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Artist Samuel Gillis

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Samuel 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 of the Art Institute Chicago. Gillis is a prolific artist featured in museums and exhibitions, including The Columbus Art Museum, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and John G. Shedd Aquarium. Part of international collections in Spain, Italy, New York, Guatemala, Russia, and San Francisco, to name a few. He’s been featured in television, movies, and publications nationwide for his work, as well as mentorship of other artists and global initiatives at the center of his mission to help build a better world through art. Gillis with his local and global community and is a frequent donor to organi...
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What Made Picasso Who he is Part One

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Pablo 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 Wikipedia Pablo Picasso, what made him a famous artist? His father Jose Ruiz Blasco classically trained him at a young age. Early influence by his father Jose helped to establish his skills as an artist with his artistic development at a young age.  Picasso's influence and skills did not stop at his father's classical training. His father did not know his mindset of breaking away from traditional art. He ventured into university at Fine Arts in Barcelona and The Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. Ultimately, Pablo Piccaso rejected his formal training, just like many great artists.  He helped to revolutionize art in th...
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Dali Beyond Reality

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 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 and nightmares.  Image provided by Britannica Salvador Dalí Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Filmmaker, Printmaker, and Performance Artist Born:  May 11, 1904 - Figueres, Catalonia, Spain Died:  January 23, 1989 - Figueres, Catalonia, Spain Quote by Dali Summary of Dali Salvador Dalí is among the most versatile and prolific artists of the 20 th  century and the most famous Surrealist. Though chiefly remembered for his painterly output, in the course of his long career he successfully turned to sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and, perhaps most famously, filmma...
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AI Art is it Real Art and Does it Have its Place in Creativity

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 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 I needed for the works of art at that phase of my artistic development. Keeping to the traditional method of creating art using physical materials to make art and getting the artist's hands dirty is key to personal development in the arts.  Flash forward to AI taking root in our society and the feeling that AI can be a tool for great art is good for those artists who embrace a revolution in the arts. Here is some more information on AI and art: If it wasn’t created by a human artist, is it still art? Info is brought to you by  The Harvard Gazette Written by Liz Mineo Harvard Staff Wri...
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Banksy Love or Hate

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  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 received wide news coverage around the world, with one newspaper stating that it was  “quite possibly the biggest prank in art history.” Banksy  then released a video on how the shredder was installed into the frame and the shredding of the picture, explaining that he had surreptitiously fitted the painting with the shredder a few years previously, in case it ever went up for auction. To explain his rationale for destroying his own artwork,  Banksy  quoted  Picasso: “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge”...
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******ENTER THE CONTEST win a work of art by Samuel Gillis*******

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https://gleam.io/HAC0f/email- signup-competition-win-1-of-6- original-works-of-art-by- samuel-gillis Enter your email to win a work of art by Samuel Gillis of Gillis Contemporary   and co founder of Wrinkle Art Sample art of Samuel Gillis
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Gerhard Richter a Contemporary Artist and Switching Gears

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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 (Cathedral square, Milan) was sold for $37.1 million (£24.4 million) in New York. [2] This was further exceeded in February 2015 when his painting Abstraktes Bild sold for $44.52 million (£30.4 million) in London at Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Sale. [3] more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Richter   https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/art/paintings/abstracts/abstracts-19901994-31/abstract- View work at: https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/art/paintings/abstracts/abstracts-19901994-31/abstract-painting-6773/?&categoryid=31&p=1&sp=32 ...
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