Leon Ferari

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Leon Ferari
Western and Christian Civilization
Medium: Polyster, wood, cardboard
Size: 200x120x600cm
Year: 1965

Born in Buenos Aires, Ferrari employed methods such as collage, photocopying and sculpture in wood, plaster or ceramics. He often used text, particularly newspaper clippings or poetry, in his pieces. His art often dealt with the subject of power and religion; images or statues of the saints, the Virgin Mary or Jesus may be found in cages, sinks, meat blenders or frying pans. He has also dealt with issues of United States influence — in his best-known work, La civilización occidental y cristiana ("Western-Christian Civilization", 1965), Christ appears crucified on a fighter plane, as a symbolic protest against the Vietnam War.

Ferrari also wrote many articles for left-leaning newspaper Página 12. His work and his politics brought him much controversy and notoriety. He was forced into exile in São Paulo, Brazil from 1976 to 1991 following threats by the military dictatorship, which "disappeared" his son Ariel in 1977. In 2004, his exhibition in Recoleta, Buenos Aires, was forced to close following intervention by Pope Francis (then Archbishop of Buenos Aires) and a subsequent court order. Protests and government action allowed the exhibition to reopen.
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Georg Baselitz

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
GEORG BASELITZ,
Title: Auftritt am Sandtreich II – bei + 30 C (Remix),
Year: 2006
Medium: Oil on canvas

Georg Baselitz is one of Germany’s most prolific and well-known living artists. Born in Saxony in 1938 – painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Selecting subject matter (figures, animals, birds, landscapes and still-lifes) and placing them in dramatic settings, Baselitz’ works also place the viewer in a world of heightened self-consciousness to confront the being with the brutalities of history and the human tragedies.

He also partakes of a particular rebel sensibility and – like Camus Homme révolté - examines several countercultural figures and movements to cast anti-heroes as a strategy to liberate the subject matter, from the grotesque one, to the broken soldiers of the Fracture paintings and the inverted figures of the disturbing upside-down paintings.
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Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Robert Morris 
Untitled 
Year: 2010

American sculptor, painter and writer on art, born in Kansas City. Studied engineering at the University of Kansas City and art at Kansas City Art Institute 1948-50, the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco 1951 and Reed College, Oregon 1953-5. Returned to San Francisco and worked in improvisatory theatre, film and (until 1959) painting, and had his first one-man exhibition of paintings at the Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, in 1957. Moved to New York in 1961 and began to make sculpture. Studied art history at Hunter College, New York 1962-3, writing a dissertation on Brancusi. His early sculptures were mainly neo-Dada, small-scale lead reliefs and mixed media works concerned with process, information and paradox, followed by completely abstract, geometric Minimal sculptures in painted plywood and later in fibreglass or metal. Published a series of articles on sculpture in Artforum from 1966. Also began in 1967 to make soft hanging sculptures in felt and from 1968 to produce anti-form or process works by the lateral spreading, scattering or stacking of different materials. His later work includes a number of projects for large-scale monuments and earthworks. Organised the Peripatetic Artists Guild in 1969, announcing his availability to carry out commissions anywhere in the world. Lives in New York.
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Johnny warangkula

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Johnny warangkula
Title: Bungalung Man (POA) Central & Western Desert
Medium: Synthetic polymer paint on composition board.
Size: 125 x 216cm

Johnny Warrangkula was born in 1925 at Minjilpirri, located south of Lake Mackay and northwest of Illpili. Nearby are two major Dreaming sites; Tijari located north of the Sandy Blight Junction, Western Australia and Kalipimpinpa, situated north-west of the Sandy Blight Junction. Johnny’s mother was of mixed Luritja/Walpiri/Pintupi descent and his father was Luritja/Walpiri. Johnny had a traditional bush childhood with no formal education in western schools. As a boy, Johnny remembers hiding from planes flying overhead that his people called ‘mamu’. Like many Aboriginal families at the time, Johnny and his family moved to Hermannsburg, where a mission had been established. At Hermannsburg, Johnny went through the traditional Aboriginal Law Ceremonies of initiation ‘to become a man’. At Hermannsburg, Johnny also worked as a labourer, digging the foundation for a new airport. The family moved to Haasts Bluff, where Johnny continued his labouring work, helping to build a new airport at Haasts Bluff as well as building roads to Mt.Liebig, Yuendumu and Mt.Wedge. As settlements were established, Johnny moved between various labouring jobs. Payment for his work was always in the form of ‘tucker’ or food, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, sugar, tea and tobacco. Johnny and his family moved from Haasts Bluff to Papunya in 1960.Here a new Aboriginal settlement had been built.

