Contemporary Artists Randomized Flashcards
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He plays with thick impasto and thin airy layers of color; light and shadow; strong strokes and thin lines – to give the viewer a feeling of deep space in his landscapes
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David Najar
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He has painted portraits of the last six U.S. presidents including a painting of President Barack Obama, called 44 Obamas (44th president), for a museum installation. He has also painted portraits of the Dalai Lama and Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Peter Max
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He is a proud American and created a series of artworks that were sold specifically to raise millions of dollars to help repair and restore the Statue of Liberty.
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Peter Max
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He is known as an “ambidextrous action painter” as he paints withboth hands simultaneously.
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Alfred Gockel
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He is a master of reflective surfaces and light. For this reason, his wine bottles and motorcycles stand out as sheer masterpieces and stand testament to his popularity.
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Scott Jacobs
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He excels at lithography. He creates lithographs at the same studio where Marcel Mouly created his lithographs and works with the same team. Much like Mouly, he has a timeless appeal that is rooted in the inspiration from the great fauves.
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Emile Bellet
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His works are greatly inspired by his travels around the world uniting the sense of peace, natural beauty, and tranquility.
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Alex Pauker
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This artist was also the official artist for the Kentucky Derby in 2010
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Linda Le Kinff
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In 2007, He was commissioned by the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville Kentucky to paint a series of portraits of the legendary boxer. Park West has donated numerous mixed media paintings of Ali by this artist to the center, which remain in their permanent collection. These same works have other variations signed by Muhammad Ali and He, which are available through Park West exclusively. In 2009, Muhammad Ali himself later commissioned Him to paint joint portraits of himself and Barack Obama, which were unveiled on the eve of Obama’s inauguration as Ali’s gift to the new President.
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Simon Bull
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His works can be classified into two distinct styles – his more traditional works often feature women, musical themes and a romantic tone, while his contemporary works are often bright with bold and vivid colors.
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Charles Lee
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One of his works is in the permanent collection at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan, an honor typically reserved for much older artists.
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Marcus Glenn
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He worked as a conservationist and wildlife guide before becoming an artist. He is fully educated in the nature of the animals he paints and captures his immense respect and awe for the animals of Africa, as well as their natural beauty and majesty. As such, he is a self-taught artist who has perfected his skills in his almost reverent desire to depict the animals he respects so much.
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Andrew Bone
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The fluid, interlacing lines of his work lend them a smoky, hazy feel which transports the viewer into a late-night jazz club.
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Steve Bloom
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The artists style of aged, cracked canvas mimic the classic style of Italian frescoes and figurative oils.
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Tomasz Rut
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Artist has the distinction of having influenced both Janet Treby and Gary Benfield, both world famous artists in their own right. He really is an innovator and his collectors know they own the artist who has inspired other artists stylistically.
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Peter Nixon
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Nano’s bronze sculptures are created using the Lost Wax Process. The unique and time-consuming patinas are applied by hand to emphasize surface details, patterns and textures.
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Nano Lopez
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He has a new museum currently under construction in Israel dedicated to his life and art.
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Yaacov Agam
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His father bought him a cello, hoping he would not pursue a career as an artist. However, he chose to be classically educated in both art and music.
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Duaiv
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His 3-Dimensional artworks are available exclusively through Park West Gallery.
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Romero Britto
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He uses a brush with a tip the size of a pencil point to create the details that render his work photo-realistic.
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Scott Jacobs
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He trained in Art Conservation and worked to restore large scale murals in museums and mansions, such as the Smithsonian Institute and the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Tomasz Rut
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Considered one of the most influential figurative artists of the early 21st century.
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Itzchak Tarkay
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Artist created the logos for “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “American Graffiti.” This is what attracted Disney to the artist. Disney commissioned artist to redesign their movie posters and promotional illustrations for the re-release of the classic films in the 1980’s. Artist created movie posters for “Bambi,” “Pinocchio,” “Snow White,” “Sleeping Beauty,” and “Lion King.”
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David Willardson
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She spent her childhood and adolescence very involved in art, but chose to pursue a more social career as an actress. As time went by, however, painting became a larger part of her life until she finally devoted herself entirely to visual art.
