Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

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Edgar Degas (Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas; París, 1834 - 1917). Pintor impresionista francés. Pronto pudo conseguir de sus acaudalados padres que le permitieran trocar el derecho por el arte. Desde el comienzo reconcilió a su gusto los elementos más diversos del arte francés y así aprendió tanto del clásico Ingres como del romántico Delacroix. Estudió también al olvidado naturalista Camille Corot. Pero su espíritu creador le llevó a engrosar el grupo de los radicales, que más tarde se apellidarían impresionistas.
En 1859 pintó a la familia de su tía, la baronesa Belleli, de Florencia, revelando ya claramente su inclinación por lo espontáneo. En 1862, en su preocupación por captar el movimiento, comenzó a abordar temas tan poco corrientes como las carreras de caballos de Longchamps. Halló en los movimientos característicos de planchadoras, bañistas y bailarinas la clase de dinamismo que le gustaba plasmar en sus lienzos.
En la década de 1860, en que París descubrió los grabados japoneses, se interesó mucho por su composición descentrada y su carácter decorativo. En la Ópera de París encontró el mismo movimiento disciplinado que le atraía en las carreras de caballos. Las bailarinas, con sus posturas estilizadas, se convirtieron en su tema favorito y más famoso.
En 1872 se trasladó a Nueva Orleáns, tierra de su madre, donde sus hermanos se habían establecido como comerciantes de algodón. Allí pintó retratos de familia, una escena en la oficina de un corredor y El mercado de algodón de Nueva Orleáns (1873), en que sintetizó felizmente sus muchas experiencias en torno a la representación espontánea de la vida cotidiana.
De regreso a París, los impresionistas organizaron su primera exposición colectiva (1874), en que Degas participó como uno de los más caracterizados. La exposición provocó un escándalo, pero el grupo continuó existiendo y realizó otras siete exposiciones, que, aunque siempre encarnizadamente atacadas, terminaron coronando de gloria a los supervivientes.
A diferencia de la mayor parte del grupo, se interesó principalmente por la composición y la concepción, no por la técnica revolucionaria o los problemas del color. Se diferenció también de los demás en que, mientras éstos se inclinaban por la pintura al aire libre, él prefería trabajar en el estudio. Comenzó a interesarle la técnica del pastel, con la que logró efectos vibrantes de color. Hacia el fin de su dilatada vida, al fallarle la vista, comenzó a trabajar con las manos tanto como con los ojos y se dedicó a modelar esculturas en cera y yeso. En espíritu y estilo, su seguidor más afín fue Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Andrew Atroshenko

Andrew Atroshenko

Andrew Atroshenko was born in 1965 in the city of Pokrovsk, Russia. Accepted as a gifted child in 1977 into the Children’s Art School, Andrew graduated with honors in 1981. Two years later, Andrew entered Bryansk Art College, and in 1991 was accepted at one of the most prestigious art schools in the world, the St. Petersburg Academy of Art.
In 1994, Andrew Atroshenko began taking part in exhibitions such as St. Petersburg Artists in Reutlingen, Germany, the exhibition of a group “Academy” in St. Petersburg (1996), and “Teacher’s memory” (1997). After graduation from St. Petersburg Academy of Art in 1999, Andrew was invited by a New England, US based art group “Bay Arts” to take part in their exhibitions and activities, spending that entire year in the United States into the Millennium.

Santillo

Santillo

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Will Santillo's current work evokes the elusive dreams and memories of lovers lost -- intimate phantoms of eros past but not quite gone from the landscape of men and women he photographs...

Will began his studies of photography while at M.I.T., studying under master photographer Minor White and obtaining a degree in Art & Design. He continued his education at the University of Toronto, receiving with a professional degree in architecture. In his long career as a photographer, Will has worked in a variety of fields including: fashion, corporate, architectural, personal and intimate portraiture. He has been published in several major North American consumer and professional publications, and has participated in group shows in New York, Berlin and Toronto. Will’s work was featured in a one-man show in Toronto, and in an exposé for television.

An American with dual citizenship for both United States and Canada, Will works on a regular basis in both New York and Toronto, and often travels for assignments throughout North America.

