Johnny Warrangkula

Artville Artist of the day: Tjupurrula Johnny Warrangkula 

Title: Dingo Dreaming
Year: 1973
Medium: synthetic polymer paint on composition board
Size: 78 x 61 cm. (30.7 x 24 in.)

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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Hema Upadhyay

Artville artist of the day: Hema Upadhyay

Untitled
Year: 2007
Size: 180.3 x 327.7 cm
Medium: Acrylic, gouache, dry pastel, graphite and photograph on paper

Hema Upadhyay was born in Baroda in 1972, and completed her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in painting and printmaking respectively from the Fine Arts Faculty of the M S University there. In the short time that Hema has had to develop her career (she graduated with her MFA in 1997), she has already taken giant steps and established herself very firmly among the new generation of Indian contemporary artists.

Upadhyay was the recipient of a National Scholarship from the Ministry of Human Resources, and also has to her credit annual awards from the Gujarat Lalit Kala Academy and the national Lalit Kala Academy for her work in the 10th International Triennale - India hosted in New Delhi.

Her talent was immediately recognized and Hema has been invited to showcase in her work in many group shows, even whilst she was in college, the most prestigious being the 4th and 5th annual 'Harmony' shows, 'Ideas and Images 2' at the NGMA, Mumbai and 'Mumbai Metaphor' hosted by the Tao Art Gallery.
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Ved Prakash Gupta

Artville artist of the day: Ved Prakash Gupta

Title: Love Chair
Year: 2008
Medium: Painted fiberglass
Size: Height: 47 in (119.3 cm)
Width: 42 in (106.6 cm)
Depth: 38 in (96.5 cm)

Born in 1975, Ved Prakash Gupta received his Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, in 2004, and, in 2006, completed his Master’s degree from the same institute.

Gupta’s sculptural works in fiberglass use a tangible language to convey what the artist thinks of the socio-economic hierarchies prevalent in society today. His miniature businessmen, and the amphibians and mammals he portrays in rich, bold colors, illustrate both the artist’s wit as well as his sarcasm.

Gupta recently held his first solo show, ‘Arrested Moment’, presented by Gallery Threshold at the India Habitat Center, New Delhi, in 2008. The most recent group shows in which his works have been featured include ‘The Human Animal’ presented by Gallery Threshold and Religare Art Initiative, New Delhi, in 2009; ‘Through Other Eyes’ at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, in 2009; ‘Urgent: 10 ml of Contemporary Needed’ organized by the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art at Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2008; ‘Ltd.Edn.' at Gallery Articullate, Mumbai, in 2008; and 'Ltd. Edn.' at Gallery Threshold, New Delhi in 2007. In 2007, Gupta was honoured with the HK Kejriwal Award, Bangalore, as well as the Kashi Award for Visual Art, Kochi.

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Mary Sibande

Artville artist of the day: Mary Sibande

Title: A reversed retrogress, scene 1
Year: 2013
Medium: 2 life-size Mannequins , Polyester fibrefill stuffing, 100% cotton fabric, fibreglass and resin
Size: 1.8 (h) x 1.2 x 1.2 (figures), 4m diameter x 15 cm (h)

Mary Sibande was born in 1982 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she lives and works. She graduated with a degree in Fine Art from the University of Johannesburg.

Sibande is an established artist and has exhibited at the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, the International Black Arts Festival, Dakar, and in many other museums and festivals. She has been selected for a residency at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C and has won several awards such as the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist award.

Her favourite technique is to cast a life-sized body in fiberglass and dress it with costumes of her invention inspired by the uniforms of domestic servants and Victorian ladies in bright, lively colours. Recently, Sibande has started to work in new formats and explore new techniques. Her works often echo her family’s history and the wider history of South Africa.

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Thomas Lawson

Artville artist of the day: Thomas Lawson

Title: Viennese chair (study)
Medium: acrylic and graphite
Size: 35.5 x 28 cm
Year: 1995

Thomas Bayley Lawson — painter of portraits, still lifes, and miniatures — was born in Newburyport, MA on January 13, 1807 and died in Lowell, MA on June 4, 1888.