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Daniele Cambier
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For the 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, he painted the sides of two buses. He was awarded the Commander of the Order of the Star of Europe by the Prince of Denmark for his efforts to assist contemporary artists and his country.
Duaiv
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He began as an animation background painter, which was to change his life forever. Over the years he collaborated with more than 5 animated films for Disney Studios where he developed his ability to create computer generated images.
James Coleman
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His imagination and vision can be found in over 100 museums and galleries worldwide and on a variety of canvases, including the Berlin Wall, a Boeing 777 jumbo jet, and most recently the hull of the 2013 ship, the Norwegian Breakaway.
Peter Max
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He has been on the cover of Life Magazine and has had numerous national TV appearances including Johnny Carson and Larry King. His visual impact on the 60’s has often been compared to the influence the Beatles had with their music.
Peter Max
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In 2000 he was the first to win the Fine Art Trade Guild award for the top selling original print artist in Great Britain and was short-listed twice for the best selling published artist award
Simon Bull
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Father of Kinetic Art
Yaacov Agam
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Artist is inspired by studying Leonardo Di Vinci’s drawings and was inspired to recreate a style based on his “sfumato” or smoky composition. He has also traveled to Venice, examining Titian, Veronese, and Bellini. The dynamism and movement of the human figure is something he tries to portray as humans don’t sit still and he’s trying to capture that energy in his work. He draws inspiration from the Renaissance master paintings, dance, poetry, music, and nature
Peter Nixon
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As a graduate student, he was commissioned to create limited edition etchings and serigraphs for an international art distribution company. Owning his own print-making studio afforded him a great love of printmaking and has helped him evolve as an artist.
Steve Bloom
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This artist is best known for capturing ideal visions of femininity in his lush, exquisite oil paintings and graphic works, expressively showing the tender beauty of women.
Felix Mas
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The artist paints in a technique she called “Sculpted Oils,” using thick, rich swirls of vivid color to capture the essence of what she depicts.
Leslie Lew
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Looks for inspiration in the tradition of classical art of such greats as Michangelo; his work expresses the entire spectrum ofhuman emotions from exhilaration, to contentment, to melancholy, to pain.
Tomasz Rut
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He is an official Artist for the US Olympic Team and has created originals for both the Olympics in Beijing in 2008 and again in Vancouver in 2010. Other commissions include: Unicef, Toshiba, and Northwest Airlines.
Alexander Chen
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He created the “Agamograph,” which is multiple series of images viewed through a lenticular lens, creating change at every angle.
Yaacov Agam
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This artist was born in Germany and raised around the world. In 1938, Max’s family moved to Shanghai, and he currently resides in Manhattan, where he has lived since 1953. He draws inspiration from his travels but is lauded as “America’s Painter Laureate,” and is nothing less than an iconic American artist.
Peter Max
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Though he lives in CA, this artist spends much of his time in Europe and particularly his hometown of Croatia which is clearly the inspiration behind many of his Mediterranean themed artworks today.
Marko Mavrorich
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As one of the few artists in the world licensed to create Disney imagery, his work is highly desirable. The contributions made by this artist to the world of art span over 30 years both in film and fine art.
James Coleman
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Artist is an emerging international artist. His works present energetic movements of color and shapes, describing scenes from nature, his most common subject matter – he finds it simultaneously in perfect harmony, near God, and full of beauty.
David Najar
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Recognizable style frequently connects with the public on a deep level, as his themes deftly portray the complexities of human relationships, states of connection and separation.
Pino
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Artists style is Abstract Expressionistic – he uses vibrating, intensecolor to represent the changing seasons and their hues
Wolfson Yuval
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In 2002, He (along with Thomas Kinkade and Howard Behrens) was selected as an official artist of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Their commemorative artworks were unveiled at an event in New York City by Donald Trump.
Simon Bull
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Unique works were most often sold through galleries on consignment, and when the artist passed in 2010, his estate recalled all of his paintings that were not purchased. Thus his unique works today are rather rare today. We are proud to display one artist drawing at The Henry; it is one of the only unique works Park West currently owns of this artist.
Pino
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He is an internationally acclaimed artist whose reputation for creating captivating city scenes, enchanting landscapes, and famous landmarks is greatly admired.
