Malanda

Malanda

Información del MOCA (Museum of Computer Art)

"Karl-Ludwig Leiter goes by the sobriquet Malanda. His work is eclectic, covering a broad range. He is represented here by 15 images. He writes, "Even before I became a Hippie in the early 70's in southwest Germany I wanted to become an artist - since I always loved to paint and draw. Simultaneously with my love for art, my dislike for the 'art market' did grow - styles popular by then I did not want to paint - and styles I painted nobody wanted to see. Nevertheless I kept painting and earned the little money I needed by working as a lumberjack, a gravedigger, or in governmental Kulture archives. I studied with my artist friends, in art galleries worldwide, in nature, with sex drugs and Rock 'n Roll.

"Out of the blue I had not the slidest longing for trying to be somebody special anymore - therefore I completely stopped doing traditional artworks for almost 20 years. By then I enjoyed having a decent livelihood as a freelance graphics and product designer, leading a small but fine studio and enjoying even more my still not-being-dependent-and-influenced by the 'ins-and-outs' of the art-market.

"Approximately three years ago I started to paint again! I use an Apple computer, a graphics tablet, Photoshop and Painter. Most of my art is extremely detailed - I have been and still are interested in brilliance and luminosity - in the archetypical patterns, in surfaces of nature, in the shine behind the obvious perceptions - following some principles of the Viennese School of Phantastic Realism and some of the early Symbolistic artists (Dellville, Moreau, Gaudi, etc.). Aldous Huxley, Choegyam Trungpa and Friedrich Nietzsche influenced me deeply as well as Donald Duck and the Marx Brothers.

"I paint because I enjoy doing it. Some paintings have a message - others not. Which one - the open minded watcher may find out in any way it pleases him or her. I have many different subjects and styles - and try neither to accept nor to reject anything."

Julio Romero de Torres

Julio Romero de Torres

Información de Más de Arte.

Julio Romero de Torres (Córdoba, 1874 - 1930). Pintor español. Vive en un ambiente familiar propicio al arte. Su padre es conservador del Museo de Córdoba y Director de la Escuela de Bellas Artes de la misma ciudad desde 1871, donde él estudia. En 1907 emprende un viaje a Marruecos, Italia, Inglaterra, Francia y Bélgica junto con Iturrino, su hermano Enrique, también pintor, y el poeta cordobés Belmonte Müller. En 1908 los rasgos de su obra están bastante definidos, cerca del simbolismo, con predominio de lo literario y las características figuras femeninas morenas en las que se funden la sensualidad y el sentimiento religioso. Recibe la medalla de oro de la Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes con Musa gitana (1908) y se traslada a Madrid para impartir clases sobre indumentaria en la Escuela Especial de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado. Su estudio se convierte en centro de reunión de pintores e intelectuales; por él pasan Gregorio Marañón, Manuel Machado, Zuloaga, Galdós, Penagos, etc. Es el pintor por excelencia de la tradición y la mujer andaluzas, cuya fama se consolida en un viaje a Argentina en 1922. Allí se encuentra gran parte de su obra en colecciones privadas, mientras que en España la mayor parte se conserva en el museo que lleva su nombre en la ciudad de Córdoba.

Sascha Huttenhain

Sascha Huttenhain

Sascha Hüttenhain was born in 1973 in the German town of Siegen. He has been living and working there ever since. Photagraphy has been his profession since 1998. For 2 years he was an assistant photographer this is how he gathered most of his experience. Meanwhile Sascha has his own studio and also works as lecturer for photography seminars. Colors and grayscales are two elements which he takes very seriously. .

Sascha Hüttenhain Hard edges & smooth shapes are the contrasts which Sascha Hüttenhain admires. Sascha photographs his models between cubic elements in his studio or in run-down buildings and other industrial surroundings when he is on location.

Larry Hoth

Larry Hoth

Larry Hoth is a self-taught photographer from Euless, Texas. He has been shooting the female nude for several years now and has also created a lovely and artistic body of erotic imagery. He is adept at shooting both indoors as well as outdoors and has worked with a beautiful series of models.

Larry shoots his nudes in an unusual way, in that he has his model treat the session as if she were moving in slow motion, much the way you have to photograph a sailboat as it moves across the water. This also results in some unusual lighting effects as he meters the light once within the area and continues to shoot as the model moves inside that space. This probably would not work with other photographers but it is Larry's trademark.

August 2005/Black and White Photography Forum Winner

Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt

Información de la Wikipedia

Elliott Erwitt (Paris 1928 - ). Fotógrafo francés. Trabajó para los más importantes medios de prensa. Su calidad artística y su gran impacto comunicacional lo han situado en un lugar de privilegio entre los fotógrafos del siglo XX.

Descendiente de emigrantes rusos, pasó su niñez en Italia y Francia, pero la Segunda Guerra Mundial obligó a su familia a emigrar a los Estados Unidos.