"For the last five years, Will Santillo has taken a detour from his career in traditional commercial photography, and has been exploring the world of erotic art photography. In his quest to keep taste and art paramount, he has crafted a vision and style that is passionate and uninhibited without the explicit nature that commonly dominates this subject matter. His unique vision has been recognized in print by Taschen and Mammoth Press and will soon be showcased in a monogram edition to be published in early 2008..
This sojourn within the erotic genre has allowed Will to develop an insightful new artistic approach to all his work, whether in the field of classic beauty, glamour, intimate apparel, seductive lifestyle or erotic portraiture. His experience in both the traditional commercial photographic fields and the erotic arts, offers an unique set of credentials and experience not found in the average commercial photographer, making him a ‘one of a kind’ shooter.
A native born New Yorker, Will is now a dual citizen of both the United States and Canada, and is currently conducting regular business in Los Angeles and New York and other major North American cities."

Sally Mann

Sally Mann

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Sally Mann es una fotógrafa estadounidense. Nació en 1951 en Lexington, Virginia, donde aún vive con su esposo y sus tres hijos, Jessie, Emmet y Virginia.
Su trabajo como fotógrafa ha sido controvertido, ya que las fotografías de sus hijos desnudos han llegado a calificarse de pornografía infantil.
Al final de la década de 1990, los cristianos conservadores de los Estados Unidos protestaron contra Sally Mann y David Hamilton y los acusaron de crear pornografía.

Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer. Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She attended The Putney School, Bennington College and Friends World College, and earned a B.A., summa cum laude, from Hollins College (now Hollins University) and an M.A. in writing.
After graduation Mann became a staff photographer for Washington and Lee University in her hometown. (Her mother ran the university's book store. Her father was the leading physician in town.)
She first achieved prominence with a one-woman exhibition in late 1977 at the Corcoran Galley of Art in Washington, D.C., showing surrealistic images she took of the construction of a new law building at Washington and Lee.
Mann's work has stimulated controversy beginning with her second published collection, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988). To critics, these portraits "captured the confusing emotions and developing sexual identities of girls at that transitional age, one foot in childhood and one foot in the adult world.", but for many the photographs portray a child's innocence.
Her next collection was Immediate Family in 1992. These images gained notoriety for including nude photographs of her own children. Some critics called her work 'child pornography'. The condemnations of her work, still considered controversial by some, have not hurt her career. Her photographs continue to be shown in and collected by most major American art galleries and museums.
A recent collection of work, entitled What Remains (2005) features dream or nightmare-like images made with the antiquated glass plate process collodion, of rustic scenes in the pictorialist style, some including dead and decaying human bodies. Another series in the same body of work features images of the Antietam battlefield. The book closes with a series of images of Mann's children. Many of the images appear to have been highly manipulated - scratched and otherwise maimed for artistic intent - however this is just a result of the imperfect collodion process. Mann has admitted to not wanting to perfect this process, as she feels the unintentional streaks and scratches add something to her photographs.
Mann's most recent works have been landscapes or "land portraits" of rural areas of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia. Most of it is untitled, and can be found in a collection called Deep South. These images were photographed using damaged lenses and cameras, creating a ghostlike effect and producing images full of light leaks.
Mann's large black-and-white prints are all shot with an 8x10 large format camera. Mann still lives in Lexington with her husband and three children, Jessie, Emmet, and Virginia.
Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Corcoran Gallery of Art, among many others.
Time magazine named Mann its "Photographer of the Year" for 2001. Photos she took have appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine twice: first, a picture of her three children for a 1992 feature on her "disturbing work"; and again in 2001, with a self-portrait (which also included her two daughters) for a theme issue on "women looking at women."
She is the subject of a documentary, What Remains which covers her entire artistic career. It premiered at the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival and was accepted at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival

Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna

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Michael Kenna was born in Lancashire, England in 1953, and studied photography at Banbury School of Art before going to the London College of Printing from 1973-6. His carefully composed and exquisitely printed landscapes attracted a great deal of attention in early shows in the UK, but there was little market for landscape photography there, and he made a living from advertising work. In 1977 he moved to San Francisco, where he became Ruth Bernhard's assistant and printer for 8 years. In America he readily found a public who were keen to buy his distinctive landscape work.

Kenna, a hard-working and extremely prolific photographer, has many shows every year, is represented by many galleries around the world, and has pictures in virtually every major collection. As well as the pictures on his own web site, you can also see his work on gallery sites, including the Stephen Wirtz gallery in San Francisco, among the first to show his work in America. His recent shows there include one on the Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in Nottinghamshire, England, and more of his work from Japan.