Alexander Chen
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He is highly accomplished in the technique of serigraphy, but also works in acrylic painting
Wolfson Yuval
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Disney Artists
James Coleman and David Willardson
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This artists artistic talents were evident at an early age; by high school he could create serious replicas of the great Masters including Michelangelo’s sculptures. He studied at The Rembrandt Academy and National University in Bogata, Spain. Here he also worked for sculptor Francisco Barton, working with marble, granite, and steel. In Madrid he first began working with bronze, and he held his first one man show. Several years later he worked and showed his sculptures across France and attended the Superior National School of Beaux Art in Paris.
Nano Lopez
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As an architect, he once worked as the set designer for a rock video for the rock band “Kiss.”
Anatole Krasnyansky
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His artistic career began at the age of 18 with his first one-man exhibition in Hong Kong. Since then he has had numerous exhibitions throughout the world, including a one-man show at Harrod’s in London, where 76 of his paintings were exhibited
Simon Bull
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Artist’s distinctive style is like no other, and for this reason he is incomparable to other artists. His unique style can be described as a contemporary fusion of Renaissance Europe and Classical Mythology. He is a renaissance artist of our time. He is totally devoted to his craft, controls every aspect of it; makes his own dried pigment, hand crafts his own frames, creates and pulls his own silk screens, hand embellishes the artwork with ground glass, platinum, and 24 carat gold.
Csaba Markus
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The viewer is drawn into a world dominated by serene beauty, balance and order. There is a sense of timelessness and familiarity, even if one has never seen his work before.
Igor Medvedev
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He was commissioned by Absolut Vodka to design their 25th Anniversary commemorative bottle. This incredible opportunity catapulted Him into the limelight alongside artists like Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. Numerous commissions followed: Gran Marnier, Pepsi, Apple, IBM, Disney, La Guardia Airport, a United Nations postage stamp series, Britto Mini Cooper for BMW, and BankAtlantic.
Romero Britto
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He uses an extraordinary impasto technique and often achieves this by painting with a palette knife.
Alex Pauker
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Artist concentrates on still life and landscapes, which he paints dramatically with thick, expressive brushwork and brilliant colors.
Michael Milkin
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Artist has established his own fashion label, the ______ Design Collection. Today his art is incorporated into fashion and home décor. Artist has his own retail stores, which bear his name – locations throughout metro Detroit and St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.
Dominic Pangborn
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He has a passion for Native Americans, the Southwest USA, and rock and roll. He blares music in his former garage-turned-studio while he works, typically works very quickly with an incredible array of media, and will frequently incorporate song lyrics or random thoughts into his works. He focuses on bright color palettes to attract the viewer and impact a pleasing visual effect to his highly energetic imagery.
Tim Yanke
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He met Salvador Dali when he was 25, who was a great inspiration to him throughout his life, constantly reminding him to blend his passion for the arts, transitioning his music throughout his painting and throughout his life.
Duaiv
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This artists works are elegant in their simplicity and invite the viewer into a world that is free of all the modern day fuss and stress. Her figures are at peace, absorbed in a world that is full of life’s fruitfulness. Her work can’t be placed in any kind of category; it is beyond style or trend. It is perpetually contemporary.
Linda Le Kinff
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He is most famous for his elegant fashion designs which capture the art deco period in which he worked. His delicate figures and sophisticated, glamorous designs are instantly recognizable, and his ideas and art still influence fashion into the 21st century.
Erte
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His work is described as “Contemporary Expressionism.” His work is offered worldwide and has been shown in group exhibits and one-man shows in Isreal, the United States, and Canada.
David Najar
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He has sold over 100,000,000 posters and open edition prints. He was commissioned by the U.S. Olympic committee to create an official work of art for the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Alfred Gockel
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This artist was born in the Ukraine to parents who are both artists; he grew up with a love of art and painting.
Anatoly Metlan
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He was commissioned by the NFL to create the Super Bowl XLI pre- show in 2007. In collaboration with Cirque du Soleil, the entire Dolphin stadium in Miami was turned into a giant canvas.
Romero Britto
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He is best known for utilizing a digital printmaking technique, using what many would term a “digital paintbrush” to create his imagery.
