Tag Archives: figurative
Anna-Kajsa Alaoui
My inspiration comes from the nature surrounding the area where I live in the south of Sweden, on an island in the Baltic, from the human body, and from within. The nearness of water and the open landscape creates a lot of light in various shapes, and the way that this light alters objects and […]
Nikoloz (KOKA) Tskhvediani
It’s basically impossible for me to define my art. All I can say, is that it carries strong spontaneous energy featuring Abstract Expressionism. My artistic career started in 1990s—the crisis times of Post-Soviet Georgia. Total disorientation of this complicated space greatly inspired me. Through observing the environment I lived in, I used to experiment with different […]
Vincent Desiderio at Marlborough Gallery
Vincent Desiderio is perhaps settling too comfortably into the role of master. Long considered one of the more skilled and thoughtful painters of our generation, his impressive 2011 showing at New York’s Marlborough put him amongst our best. The exhibition remains a peak moment in Desiderio’s career, where decades of discipline, contemplation, experimentation and deliberate […]
Lars Kesseler
For more than 25 years, my life has been filled with graffiti and street-art, which should brighten up the public areas and beautify grey walls. To follow my passion, I need some spray-cans and a piece of wall or canvas. My work connects figurative characters with detailed graphic elements in the background. The longer you look at one […]
Christine McDonald
Some of my work is inspired by the beautiful New Zealand where I grew up. The freedom to explore the great outdoors as a child gave me lots of creativity.I started in slip cast ceramics, teaching myself and using my visual spirit to take inspiration from the colours of the landscape of my native country. […]
When Darkness Falls by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Nightfall / Alkony New tendencies in figurative painting Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, March 29 – May 24, 2013 MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary October 7, 2012 – February 10, 2013 Mankind has always been fascinated by darkness. In the beginning as the Bible says, “darkness covered the face of the deep” and since then looking into […]
