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Dariusz Klimczak: Photo Manipulation

Wendy Campbell — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:00:41 +0000

Born in 1967, in Sieradz, Poland, Dariusz Klimczak is an independent journalist, painter and Grand Prix winner of the seventh Aphoristic Contest in Nowy Targ, Poland 2005.

Klimczak mainly works in square frames & black and white images but doesn’t shun colours. In his photomanipulative works he seeks mood, humour, and universal symbols that will make the viewer contemplate or laugh.

To see more, visit KwadrArt.com and check out his profile on DeviantArt.

Andrzej Troc (aka Broda502): Drawing By Paints

Wendy Campbell — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:00:05 +0000

More great stuff from Polish surreal artist Andrzej Troc (aka Broda502). A self-taught artist, Troc defines his work as “drawing by paints”. “It is my passion and I am very lucky to be able to devote my whole life and efforts to it. Many various experiences have significantly influenced me, my creativeness and my works of art. A bit of irony, absurd and dreams seen in a distorting mirror as well as misshapen, weird, farcical so-called sex-monsters are some of the themes of my works. What are my inspirations? Simply – oscillating between right and wrong, paranoia and beauty, and the insight into some primitive social behaviour.”

Check out more of Troc’s work on Deviant Art.

Jacek Yerka: Painting

Wendy Campbell — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:06:22 +0000

More cool stuff from Polish artist Jacek Yerka. Yerka has won international awards for his art, and has exhibited in Warsaw, Dusseldorf, Los Angeles, Paris and London. He currently works and resides, with his family, in a rural enclave of his native Poland.

To see more of Yerka’s work, visit Yerkaland.com.

Marianna Stelmach: Digital Painting

Wendy Campbell — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:00:48 +0000

Born in Warsaw, Poland, 26 year old Marianna Stelmach (aka Vuzel) is a self taught artist who uses a Pentagram tablet and Photoshop to create her digital paintings. Stelmach graduated from an Arts and Crafts High School where she specialized in Jewelery and is currently studying Physical Therapy.

To see more, visit Stelmach’s profile on Deviant Art.

Found Via: Walking Blind

Leszek Andrzej Kostuj: Painting

Wendy Campbell — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:00:35 +0000

Polish artist Leszek Kostuj. Kostuj graduated from the Pedagogy and Art Department at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Although he prefers oil and acrylic painting, Kostuj’s mediums also include drawing, and traditional and digital graphics. Starting from small realistic drawings, Kostuj’s paintings are inspired by surrealism and figurative abstraction.

“My art is in constant change, I am in search of the forms of artistic communication that would be optimal for me. When I begin to paint, it is quite frequent that I do not ponder over the final effect. Only when on the surface of the painting, the emerging patches, lines, colours begin to coalesce, the imagination rouses and provides an impulse to further artistic release. At this stage of creation, what begins to appear is ideas, visions, and concepts – all in order to create a work that is a fulfilment of my artistic and aesthetic needs”

To see more of Leszek Kostuj’s work, visit his profile on Deviant Art or his website at Kostuj.com

5 Women Artists You Should Know: Vol. 6

Wendy Campbell — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:31:12 +0000

1. Yayoi Kusama – March 22, 1929 – Born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, Kusama is a sculptor, painter, writer, installation artist and performance artist. As a child she experienced hallucinations and visions of polka dots and net patterns, and had severe obsessive thoughts. Early in her career, she began covering surfaces including walls, floors, canvases, household objects, and naked assistants with the polka dots (“infinity nets”) that became a trademark of her work.

In 1957 Kusama moved to New York and quickly established a reputation for herself in predominantly male avant-garde art circles. She was very ambitious and used her position as a non-American woman and her history of mental illness to create a flamboyant public persona.

During her time in New York, her work was linked with both Minimalism and Pop Art, but it was never assimilated by any one artistic movement, as her work constantly evolved during this period. In 1973 she returned to Tokyo, where she began to write fiction.

After leaving New York, Kusama was almost forgotten until the late 1980′s and 90′s when a number of retrospectives renewed international interest. In 1993, she represented Japan in the Venice Biennale and in October 2006, she became the first Japanese woman to receive the Praemium Imperiale, one of Japan’s most prestigious prizes for internationally recognized artists.

2. Kara Walker – November 26, 1969 – Born in Stockton, California, Walker has a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that examine the underbelly of America’s racial and gender tensions. Her works often address themes such as power, repression, history, race, and sexuality.

In the 1997, Walker was included in the Whitney Biennial at the age of 27, and became the youngest recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” grant. In 2002 she was chosen to represent the United States in the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in the collections of major museums worldwide. In 2007 Walker Art Center organized the exhibition Kara Walker: My Complement, My Oppressor, My Enemy, My Love – the artist’s first full-scale U.S. museum survey. Walker currently lives in New York, where she is a professor of visual arts in the MFA program at Columbia University.

3. Elisabetta Sirani – January 8, 1638 – 1665 – Born in Bologna, Italy, Sirani was an independent painter by age 19, ran her family’s workshop, and supported supported her parents, three siblings, and herself entirely through her art after her father became incapacitated by illness.

Sirani quickly became known for her ability to paint beautifully finished canvases so quickly that art lovers visited her studio to watch her work. Her portraits, mythological subjects, and images of the Holy Family and the Virgin and Child, gained international fame. Her works were acquired by wealthy, noble, and even royal patrons, including the Grand Duke Cosimo III de Medici.

