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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...

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...

 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...

 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...

  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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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 ...

Picasso 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://www.pablopicasso.org/blue-period.jsp Image found at: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://www.pablopicasso.org/images/paintings/the-blindmans-meal.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.pablopicasso.org/blue-period.jsp&h=654&w=650&tbnid=_bMApr1TpBDlVM:&q=picasso+and+blue+period&tbnh=160&tbnw=159&usg=AFrqEzcAUtUr8lEn6eIohoR_3P8UHDo-7w&vet=12ahUKEwjcq8DWiujcAhUpHDQIHUBGCqsQ9QEwAHoECAwQBg..i&docid=wExw7Cjk2F5BGM&client=firefox-b-1-ab&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjcq8DWiujcAhUpHDQIHUBGCqsQ9QEwAHoECAwQBg#h=654&imgdii=R_I8ZOl_eMLrKM:&tbnh=160&tbnw=...

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 the common people. Continuing to draw he picked up the brush and created dark paintings of the life of the people he felt the need to be close to. Potato Eater is one of the first and well known for his early period of painting everyday life. potato eater image found at : https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search… More info found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

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 years after the flood, Santa Croce welcomes The Last Supper back, newly conserved through an international collaboration between the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, the Getty Foundation, Prada, and Protezione Civile. The structural conservation of the painting was funded by the Getty Foundation as part of its Panel Paintings Initiative, a program that was launched as a joint effort in 2008 between the Getty Foundation, Getty Conservation Institute, and J. Paul Getty Museum. The initiative advances the knowledge of current experts in panel paintings conservation and prepares a next generation of con...

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 finished painting, however, is an abstract composition with its own internal dynamics, emerging through a process that resembles evolution and other unpredictable natural phenomena. Terry Winters (born 1949) lives and works in New York City and Columbia County, NY. His one-person museum exhibitions include the Tate Gallery, London (1986); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1991); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1992); the Whitechapel Gallery, London (1998); Kunsthalle Basel (2000); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2001); the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin...

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 collection of oil, acrylic and watercolour paintings reveals a different side to Robert Allen Zimmerman, an icon of 20th century US popular music, whose poetic lyrics earned him the Nobel Prize for literature last month, to much surprise. 

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 as in Europe and Japan, since 1999. The twelve large and dynamic works of Shadows and Loops have the improvisatory spirit of outsider art and share some of the disruptive qualities of his films. Seen together, the crudely painted figures, shadowy sublayers, and psychedelic looping patterns of the paintings offer up an environment of alienated weirdness, with an emphasis on raw expression and impulsivity rather than intellectual clarity. “His figurative works have the spontaneity of old-school graffiti, with patches of color, rough textural elements, and random marks developed into characters ...

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. Véronique Fromanger: “In celebration of the centenary of Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916) Christie’s Paris presents at auction seventeen of the artist’s sculptures. The subjects, in bronze and in marble, include several big cats, birds, a group of yaks, an elephant and three gazelles, a gasping deer, a resting dog, and three female figures – all cast by one of the greatest founders of all time, Adrien Aurélien Hébrard. The present, unique assembly of collections, brought together by Christie’s, Paris, embraces every aspect of Rembrandt Bugatti’s creativity, both in the stylistic range of the subje...

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 shield forms of the sixties and seventies, to a synthesis of six decades in the later works. A renegade in every sense of the word, Remington (1930-2010), a relative of American painter Frederic Remington (1861-1909), earned her B.F.A. in 1955 from the California School of Fine Arts (later renamed the San Francisco Art Institute), where she studied with Clyfford Still, David Park and Elmer Bischoff, among others. While still in school, she became immersed in the Beat scene and was one of the six artists and poets – and only woman – who founded the Six Gallery in 1954, where Allen Ginsberg first re...

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, sculptures, video and other media. The show will open September 12 and run until January.

 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 form, Liu expresses a lyricism swathed in tenacious layers of paint, vigorously applied and condensed onto canvas like a fleeting moment trapped between open fingers. Born in 1977 in Suide, a province of northern China, Liu graduated from the Art Institute of Xi’an and continued his studies in Beijing. Growing from the highlands of northwest of China with giant mountains and fields makes Liu’s oil painting full of heroic spirit. Inspired further from his later travels, old charming buildings of Shanghai and peaceful villages surrounded by water appear in his artworks - full of melodic passi...

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 collections in Russia. He lives and works in Kazan.                                                           'The creation of a man'   'The creation of a soul' 'Leonardo's planet' 'The Tree of life'