Artists Describing Their Art:
Dmitry Rakov - Impossible reality (All new artworks and largerview at www.rakov.de and
Maria Teresa Fernandes - Admiring Teresa's paintings we are touched by her pictorial sensitivity. Difficult task in light colors (volume and transparencies on a clear basis). Few do it due to the required dedication with pallete knife(no brush).It's painting consacrated by the love to paint. Radha Abramo(Renowned art critique)comments at Solo Exhibition Catalog at SESC Paulista in June 84 -( sent at request and reproduced in one of the pages of this site). ...
Youri Messen-Jaschin - Youri Messen-Jaschin is an artist of Latvian origin, he was born in Arosa-Switzerland. His artistic studies brought him to the "Ecole Superieur Nationale des Beaux-Arts". He was a pupil of professor and master Robert Cami and also attended the Hautes Etudes of the Sorbonne University, which included, History of Art, with professor Pierre Francastel from the Ecole Pratique, in Paris. From 1962 to 1965 he returned to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, where he worked with the engraver and painter Ernest Pizzotti. He debuted his creations at the Lausanne EXPO, in 1964 (Swiss fair), where he presented his kinetic sculptures of glass and acrylic resin. Youri was searching for new forms of art. He worked two years in "The Center of Contemporary Engraving" in Geneva. But it was in Zurich that he expanded his pictorial perspective with the experience of the circle above the face, influenced by the Swiss painter Friederick Kuhn. From 1968 to 1970, he studied at the University of Hogskolan for design & Konsthantwerk of Gothenburg, where he made kinetic objects of textiles. In 1967, he met Jesus-Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Julio Le Parc during an ...
Lisa Perkins - Artist Statement As a fine artist and an art educator, I find myself experimenting with multiple ways of making art in order to broaden my experience and understanding of different processes. I try everything from pottery to digital photography, but find myself concentrating on three major areas: oil painted illustrations, monoprinting, and photography. Having graduated with a concentration in illustration, I have built up a portfolio of illustrations and an understanding of the business. I've concentrated on creating paintings that illustrate political, social, or cultural themes. Illustration has become my most effective way of expressing my opinions and beliefs on current topics. Throughout my experience with illustration, I've come to notice a certain style I work into my paintings; flat, smooth color dominates, with fine line work in select areas to lend details or break up a large area of color. Recently I've continued this technique and widened my scope of illustrations to include portraiture. In select areas of the works, I've also incorporated use of printmaking, usually monoprinting in particular. Monoprinting has been a technique I've used in my personal works; each series I create involves a process of layering transparent and semi-opaque ...