Steve Bloom
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Park West Gallery, through association with the Artist's Licensing Company (the estate of the artist) and Curtis Publishing (owner of the copyrights of the Saturday Evening Post artwork), has been able in recent years to bring new and exceptional collecting opportunities for the artworks to enthusiastic collectors.
Norman Rockwell
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He is the most widely collected artist in the United States and is known as the “The Painter of Light.” He uses techniques of the late 19th century American painters, known as Luminists. His paintings radiate light, inviting viewers to bask in the nostalgia of earlier, less stressful times.
Thomas Kinkade
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Held 1 man retrospective at Guggenheim in NYC in 1981.
Yaacov Agam
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All of artist's images strike the same note: a meditative stillness which is lush, sensuous, and timeless. His oeuvre is a visual poetry dominated by pictures of women who are exceptionally well-dressed and seated in lavish interiors or terraces.
Itzchak Tarkay
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Artists art has been published in Playboy and exhibited at museums across the country including the esteemed Detroit Institute of Art.
Dominic Pangborn
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He creates spatial relationships that do not exist in reality – walls don’t line up, spaces disappear and reappear in other positions, etc. He “changes” reality to create his own “imaginary” world in which to invite the viewer. Furthermore, he will often create combinations of locations that cannot exist in reality like a view of the Taj Majal or the Pyramids of Egypt from an elegant private balcony.
Fanch Ledan
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His art depicts countryside scenes in an incredible symphony of colors. He mixes sand and plaster with his pigments and then coarsely applies it to the canvas to create a distinct, impressionistic texture. The way light interacts with this rough surface produces a stunning dynamic effect.
Slava Brodinsky
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He has a penchant for a bright and eye-catching palette (including gold foil) that demonstrates his keen sense of color; yet in spite of such vibrant imagery he presents his subjects in a calm reflective and almost ethereal way.
Charles Lee
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Since 1973, this artist has had more than fifty one-person shows including exhibitions at Champs-Elysees in Paris and the Pantechnicon Gallery in San Fransisco.
Fanch Ledan
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He is recognized for capturing the timeless beauty of music and the female form through his ethereal, impressionistic style.
Hua Chen
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This artists work has been exhibited all over the world, including in the permanent collections of more than 20 museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Japan, the Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, and Paris’ Bilbiotheque Nationale
Marcel Mouly
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His works are featured in major locations all around the world, including the “Villa Regina” tower in Miami, “The Agam Fountain” in Paris, “Fire and Water Fountain” in Tel Aviv, Israel, “Reflection and Depth” at the Port Authority in New York, “Communication X9” on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, and “Communication Night and Day” at the AT&T Building in New York.
Yaacov Agam
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His talent was discovered at an early age, and was granted a scholarship from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Wolfson Yuval
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This artist often pays homage to his favorite artists by inserting their works into his “Interiorscapes.” Artists featured include Picasso, Matisee, Tarkay, Max, Le Kinff, and others.
Fanch Ledan
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Coleman works in oil, watercolor, gouache and pastor. His work is impressionistic and luminous. His works intrigue the eye and touch the heart. You can feel the warmth in his paintings. As a master of color, light, and design, he has become one of the most collected and sought-after Disney artists around the world.
James Coleman
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Artist was born in 1934 in Barcelona, Spain, lived in Venezuela 1974- 1979, and today divides his time between Barcelona and the United States.
Felix Mas
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He received recognition at the International Artexpo in New York in 1986 and 1987, and three hardcover books have been written on him and his art.
Itzchak Tarkay
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He is known for his stark, moody drawings. The subject matter of his works include austere tree limbs, modest houses in simple shapes, and shadowy interior scene – and are always devoid of people. They artfully explore the effects of light and shadow in muted tones.
Robert Kipniss
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Fashion Artists
Erte and Dominic Pangborn
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Was greatly influenced by the works of the Fauvist masters such as Matisse. He continues today’s legacy of important French landscape artists. He uses untraditional colors to imbue his work with a playful, happy feel and often creates scenes of markets, cityscapes, and festivals.
Jean Claude Picot
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This artists underlying themes are childhood memories and growing up in America, examining American culture and how it reflects on our tastes historically – good or bad.
Leslie Lew
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Strong clean forms and dramatic use of light and shadow are the hallmark of his style - lending serigraphy as the perfect medium for his graphic editions.