Elliott Erwitt comenzó tomando fotografías desde fines de los 40s. Comenzó trabajando en un estudio fotográfico en Hollywood y más tarde como fotógrafo para diversas publicaciones. En uno de sus viajes conoció a Robert Capa, Edward Steichen y Roy Stryker, quienes se convertirían en sus destacados mentores.

En 1953 fue invitado a formar parte en la prestigiosa agencia Magnum Photos por Robert Capa, uno de sus fundadores, convirtiéndose, quince años más tarde, en el presidente de la misma.

En la década de los años 60s, comenzó a realizar documentales, programas de televisión y libros. Hasta la fecha, Erwitt es autor de 18 monografías y sigue trabajando en nuevos títulos.

Su cámara ha fotografiado a muchos de los protagonistas de la historia contemporánea, tales como John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ernesto Che Guevara, Nikita Jrushchov, Marilyn Monroe y Jacqueline Kennedy, entre otros.

Bob Carlos Clarke

Bob Carlos Clarke

Información de Picasso Mio

Bob Carlos Clarke (County Cork, Irlanda, 1950 - Londres, Marzo 2006)
Bob Carlos Clarke tiene la merecida reputacion de ser un fotógrafo extremadamente versatil así como uno de los mejores positivadores fotográficos. Su obra sigue una línea llena de misterio, imaginación y fotografías monocromas llenas de erotismo. Trabajó como fotorreportero y fotógrafo publicitario, y en 1975 completó un master en fotografía en el Royal College of Art.

Bob Carlos Clarke se ha posicionado como uno de los más demandados fotógrafos de moda, retratos y comerciales, realizando campañas para Smirnoff y Volkswagen, entre otras. Carlos Clarke quizás más conocido por las series de libros que ha producido, la mayoría de ellos llevando la brillante técnica de la fotografía publicitaria a un mundo de voyeurismo, drama y sensualidad.

Las naturalezas muertas monocromáticas de Clarke son sus obras más subversivas. Al revelar multitud de detalles, sus primeros planos de cuberterías aparecen como extraños objetos del fetichismo, particularmente al ser considerados en el contexto de sexualidad velada de la obra del autor, y sus alargados mangos se identifican con las piernas de la mujer.

"La mejor recomendación en arte erótico contemporáneo es el irlandés Bob Carlos Clarke. Tanto Maclean como Juliet Hacking, responsables del departamento de fotografía de Christie's, , lo señalan como el nuevo Helmut Newton (el fotógrafo germano-austríaco...)"

The Observer, Londres, 7 Mayo 2006.

Bettina Salomon

Bettina Salomon

Bettina Salomon es una fotógrafa nacida en Austria en 1969. Después de viajar por Asia y Europa, vivió y trabajó en Londres durante ocho años y en San Fracisco durante uno. Su pasión y su amor son la fotografía y su hijo, Eliah, que nació en septiembre de 2004.

Amadeo Modigliani

Amadeo Modigliani

Información de Biografías y Vidas.

Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920). Pintor y escultor italiano, nacido en Liorna y fallecido en París. Enfermo de tuberculosis desde niño, hizo estudios académicos en Florencia y Venecia, y en 1906 se trasladó a París. En el «Bateau-Lavoir», la famosa casa parisina que era el centro de reunión de artistas y escritores, hizo amistad con Max Jacob, Van Dongen, Picasso, Apollinaire y otros personajes célebres.
Es indudable que recibió la influencia de Cézanne con su exposición de 1907, y posiblemente también la de Klimt y la de las estampas del japonés Utamaro, pero en cualquier caso su estilo queda definido como una estilización originalísima de los volúmenes y un tratamiento casi plano del color, aplicado éste de forma homogénea sobre las superficies.
En sus desnudos femeninos, sobre todo, se ve una huella lejana de Duccio y Botticelli, pero sublimada por la síntesis del cubismo y de lo que la crítica italiana contemporánea ha denominado «linearismo», en contraposición con la denominación francesa de «expresionismo», del cual no posee la distorsión dramática que le han dado sus cultivadores.
En 1913 había pasado Modigliani de Montmartre a Montparnasse, e influenciado por Constantin Brancusi, comenzó a practicar la escultura con un conjunto de cabezas de piedra de resonancias africanas, que exhibió en 1912 en el Salón de Otoño.

Carlo Dolci

Carlo Dolci

Información de la Wikipedia.

Carlo (or Carlino) Dolci (25 May 1616 - 17 January 1686) was an Italian Baroque painter. He was born and died in Florence, the grandson of a painter on his mother's side. While he was precocious and apprenticed at a young age with Jacopo Vignali, Dolci was not prolific. It is said that in 1682, when he saw Luca Giordano, known as the fa presto painter, paint more in five hours than he could have completed in months, he fell into depression."He would take weeks over a single foot", according to biographer Filippo Baldinucci. This dilatory technique made him unsuited for large-scale fresco painting. He used pencil chiefly for sacred subjects, and generally painted in a small size, although he made a few life-size pictures. His daughter, Agnese Dolci, who showed excellence in copying the works of her father.

