Balthus

Balthus

Información de Masdearte

Balthazar Klossowski de Roda (París, 1908 - Vaud (Suiza), 2001)
Más conocido como Balthus. Pintor francés. Hijo del pintor y escritor polaco E. Klossowski, se forma en Suiza en un ambiente familiar culto y muy refinado, en el que Bonnard, Derain y el poeta Rainer-María Rilke, grandes amigos de la familia, serán decisivos en su trayectoria artística. Siempre contando con el apoyo de Picasso, Fellini o Artaud, su pintura es una búsqueda constante de la belleza ideal, por medio de un proceso lento y artesano y con la mirada puesta en la naturaleza, que él mismo compara con la oración. A partir de 1930 se empieza a definir su estilo resueltamente figurativo y contrario a cualquier forma de abstracción. Con una base dibujística de gran precisión su pintura de colores bastante apagados y mates es el resultado de un estricta interiorización y observación de las cosas y personas. Hasta 1945 la temática de su obra se centra en escenas urbanas e interiores. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial su pintura se hace más matérica y aparece el tema del desnudo en adolescentes captadas en su sueño o en su intimidad. Pintor de ejecución lenta, amor por el oficio y rigor en la composición en su obra parece que el tiempo se ha paralizado y en ella creemos descubrir el misterio de lo banal. Celoso de su intimidad y su trabajo apenas muestra sus pinturas en público a pesar de ser considerado uno de los artistas más importantes de este siglo.

Anne Owens

Anne Owens

No hay datos en la red sobre ella aparte de la foto que cuelga en su web, pero por el estilo parece claro que se trata de una ilustradora bastante jóven inflenciada por los Dark Comics.

Eva Reppel

Eva Reppel

Freelance Photographer living Poland/UK.

She shines her hair with a scandalous red color.

Trevor Brady

Trevor Brady

Información de La Saatchi Gallery

Trevor's photography is generally influenced by two dimensional composition, leading him to shoot a great deal of urban architecture, detail, and an array of other typographical elements. He brings these images to life through what he refers to as, the creation of graphical composition from an existing scene. Brady frames intrigue through the photography of common objects, stacked crates in a dirty alley, or a chain-link fence decorated with old coffee cups, making them compelling, even beautiful, in the process. This desire to transform subjects also extends past the inanimate world, to the rundown neighbourhoods of Vancouver's Eastside where both the people and the streets possess an intensity rivaled only by their willingness to express it. It is here, among the scratched windows and littered gutters, that Brady's subjects truly come to embody the spirit of the artist.

Julia Keller

Julia Keller

Creo que se trata de una fotografa rusa que vive en la ciudad de Ekaterinburg.

Pauline Dekker

Pauline Dekker

Fotógrafo holandés, con una especial sensibilidad para los retratos y también para los paisajes solitarios.

Michael Hutter

Michael Hutter

Michael Hutter es un artista alemán, en cuyas ilustraciones conviven monstruos con bellas mujeres.

Raquel Alzate

Raquel Alzate

Nació en Baracaldo (Vizcaya) en 1972. Es licenciada en Bellas Artes por la UPV/EHU. Desde un primer momento compaginó sus estudios con los trabajos de diseño, ilustración infantil y publicidad. Tras acabar la carrera, trabajó en el modelado de figuras de plomo y esculturas de gran formato para decoración. Tras ilustrar libros infantiles para editoriales como Bruño o Barcanova y libros de Rol, sus trabajos más conocidos son los libros sobre mitología vasca Mitológica, editadas por Astiberri. Ha colaborado con revistas de cómic de ámbito nacional y en 2004 dibujó el álbum Cruz del sur (Astiberri) con guión de Luis Durán. En 2005 recibió el premio Josep Toutain al autor revelación del Salón Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona y el Premio Diario de Avisos al mejor dibujo realista.

Dorian Cleavenger

Dorian Cleavenger

Información de Velero 25

Nació en Massachusetts, vivio en New Jersey y actualmente reside en Pittsburg. Sus estudios artísticos los hizo en la Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts (incompletos) y en el Art Institute of Pittsburgh (clases de tecnología digital). Se considera básicamente un autodidacta que aprende y se inspira en el trabajo de sus pares en el genero.Sus comienzos fueron en las convenciones de Fantasía y CF y a partir de allí inicio una imparable carrera como ilustrador.

