tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1875853 2012-01-17T11:02:00-05:00 The ARTeur is an "art auteur". The Arteur blog showcases all artists - established and emerging - across all mediums. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef01539426edd6970b 2012-01-17T11:02:00-05:00 2012-01-17T11:02:00-05:00

Lisa Yuskavage is best known as the creator of female figures whose outrageous proportions evoke Edgar Degas nudes posed by Hans Bellmer. Her polarizing work has been variously described as "perversely pledged to vulgarity," "discomfitingly kitschy," and "utterly sincere." Critics and curators have likened walking into a Yuskavage show to "falling into a candy-colored fever dream" and tell of emerging with the sensation of having eaten too much cake. "Painters have to create space for themselves," says Yuskavage, who has staked out her territory with pictures that pack a one-two punch of titillating, often-bizarre imagery and dazzling technical prowess. Whether...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0162fbdd7565970d 2012-01-09T17:52:00-05:00 2012-01-09T17:52:00-05:00

Working in oils on linen and aluminum panel, Chloe Early has developed a unique style that is simultaneously lush and raw. The romantic and the gritty meet in her paintings, which tease out a distinctively poetic worldview through the juxtaposition of extremes. At their core is a sensitivity to lyrical feelings and themes—love, beauty, innocence, softness—which collide with more worldly symbols of aggression and degradation, such as bullets, bombs, urban refuse, and ruins. Yet Early avoids any kind of resolution, or even overt narrative. Rather, she simply allows these opposing elements to float in space and intermix, creating a charged...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef014e8c46c411970d 2012-01-03T16:45:00-05:00 2012-01-03T16:45:00-05:00

Painter Dan Quintana is a Bosch for the 21st century, his immaculately rendered paintings depict a surreal limbo of dark characters engaged in nefarious activities. His colour palette and technique reflect the style of the old masters, but the tone is undeniably 21st century with the addition of cars and sex This video tells it all:

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0154368ebacc970c 2011-12-28T10:47:00-05:00 2011-12-28T10:47:00-05:00

Claudio Parentela is a mixed media artist whose work crosses from cartoon to low brow art. Born in Catanzaro, Italy where he lives and works, Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, journalist free lance. Active since many years in the international underground scene, he has collaborated with many zines, magazines of contemporary art, literary publications and comics in Italy and in the world

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0154364c27de970c 2011-12-20T21:51:00-05:00 2011-10-23T17:44:57-04:00

Combining both wit and admiration, seriousness and flippancy, Guy Rusha takes the art historical idea of male artist painting women as his point of departure. In his painting and sculpture it seems that he explores elements of traditional European portraiture in an effort to more simply and clearly present Her. To follow, for instance, his application of paint from painting to painting - now thick and heavy, now almost rude in its casual sparseness - is to sense Rusha's attentiveness and curiosity for how an image comes from, and into, material, and the ways in which oil paint records the...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0154364c348a970c 2011-12-14T22:05:00-05:00 2011-10-23T17:38:45-04:00

Michael Borremans’ drawings, paintings, and films present an evocative combination of solemn-looking characters, unusual close-ups, and unsettling still lifes. There is a theatrical dimension to his works, which are at once highly staged and ambiguous, just as his complex and open-ended scenes lend themselves to conflicting moods—at once nostalgic, darkly comical, disturbing, and grotesque. His paintings display a concentrated dialogue with previous art historical epochs, yet their unconventional compositions and curious narratives defy expectations and lend them an indefinable yet universal character. Lone figures in pensive or semiconscious states are depicted squarely in the center of the compositions; while their...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0162fbc2c3ef970d 2011-12-08T09:42:00-05:00 2011-12-08T09:42:00-05:00

Chicago born artist Claudia Hart offers a unique perspective on the use of photography to showcase her psychological state of mind. Primarily using photography and animated video, Hart crafts compelling metaphors for Freud's das unheimlich (the uncanny) in virtual statues and models that are filled with human emotion, such as loss, pain and the fear of death. Psychically charged, these pieces present the viewer with objects that are simultaneously dead and alive - uncanny in the sense that they are realistic, but impossibly so. In addition to working with the human figure, Hart's recent musings on the death of food...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef015436266bee970c 2011-12-03T16:36:00-05:00 2011-12-03T16:36:00-05:00

Chet Zar is a painter whose work straddles the macabre with the classical. Broken, compelling and disturbing, his subjects reach out to the viewer from beyond the canvas and demand attention and compassion. Zar, a Scorpio, was born on November 12th, 1967, in San Pedro, CA. His childhood was spent drawing, sculpting and painting. Zar has a natural fascination with all things strange and fostered a deep connection to horror movies and dark imagery. He could relate to the feelings of fear, anxiety and isolation that they conveyed; Themes that are reflected in his work to this day. The combined...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef014e8af968b6970d 2011-11-23T14:19:00-05:00 2011-11-23T14:19:00-05:00

Arthur Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in his early childhood. Spiegelman studied cartooning in high school and started drawing professionally at age sixteen. Despite his parents wanting him to become a dentist, Art Spiegelman majored in art and philosophy at Harpur College. After leaving college in 1968, he joined the underground comix movement. The following decade, Spiegelman became a regular contributor to various underground publications, including Real Pulp, Young Lust and Bizarre Sex. Under a variety of pseudonyms like Joe Cutrate, Skeeter Grant and Al Flooglebuckle he drew creations such...

TheStarryEye Astrologer tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef01539210a2f1970b 2011-11-15T13:22:00-05:00 2011-11-15T13:22:00-05:00

The contemporary artist most associated with ruins is probably Anselm Kiefer. He was born into a ruin, after all. That's to say, he was born in Germany in 1945. He was born into a place that had just been bombed to smithereens from the air and then smashed apart at the ground by the Allied advance on one side and the Red Army advance on the other. Kiefer's paintings and sculptures reflect a sensibility that was forged during the breaking and smashing of things, and then further shaped in an environment where one wandered through the wreckage. Kiefer works with...

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