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The Ex Expat: Out of the Shadows

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Unwrapping the world of art - one artist at a time. Friday, May 08, 2015. Out of the Shadows. 8220;Drawing is the soul of painting. Shadows both literally and metaphorically have been an integral part of the life of Indian artist PR Narvekar. For a third of his life Narvekar’s desire to be a painter was over shadowed by the harsh realities of life. As he told the Economic Times’. As Professor Sarvapriya Walia wrote in the Contemporary Monograph. Series dedicated to Narvekar “. The expressions are based o...

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The Ex Expat: Drawn from Nature

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Unwrapping the world of art - one artist at a time. Saturday, May 16, 2015. 8220;I think all of my work comes out of drawing. Michael Govan the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2012 “No other artist has pursued color and form as relentlessly and purely as Ellsworth.”. Whilst color is an essential ingredient in the work of American painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly. A facet that reveals itself in his wood sculptures which also underscores his fascination with nature, as he said,.

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The Ex Expat: Of Icons and Landscapes

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Unwrapping the world of art - one artist at a time. Sunday, May 17, 2015. Of Icons and Landscapes. 8220;I want to paint in the present tense.”. In his essay The Art of Alex Katz. The Telegraph Newspaper’s. Said of Katz “. He is to designer shades what Claude Monet was to garden ponds.” An opinion underscored by the. With a mix of figurative and land/cityscape works to his credit, Katz divides his time exclusively between New York City and the Maine countryside maintaining a style that does both genres ju...

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The Ex Expat: Looking Up Rather Than Down

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Unwrapping the world of art - one artist at a time. Saturday, May 09, 2015. Looking Up Rather Than Down. 8220;If I knew what a painting was going to look like when it was finished. I probably would have never started it in the first place.”. Except for a couple of years in the army and truncated visits to Europe and New York American pop artist Ed Paschke. Lived and worked in Chicago. For 25 years he had a studio in the Windy City’s low rent district colloquially known as the. Ken Johnson wrote “. In the...

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The Ex Expat: The Religion of Abstraction

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Unwrapping the world of art - one artist at a time. Friday, May 15, 2015. The Religion of Abstraction. 8220;I always saw the comprehensive foundations of everything in nature.”. In his youth the Colombian abstract artist Carlos Rojas. Was so frustrated by the insubstantial answers to his philosophical and metaphysical questions that he abandoned the seminary where he was studying to pursue the answers for himself. And it became an eclectic life long journey embracing not only the visual arts but. One day...

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The Ex Expat: The Truth of the American West

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Unwrapping the world of art - one artist at a time. Friday, August 07, 2015. The Truth of the American West. 8220;Study art, not to do, but to know,. Then it may be that what you do will be worthwhile.”. The history of Texas is synonymous with longhorn cattle and synonymous with them both is the impressionist inspired plein-air artist Frank Reaugh. Encouraged by his mother the adolescent Reaugh would sit amidst the grazing herds. He also had the opportunity to experience the cattle round ups were his int...

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The Ex Expat: Go Figure the Expression

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Unwrapping the world of art - one artist at a time. Monday, May 18, 2015. Go Figure the Expression. 8220;Art was the tranquil place where I always lost myself for hours at a time.”. There is a certain cool detachment in the abstract expressionist work of Venezuelan born artist Veronica Dyer. See above) to the overall warm rendering of her portrait of Carlotta. Dyer received her early instruction in painting from her grandfather, the figurative Italian artist Nerino de Panfilis, at the age of 13 in Venezu...

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The Ex Expat: Not Too Big, Not too Heavy

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Unwrapping the world of art - one artist at a time. Sunday, May 03, 2015. Not Too Big, Not too Heavy. 8220;The beautiful circle hangs down in a pitiful way.”. Humor is never very far away from the work of the French geometrical abstract artist. As he told Museum Ritter’s. It seems to me that humor, irony, derision and frivolity are the necessary spice to make squares, systems and all the rest of it digestible.”. A sentiment confirmed by Artslant’s. Morellet’s latest exhibition. Until the 1st of August.

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The Ex Expat: Painting in the City

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Unwrapping the world of art - one artist at a time. Saturday, May 02, 2015. Painting in the City. 8220;The abstract quality of reality is far more exciting. Than most of the abstract painting that I see.”. New York City with its acres of glass and concrete is a cornucopia of inherent abstract possibilities for the American photorealist painter Richard Estes. He has been painting the city’s urban landscape since the 1960’s and as he told Artnet’s. John Arthur in 1977 “. Using a camera as part of his work ...

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The Ex Expat: A Quadrille of Color & Form

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Unwrapping the world of art - one artist at a time. Monday, May 11, 2015. A Quadrille of Color and Form. 8220;I like folding paper, and I use it as sketch for my painting. In his 2014 review of. Zin Helena Song’s. Visual Art Source’s. Robin Dluzen wrote “In four sculptures by New York artist Song, the use of painted corners and actual ones confuse the eye. As the viewer moves round the pieces, you are never able to see all the planes from any one angle.”. As she says “I really enjoy the line drawin...