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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I have always been attracted by the representation of realistic alternative beauty made up of elderly people, disproportionate bodies or eccentric people, the so-called "strange", so far from the canonical representation of ideal beauty. The art of Christiaan Conradie, who sees the elderly as the protagonists of his works, fascinated me because of this. An artist originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, Christiaan Conradie was a member of the RVCA's Artist ...
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The giant sculpture "appeared", literally, one morning during Miami Art Week on the corner of 5th Street in Wynwood, is the work of Danish artist Thomas Dambo. Away from the hustle and bustle of 2nd Avenue, the work has been implemented since July 2019 and then moved to its final location. Dambo is a Danish artist who lives and works in Copenhagen and has a graffiti artist background. After presenting ...
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We are just days away from the 22nd edition of the Portrait Society of America Convention, which will be held in a completely new way from August 27 to 30, 2020, with a live webinar, given the brutal revolution that Covid-19 has brought. The Portrait Society of America is a non-profit art organization founded in 1998 by Edward Jonas, Gordon Wetmore and Tom Donahue. It is governed by an Executive ...
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The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, in celebration of its 25th anniversary, opened its doors to the exhibition "Femme Touch", sponsored by Steven Alan Bennett and his wife, Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt: founders of The Bennett Collection of Women Realists and Bank of America. The exposition, curated and organized by chief curator José Carlos Diaz, took two years for its realization which involved seven people. An "literally" open-door exhibition, ...
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