He began life as a dry goods clerk and later, in 1828, had his own store. Lawson trained himself by copying the work of famous artists and, in 1831, he moved to New York City and attended the National Academy of Design for six months. After his initial training of drawing from the Antique, he moved to Philadelphia in April of 1832. Months later, in October of the same year, Lawson relocated back to Newburyport where he established himself as a portrait painter.

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Maya Burman

Artville artist of the day: Maya Burman

Untitled
Year: 2015
Size: 19.5 in x 19.5 in
Medium: Watercolour and ink on paper pasted on mountboard

Maya Burman, is the daughter of the well-known painter Sakti Burman. The striking thing about her paintings is the amount of detail in them. In formal terms Maya Burman`s paintings have a tapestry like effect where everything is subordinate to patterning, reminiscent of the French art nouveau tradition. The figures have an archetypal aura about them and their rendering in a clean decisive manner has its sources in Picasso`s later classical period, his return after the war into an idyllic land inhabited by healthy and young boys of Athenian ideal.

Maya Burman`s technique is a slow step-by-step process of accumulation of marks. She makes a pencil sketch first, then applies the layer of water colours and finishes the outlines and detail in black ink with a pen. There is certain precision to the rendering, a legacy perhaps of her training as an architect, which contrasts nicely with the ambiguities of the themes that she handles. The paintings are a meeting ground of two cultures - Indian as well as French. The details of Indian miniature painting and European Middle Age architecture merge in her art, and literature and poetry are also very much present as they provide her with new images, as the poetry of Spanish Frederico Garcia Lorex or the Japanese `Iku`. Her compositions are mostly figurative and change according to her mood. Ms. Burman lives in Paris but in her paintings she retires to a land of lyricism and allegory.
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Gigi Scaria

Artville Artist of the day: Gigi Scaria

Title: Fluttering Cultures
Year: 2010
Medium: Aluminum composite sheet, mirror glass and paint
Size: 19 feet x 15 inches x 5.5 feet

Born in 1973 in Kothanalloor, Kerala, Gigi Scaria completed his Bachelor’s degree in painting from the College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram, in 1995, and his Master’s degree in the same from Jamia Millia University, New Delhi, in 1998.

Gigi Scaria’s work draws the viewer’s attention towards the painful truths of migrancy and displacement. The issue of non-belonging and unsettlement reverberate between the walls on his canvas. “Gigi’s particular position is to investigate how city structures, social constructs, and the view of location is translated in social prejudice and class attitude,” says critic and curator Gayatri Sinha.

Scaria’s solo shows include ‘Absence of an Architect’ at Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2007; ‘Where are the Amerindians?’ at Inter America Space, Trinidad, in 2005 following his residency at CCA7 there; the Art Inc., New Delhi, in 2001; and Great Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 1998. Amongst his group shows, the most recent include, ‘Popular Reality’ at the Stainless Gallery, New Delhi, Jam Jar, Dubai, and Clark House, Mumbai, in 2008-2009; ‘Keep Drawing’ at Gallery Espace, New Delhi; ‘Walk On Line’ at Avanthy Contemporary, Zurich; ‘Indiavata (India + Avatar): Contemporary Artists from India’ at Gallery Sun Contemporary, Korea; ‘Young Contemporary Indian Artists’ at 1x1 Gallery, Dubai; ‘Click! Contemporary Photography in India’ at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; and ‘Who Knows Mr. Gandhi ?’ at Aicon Gallery, London, all in 2008. Scaria also completed residencies in Biella, Italy in 2002 and New Delhi in 2004. In 2005, the artist was honoured with the Sanskriti Award in Visual Art. Scaria lives and works in New Delhi.

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Jatin Das

Artville Artist of the day: Jatin Das

Title: Radha Krishna
Medium: Silk screen on paper
Size: 30 x 20 in

Sculptor, muralist and painter Jatin Das draws out the innermost feelings of his subjects through his deft use of colour and line. His belief in the inherent energy of every element of life surfaces in each of his works.

This collection of silkscreen prints centres around Hindu spiritual beliefs and iconography. The figures echo the voluptuousness of classical Indian sculpture, but are not derivative of any style or technique. The lines pack force and fluidity; solid blocks of colour lend them form and volume. Throbbing with energy and motion, they encapsulate an integral part of Indian culture and identity.

