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| Articles about Artist Profile |
| Artist Profile: Abram Arkhipov | | 2008-05-17 22:42:00 | | Abram Arkhipov was a Russian artist trained at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Vasily Perov, Aleksey Savrasov, Vladimir Makovsky and Vasily Polenov. He joined the WANDERERS (Peredvizhniki) in 1889 and the Union of Russian Artists in 1903. While indebted to the realist painting of Perov, Arkhipov also gave particular attention to effects of light, rhythm and | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Max Turner | | 2008-04-16 21:58:00 | | For many years I have had the privilege of calling Max Turner my friend. He is the most skilled artist I have ever known, and continues to inspire -- and awe -- his students and fellow artists alike. You may not have heard of Max, for he is a humble and unassuming fellow. But local artists know who he is. Max is the sculptor's sculptor, whose breadth and quality of work would astound you. He's | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Ed Terpening | | 2007-12-13 20:44:00 | | Painting diverse landscapes “en plein air” (in one sitting, on location) is Ed Terpening's passion. California’s hills scattered with oak trees, bay marshes, and of course our beautiful coastline provide him with constant inspiration. He applies his contemporary California Impressionist skills both outdoors and in the studio for larger works.
Terpening seeks to capture the essence of a | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
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| Artist Profile: Sunny Apinchapong-Yang | | 2007-11-30 20:56:00 | | Sunny Apinchapong-Yang was born in Bangkok, Thailand, where his Chinese parents settled after World War II. He arrived in the United States in 1970 where he received his first formal art instruction. He attended Art Center College of Design, and California State University, Los Angeles, earning both B.A and M.A degrees in Fine Arts.
In 1977, he began studying painting on scholarship at the | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Ingmar Bergman | | 2007-07-30 22:19:00 | | In each of our lives there are a handful of individuals who made a real impact, who by direct influence or by example helped to explain the world and shape our character. For me, Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman was such a person. He died today, age 89.
Along with my parents, a few family members and close friends, Bergman taught me much of what I know of the world, the human psyche, love | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Philip Craig | | 2007-05-03 13:25:00 | | Philip Lorne Craig was born in Ottawa in 1951 and started his career after completing 6 years of studies in life drawing, painting and graphic design. While serving as art director at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Newfoundland, Philip continued to paint part-time. After a number of exceptionally successful one-man shows he left the CBC to pursue his talents as a painter full-time. | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
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| Artist Profile: John Holub | | 2007-04-25 12:17:00 | | Born on Long Island, New York, John Holub was always interested in art. Even as a child, he spent much of his time painting and drawing. Years later, after a tour in the United States Air Force and a move to Maine, he finally decided to pursue his childhood fascination. He began with pen-and-ink renderings and later on developed his skill as a water color painter. He has since gone on to | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: John Berkey | | 2007-03-30 16:21:00 | | While the name John Berkey may not be as well known as Norman Rockwell, Berkey is arguably as famous. His spaceship illustrations helped influence Star Wars, as he was commissioned by director George Lucas to do pre-production designs for the first movie in the series.
Spaceships were often depicted as long rocket-powered tubes in Buck Rogers comics and movies, but Berkey envisioned them as | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Sergei Bongart | | 2007-03-26 11:39:00 | | 20th Century Russian painter Sergei Bongart (1918-1985) was born in Kiev in the Ukraine. He studied art in Kiev, Prague, Vienna and Munich, before emigrating to the United States in 1948. While living in California during the 1960s and 70s, he taught a number of aspiring young painters who later became well-known, nationally collected American artists—among them, Susan Greaves and James Dudley | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Clyde Aspevig | | 2007-03-21 10:43:00 | | Clyde Aspevig's personal and artistic horizons have unfolded expansively since his childhood on a Montana farm near the Canadian border. That period of geographical and cultural isolation was in retrospect a blessing for the artist he recalls. "Because I grew up in a vacuum in Montana, I wasn't taught the cliches."
He sees such naivete as allowing him to be more open to everything around him, | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Jeffrey Jones | | 2007-03-20 12:29:00 | | Jeffrey Catherine Jones (born January 10, 1944 in Atlanta, GA) was a very popular science fiction and fantasy illustrator during the 1960's and early '70s. Among the books he did covers for were the Ace paperback editions of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series and Andre Norton's Postmarked the Stars. At the time he was competing with Roy G. Krenkel who had a tight almost J. Allen St. | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Matt Smith | | 2007-03-19 10:14:00 | | Matthew Read Smith was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1960, and at the age of three moved with his family to Scottsdale, Arizona. Later, they moved to Europe where they lived two years in France and one in Switzerland. In subsequent years, Matt painted in Germany, Austria, and Italy. He has lived most of his life in Arizona, where he developed a deep attachment to and respect for the Sonoran | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Jan Op De Beeck | | 2007-03-14 13:01:00 | | Jan Op De Beeck is arguably the world's greatest caricaturist.
Born in Congo in 1958, Jan moved to Belgium in 1960, where he obtained mastership in 1979 at Sint-Thomas in Brussels. He began teaching the arts in 1979 at the Coloma Institute in Mechelen. Jan married his wife Chris in 1979, and they have three children: Lieven (1980), Katrijn (1982) and Pieter (1985).
Jan Graduated in model | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Richard Schmid | | 2007-03-13 11:09:00 | | Richard Schmid was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1934. His earliest artistic influence came from his maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, an architectural sculptor. Richard’s initial studies in landscape painting, figure drawing, and anatomy began at the age of twelve and continued into classical techniques under William H. Mosby at the American Academy of Art in Chicago.
Mosby, a graduate of | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Morgan Weistling | | 2007-03-13 11:06:00 | | Morgan studied art at an early age with his father, a former art student. His parents both met at art school. His father, Howard, a POW in Germany, entertained his fellow American prisoners in Stalag 1 with a daily comic strip that he created and drew to keep morale up. Drawn on scraps of paper found on the prison grounds, he crafted a humorous world of characters that managed to bring a smile | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
| | Artist Profile: Craig Mullins | | 2007-03-13 11:05:00 | | Craig Mullins was born in 1964 in California and moved at the age of 3 to Ohio. When 18 he went back to California where for several years he lived in the proximity of Los Angeles. Today he lives in Hawaii. Mullins was classically trained (attending Pitzer College of Claremont, California (where he stayed for around 2 years) and the Art Center College of Design) but was introduced to digital | | By: Nason Art Review | | |
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