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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Every time I interview an artist I ask to do it in his studio because I think it is fundamental to see the living space in which the artist organizes his time and materials, giving shape to his works. The Portrait Society of America organized the pre-convention class, yesterday and today, exactly with this approach: offering to the public the opportunity to enter in the art studios in a sort of ...
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Amoako Boafo, his name is now in art magazines all over the world consecrated among the gods of the Olympus. After his debut at the FIAC -International Contemporary Art Fair- in Paris in October 2019, an event in which his works were literally "sold out", he made his entrance into the Miami scene, first as an artist residing in the renowned Rubell Museum (formerly Rubell Family Collection), then entering the ...
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Prix de West Purchese Award 2020. The winner of the 48th edition of the Prix de West is DRUM ROLL...Bill Anton, with the opera "Makeshift Ambulance". The Prix de West, turns out to be America's premier western art exhibition and sale every year at (the) The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. The exhibition admits themed works composed in different mediums and styles ranging from figurative ...
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“My art Journey is the creative dance of the spirit” says Sonia Hidalgo, an artist of Venezuelan origin who lives and works in Miami, where she has been a teacher and director of MIFA Contemporary at the Miami International School of Arts since March 2020. The Contemporary Program was created to provide a dynamic mix of viewpoints that expose students to a variety of concepts about modern and contemporary art. ...
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The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, one of the largest and most visited museums in the world, is expanding thanks to the substantial legacy, consisting of 455 works, donated from the collection of Carlo del Bravo who died in 2017. Donation that took place, three years after his death, thanks to Lorenzo Gnocchi, his pupil and universal heir; he too, like Del Bravo, a professor at the Florentine university. The donation ...
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