Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the greatest illustrators of "The Golden Age of American Illustration": the period between 1850 and 1925 during which American illustration art had reached its peak. Although J.C. Leyendecker was almost forgotten, after the covers of Norman Rockwell who, with his iconic images of America linked to the values of the God, country and family, made both Americans and the rest of the world dream, ...
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Let's call it hyperrealism, radical realism or new realism: the undisputed protagonist of the issue are Duane Hanson's sculptures. I admit that the first times I saw Duane Hanson's works I was perplexed: I was in Palm Beach, on the famous Worth Avenue and from the window of a gallery I saw a policeman in uniform, I observed him for a while and approached him nonchalantly: only after having observed ...
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BK FOXX, her name comes from her initials associated with her favourite animal: the fox, an animal with a positive value in almost all cultures. BK Foxx is an artist originally from New York, technically Long Island, but she works everywhere. If you pass through Miami, Wynwood, you will see one of its large murals made entirely with spray cans, without brushes, stencils or anything else. Her ideas are born ...
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Remember the crowds of people in Miami during the Miami Art Week: a throng of people from everywhere as if there was no tomorrow, on a postcard challenge: among clear blue skies, palm trees, sculptures and Art Deco buildings. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 did not exempt anyone and until the last moment we had hoped, given that we were still a few months away from the official opening of Miami Art ...
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The figure of Anthoniszon van Aken, better known under the pseudonym Hieronymus Bosch, is still shrouded in mystery. One of the greatest and most mysterious, Flemish masters, Bosch has managed to liven up the imagination of scholars and enthusiasts thanks to the stories full of symbolism and mysticism told, with meticulous detail, by each of the many characters, ironic and grotesque, who inhabit his paintings. Hieronymus Bosch, was born into a ...
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The last day of the Portrait Society of America ended with a sort of retrospective on two great figures of the American contemporary art scene: Burt Silverman and Daniel Sprick, who join the other great character, Richard Schmid, interviewed yesterday by Michelle Dunaway. The morning started with some technical hiccups that partially precluded the vision of Mary White's presentation about the business and its mechanisms, among which: what are the parameters ...
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It is up to Michelle Dunaway at 9:00 a.m. to inaugurate the opening of the third day of the 22nd Convention of the Portrait Society of America, and she does so with a big piece, focusing on a character who has made great the American art scene: Richard Schmid, painter, author and teacher; legendary character known above all for the technique of painting "Alla prima". The painting "Alla Prima", which ...
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The second day of the 22nd Convention of the Portrait Society of America featured artist Anthony John Ryder who opened the convention with a demonstration of painting from life in which he showed his approach to portraiture. Anthony J. Rider was born in New York and currently lives and works in Santa Fe, NM, with his wife, where he opened the Ryder Studio in 2007, where he teaches drawing and ...
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The XXII edition of the Portrait Society officially began with a live lecture given by the artist-poet Robert Liberace who, as promised, entertained the public with his teachings for a good cause: the proceeds of the registration fee ($10.00) went entirely to the Edward Jonas Memorial Fund. Edward Jonas, co-founder and president of the Portrait Society of America, an internationally renowned sculptor and portraitist, died in June of this year following ...
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Looking at Michael Shane Neal, he would seem of first impact to have come out of an old painting as a distinguished gentleman of English origins, loyal to the label that clothing imposes: jacket with clutch bag, shirt and tie, mini-youp acetate glasses, elongated mustache with beard and cufflinks at the cuffs of the shirt. And instead no. Michael Shane Neal is the one who stands in front of the ...
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