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Amanda Sage (American 1978)

Posted on April 12, 2013 by admin

Amanda Sage is an American Artist living in Los Angeles and Vienna Austria. She grew up in Boulder Colorado and attended a school that allowed her to follow the arts early on and provided her with mentorships with established visionary … Continue reading →

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Banksy – (British – Contemporary)

Posted on January 3, 2013 by admin

  Banksy is a British Street Artist, whose work in known all over the world. His highly skilled stencils convey a political point of view. Anyone can see a Banksy because he paints outdoors in the urban environment and only … Continue reading →

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Daniel Burnham (American 1846-1912)

Posted on November 12, 2012 by admin

Daniel Burnham had a plan, and being part of the City Beautiful movement, he felt that beauty could increase quality of life. He imagined that San Francisco could be designed to compete with the world as the Paris of the … Continue reading →

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Skinner

Posted on June 19, 2012 by admin

Skinner is a California Artist from Sacramento. He has been very successful with commercial art including toys and other merchandise. His art has been featured on record covers and band posters, including the stage decoration for last year’s “Outside Lands … Continue reading →

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Leslie Shows

Posted on October 16, 2011 by admin

  Leslie Shows is a local Bay Area artist whose paintings have titles like “ The Arrangement of Salts and Metals by Properties,” where she succeeds in melding elemental natural tones with moody pychedelic lightning and rainbow crystals.  The vibrant colors … Continue reading →

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Frida Kahlo (Mexican 1907 – 1954)

Posted on August 29, 2011 by admin

  Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón de Rivera July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954 Frida Kahlo has intrigued me since I was a child. She was the second female artist I recognized, after Georgia O’Keefe, when I saw … Continue reading →

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Leonora Carrington (British 1917 – 2011)

Posted on July 14, 2011 by admin

Leonora Carrington is a Mexican Surrealist Artist who was born in Britian in 1917 and died this year, 2011. She met artist Max Ernst in London and escaped the NAZI occupation of Paris she fled to Mexico City. She is … Continue reading →

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Remedios Varo (Spanish 1908 -1963)

Posted on May 25, 2011 by admin

Remedios Varo was born in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War she escaped to Paris with her husband Benjamin Peret a Surrealist Poet. However she again escaped to live in Mexico as a politcal exile and she stayed there the … Continue reading →

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Holton Rower

Posted on May 5, 2011 by admin

This artist goes along the same vein as Jackson Pollock. The painting is created by the nature of the liquid paint. He is really a sculptor as well so that helps explain the 3D nature of his paintings.   Watch … Continue reading →

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Jackson Pollock (American 1912-1956)

Posted on March 26, 2011 by admin

This post on Pollock has almost as many pictures of him painting in his studio then actual paintings. I think his work has to be appreciated close up because it is all about texture, layering and colors. They way he … Continue reading →

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