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Reading Art: Laocoön and His Sons
Laocoön and His Sons (Courtesy of BEJAN Design) “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” is a common expression. Having good intentions is, of course, better than harboring malicious ones, but...
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Painter Spotlight: Jacob Collins, ‘The Poignancy of Life’
Jacob Collins (born 1964) started painting at an early age, copying Old Master paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He studied in Europe and attended several art schools in the United States....
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Painter Spotlight: Kenny Harris, Cityscapes With Current Context
Kenny Harris (born 1974) studied at a liberal arts school, Colorado College, where he received a well-rounded art education. After that, he went to study art history and sight-size drawing under...
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Painter Spotlight: Jos Van Riswick, Physicist-Turned-Painter
Dutch painter Jos Van Riswick (born 1973) graduated in physics from the University of Nijmegen, Holland, and worked as a researcher for a few years. He only got into painting after having learned about...
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Painter Spotlight: Ryan S. Brown, Maturity in Versatility
Ryan S. Brown studied illustration at Brigham Young University in Utah. Not satisfied with university studies, he took lessons from William Whitaker, a renowned portrait and figurative painter, after...
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Painter Spotlight: Maureen Hyde, an Illustrator in Italy
For many years Maureen Hyde worked as a book illustrator. Her interest for making a transition to fine art painting was deeply stirred by the works of Italy-based Daniel Graves, which she came across...
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Painter Spotlight: Adrian Gottlieb, a Poet With Paint
Adrian Gottlieb is considered to be one of the best living portrait painters in the world. A true poet with paint, he manages to imbue his works with an exceptional sensitivity that sets him aside from...
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Painter Spotlight: Marina Dieul
French-born painter Marina Dieul remembers spending more time painting and drawing than playing with other children. Her family encouraged her and she enrolled at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France....
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Painter Spotlight: Carlo Russo, ‘Calm and Peace in a Chaotic World’
Though Carlo Russo (born 1976) had been fond of drawing and painting since his early childhood, the idea of ever making a living out of it never really occurred to him. “I was probably in my twenties,...
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Painter Spotlight: Stephen Bauman, the Continuous Search for Art
When Stephen Bauman was young, he used to sneak into his brother’s room to rustle through the notebooks of the grafitti he was making. “I would go back to my room and try to sketch them out in whatever...
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Painter Spotlight: Arantzazu Martinez, Dream Chaser
Art is a matter of pure passion for the Spanish painter Arantzazu Martinez. When her craving to paint like the 19th century masters could not be met at the academy in Madrid, she left Spain to study at...
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Painter Spotlight: Cornelia Hernes and ‘The Tapestry of Life’
Norwegian-born painter Cornelia Hernes spent much of her youth living on three different continents: Europe, Africa, and North America. She studied psychology at university of Victoria in British...
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Painter Spotlight: Renato Muccillo, Distilled Nature
Canadian born Renato Muccillo, son of Italian immigrant parents, started out painting high realism paintings in the late ’80s. He remembers working months on end to finish his photo-realistic pieces,...
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Painter Spotlight: Patricia Coonrod, an Inviting Place to Be
After Patricia Coonrod earned her bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, she moved on to the graduate course at the New York Academy of Art. “People were very focused on conceptual...
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Painter Spotlight: Camie Salaz, Transformation Through Art
Tarrytown, the home of painter Camie Salaz, lies about 20 miles north of New York on the Hudson River, where the great landscape painters Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Sanford Robinson...
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