During the Queen’s visit in 1954, Nosepeg Tjupurulla and Johnny Warrangkula were chosen as the Aboriginal representatives to meet the monarch. Whilst Johnny was serving on the Papunya Council with Mick Namarai, Kingsley Tjungarrayi and Limpi Tjapangati, he met a teacher, Geoffrey Bardon. Geoffrey supplied art materials at the request of the Papunya Council members, who were keen to record their stories on a permanent medium. This decision had historical implications as the dot – art movement was born. Geoffrey Bardon referred to Johnny’s paintings as ‘tremendous illusions’ created by Johnny’s personal style of layers of dots. Johnny became known as a major artist in the Aboriginal art movement. In 1984, the Sydney Morning Herald published a photograph of the Director of the Australian National Gallery, James Mollison, next to a work by Johnny Warrangkula. James Mollison declared the work of Papunya Artists to be ‘the finest abstract art ever produced in this country’.
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Cheri Samba

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Cheri Samba
Title: Apres le
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 200x350cm
Year:2001

Chéri Samba was a founding member of the “Popular painting” school along with Pierre Bodo, his paintings exposing everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital city, Kinshasa. His representative, often fantastical paintings incorporate graphic narrative and figures with text and word bubbles that address forefront social and political issues, including AIDS, social inequity, and corruption. Starting in the 1980s, Samba began to portray himself frequently and literally in his works, taking on a direct role as the reporter of his ideas and personal story. “I appeal to people’s consciences,” he says. “Artists must make people think.”
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Juris Zvirbulis

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Juris Zvirbulis
Title:Model with the black grouse
Medium:Oil on canvas
Size:101x121cm
Year:2009

The artist works in the following techniques and genres: watercolour, painting, drawing, book illustration, wall paintings for public interiors in Latvia and abroad.
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Willem De Kooning

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Willem De Kooning
Title: Seated woman
Medium: Oil and charcoal on masonite 
Year: 1940

Seated Woman was de Kooning's first major painting of a woman, and it evolved, curiously, out of a commission for a slightly earlier picture, Portrait of a Woman (c.1940). The artist seems to have held on to the commissioned portrait and started to use it to develop new pictures. The earlier work was shaped in part by contemporary images of women in magazines and by de Kooning's wife Elaine who had even stood in as a model when the portrait's subject was not available. These factors surely encouraged de Kooning to see the possibilities of using a 'portrait' to represent womankind in general, rather than a specific individual. Seated Woman was also undoubtedly influenced by Arshile Gorky, in particular the figurative The Artist and his Mother, which Gorky worked on for almost fifteen years after 1926.
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David Hockney

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
David Hockney
Title: The Road to York through Sledmere, 
Year:1997
Medium: oil on canvas,
Size: 48x60 in

Born in Bradford, England, in 1937, David Hockney attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. There, he painted his famous swimming pool paintings. In the 1970s, Hockney began working in photography, creating photo collages he called joiners. He continues to create and exhibit art, and in 2011 he was voted the most influential British artist of the 20th century.He loved books and was interested in art from an early age, admiring Picasso, Matisse and Fragonard. His parents encouraged their son’s artistic exploration, and gave him the freedom to doodle and daydream.
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Antony Gormley

Artville Contemporary Artist Of the Day 
Antony Gormley
Title: Song 
Year: 2008

Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human being stands in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise.
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Takashi Murakami

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
TAKASHI MURAKAMI
Title: "Tan Tan Bo" 
Medium: Acrylic on canvas mounted on board
Size: 11.9 feet x 17.8 feet x 2 1/2 inches
Year: 2001

Takashi Murakami (b. 1963), one of the most thoughtful-and thought-provoking-Japanese artists of the 1990s. His work ranges from cartoony paintings to quasi-minimalist sculptures to giant inflatable balloons to performance events to factory-produced watches, T-shirts, and other products, many emblazoned with his signature character, Mr. DOB. In addition to his work as an artist, Takashi Murakami is a curator, entrepreneur, and a student of contemporary Japanese society. In 2000, Murakami curated an exhibition of Japanese art titled Superflat, which acknowledged a movement toward mass-produced entertainment and its effects on contemporary aesthetics. Murakami is also internationally recognized for his collaboration with designer Marc Jacobs to create handbags and other products for the Louis Vuitton fashion house
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David Choe

Artville Contemporary Artist of The Day 
David Choe
Title:“Exodus from Land of Play” 
13 color serigraph depicting the 5 x 6 foot painting