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Chéri Samba

Artville artist of the day: Chéri Samba 

Titile: Where to find water
Year: 2000
Size: 82 x 103 cm. (32.3 x 40.6 in.)
Medium: Acrylic on canvas

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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Arnaldo Roche Rabell

Artville artist of the day: Arnaldo Roche Rabell

Title: The End of the Rainbow
Year: 2013
Size: 84 x 84 in. (213.4 x 213.4 cm.)
Medium: Oil on canvas

Roche Rabell began his formal artistic studies at the Luchetti School with Max Lop and continued at the School of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras where he studied architecture, design, and illustration. (1974-1978). He moved to Chicago in 1979 and enrolled at the Art Institute, where he earned a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. While a student in Chicago he was influenced by the artists Ray Yoshida and Richard Keane, and by the art historian Robert Loescher. Since the late 1970's he has created complex expressionistic paintings, pastels and prints featuring the human figure, often focusing on the facial portraits. His works were included in the Hispanic Art in the U.S.exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1987), and Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century at the Museum of Modem Art, New York (1993). The Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City held a solo exhibition of his work in 1995.

His work is considered neo-expresionist. His first mature work dates from the early 1980 and his career is highlighted by making large paintings using a rubbing technique in which he puts objects or persons under canvas and rubs the paint to get a picture impregnated in the fabric. After this process the artist continues to work the picture layer upon layer, thus obtaining a complexity that characterizes the image.

In 2005 Spanish writer Mercedes Lizcano spoke to the artist about his current work.

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Yasumasa Morimura

Artville artist of the day: Yasumasa Morimura

Title: Angels Descending a Staircase
Year: 1991
Size: 102.5 x 89 in. (260.4 x 226.1 cm.)
Medium: Photographs, color photograph mounted on canvas

Yasumasa Morimura (Japanese, b.1951) is an appropriation artist. He was born in Osaka, Japan, and obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1978 from the Kyoto City University of Arts. Since 1985, Morimura has been doing solo expositions in international arenas, even though he has engaged in group expositions as well. In his artwork, Morimura uses the portraits of ancient artists, from Edouard Manet (French, 1832–1883) to Rembrandt (Dutch, 1606–1669) to Cindy Sherman (American, b.1954), and attaches his very own body and face into these images. In 1985, he also displayed a big colored picture of Van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), with his own body and face inserted in it. From that time on, self-portrait became the main theme of Morimura's works. His numerous exhibitions have been displayed in a number of museums across several countries, such as France, Chicago, Japan, California, and Australia.

In 1998, Morimura's selection as an artist of Aperto of Venice Biennale had catapulted his career and brought prominence to his name. Morimura converts himself into familiar subjects with the use of costumes, props, digital manipulation, and make-up. His masterpieces encompass works inspired by influential paintings of such artists as Diego Velásquez (Spanish, 1599–1660) and Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954), and by pictographic sources from the mass media and history.

Morimura's work is specifically effective and forceful as a result of his capacity to both mock and provide homage to his reference materials and subjects. The artist made a string of assorted self-portraits following the art and style of Frida Kahlo in his latest and very expensive reproduction. In 1996, Morimura was a nominee for the Hugo Boss Prize. The public museums keeping the work of Morimura include the Honolulu Museum of Art in Hawaii, The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, CA.

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Nedko Solakov

Artville artist of the day: Nedko Solakov

Title: The Has-Beens Creator
Year: 2014
Size: 97 x 130 cm. (38.2 x 51.2 in.)
Medium: Oil on canvas

Nedko Solakov is considered as an important protagonist of contemporary European art.An alert observer of contemporary life, Solakov’s drawings, paintings, and installations call not only the art system into question, but also collective "truths" and the contradictions of human existence.

Drawing and Thinking (often in form of narration or storytelling) are the two essential, inseparable poles of Solakov’s art. Solakov is skilled not only in drawing, but also in other techniques, such as painting, video, installation and performance. Yet it seems that his drawing abilities form a base for his entire multi-media practice. Solakov is primarily a storyteller. Rather than adhering to classical compositional rules, his works are framed according to story lines. These non-linear narratives are often dispersed, multi-directional, or interwoven in networks. As they unfold, they form a territory that is both visual and discursive, both physical and fictional. The addition of explanatory text and commentary often accompanies each drawing. The boundary between drawing and writing is thus blurred, and the written texts become drawings themselves.

