Dirty Girl Things
Friday, January 26, 2007
Number Thirty-Six
Gold and Drizzle
What.... and Future
Sincerely.
Eve and JW3 and Mélisande
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Number Thirty-Five
Fabian Perez
Fabian Perez was born on November 2, 1967 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a teenager Fabian was fascinated with martial arts and fine arts. Therefore, he dedicated himself to study both disciplines. Karate helped influence his character, giving him great discipline as well as opening him up to other forms of art. Much of what Fabian learned through his Eastern studies influenced his paintings. Fabian left Argentina when he was 22 to live in Italy and resided there for seven years. It is here where his career in painting and writing took an outstanding journey. It is also in Italy where he was inspired to write his book, “Reflections of a Dream”, which was published later in the United States. He then went to Japan where he lived for one year. While there he painted The Japanese Flag and A Meditating Man, which are on display in a government house. Fabian left Japan to come to Los Angeles where he devotes his life to inspire others with his paintings and writings. Fabian’s style is unique. He wishes not to categorize his work, as he feels this limits the artist as well as the work. He likes to paint with acrylic because it dries quickly and allows him to follow his impulses. The bold and symbolic imagery is intensely passionate. Fabian paints with his emotions and each painting reflects his drive and energy. The paintings become a roadmap, a guide with many directions, where the viewers decide which path they wish to experience. Fabian is in great demand as a portrait artist, as well.
Lettizia and Michicko
Tango IV and Tango
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Eve and JW3 and Mélisande
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Number Thirty-Four
If Apple designed pleasure, it might look something like this.
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Eve and JW3 and Mélisande
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Number Thirty-Three
Pino
Pino has been producing works of a highly romantic nature with a unique and innovative touch. Exploring the depths of his experiences, he puts on canvas subjects that embody life’s simple pleasures. These works have a veil of nostalgia and the characters have subtle suggestions of complexity. Dressed in soft flowing fabrics, the colors of their garments in relation to the sea, sand, sky and sun elicit feelings of warmth, a perception of preciousness and a notion of an uncomplicated world. Reminiscent of his childhood environment, Pino’s paintings are generally set in coastal, sunny, and vibrantly floral places. He uses a colorful palette to create tender, pleasurable feelings. His fine art is rich with sensuality, rousing the memory through all the senses. Pino’s paintings resurrect in us the incidents of those simple, priceless moments we have stored in our memories and have so frequently forgotten. “My paintings elicit feelings of warmth. Oftentimes the subjects are of my sisters and aunts, in the house during my early years. I was constantly surrounded by them since my father and uncles were out working late providing for the family.” Pino was born in Bari, Italy on November 8, 1939. In 1960 he entered Milan’s Academy of Brera where he perfected his talent and skill for painting nudes. In the two years he studied at the Academy, he came under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli. Pino also experimented with Expressionism of the late sixties during his stay in Milan. From 1960 to 1979 his work appeared in several major exhibitions throughout Italy and Europe. At the same time, he was commissioned by Italy’s two largest publishers, Mondadori and Rizzoli, for book illustrations. However, Pino felt restricted in Milan. He wanted more artistic freedom which he believed existed in the United States.In 1979, he immigrated to the United States under the sponsorship of the Borghi Gallery where he held several shows in New York and Massachusetts. In 1980, after knocking on many doors, Zebra Books Publishers commissioned him to do his first book cover. His interpretation was new, fresh and sensual, an illustration so successful that he gained entry into creative relationships with many leading publishers of Romance novels. Stylistically, he brought the characters into the foreground where his technique and talent for painting the anatomy was celebrated. His popularity grew within the literary community and he became the artist-in-demand for Zebra, Bantam, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Penguin USA and Dell. To date, Pino has illustrated 3,000 books. His style has dominated and influenced the market. Although Pino devoted thirteen years to illustrating book covers, he never abandoned his desire to return to fine art. In 1993, he realized his goal and has finally found the freedom he had always desired; to explore the profundity of his talents without restraint. In the United States Pino became fascinated with the works of Soralla, Sargent, Benson and William Merrit Chase. As his fame has grown, Pino has made numerous appearances on major TV networks and has been interviewed in national and international journals. His works are held in prestigious corporate and private collections throughout the world. In addition, his ability to capture the movements and expressions of his subjects has brought him private commissions to do portraits. Pino resides in New Jersey with his wife, a son and a daughter.
Contemplation and Restful
Works in Progress
Sincerely.
Eve and JW3 and Mélisande
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Number Thirty-Two
We enjoy art that inspires, that moves the soul. That’s why we love the work of Jia Lu. By combining classical oil painting and contemporary aesthetics, she has created a style that calls to us. Her sources of inspiration are international. Her work has philosophical depth. Her imagery evokes mystery.
Embrace and Flora
Flame and Heaven’s Song
Lotus Path and Mandala
Sincerely.
Eve and JW3 and Mélisande
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Monday, January 22, 2007
Number Thirty-One
Sexual Edginess with a Touch of Film Noir & Glamour
Jack Vettriano has had successful exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, and New York. Although he is usually frowned upon and derided by art critics, he is one of the most commercially successful living artists. His original paintings now regularly fetch six figure prices, but he is thought to make more money from the sale of reproductions. According to The Guardian, a London newspaper, he earns £500,000 a year in print royalties.
The traditional milieux of the romantic paintings, where ballroom dancing is accompanied by dinner jackets, bring to mind, “the good old days, when the world seemed more stable”. It is a nostalgia matched by the style of the paintings, whose stark lighting and neo-realist edges also echo 1940s films and the jackets of popular novels of that era. There is a sense of melodrama, an edge of the surreal. Movement is captured, frozen: the turn of a dancing couple, or a man who is having an affair peeping through a window.
Vettriano cuts out incidental detail and focuses our eye on the interaction between the figures - which, in the case of the sexual works, is always tense. These tensions in turn provide dramatic ambiguities, but they are controlled with a tight range so that the narrative is clear, ensuring an immediate impact rather than a challenge. A painting might provoke the question “Is that woman with her husband or someone else?”, but not “What is going on?”, much less “What am I looking at?”
Beautiful Losers and Game On
Night Geometry and The Opening Gambit
His Favourite Girl and Round Midnight
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Eve and JW3 and Mélisande
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