One of the more powerful of Kenna's projects is Impossible to Forget: The Nazi Camps Fifty Years After, selected from several thousand images he took in former Nazi concentration and extermination camps in Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Belgium, France, Italy, Holland and Latvia over a twelve-year period. The project was organized by Patrimoine Photographique, Paris and the touring exhibition is currently showing at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA, USA until April 10, 2005.

Eolo Perfido

Eolo Perfido

Eolo Perfido mitad francés y mitad italina, es el creador del estudio fotográfico de Smallstudio. Vive y trabaja en Roma.

"Mi chiamo Eolo Perfido ho 33 anni e sono nato a Cognac in Francia da una madre francese ed un padre italiano. Tra le tante cose a cui dedico il mio tempo la mia passione è la fotografia. Ho iniziato a 28 anni. Prima di allora non avevo mai pensato di fare il fotografo, poi assistendo ad un servizio fotografico realizzato da un amico, mi sono prima infatuato e poi innamorato della fotografia. E' stato un processo abbastanza sofferto all'inizio ma poi mi sono reso conto che era quello che volevo faree gli ho dedicato tutte le mie energie condite da un pizzico di disciplina.Tra i miei interessi tutto ciò che riguarda l'immagine, dall'illustrazione al video. Ma anche tutte le tecnologie associate ad Internet ed i computer in generale. Tra gli amori che non posso seguire per mancanza di tempo l'astronomia e le discipline scientifiche in generale. Cerco però di informarmi il più possibile quando posso."

Marino Thorlacius

Marino Thorlacius

Fotógrafo islandés que vive y trabaja en Reykjavik. Sus fotografías están hechas a consciencia para dar miedo, con colores lúgrubes y un buscado envejecimiento, de tal manera que la propia foto parece dotada de una textura que le da personalidad.

Sylvie Botter

Sylvie Botter

Pintora e ilustradora nacida en Alsacia (la Francia que toca con la frontera de Suiza). Sus pinturas muestran el erotismo del desnudo femenino.

Sylvie, alias Le Pinceau de l'Arche (eh oui, pour répondre à vos nombreuses interrogations, Sylvie et le Pinceau de l'Arche ne font qu'un !), attachée à son Alsace natale, , créé ce mélange savoureux entre l'Erotisme et l'Art. Et son Pinceau, ses Aquarelles sont les armes dont elle se sert pour sublimer le corps humain dans ce qu'il a de plus beau, la nudité.

Après un bref passage à l'Ecole des Arts Déco de Strasbourg, puis un perfectionnement à l'aquarelle auprès d'un Maître Alsacien, Sylvie travaille et perfectionne son art. En recherche constante, elle ne se satisfait jamais de l'acquis, préférant déchirer une de ses créations qui ne la satisferait pas entièrement.