Dolci works are easily distinguishable by the delicacy of the composition. Pilkington declared: "His pencil was tender, his touch inexpressibly neat, and his colouring transparent; though he has often been censured for the excessive labour bestowed on his pictures, and for giving his carnations more of the appearance of ivory than the look of flesh" (citation needed), a flaw that had been already apparent in Agnolo Bronzino.

The grand manner, vigorous coloration or luminosity, and dynamic emotion of the Bolognese-Roman Baroque are foreign to Dolci and Florence. Perhaps the last in a the long tradition of prestigious Florentine painting, Dolci appears constitutionally blind to the new aesthetic, constrained by the Florentine tradition, that holds each drawn figure under a microscope of academicism. Wittkower describes him as the Florentine counterpart, in terms of devotional imaging, of the Roman Sassoferrato.

Dolci was notoriously pious; it is said that during Passion week every year, he painted a half-figure of the Saviour. His masterpieces are about sacred themes, where the protagonist is often highly emotive, nearly mawkish. There is a want of character in his pictures, and his grouping lacks harmony, but the general tone accords with the idea of the passion portrayed.

Among the best works of this master are the St Sebastian; the Four Evangelists at Florence; Christ Breaking the Bread in Burleigh; the St Cecilia in Dresden; an Adoration of the Magi; and a masterpiece is his St Andrew praying before his Crucifixion in the Pitti gallery, painted in 1646. He completed his portrait of Fra Ainolfo de' Bardi, when he was 16 years old.

One of his works, Madonna of the Veil, was stolen in 1976 and has never been recovered.

Williams Richard

Williams Richard

Richard is an internationally known Fine Art photographer with clients from Seattle to Hong Kong (the long way round!). Born in Wales in 1960, Richard is the third generation of professional photographers. After following a conventional photography career, in 1990 he started Diva Photography to counter the commercialisation of the female nude image - and as a break from the relentless boredom of commercial photography. "For me the nude is more than just a series of curves, the nude has to be seen in a setting that sets a context for the image. This can range from an erotic image in a bedroom to a natural image in a wood, or an abstract studio shot".

Richard's work is published internationally in print and on the web. You can see his recent images in "Cosmopolitan", "Marie Claire", "Elle", "Photo" (France) and "Elegance" (US) - but he rarely uses his real name - there are simply too many people called Richard Williams in the visual arts. He is retained by Kestrel and Charter P agencies and has been a chosen photographer for "The Ooh" (May 2006) and "My Erotic Eye" (August 2006). Image gallery in the "Nerve" (September 2006). He is a contributor to "Erotique" and "Erotique 2" and to most of the major art nude web sites (Femjoy, Eros-Zine. Michelle 7, ibodi.......) Too many book covers/album covers to mention.

His book of fine art nudes "Diva" was published in 1992. In 2006 he started work on his second book of fine art prints (but it is taking a very long time) and making a series of short black & white erotic movies.

Richard now divides his time between interesting commercial projects and individual commissions.

Tim Petersen

Tim Petersen

Tim Petersen tiene su estudio Nueva York. La fuerza que transmiten sus fotografías han cautivado a las Revistas de moda de la Gran Manzana.

Gian Paolo Barbieri

Gian Paolo Barbieri

Información de Rancho las Voces (Revista de Arte y Cultura)

Gian Paolo Barbieri was born in Milan in 1938. In 1965, he began his collaboration with “Vogue Italia” and with many fashion designers. By 1978, “Stern” was ranking him as one of the 14 best fashion photographers in the world and in 1982, he published his first book, “Artificial”. During his travels for “Vogue”, he came into contact with other cultures that fascinated him: in Tahiti he discovered the topics of his imagination, transmitted to him by Gauguin’s paintings and also the written accounts found in Melville and Cook. Besides this mythical “lost” world, Barbieri also discovered people both open and innocent who shared with him the mysterious ritual of tattooing. After visiting archaic Madagascar and Tahiti, Barbieri finally discovered the Garden of Eden in the Seychelles, sensually photographed in the book “Equator”. The only absolute ruler here is the sun, casting patterns on naked skin through the palm fronds, or perhaps the Trade Winds that stir the almond trees. Barbieri now lives and works in Milan.

Zohar Lazar

Zohar Lazar

Zohar Lazar creo que tiene su estudio en Nueva York, más que nada por los clientes para los que declara haber trabajado.

Para sus ilustraciones utiliza tanto técnicas tradicionales como modernas, normalmente suelen ir cargadas con un punto de ironía, e incluso se posiciona póliticamente con humor en algunas de ellas.