Igor Medvedev
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Artist has said,”The love for painting runs in my blood.” He used his instinct to choose his colors, often inspired by his surroundings – music he has listened to or places he has traveled.
Itzchak Tarkay
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This artist is self-taught and turned to painting full time later in life, after studying at a school for Navigators and spending time as a professional diver. He considers his father, who died when he was a boy, to be his primary influence as an artist.
Marko Mavrowich
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He is a French-born artist who began his painting career at the tenderage of 3. He completed his first oil painting by the age of 9.
Duaiv
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A native of Detroit, he is known for his use of bright colors and his expressive use of papers and fabrics, creating a masterful textured collage effect. He has created a unique form of combining painting with sculpture to form a bas-relief. He calls this style “Flat Life” and has been developing the idea for more than a decade.
Marcus Glenn
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Easily one of the most popular and well-known American artists of all time. The artists illustrations were featured on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post for 47 years – this led to immense exposure for the artist as he captivated an audience average of 4 million viewers. Artist is the recipient of the highest American honor a civilian can receive from the government: the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his “vivid and affectionate portraits of our country.”
Norman Rockwell
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Many of this artist's one-of-a-kind watercolor paintings are painted on a Japanese rice paper that he specially prepares to create a unique textural surface. He is one of the first artists to elevate the watercolor medium to the expressive possibilities usually associated with oil painting.
Anatole Krasnyansky
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He has always been passionate about music. It is the inspiration behind many of his musically themed art works today. During his younger years, he was the lead singer of his own band.
Charles Lee
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The traditional cityscapes are influenced by his previous career as an architect in the U.S.S.R. His life and experiences living in U.S. has inspired his newer style. The masks featured in his artworks represent masks for the different facets of our lives. He has said, “Do you think that our ‘holiday mask’ looks the same as the mask that we wear to work?” He believes that the only time we remove all our masks is when we’re completely alone.
Anatole Krasnyansky
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He is known as the “Father of Kinetic Art,” which is art that incorporates movement as part of the design. He invites the viewer to come close, touch, move, and participate actively with the art. This interaction allows the viewer to fully appreciate the aesthetics of the art and the changing experience it provides in the 4th dimension: Time.
Yaacov Agam
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As a newer artist to the collection, this artists oils provide an opportunity to collect a one-of-a-kind painting at introductory pricing.
Michael Milkin
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Depending on the size, each painting takes this artist more than 100 hours to complete.
Scott Jacobs
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This artist had a solo show in New York City and her work has been included in numerous publications. She has been shown alongside Andy Warhol, and has exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum and Art Basel in Miami. Her work hangs at the Mayo Clinic Children’s Hospital and has been collected by Julian Lennon.
Leslie Lew
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The artist has been exhibited at the Art Expo in New York, The Art Expo in Chicago and the Art Expo in Las Vegas, among other prestigious art shows, and have won dozens of awards.
Wendy Schaefer & Kevin Miles
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Up until 2008, this artist was the last living artist to have worked alongside Picasso. Having created a unique, trademark style, he developed a reputation as one of the most important modernist artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He was influenced by Braque, Matisse, and Picasso the most. Matisse influenced artist in the Fauvist use of color that is apparent in artists unique style.
Marcel Mouly
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He has the honor of being the first ever officially licensed Harley Davidson artist. He is also licensed by the Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley estates. He is in the collection of Malcolm Forbes (former Publisher of Forbes magazine).
Scott Jacobs
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Artist was born in Paris, and her work has been exhibited at thePalais de Congres of Paris and numerous shows.
Daniele Cambier
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His work amplifies human visual perception. His paintings sometimes reveal a broader perspective than is humanly possible, with an extreme level of detail. This is what produces the “wonderment” and “hyper- realism” when looking at his work – he wants to share with the viewer a side of life in all these exotic locations that is playful, unique and inviting.
Alexander Chen
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This talented husband and wife team create lush landscapes inspired by their love of travel and nature. Both artists collaborte on every single painting they create.
Wendy Schaefer & Kevin Miles
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The path that appears in many of the artists works is a metaphor for the journey we take down the road of life, while the warm light represents the artists’ positive faith.