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Zofia Kulik

Artville artist of the day: Zofia Kulik

Title: Light rose I (Smokes)
Year: 2000
Size: 58 x 49 cm. (22.8 x 19.3 in.)
Medium: Photograph

Zofia Kulik was born in Poland in 1947, and has been an active and politically motivated artist for some 40 years. In 1968, when Polish students took to the streets to protest a corrupt Communist government, Kulik joined up with fellow artist Przemyslaw Kwiek to make ground-breaking art that addressed cultural repressions. Under the name KK, the two used film, visual documentaries, mail art, the art of action and intervention, performance, and installation. Their work was often made and exhibited in their apartment, which was also their studio, and where they collected an impressive archive. In the 1970s, they were linked to the Soc Art Movement, which was also known as socialist conceptualism, the second socialist realism or New Red Art.
Since 1989, when Poland underwent changes in regime and KK ceased to collaborate, Kulik has been working alone. She developed her own unique multiple-exposure photographic process, which allows her to achieve complex collage effects within a single photograph. Kulik uses historical and other material from her immense archive, which includes serial architectural, militaristic and nude images, and arranges them consistently and decoratively in her photographs. She has shown her work around the globe, and in 1997 represented Poland in the Venice Biennale.

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Luo Zhongli

Artville artist of the day: Luo Zhongli

Title: 过河系列之一
Year: 2000
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 120.5 x 95 cm. (47.4 x 37.4 in.)

Luo Zhongli (Chinese, b.1948), born in Chongqing, is considered one of China’s foremost realist painters, and known for his portraits of the people of southwestern China. He graduated with a degree in Oil Painting from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1982, and continued on to earn an MFA in Oil Painting from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium in 1986. Luo’s first solo exhibitions took place in Brussels and Cambridge, MA, in 1984 and 1985, respectively. His work has been exhibited in cities worldwide since 1985, including Paris, France, Hong Kong, Taipei, Sidney, and Chicago. Luo’s 1980 portrait, Father, his most highly acclaimed work, is considered one of the most recognizable works of contemporary Chinese art. The portrait was acquired by the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. Luo currently lives in Chongqing, where he serves as a professor at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.

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Michael Parekowhai

Artville artist of the day: Michael Parekowhai 

Title: Chapman's Homer
Year: 2010
Medium: Bronze
Size: 250 x 162 x 285 cm. (98.4 x 63.8 x 112.2 in.)

Michael Parekowhai was born in Porirua in 1968. His Māori whakapapa is Ngā Ariki and Ngāti Whakarongō. Parekowhai gained his BFA (1990) and his MFA (2000) from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. In 2001 Michael was awarded an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate. Michael Parekowhai is Associate Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. His exhibition history spans almost two decades. He lives and works in Auckland.

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Fernando Botero

Artville Artist of the day: Fernando Botero

Title: Rapto d’Europa
Year: 2007
Size: 19.6 x 19.6 x 9 in. (49.8 x 49.8 x 22.9 cm.)
Medium: Bronze

Fernando Botero (Colombian, b.1932) is celebrated for his painted and sculpted scenes featuring animals and figures with inflated proportions, reflecting the artist’s predilection for satire, caricature, and political commentary. Born in Medellin, Colombia, Botero began exhibiting his paintings there in 1948, and later worked as a set designer in Bogotá. In the 1950s, he traveled to several different European countries, including Spain, Italy, and France, to study the work of Renaissance and Baroque masters. He also traveled to Mexico to familiarize himself with the current Mexican avant-garde. Botero became renowned for the varied source material he drew upon, from Colombian folk imagery to canonical works by Diego Velázquez, Pablo Picasso, and Francisco de Goya.

In his depictions of contemporary Latin American life, he portrays the poverty and violence prevalent in Colombia in somber images, as well as in his iconic inflated figures, satiric images of Latin American presidents, first ladies, and government officials. A meeting with Dorothy Miller from The Museum of Modern Art in the early 1960s proved to be a turning point in his career; she acquired his work at a time when abstraction was the celebrated idiom, and he later exhibited his work in a major exhibition at the museum, solidifying his international reputation.