Christopher Voelker

Christopher Voelker

Fotografo norteamericano que tiene su estudio en Northridge (California).

Photography to me has become a life style that has brought me a great deal of personal satisfaction and contentment. My pictures have been instrumental in my growth as a human being. From photographing the famous, to a 78 year-old woman from Hong Kong who recited poetry to me during a recent session. I fondly remember Mick Fleetwood telling me stories of seeing Jimi Hendrix at a small club called " The Bag of Nails" in the early 60’s. My passion for the dramatic potential of movie lights (George Hurrell is my hero), to the spontaneity of working with studio strobe that captures the excitement of the moment. From network gallery sessions to album covers to intimate portraits, I have spent the last 15-years in the studio getting to know people visually. I have become a photographer of humans.

Katja Govorushchenko

Katja Govorushchenko

Photographer originally from Ukraine, now operating her studio "Iconogenic" in the Netherlands. Site inlcudes bio, portfolios of fashion, beauty and portaiture, contact information, stock photos available for purchase, and a collection articles by Govorushchenko. In Dutch and English.

Laurent Elie Badessi

Laurent Elie Badessi

Laurent Elie Badessi was born in France into a family of photographers three generations. Growing up in this environment allowed him to explore and aprpreciate the art and techniques of photography at an early age.

After studying Communication and Photography, he wrote a M.A. thesis entitled “Ethnological Fashion Photography” at the University of Paris VIII.

Using the technique of “Negotiated Photography” he spent several months in Niger, Africa taking photographs of the indigenous tribes. For this project he was awarded first prize in the 1988 Fuji Color, VSD, France-Inter Advernture Grant and won in 2004 the nomination for the Humanity Photo Award in China.

Laurent Elie Badessi started his professional career as a Fashion Photographer in Paris and abroad, before moving to New York in 1995 where he concentrated his work on his fine art photography and special projects for luxury brands.

“SKIN”, a book of his images on the human form in harmony with nature, was internationally released in 2000 by Edition Stemmle/Abbeville Press.

Sondra Gilman, Founder and Ex-Chairperson of the Department of Photography at the Whitney Museum wrote the introduction of the book and world famous personalities and artists like Andres Serrano, Susan Sontag, Larry Rivers, Anne Rice, Antoni Tàpies, Pedro Almodóvar, César, Peter Beard, Merce Cunningham, Karl Lagerfeld, Philip Glass, Paco Rabanne, Marcel Marceau, Pierre Cardin, John Waters, Robert Wilson, dedicated a personal quote to accompany the photographs.

Laurent Elie Badessi’s images have appeared in prestigious magazines and are part of highly regarded private and public collections. He has received in 1996 a Grant from the French Ministry of Culture for his Paris exhibition “Metamorphoses”.

Several solo exhibitions of his work have been taking place in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Milan, Rome, Florence, Paris, Barcelona, Dubai and Monaco.

Michael Dwek

Michael Dwek

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Michael Dweck was given his first Kodak camera by his parents at the age of seven. Having studied fine arts at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Dweck began his career in advertising. He went on to become a highly regarded Creative Director who received over 40 international awards, including the coveted Gold Lion at the Cannes International Festival. Two of his long-form television pieces are part of the permanent film collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Drawing inspiration from his teenage years spent by the beach on Long Island, Dweck set out to photographically capture the vanishing surf culture of Montauk, a sleepy fishing village that in the 1970s became a haven for East Coast surfers.

Michael Dweck’s internationally acclaimed first book, titled The End:Montauk, N.Y. (Harry N. Abrams, 2004), is the photographic chronicle and nostalgic tribute to that hedonistic surf community. “The ultimate homage to the sun-kissed surfing life. Sensuous, seductive and unbearably sexy in its effect,” in the words of The New York Times. His second book is due out in December 2007.

Dweck’s timeless images have appeared in Vanity Fair, French Vogue, Esquire, Oyster, Black & White, and many other publications. In addition, his photographs were showcased in a solo exhibition at Sotheby’s in New York, and internationally at Paris Photo, France and Aoyama Tokyo, Japan. Michael Dweck lives in New York City.