Happy Father’s Day – Max Ernst, “Pieta” or “Revolution by Night”
Happy Father’s Day! There is some irony in posting about Max Ernst’s portrait of his father in “Pieta” or “Revolution by Night” (1923). For one thing, Ernst thought his father was an idiot. Take it as you will, this definitive…
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Dino Valls
Dino Valls is pretty intense. This self-taught Spanish artist was born in 1959 & completed a degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1982 … and gave it up to be a painter. His medium of choice is the notoriously difficult…
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Alexandra Levasseur
As I often do, I was browsing through BOOOOOM today. There, I saw some work by Alexandra Levasseur and fell in love. Levasseur is a native of Shawinigan, Quebec, and now lives & works in Montreal. Her tagline is “I prefer…
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James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist is an American painter who was one of the artists identified with pop art, and is still a working artist. If you suspected that he has a large and legendary body of work, you’d be absolutely correct. They (art…
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Jarek Puczel
Jarek Puczel (Jarosław Puczel) is a Polish painter whose take on representational realism is to bring focus to the signs and signifiers of meaning in a scene by rendering the rest of the scene as flat expanses of colour. The overall effect…