Wendy Schaefer & Kevin Miles
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Park West offers an extraordinary collecting opportunity for this artists lithographs, as Park West exclusively published the artists lithograph editions for the last 10 years of his life.
Marcel Mouly
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He was selected to hold a one-man retrospective at the Guggenheim museum in New York City in 1981.
Yaacov Agam
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He is recognized for the detail and photo-realism in his works, which are a result of his real life experiences with wildlife animals. The landscape in his work is completely authentic to the species he is painting and just as important from a conservation standpoint.
Andrew Bone
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His art is shown in more than 140 galleries nationwide. Collectors of his work include Michael Jordan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Andre Agassi, the Guggenheims, the Rothchilds, the Kennedys, and former Whitney Museum President William Woodside. He has also been collected by the Vatican and exhibited at the Louvre twice.
Romero Britto
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He paints women with no faces, representing the universal woman encompassing beauty and femininity.
Emile Bellet
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Artist is one of the youngest acclaimed contemporary artists to have emerged from Israel recently. Pauker’s command over the techniques of painting and serigraphy, are advanced way beyond his years. For this reason, Pauker is considered one of the most “up and coming artists” on the scene today.
Alex Pauker
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He grew up during the Cultural Revolution in China when western art was prohibited. His father used to sneak in books on western art, and as a result, he was exposed and influenced by impressionists and post-impressionists including Degas, Renoir, Lautrec and Manet. It is extraordinary and historical that a Chinese artist from the communist system paints Impressionism.
Hua Chen
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A local artist and native to the Detroit metro-area, his work is not easily missed: he was commissioned in 2010 to create the signature work for The Henry, an upscale boutique hotel in Michigan. It is his largest work to date and now permanently resides behind the front desk in the lobby of the hotel.
Tim Yanke
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In the style of Alphonse Mucha, he frequently depicts women representative of the Four Seasons.
Felix Mas
108
This artist calls upon some of the true styles of the great impressionist masters Monet and Renoir, although his work is more influenced by the California impressionists. The ability to own beautiful original impressionist artwork from a contemporary artist is an excellent opportunity for collectors.
Marko Mavrorich
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Artist was born in the Ukraine and trained and worked as an Architect. He kept painting throughout his life, eventually taught fine arts and had his work exhibited in art shows throughout Ukraine, France, and Germany, before dedicating himself to art.
Michael Milkin
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He is a master of the medium of Mezzotint.
Robert Kipniss
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He designed 250 covers for Harper’s Bazaar, and his illustrations also appeared in Illustrated London News, Cosmopolitan, and Vogue. He created innumerable drawing for these magazines, fashion designs for some of the world’s most glamorous women, costumes and set designs for Hollywood movies, and a variety of product designs.
Erte
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This artist was the official artist for the World Cup in 1998 (an honor now shared with Peter Max and Romero Britto). As a result of being chosen, the French government minted a commemorative medallion of one of her works in her honor, marking the first time a living artist has received this honor.
Linda Le Kinff
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Artist is now “in the pantheon” of the great animation artists of history. Artist is the creative force of the “pep art movement,” an innovative new genre where cultural icons are rendered with an unprecedented fusion of color, personality, and energy.
David Willardson
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His first one-person exhibition, “Monet’s Garden,” was received with much acclaim by critics – he created 24 variations of one image, where the colors differed gradually according to the declining sunlight, hour by hour
Wolfson Yuval
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He spent roughly six years working alongside artist Itzchak Tarkay in Isreal, exchanging ideas and painting together weekly.
David Najar
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He has said, “If someone looks at my [art] and sees only trees and houses, then they don’t see what I’m doing. I may be painting trees and houses, but when I look at them, that’s not what I see. I see an atmosphere, a moment, a quickly passing experience that I’m trying to capture. My art is of intensity, of delving, of exploring the soul.”
Robert Kipniss
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Born Giuseppe Dangelico in Bari, Italy, this artist lived from 1939-2010. Primarily worked as an artist for the book publishing industry.
Pino
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Has participated in many exhibitions, including the Salon of Independent Artists, France in 1970. He also won first prize in New York for mosaic table.
Victor Spahn
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He enjoys traveling in the summer to Italy and France, which is reflected in the warmth, light, and bold vibrant colors he captures from the seascapes and villages of their coastal regions.