Lauri Blank

Lauri Blank

Lauri Blank was destined to be a creative soul with a burning passion for art. Raised by an artistic mother who attended design school in NYC, and grandparents that are still performing musicians (well into their 80’s), Lauri was constantly engaged by creativity and artistic expression; the foundation of a future art career.
The world’s first acclaim of this talented artist came when she was just seven. Blank’s Mother, having recognized the talent she possessed at such an early age, submitted Lauri’s sketch of Betsy Ross to the local newspaper’s bicentennial art competition. Her work placed first.
Looking to expand her artistic horizons, Lauri began experimenting with different types of media. A few years later, at the age of 12, Lauri was honored by The Norton Museum of Art who included her three-dimensional painting of a young woman aging slowly in their prestigious national exhibition.Continuing on her path of creative exploration, Lauri became a successful model at 14, still painting whenever she could. Lauri absorbed all the written material she could acquire on the arts. She
spent the next several years honing her skills privately while gracing the covers of magazines, catwalks and advertising campaigns. As is commensurate with most artistic souls, Blank wanted to move away and try something new; also in the field of art and design. Turning her creative sights on the fashion world, Lauri moved to Bogota, Columbia. After establishing her own couture dress design and manufacturing business, it seemed that the canvas beckoned for her return as each day abroad passed.
Lauri returned to the US and embarked on full time painting career, "I felt the need to create something new, each day, whether it was a painting, interior design, or classical music. You couldn’t do that in fashion - once successful, the business becomes more about production and less about creativity.”
As her talent grew, Blank found herself naturally drawn to the imagery and complexities of the human form. She especially focused on the female form, learning to capture its very essence on her canvas. Uninhibited by conventional or formal training, her talent took on an original life of its own. Blank's artwork exhibits an unblemished romantic realism long forgotten by commercially driven, modern day trends. The appeal of her work is timeless. She continues to evolve her passion, taking great care in developing each individual composition. What is most remarkable is that she does not use live models. The images create themselves.
Her talents were immediately recognized by patrons in Washington D.C. and the Miami area, where she accepted numerous important commissions. And then in 1999, Lauri’s career would take a different turn, one that resembled one of the masters she studied for most of her life. Lauri Blank was commissioned to paint the ceiling of an 18th century church in Old Montreal. For months, the artist worked day and night painting the Cathedral’s ceiling while standing on scaffolding that had a five-story drop onto the marble floor below. It was the most magical experience she has ever had and is most proud of this work.
Blank received national coverage within Architectural Digest and her Old Montreal Cathedral work was featured on HGTV. She has been called "The Ft. Lauderdale areas own Michelangelo".
Blank's work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the nation. She receives frequent media attention and has appeared on numerous magazine covers throughout the Miami area. In 2002, Blank was selected as the artist for the 2002 Grammy Awards. Her "Post 911" Grammy work symbolized the patriotism of a nation blended with our love of music.
Lauri’s style of melding the techniques and icons of the old master with today’s cultural ideology, has won her acclaim. Her powerful images, along with her passion and devotion jump off the canvas and transport the viewer into a by-gone era. Her own imitable style, which the artist refers to as “Romantic Figuratism,” brings a sense of peace and reflection to the modern day world. “The passion in my heart…influences and fuels my love of art and my profession” says Blank of her accomplishments.

Fabio Borquez

Fabio Borquez

Fabio Borquez es un arquitecto, fotógrafo y artista plástico nacido en Buenos Aires, Argentina, en 1964. Actualmente vive en Alemania.

Doug Heslep

Doug Heslep

"Upon moving to Fort Myers, Florida in late 1988, I opened my commercial andfashion photography/graphic design studio known as Heslep Productions, Inc. Even though I have enjoyed a successful commercial studio servicing a broadrange of clientele, my most heartfelt desire has always been to be recognized inthe same realm of the most elite of fine artists... photographic, or otherwise. So for years, ongoing and dedicated, in the spare time my business andpersonal life would allow, I have pursued this quest, my need to create.

The first exhibition of my fine art was in 1991 as part of a multi-artist Gallery Exhibit at Sanibel Harbour Resort and Spa in Fort Myers, Florida.

Due to pursuing my commercial studio, thirteen years later came my next.

I have captured many artistic images since that first show, trying to bediversified with what I do create. The Doug Heslep Fine Art Collection hasbeen "works in progress" for a very long time, much longer thanthat first show in 1991... and the journey isn't over yet."

Raymond Ellstad

Raymond Ellstad

Raymond Ellstad es un artista norteamericano que se dedica principalmente al área de las caricaturas. Este sentido del humor que necesita para hacer su trabajo se refleja también en sus fotografías y en su texto de presentación. Dejo un pequeño fragmento:

"Growing up absurd, living life without a goal as a surf rat, he soon enough found himself touring southeast Asia at the behest of your government and returning to the fair shores of southern California, just over a year later, glad to be alive and shocked that everyone didn't love him and blamed him personally for the folly of the ruling class in the 60's."

Información de Dancing Brush.

San Diego, California Caricature Artist Raymond Ellstad (as has been stated elsewhere in these pages) was born under a rusty sign on the Island of Staten, in New York, which is actually the borough of Richmond, so you might and could say that he is from New York, N. Y. This was on a brain cloudy day in 1946.

He has lived a desultory life, but the aspect germane to our quest of discovering the whereness of his art breath, is that he attended the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland Oregon (then known as the Museum Art School), and the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts. In him resides a major talent with a middle brow mind.

Raymond can be and sometimes IS entertaining, which he perceives is currently the nature of your business and would love to entertain you and your guests at your next major or minor event.

Miles Thompson

Miles Thompson

Miles Thompson es un artista de Los Angeles, que aparte de su página web mantiene su blog Things.

Tiene una gran variedad de recursos y técnicas como muestra en sus variadas ilustraciones. También trabaja haciendo dibujos animados.