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It was so difficult to pick an image by Oliver Jeffers to showcase his stuff, but ultimately I chose to dig into his wonderful sketchbook. But there’s more to his site than this — oodles of paintings, illustrations, — and even some doodles using coffee stains!

(Thanks, Ciarán!)

Originally by Johnny from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog on February 21, 2007, 5:26pm

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The Japan Times reports that a rare example of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s landscape painting has been loaned by Tokyo’s Morohashi Museum of Modern Art to London’s National Art Gallery as part of an extensive exhibition of the artist’s work that opened to the public last Wednesday. The painting, “Laundry Boat on the Seine, near Paris,” captures, in muted tones, the more mundane aspects of 19th century life in the French capital and joins 70, mostly more vibrant, works that have been brought together to track Renoir’s exploration of landscape painting. “It’s a very rare painting in Renoir’s oeuvre because he very rarely used these sorts of brown tones,” said Chris Riopelle, the National Gallery’s curator of 19th century painting. “To completely compose a picture in browns and blacks and grays as he does here is quite a rarity for Renoir, so we were very concerned to have it here to represent this unexpected aspect of his career.”
The art exhibit is the first of its kind to examine the development of the French impressionist’s landscapes, with the dull tones of the Japan-loaned picture standing out among the idyllic green scenes — many of them forest interiors — to be found in many of the other works on display. “This is a kind of one-off. You don’t see him doing it too often,” Riopelle said of the somber study of 19th century French working-class life. (For full source and article click the Headline)
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A Shimmering Heart, Silver   Overlap   Pom-pom Sky   Danse macabre    
Born 1964,
the artist lives and works in New York, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

15/12/ – 15/1/2007 “Overlap”, The Windows at the Kimmel Center, NYU, New York, NY
6/10 – 7/30, 2006 “Pom-pom Sky,” Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
2/13 – 3/13, 2005 “A Shimmering Heart (Silver), Participant Inc., New York, NY
4/9 - 4/30, 2004 “Kairos (Lost You Somewhere),” Raccoon Space, Queens, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

7/21 – 8/31, 2006 “Sci-Fi Lullabies,” curated by Daria Shapiro, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY, NY
7/15 – 9/2, 2006 “The Paper Show,” curated by Daria Shapiro, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, LA, CA
2/23 – 3/2, 2006 “Body.City,” curated by Branko Francheschi, Gallery MC, New York, NY
3/8 – 3/28, 2005 “Exploding Plastic Inevitable: 40 Fun Galleries,” Curated by Scenic,
Bergdorf Goodman, NY, NY (“Pastel Bouquet,” an installation in the Bergdorf Goodman’s display window on 5th Avenue facade)
2/3 – 3/5, 2005 “Suspended Ornament/Suspended Space: Rina Banerjee & Goran Tomcic, Suite106 Gallery, NY
12/2 -12/5, 2004 NADA, Miami, FL
6/4 – 7/2, 2004 “Art and Reconciliation,” Raccoon Space, Queens, NY

REVIEWS

10/2006 “The Fireplace Project: Edsel Williams’s Art Space, Kindred Spirits Find a New Haunt,” by Susan M. Galardi, Vox Magazine 57
2/18/2005 “Goran Tomcic at Participant, Inc,” by Nick Stillman, (Critics’ Picks: Pick of the Month), artforum.com, February 2005

Website: gorantomcic

Originally by m@the-artists.net from the-artists.org blog on February 22, 2007, 9:03pm

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Treadmill   Brain   Slip   Virus    
Born 1953, United States
the artist lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States

Sheree Rensel
Painter, Mixed Media Artist
B.F.A., M.F.A., Wayne State University

Exhibition history, CV, and artist statement
http://www.wizzlewolf.com/

Website: Art and Life: Sheree Rensel’s Visual Blog
Contact email: wizzlewolf@aol.com

Originally by m@the-artists.net from the-artists.org blog on February 25, 2007, 10:35am

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The Tate Modern museum at London “slid” to the top as London’s most visited attraction. The museum now outranks both the British Museum an the National Gallery in terms of number of visitors.

According to the report, a gret deal of this success is attributed to a string of blockbuster shows and innovative installations such as the huge slides by Carsten Holler installed in the cavernous Turbine Hall which allow visitors to slide between the different levels of the museum.