Anatoly Metlan
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He was commissioned by George Pompidou (president of the French Republic) to create “Elysee Salon.” The work of art is an entire room (i.e. salon) within the Pompidou museum in Paris. It consists of polymorphic and metapolymorphic works which transform as the viewer moves around within the space. The accuracy of the work is evident in the simple fact that the floor covering alone took 4 1/2 years to complete.
Yaacov Agam
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Artist's energetic style suggests movement and dynamism in the subjects that he portrays, and they appear to capture the essence of movement in a particular moment.
Victor Spahn
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He paints entirely with a palette knife, no brush, which is a difficult technique to master. He uses the “less is more” philosophy in his use of color, and simplicity of composition to extract as much as possible from a limited number of variables – brining simple elegance to the work.
Emile Bellet
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During his long career, he was commissioned to paint the portraits for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.
Norman Rockwell
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His work is displayed in over 30 museums around the world, including The British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, the Smithsonian, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the first artist that the New Orleans Museum opened with after Hurricane Katrina.
Robert Kipniss
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Worked for Disney for 17 years. He was one of the few artists that was actually sought after and approached by Disney. Furthermore, artist is one of only a few who are licensed to use Disney imagery in the world.
David Willardson
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He has two different styles: traditional cityscapes and a moreabstract style with masks, musical themes, and vivid colors.
Anatole Krasnyansky
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Paints with a combination of palette knife and brush.
Victor Spahn
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Although many of his peers were painting darker and more somber figures, he realized that it was much harder to paint something happy – like falling in love – and he wanted to challenge himself.
Peter Nixon
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His devotion to his family is shown in his work with “love notes” by hiding the letter “N” in all his paintings as a tribute to his childhood sweetheart and wife Nanette.
Thomas Kinkade
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His work can be found in the collections of several well-known museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a sizable collection of work can be found at Museum 1999 in Tokyo.
Erte
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Spends a part of the year in the south of France, and often draws on the Cote d’Azur in his works.
Jean Claude Picot
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He is considered a modern-day Abstract Expressionist artist and is inspired by forefathers of the movement: de Kooning, Motherwell, and Pollock. He has no pre-conception when he works and develops his imagery spontaneously.
Tim Yanke
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He has been designated as the Official Artist for the Grammys, the 25th Anniversary of the New Orleans Jazz Festival, and the Woodstock Music Festival. For the 20th anniversary of Woodstock, he was asked to create the world’s largest rock-and-roll stage for the Moscow Music Peace Festival.
Peter Max
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His “Nanimals” engage viewers of all ages and reflect a sense of playfulness, intense creativity, and wonder. The combination of his classical training, experimentation with materials, and extensive experience, has led to the production of avant-garde art, which combines aesthetic considerations and rich textural surfaces. His work invites us to experience a range of emotions from joy to creativity to introspection to wonder.
Nano Lopez
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He has been exclusively working as an artist for over 50 years, and has been exhibited in over fifty one-person shows throughout the world.
Jean Claude Picot
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His one-man retrospective show at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg drew the largest turnout for any artist in the museum’s history. Over 14,500 people attended.
Peter Max
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This artist is inspired by the light and history of the Mediterranean often traveling and painting on location. Rapidly disappearing town and villages and the destruction brought on by new development and tourism signal a loss of dialogue with the past for the artist. He has said he can hear the sound of bulldozing as he paints. This artists theme is ecology and his vision is to preserve ancient cities, even if only through the window of his works.
Igor Medvedev
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This artists influences include the hidden sensuality of Braque, the masterful drawing of Matisse, the elegance of Modigliani and the precocious maturity of Egon Schiele.
Linda Le Kinff
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The inspiration for his work lies with French Impressionism and Post- Impressionism, exemplifying the bright colors of the Fauves such as Matisse and the drawing style of Toulouse-Lautrec.
Itzchak Tarkay
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Prior to becoming recognized for his artwork, he worked on an assembly line for Chrysler during the day and developed his art style at night. He became the first African American and the youngest cartoonist in the Detroit News. As a freelance cartoonist his daily comic strip ‘Double Trouble’ ran for four years.
