeker' en 'Aarzeling'.

Een gedicht geschreven door Isolde bij mijn schilderij

2008-12-23T10:39:00.009+01:00

De Blik -de lust- de Dood
De buik als opslagplaats-
een 'oorlog' verklaard aan diep en open.
Bereden ben ik zo mooi!
Het slachthuis bij mijn hart,
jij schroomt niet-
vangt de wolken
geeft je neerslag-
Onder gedonder, daaronder
bezwijk ik niet.
Gulzig, mijn naakte waarheid
laat zich ontkleden.
Ik kijk je in de ogen, voel de winst
we delen verlies.
Opnieuw dienen 'oorlog' en 'vrede' zich aan-
In jouw vangnet, in mijn lichaam
is onze vruchtbaarheid
genegen te 'sterven'-
Kom lief, we 'lijden'- 'strijden'
nemen elkaar, altijd!
Zie meer gedichten van Isolde op http://arpeggio.web-log.nl

Je kunt ook een nieuwe auto kopen

2008-12-22T00:00:00.003+01:00

Maar ik heb dit schilderij gekocht. Van Eddy Stevens. Och, och is het niet mooi!

Waterhouse in Groninger museum

2008-12-18T22:14:00.004+01:00

Grootste collectie van de schilder Waterhouse die je ooit bij elkaar gezien kunt hebben. Geweldig! Tot ergens in mei 2009.

Knoop doorgehakt

2008-12-17T00:16:00.005+01:00

Zo, ik heb al mijn abstracte en figuratieve werken van mijn site gehaald. Heb de knoop doorgehakt en ga alleen nog maar verder met het (sur)realistische werk. Zat er aan te komen natuurlijk. Over een paar weken zet ik weer wat nieuwe werk op mijn site. Een stuk of acht nieuwe (sur)realistische schilderijen. Waaronder ook een paar schilderijen van een nieuwe serie waar ik voorlopig mee verder ga. Geschilderd in olieverf en volgens de 'oude meesters technieken'. Ten minste: ik ben bezig met een eerste poging in die richting. Glaceren, gelaagd schilderen. Geweldig wat een effect je daar mee kunt bereiken. Maar wel even anders dan anders. Naast oude meesters zijn er ook jonge meesters. Kijk eens naar de -wat mij betreft- een van de grootste schilders van deze tijd: www.eddystevens.be. Hoe bestaat het dat een mens zo kan schilderen?

Groet, Maurits.

Blown Up Art

2008-10-06T15:56:00.006+02:00

Ben gevraagd werk beschikbaar te stellen voor Blown Up Art dat werk 'Up Blowt' tot grootse proporties ten behoeve van concerten, videoclips, openingen, etc. Ze maken gebruik van de meest geavanceerde foto- en printtechnieken. Ze hebben een vaste stock aan kunstenaars waaronder ook Herman Brood en Klinkhamer. Ben benieuwd naar mijn eerste opgeblazen werk van 20x20 meter. Zie verder: www.blownupart.com.

www.havingstyle.nl

2008-10-06T15:48:00.002+02:00

Ontwerpbureau HavingStyle heeft me gevraagd met hun mee te doen. Het is een leuk nieuw ontwerpbureau met kunstenaars/ontwerpers uit verschillende disciplines: van websitebouwers tot grafisch naar kunst. Een dezer dagen sta ik op hun site ( www.havingstyle.nl) en zal ik vooral een aantal van mijn tekeningen in de aanbieding doen. Die passen denk ik goed in het concept van de 'online cadeaushop'.

Welcome to Afghanistan

2008-08-18T22:10:00.005+02:00

100x100cm olieverf op doek
Zo, een reeks van 8 surrealistische schilderijen afgerond. Olieverf op doek. Hieronder staan ze achter elkaar (een prijslijst vind je op www.mauritsbeenackers.nl). Waarom surrealistisch werk vaak zo donker of macaber is, vragen velen zich vaak af. Surrealisme ligt erg dicht tegen de psychologie aan, tegen de droomwereld van mensen. Tegen de literatuur trouwens ook. Beelden die hier ontstaan worden niet alleen bewust zo neergezet maar ook ingegeven door het onbewuste, door fantasieën en door angsten, dingen die je liefst wilt vergeten, maar die 's nachts in je dromen toch naar voren komen. Dat is met surrealistische schilderen ook zo. Je verkeert als je schildert sowieso vaak in een soort droomtoestand of trance waarin je vrijelijk kunt associeren. Daarom is het ook zo'n prettige bezigheid. Maar ook tijdens het schilderen komt de nachtmerrie wel eens boven. Niet altijd zozeer van de schilder zelf (kan wel), maar ook van meer universele of politieke thema's. Je kunt ze wegschilderen en oppoetsen om zo een mooi beeld neer te zetten, maar mooier is vaak ook die duistere kant maar boven te laten komen: zo mooi opgepoetst is de werkelijkheid immers in werkelijkheid ook niet ten slotte.

Maurits

Queen felt the need to go to war too

2008-08-18T22:09:00.000+02:00

70x70cm olieverf op doek

I'll manage

2008-08-18T22:07:00.000+02:00

70x70cm olieverf op doek

Doggiestyle

2008-08-18T22:06:00.000+02:00

70x70cm olieverf op doek
klik op de afbeelding voor een vergroting

Dreamcatcher

2008-08-18T22:05:00.000+02:00

50x50cm olieverf op doek

Happy birthday cow

2008-08-18T22:04:00.000+02:00

30x30cm olieverf op doek