Sirani died-suddenly at the age of 27, after experiencing severe stomach pains. Her father suspected that she had been poisoned by a jealous maid and the servant was tried but acquitted. An autopsy revealed stomach ulcers as the cause of death. In her short career, Sirani produced 200 paintings, drawings, and etchings.

4. Camille Claudel – December 8, 1864 – October 19, 1943 – Born in Fère-en-Tardenois, Aisne, Claudel was a French sculptor, graphic artist, and the older sister of the French poet and diplomat, Paul Claudel. In 1881, she moved with her family to Paris. Claudel studied sculpture at the Académie Colarossi with Alfred Boucher and met Rodin in 1883. She became his studio assistant in 1885. Claudel became a source of inspiration, his model, his confidante and lover.

Claudel ended her relationship with Rodin in 1898 and struggled for artistic independence. Overcome by an emotional crisis, she secluded herself in her studio and destroyed a large number of her works, accusing Rodin of plagarism. In 1913, her brother Paul had her confined to a psychiatric hospital and she lived in institutions for the remaining 30 years of her life.

Camille Claudel died on October 19, 1943. About 90 statues, sketches and drawings survive. She is considered by many to be the first important European female sculptor.

5. Tamara De Lempicka – May 16, 1898–March 18, 1980 – Born Tamara Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland, de Lempicka was a Polish Art Deco painter. In 1917, she and her husband Tadeusz Lempicki escaped the Russian Revolution and moved to Paris where she studied at the Academie Ranson and at the studio of cubist artist André Lhote. She quickly developed a style that combined neo-classical colours with cubism in the Art Deco style that was prominent in Paris at the time.

De Lempicka was one of the most sought after painters of the 1920′s and 30′s. From 1923 onwards, she exhibited in the major Salons and in the early 1930′s, American museums began purchasing her work. Focused constantly on her work and social life, Lempicka neglected her husband and daughter Kizette. “Famous for her libido, she was bisexual, and her affairs with both men and women were carried out in ways that were scandalous at the time.” Tamara and Tadeusz divorced in 1928.

In 1933, de Lempicka married her patron and lover Baron Raoul Kuffner and the couple moved to the U.S. in 1939. She continued to live in a lavish style but her popularity as a society painter diminished greatly. She continued to work in her trademark style but also began painting still lifes, abstracts, and started using a palette knife. Her exhibit in 1962 at the Iolas Gallery was not well-received and de Lempicka retired from active life as a professional artist. In 1978 Tamara moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico, to live among an aging international set and some of the younger aristocrats. She died there on March 19, 1980.

Sources: National Museum of Women in the Arts (Sirani), Walker Art Center (Walker), MoMA (Kusama), Walker Art Center (Kusama), Wikipedia (Kusama), NMWA (Claudel), Wikipedia (Claudel), 50 Women Artists You Should Know (Claudel, de Lempicka), Tamara-de-Lempicka.org

Jacek Yerka: Painting

Wendy Campbell — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:00:27 +0000

Born in Poland in 1952, Jacek Yerka studied fine art and graphics prior to becoming a full-time artist in 1980. While at university, Yerka resisted the constant pressures of his instructors to adopt the less detailed, less realistic techniques continued to work in the classic, meticulous Flemish style he still favors to this day.

Yerka has won international awards for his art, and has exhibited in Warsaw, Dusseldorf, Los Angeles, Paris and London. He currently works and resides, with his family, in a rural enclave of his native Poland. (Bio from artist’s website)

To see more of Yerka’s work, visit Yerkaland.com.

Maciej Hoffman: Painting

Wendy Campbell — Sat, 15 May 2010 21:00:28 +0000

Maciej Hoffman was born on August 31st in 1964 in Wroclaw, Poland. From 1985-88, Hoffman studied at the Theological Academy in Wroclaw. It wasn’t until his third year there that he realized that he had a strong desire to become an artist. In 1988, Hoffman enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw and received a degree in painting and sculpture in 1992.

After his studies, Hoffman worked for one of the largest Polish advertisement agencies in Poland providing creative and conceptual work. He returned to painting full time several years ago, exhibiting in numerous group and solo shows across Europe and in the United States.

Hoffman’s inspirations include art from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance masters, Goya, El Greco, Chaim Soutin, Willem de Kooning, Anselm Kiefer, Cecily Brown, Glen Brown, and Daniel Richter.

To see more of Maciej Hoffman’s work, visit Maciej-Hoffman.com.

Sources: Scene 360

Jarosław Kubicki: Mixed Media

Wendy Campbell — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:00:18 +0000

Born in 1976, Jarosław Kubicki is a Polish artist, photographer, webdesigner. He graduted from Fine Arts Highschool in Gdynia followed by the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.

To see more of Kubicki’s work visit his profile on Deviant Art or his website Kubicki.info.

Karol Bak: Painting

Wendy Campbell — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:00:51 +0000

Sunday’s image is on Saturday this week and is by Polish painter, illustrator, and graphic artist Karol Bąk. To view more of his stunning works visit KarolBakArt.pl.

Eli Tiunine: Escargot

Wendy Campbell — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:00:50 +0000

Sunday’s image is “Retable “L’Europe”: Escargot” by Polish born artist Eli Tiunine. To see more of her incredible work visit EliTiunine.com.