Art note:
“in the land of play ,the skies rain fried cheese bread, there is non-stop fun and unlimited freedom, children are encouraged to commit acts of vandalism, fight, drink beer out of unicorn horns, smoke cigars that turn into bubblicious, and gamble and never lose, nuns show you their shaved vaginas and preach, up all night , sleep all day, where everyone plays and never works, where a kid can be a kid, and also where a man can also behave like a kid, do what you want, whenever you want there’s no responsibilities, no cops, no rules, no repercussions, and no consequences to any of your actions, but all good things must come to an end, I won’t tell you what happened, but everyone has to leave immediately, get the fuck out now! So our heroine and androgynous vamp, donning royal robes and Axl Rose gear, leads a parade of donkey eared miscreants and ne’er –do wells armed with customized super soakers filled with gummy worm juice and milk from coco crispies (I won’t name them all, but Darth Nihilus, razorback, and Beta ray Bill are up in the mix), out of Cockaigne, maybe to wander the earth forever?”
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K.P.Reji

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
K P Reji
Title: The Birds 
Medium: Oil on canvas
Title: 2009
size: 59.5 x 84 in

Reji's paintings exude a matter of fact quality. His use of bold, slightly rounded figuration constructs a naïve style reminiscent of Gauguin. Despite - or perhaps because of - their apparent simplicity, his paintings are enigmatic and the motifs he engenders are difficult to decipher. His work is multifaceted and complex in its analysis of the individual's relationship to his external environment. Often political in inflection, his canvases explore the connection between psychological states of mind and socio-political behavior.
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Andre Martins De Barros

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Paris Master - Andre Martins De Barros-
Surrealist in Paris.
Title: le clown aux nues
Size : 10,5 x 8,5 inch

Artist note:
For a long time I practice a painting that I spent most of my time if not my life. I always imposed a discipline, both from a technical point of view as from an artistic point of view, no border should not inhibit my inspiration or my creativity. For me, life and death are closely related to my subconscious and I find the path that gives access to the creation. I was told complicated and even tortured. So it takes some delirium associated with a mixture of humility and megalomania to tap into this daily inspiration and it is with a very intense fear I seek the differences between beauty and ugliness subjective. Today my experience as my experiences generate fantasies that I would transpose onto a canvas. Each theme is to defy comparison to provoke thought, to get the pleasure. Since my childhood, I have never ceased to devote a great passion for the great masters of the Italian and Flemish masters the great Renaissance, they have always been part of my artistic universe and have created in me this requirement of perfectionist.
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Mary Sibande

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Mary Sibande
Title: Her Majesty Queen Sophie,
Year: 2010. 
Medium: Digital print
Size: 110x80cm.

In Sibande’s practice as an artist, she employs the human form as a vehicle through painting and sculpture, to explore the construction of identity in a postcolonial South African context, but also attempts to critique stereotypical depictions of women, particularly black women in our society.

The body, for Sibande, and particularly the skin, and clothing is the site where history is contested and where fantasies play out. Centrally, she looks at the generational disempowerment of the black woman and in this sense her work is informed by postcolonial theory, through her art making. In her work, the domestic setting acts as a stage where historical psycho-dramas play out.

Sibande's work also highlights how privileged ideals of beauty and femininity aspired to by black women discipline their body through rituals of imitation and reproduction. She inverts the social power indexed by Victorian costumes by reconfiguring it as a domestic worker’s “uniform” complexifying the colonial relationship between “slave” and “master” in a post-apartheid context. The fabric used to produce uniforms for domestic workers is an instantly recognizable sight in domestic spaces in South Africa and by applying it to Victorian dress she attempts to make a comment about history of servitude as it relates to the present in terms of domestic relationships.
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Mathew Barney

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Mathew Barney 
Cremaster 5

Cremaster 5 Analysis: The imagery again, was very surreal and abstract, like the doves at the beginning that disappear into holes in the floor of the opera house and then appear in the Gellert Baths on the other side. I was attracted to the costumes in this film, especially those of the Queen of Chain and her ushers who wore elaborate, over the top costumes, dramatic head pieces, and exaggerated neck pieces. The Queen wears a black Elizabethan ruff and her ushers wear matching ones in black and white. The ushers wear white ruffled headpieces and red headbands. The Queen wears a large black trailing dress with several bulky layers and a white underskirt. She wears a thin black veil which, when taken off, reveals a crown made of two linked transparent orbs on either side of her head. If I have enough time I would like to experiment with creating my own headpieces and accessories. I liked the theatrical grandeur of the costumes in this film. Although I am creating a fashion look and I want it to be modern and edgy, I still want to incorporate some theatricality into the image. Artists that I think encompass the two well are Lady Gaga, Gareth Pugh and Alexander McQueen. I could look at these people as further research to inspire my work.
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Rod Moss

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Rod Moss 
Title: Moss play with fire 
Medium: graphite and synthetic polymers on paper

By Rod Moss

Eighty fires, many of them deliberately lit, had encircled the town mid 2011. We became accustomed to breathing carbonized air though a few dozen asthmatics sought relief in the hospital. At night, the rim of the eastern MacDonnell’s was alight, a long dazzling cord suspended above the valley.