According to Will Gompertz, director of Tate Media:

The Unilever Series: Carsten Holler installation has been an extraordinary success. To date, more than 600,000 visitors have been down the slides and been exhilarated by their experience of this remarkable artwork.

Visitors to top 5 London attractions in 2006 (2005 position in brackets)

1 (3) Tate Modern 4,915,000 visitors.
2 (1) British Museum 4,837,878
3 (2) National Gallery 4,562,471
4 (5) Natural History Museum 3,754,496
5 (6) Science Museum 2,421,440

Originally by Style and Art from Style and Art on February 21, 2007, 10:41am

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Clouds we are, Selene, Waning Crescent   Clouds we are, Selene, Waning Gibbous   Melaina Chole 3288   Melaina Chole 9500    
Born 1977, Netherlands
the artist lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Daan Noppen (Arhem NL, 1977 – lives and works in
Amsterdam) Studied at the Design Academy in Eindhoven where he graduated
with the short movie FUBAR. After getting professional experience as a
designer, photographer and filmdirector, winning several awards and
nominations, he now concentrates on creating moving images and stills
researching the divine femininity. It is this underlying current of the
subliminal driven by inspiration ranging from Aristotle to Hermetic
theory that drives him to keep on searching for the purest force of
life.

Website: Daan Noppen website
Contact email: daan@daannoppen.com

Originally by m@the-artists.net from the-artists.org blog on February 21, 2007, 12:03pm

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Critical opinion has gradually turned against Renoir. Over the past 30 years or so he has been quietly written out of the history of modernism by critics and curators who consider his art too safe, too sweet, and above all too middle class, writes Richard Dorment in the Telegraph. The National Gallery’s exhibition of Renoir’s landscapes challenges that view, offering an altogether more dangerous and experimental artist than the one we know from his nudes, portraits and figure subjects. Renoir painted comparatively few landscapes, but he took risks in them that he didn’t take when painting the human figure. And precisely because he made a good living as a portraitist he could afford to be innovative in landscapes that sometimes look so modern you have to look twice to check that they really were painted during the years on which the show focuses (1865-83). Here is an artist whose work we tend to take for granted seen from a different angle in an unexpected light. With their shimmering patches of pure colour, choppy brushwork and light-dappled surface, each is a freely painted sketch, a full-scale study that captures the restless movement and constantly shifting light of actual visual experience. From Feb 20th to May 20th - National Gallery. (For full source and article click the Headline)
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Infamous art fraudster, John Myatt, who now paints ‘Genuine Fakes’ as a legitimate business is set to be the subject of a major Hollywood film, Picture Business reports. Myatt’s story reads very much like the pages of fiction. Left alone with two young children to support, he worked as an art teacher to pay the bills. “I spent all day teaching other people’s children and had no time for my own,” he says. “I needed to find a way to work at home.” Looking for inspiration, Myatt remembered that a few years earlier a friend had offered to pay him £300 to copy a painting by the French Post Impressionist Raoul Dufy. His friend had been delighted with the result reporting that the copy was so good it had fooled experts. At the time Myatt had shrugged off the compliment but then it played on his mind – perhaps he’d found a way to work at home after all. In 1986 he placed a classified ad in Private Eye, ‘19th and 20th century fakes for £200’ and a perfectly legitimate business venture was born. His materials were unorthodox – Myatt used household emulsion mixed with K-Y jelly to add body and fluidity to his brush strokes – but the results were pleasing. Then Myatt received a call from a ‘Professor Drewe’ who claimed to be a nuclear physicist wanting to purchase paintings to decorate his home. Myatt obliged with paintings in the style of Matisse, Klee and two 17th Century Dutch Masters. One evening Drewe phoned Myatt, “I took one of your paintings to Christie’s and they said it was worth £30,000.” Myatt says: “That was the moment when the legitimate business stopped and the crime began. The mistake occurred when I expressed an interest.” Despite Drewe’s constant reassurances, Myatt’s gut feeling was that the illegal enterprise would all end in tears… and it did. In 1999 Myatt was convicted for conspiracy to defraud and was sent to Brixton Prison for 12 months, but was released after four months for good behaviour.
(For full source and article click the Headline)
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