In the 1970s, Botero moved to Paris, where he created large figural sculptures with his signature inflated forms. He remains engaged with images of his Latin American home city, and with overtly political imagery; his recent works include large paintings of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in a direct commentary on the war in Iraq. Botero has exhibited his work at the Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, the Maillol Museum in Paris, the Palazzo Benezia in Rome, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the National Museum in Bogotá. He currently lives and works in Paris, Montecarlo, and New York.
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Justin Ponmay

Artville artist of the day: Justin Ponmay

Title: A stitch in time
Year: 2015
Size: 75 x 128 in | 190.5 x 325.1 cm
Medium: Acrylic and hologram on canvas

A graduate of the Sir J.J. School of Art, Justin draws his influences from this city whose landscape is constantly under construction. The domain he deals with ranges from the material "plastic" to a state of mind that is unfortunately plastic; what he would like to term as "Plastic Memory".

Born in Kerala, India in 1974, Justin has had several shows in India and abroad. Awardees’ Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, 'Highlights' Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 'Crosscurrents' Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, 'Debt' The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai. His awards list includes; In 1997 - 98 fellowship at Sir J.J School of Art, Mumbai, In 2000 West railway centenary Prize at NGMA, Mumbai, and in the year 2003 he was the 1st Runners up at the 4th Bose Pacia Prize for Contemporary Art. He lives and works in Mumbai.

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Fang Lijun

Artville artist of the day: Fang Lijun

Title: 8.2014 Spring Summer
Year: 2014
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 140 x 180 cm. (55.1 x 70.9 in.)

Fang Lijun (Chinese, b.1963) is a painter and printmaker associated with the Cynical Realist movement, and best known for his hyper-realistic paintings that criticize contemporary cultural values in China. Born in Handan, Hebei province, Fang studied printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where he was trained in the Socialist Realist style promoted during the Cultural Revolution. As part of the Cynical Realist movement, Fang rejected the political subject matter of Socialist Realism, but his work has retained the technical skill and realistic style of his training. He incorporates imagery from pop culture, folk art, and traditional Chinese painting, and his work often features bald, aggressive-looking figures. His painting 30th Mary (2006) is characteristic of his humor and cynicism; the work depicts bald figures wearing colorful school uniforms, floating in a tunnel of clouds, in a composition that evokes European religious paintings. Fang has also worked in the traditional practice of woodblock printing, putting together several scrolls to create large-scale prints. In all of his work, he examines the role of individual creativity in the oppressive cultural environment of modern China. He has held solo exhibitions at at the China Art Museum in Beijing, the Today Art Museum in Beijing, and the Staatliche Museen in Berlin. He lives and works in Beijing.
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Bose Krishnamachari

Artville artist of the day: Bose Krishnamachari 

Title: Mob (relocated)
Year: 2009
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 48.0 x 96.0 in | 121.9 x 243.8 cm

Bose Krishnamachari is an internationally acclaimed Malayali painter and Artist-Curator based in Mumbai, India. He was born in 1963 at Magattukara village near Angamaly, Kerala. He had done his early schooling at GHSS Puliyanam. He took his BFA from Sir J J School of Art, Mumbai in (1991), and then completed his MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London in(2000). He was a recipient of the award of the Kerala Lalita Kala Akademi(1985), British Council travel award (1993), Mid America Arts Alliance Award(1996), Chales Wallace India Trust Award (1999–2000), Life Time Fellowship Award- Kerala Lalita Kala Academy and was first runner up for the Bose Pacia Prize for Modern Art, New York, 2001. His work comprises vivid abstract paintings, figurative drawings, sculpture, photography, multimedia installations and architecture. Since 1985 he lives and works in Mumbai. Bose is the founder member and President of Kochi Biennale Foundation and Biennale Director of international exhibition of contemporary art, Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

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David Hockney

Artville artist of the day: David Hockney

Title: Card Players #3
Year: 2014
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 182.9 x 121.9 cm. (72 x 48 in.)