Marcus Glenn
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The artist paints images of women who are smart, confident, beautiful, but also sophisticated and strong. He says the world has enough ugliness in it; we change our channels and see war, poverty, hunger and violence; he wants his work to be a “channel” of positive messages and hope.
Csaba Markus
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Painting sold for 698k dollars on Dec 15 of 2010 at Sotheby's NY - the highest price paid ever for a work of an Israeli artist.
Yaacov Agam
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This artists works were formerly published by Christies of London, the art publishing division of Christie’s London.
Linda Le Kinff
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She is fascinated with the beauty of nature, landscape, and the details of the city and creates exceptional works that typically combine all three elements in harmony – in the unforgiving technique of watercolor.
Daniele Cambier
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As a young artist, he met Salvador Dali and told him he wanted to be an artist and asked him what he needed to do. Dali told him, “you must work very hard, you must study the masters, but not copy them – you must find your own “voice” and “identity.” His influences are apparent as Dali, Miró, Picasso, and Kandinsky, but his work is instantly recognizable as “his.”
Alfred Gockel
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His inspiration comes from his travels and his favorite classic artsits: Monet, Cezanne, and Vermeer.
Duaiv
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Artist is best defined as an “Evolutionist.” He believes that artshould reflect a current mood, expression and a point in time.
Dominic Pangborn
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He is a Russian born artist whose talent was recognized and encouraged from an early age.
Slava Brodinsky
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He has been the Official Artist for five Super Bowls, The World Cup USA, The U.S. Tennis Open and the NHL All-Star Game. Max also re- designed NBC’s “peacock” logo, seen by millions daily.
Peter Max
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Artist’s imagery deals with the concepts of movement, instantaneous expression and gesture, romance, music, dance and poetry. He is deeply steeped in art history and is a master draftsman.
Peter Nixon
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Today one cannot collect a Michelangelo, Caravaggio or Botticelli but one can collect works by an artist who has been inspired by all of these master artists.
Csaba Markus
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His works are uplifting, cheerful, bright, and colorful. He uses cans of paint rather than tubes, working with various palette knives, tiny brushes, and his fingers to create texture and richly blended colors.
Duaiv
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He has not been without his share of close calls, from near-misses with powerful lions to charging elephants. He has said, “Don’t paint it unless you’ve studied it, been chased by it, or done something to save it.”
Andrew Bone
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4th Dimension of Yaacov Agam
Time
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He travels throughout his home country of Isreal, to the South of France and Italy, and around the world to discover varying light and depths of color, which serve as inspiration for the lights and shadows portrayed in his work.
Slava Brodinsky
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He was selected as one of the artists of the U.S. Olympic Team and created a work of art for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He has had one- man shows around the world, and his work is in the permanent collection of the National Art Museum of China.
Hua Chen
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He created the DNA matrix signature concept
Thomas Kinkade
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He has said, “If I can touch a life... if through my painting I can show something previously unseen, if I can reveal something old in a new way, if I can enrich a soul on its journey into the eternal then my painting – my living – has not been in vain.”
Simon Bull
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As well as being an acrylic painter and watercolorist, Tarkay was a master graphic artist and his rich tapestry of form and color was achieved primarily through the use of the serigraph. In his serigraphs, many colors are laid over one another and used to create texture and transparency.
Itzchak Tarkay
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His works are rich with symbolism; some of the most well-known symbols are the lights within the home and the smoke in the chimneys, which represent the warmth and welcoming of family.
Thomas Kinkade
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This artist began exhibiting his work while in college and quickly gained acclaim; in 1989 he was accepted into the Artists Guild of the Ukraine. He has participated in group and solo exhibitions in France, Israel, and throughout the United States and participated in Art Expos in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Anatoly Metlan
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On December 15, 2010, a painting by this artist sold at auction for $698,000 at Sotheby’s New York, the highest price ever paid for the work of an Israeli artist.
Yaacov Agam
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In the later years of his life, artist shared his gifts by mentoring younger Israeli artists including, David Najar, Yuval Wolfson and Mark Kanovich. He was also the only artist to collaborate with Israeli master, Yaacov Agam. He and Agam created two paintings which incorporated both artists’ imagery in a single painting.
Itzchak Tarkay