Rodney and his brothers, together with Harry and Adrian junior, rehearsed for a recording session at CAAMA. They knew the buffel didn’t grow right up to the sheds and most of the trees were fire-resistant. It would come and pass quickly, scarring trees and shrubs without destroying them. While police and firemen attended camp to confront the fires, the band played on undeterred.

The next morning I carted them to the studio. Trevor Coulthard added his vocals to older brother, Rodneys’. Their sibilant harmonies seemed to emanate from one body. Vivian Ryan sat closest to me, gliding up and down the bass guitar. He was all willowy grace and his wide-eyed wonder at Trevor’s plaintive singing accorded with mine. He caught my eye, grinned toothily and dipped his head over his instrument.

Out east the fires continue unchecked. During lunch I drove the Ross River highway to photo the fire. Just past Emily Gap the grass fires licked the verges. Just what I needed. Rodney had suggested I paint a cover for their CD and juxtaposing them with fire would be totally relevant, given that one song refers to fire. His father, recently deceased, had woken his sons at night to watch an encroaching fire. They’d stirred into action and beat it back from their camp. I see Rodney leading the band on through the flames. Perhaps their playing has incendiary implications.

Rodney had programmed the keyboard component to each song. The even spread of instrumental mastery created a fluent understanding between them which dispensed with verbal communications. Rodney occasionally motioned to the others where to enter or exit solos and the various emphases. The resultant mix of balladry, Blues and Rock was cinched.

Back at camp, I set up the band members, Rodney raising his right fist a la Eugene Delacroix’s 1830, Liberty Leading The People, guitar at his side leading his brothers. Adrian junior is on the left. Vivian, Harry, Jack and Trevor thread across to Rodney.
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Donald Judd

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Donald Judd 
Untitled,
Year: 1969
Medium: Galvanized iron and plexiglas , overall 120x27 1/8x 24in, 10 box 

Artist Statment: Overnight success, split-second life transformation, instant love… these ideas are beautiful, and get grounded on nothing solid. Would you move into a house that had a shaky foundation? What about a house with no foundation?

If you wouldn’t want to live in a house erected without a foundation, why would you expect that, overnight, it would be a most desirable to reach the stratospheres in your career, your personal growth or your love life?
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Arpana Caur

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Arpana Caur
Title: Day & Night
Size: 72" x 60"
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2013

Arpana’s finely executed imagery with petite female figuration immersed in folk forms and legends are marked for their deeply spiritual and somewhat autobiographical undertones. The literature and philosophy of Punjab contributed to the strains of melancholy, mysticism and devotion that may be felt in her work, while the Pahari miniature tradition provided inspiration for Caur's manipulation of pictorial space. Despite her diverse influences, however, Caur's subjects remain firmly rooted in the quotidian world of the woman, showing women engaged in commonplace acts such as daydreaming or typing.
The repeated motif of clothing in Caur's work both confirms and subverts the traditional picture of women. Sinha writes that "the image of women sewing quietly, within the acceptable parameters of femininity is in a way liberated by Arpana, as the woman is placed outdoors, embroidering larger destinies. Instead of a feminine, income-producing function, it becomes a political comment on women's productivity."
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Manu Parekh

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Manu Parekh 
Title: Enlightened Stone II,
Medium: Oil on Canvas

Polemics have always intrigued Manu Parekh – the energy of the organic form and the inherent sexuality within these forms are intangible elements in his works. His paintings provoke viewers to take notice of the world around them through the emotion, pain and anguish expressed in the subjects of his paintings. His colors and forms exude a volatile energy that can barely be contained within the confines of his canvas, and become an extension of the artist's personality.
Vivid colours and prominent lines are an integral part of Parekh’s work and each exudes the energy that he attempts to capture. Parekh admits to being very strongly influenced by his surroundings. His stay in the city of Calcutta, for instance, drew him towards Santiniketan and the old masters of Indian art, Ram Kinkar Baij and Rabindranath Tagore. His appreciation of their work, more at a perceptual level than stylistic one, urged him to delve deeper into the thoughts that inform his own ouevre.
Banaras as a city came to play an integral role in Parekh’s work after his first visit there following his father’s death. This holy city of hope, of faith, of tourists offered him a vast number of contradictions in one location. Parekh also highlights his relationship with his wife Madhvi, who is a self taught artist, and his admiration for Picasso as key influences on his works.
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