David Hockney (British, b.1937) is a painter, photographer, and set designer, first associated with the Pop Art movement, and later renowned for his intimate portraits and naturalistic scenes of both the everyday and the artificial of California life. Hockney was born in Bradford, England, and studied at the Bradford School of Art, exhibiting an extraordinary aptitude for draftsmanship. He later attended the London Royal College of Art, where he met fellow student R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007), who strongly influenced him and inspired Hockney to infuse the personally expressive into his works.

Hockney’s first works included common and commercial images, such as boxes of tea, which caused his early inclusion with the Pop Art movement. Hockney also favored a mix of literature and scandalous subject matter in his early work, including pieces on homosexuality inspired by Walt Whitman poems created in the Art Brut style of Jean Dubuffet. His mature work often draws on photographs, particularly after visiting California regularly in the 1960s, where he created naturalistic paintings with a flat, serene appearance, including his famous Swimming Pools series. He works in many mediums, including set design and photography. Hockney has held major retrospectives at the Royal College of Art in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He currently lives and works in California.

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L. N. Tallur

Artville Artist of the day: L.N. Tallur
Title: Halo vs Body- 2
Year: 2015
Medium: Bronze and shellac
Size: Height: 43 in (107.5 cm)
Width: 11 in (27.5 cm)
Depth: 24 in (60 cm)

L.N. Tallur was born in Koteswara, a small Indian village of about 14,000 people, in 1971. Tallur’s work represents an amalgamation of influences, ranging from those of the sheltered, traditional and rural farmlands he grew up on, and those he encountered and was exposed to during his many later visits to various foreign countries. Tallur studied art in various institutions, each of which has helped to shape the way he works today. In 1996, he received his Bachelor’s degree in painting from the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts (CAVA) at Mysore University, and then followed it with a Master’s degree in museology from Maharaja Sayyajirao University of Baroda in 1998. In 1999, he was awarded a scholarship from Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK, to complete another Master’s degree in Contemporary Fine Art Practice.

Through exposure, experimentation and influence, the artist has managed to create a truly unique artistic vocabulary and style. As a result, each piece is complex and physically diverse. Tallur’s time at Leeds proved beneficial to his exploration of medium, material manipulation, and working on a large scale – all of which are are visible in the works he creates today. Incorporating a dynamic mix of ideas relating to politics, culture, tradition, spirituality, technological deterioration and environmental depletion, the artist’s three-dimensional works capture the absurdity of every-day village life and the anxiousness that characterizes contemporary Indian society.

Tallur was also able to grasp the importance of subtle mannerisms from the esteemed painter Bhupen Khakhar, after training under him. His work proves to be a surreal amalgamation of Indian signs, symbols and traditions held close to the heart in the country’s rural areas, focusing primarily on poverty and farmland issues. His pieces, though thought provoking to the viewers, are either a grotesque take on reality or portray a certain beauty which he has the ability to capture and create from the use of damaged objects and distorted materials.

Not only has L.N. Tallur’s work been exhibited all over the world, but he is also the winner of multiple prestigious awards. These include the Emerging Artist Award from Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, in 1999, and the Sanskriti Award from the Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, in 2003. His paintings have been displayed in solo and group exhibitions in India and other countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, China, Cuba, South Korea and Canada. Tallur currently lives and works between India and South Korea.
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Rod Moss

Artville Artist of the day: Rod Moss

Title: Fallen Man
Year: 2013
Medium: Synthetic polymer paint and graphite on 300gsm Stonehenge paper
Size: 91 x 139cm

After graduating from a Masters of Art at Monash University, Rod moved to Alice Springs. His drawings and paintings are full of arresting imagery that offers viewers a closer look into Aboriginal daily life in the desert. Often perplexing but always engaging, Rod’s graphic works can appear both mundane and sardonic. Suggestive poses by the Aboriginal subjects simultaneously challenge both our knowledge and ignorance of Indigenous life, with Rod often wryly quoting famous masterworks from European painting history including those of Manet, Bellini and Caravaggio. Since 1984, Rod has won or been acquired for various awards in the Alice Springs region, including The Alice Prize, The Tennant Creek Prize and the Northern Territory Art Award. His works are held in numerous private, corporate and public collections nationally.

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