Julian Schnabel

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day
Julian Schnabel
Medium: Broken ceramic plate and paint.

Julian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker.
In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings" large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates
His now famous "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates received a boisterous and critical reception from the art world. A reputation for making brash pronouncements about his importance to the art world - I'm the closest thing to Picasso that you'll see in this fucking life - engendered contempt from both colleagues and the viewing public. Schnabel's signature works contain an underlying edge of brutality, while remaining suffused with compositional energy. Schnabel claims that he's aiming at an emotional state, a state that people can literally walk into and be engulfed.
Also famous are his works dedicated to people like Antonio Molina or Paolo Malfi.
Schnabel insists he is a painter first and foremost, though he is better known for his films.
“Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie."

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Tallur. L.N

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Tallur.L.N
Title: Eraser Pro 1-2
Year: 2012
Medium: Bronze
Size: 200x95x60cm

Artist Statement: Most people have some data that they would rather not share with others -
Perhaps you have saved some of this information on your computer where it
is conveniently at your reach, but when the time comes to remove the data
from your hard disk, things get a bit more complicated and maintaining your
privacy is not as simple as it may have seemed at first.
Your first thought may be that when you 'delete' the file, the data is
gone. Not quite, when you delete a file, the operating system does not
really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the
file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another
file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to
recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.
Before the file is overwritten, anyone can easily retrieve it with a disk
maintenance or an undelete utility.
There are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use
of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding.
These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed,
and because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can
safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.
courtesy:tallur.com

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Babu Eshwar Prasad

Babu Eshwar Prasad
Title: Open to Sky - I
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size: 13 x 19 inches
Year: 2000 

Prasad's paintings explore landscapes recalled and recreated through the mind's eye during dreams. Some critics have called these mystical and surreal pictures psychoscapes, or landscapes that have been touched and moulded by the inner self and the alternative reality of dreams. The artist's mind creates and modifies visions of nature, transforming them into patterns and harmonious blends that no one else could imagine, let alone see. There is also a certain nostalgic quality to these psychoscapes, as if the artist is trying to recall the stories and fantasies of his youth, which much to his disappointment have lost their magic when viewed through an adult lens.
Prasad's vocabulary has been describes as an "imagery exploring a psychic map, which he navigates with the amazement of a child, into a world of chimeras, sacred mountains, speaking trees and unknown waters." Often turning to the picture within a picture format, Prasad creates situations that are twisted away from the familiar, but yet not as far away as to be totally unrecognizable. Each form, figure or architectural and natural element is very clear to the viewer, and only transformed in the sense of the role it plays or the position it occupies. Everything that is expected is turned on its head and the artist has no qualms in painting a blood red sky or mountains that are bright yellow.
courtesy:saffronart

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Ernesto Neto

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Ernesto Neto 
Title: While nothing happens, 
Year: 2008
View of the installation at MACRO, Roma 

About Artist
To describe at best his works, we should read once again Italo Calvino's words in American Lessons and use expressions like lightness, speed, accuracy, visibility, stability and instability.
Sensual and poetic, the result of extremely careful studies about static and resistance: his installations give the feeling of something primal and atavistic to those who get impressed by their strength.
Sometimes his sculptures were compared to huge breasts, bundles of blood vessels and nerve endings, but also futuristic spaceships. These are imaginative associations but they explain the lightness and weight that characterize the interactive and multisensory Neto's landscapes, where the tulle's transparency contrasts with the serious gravity of living materials: pepper, ginger, cumin, turmeric, cloves...
Heady spices that involve the visitors with their intense fragrance. The artist explained many times that he often gets inspired by dance for the creation of his biomorphic shapes, he looks how bodies move in space, being able to change shape with every movement they do. Especially for this exhibition the artist created a fluid environment where the sculptures blend with the architecture of interiors and exteriors.
courtesy: vogue

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Gayathri Gamuz

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Gaythri Gamuz 
Title: Chinese Doll In South India, 
Year: 2008
In her paintings I see the desire to return to childlike innocence. There’s a sense of purity and tranquility in her paintings. In someworks there is delightfully ironic humour. Her uncluttered compositions that have select few forms reflect clarity in her evolved visual thought process. She portrays animals, human beings and objects in a realistic fashion with sensitive rendition of shadows and nuances of such kind. But there’s a twist in the compositions. She paints imaginary circumstances that reflect the present human condition in a language that is phantasmagoric. That adds zing to her paintings.

Her observation and the inclusion of the local cultural aspects are reflected in her visual language and commentary. It would be expected of a ‘foreigner’ living in India to make paintings of kitsch, imagery inspired by religious icons or Indian street life. Gayatri’s scope is not limited to an Indian or Spanish canvas. She observes the 21st century human condition and incorporates symbols, metaphors and instances from her immediate surrounding and blends them well with her roots and her beliefs.
Her paintings are endearing because they strike a chord with the innocent, carefree and humourous aspects within us. She speaks of a crucial concern with tenderness thus making her works intimate.
courtesy:artslant

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Maya Burman

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Maya Burman
Untitled
Title: Watercolour on paper
Size: 31 x 47 inches
Year: 2008 

Maya Burman is a contemporary artist of Indian parentage living in France.She works mainly in pen and ink, and watercolor; her paintings are delicate and usually have a strong fantasy element. 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, is the daughter of the well-known painter Sakti Burman. She has had several exhibitions of her work in India, France, and the UK, and won several prizes.Ms. Burman lives in Paris but in her paintings she retires to a land of lyricism and allegory.
courtesy:gallerysoulflower.

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Fred Tomaselli

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
FRED TOMASELLI 
Study for Fish,
Medium: Photo collage, insects, acrylic, and resin on panel
Size: 30 x 24 in

Drawing upon art historical sources and Eastern and Western decorative traditions, Fred Tomaselli's works explode in mesmerizing patterns that appear to grow organically across his compositions. In the introduction to a 2003 essay on Tomaselli’s work in Parkett magazine, curator James Rondeau writes: “Over the course of the last ten years, Fred Tomaselli has established an international reputation for his meticulously crafted, richly detailed, deliriously beautiful works of both abstract and figurative art. His signature pieces are compelling, hybrid objects: ersatz, or maybe surrogate paintings, or tapestries, or quilts or mosaics. Their various components—both over-the-counter and controlled pharmaceuticals, street drugs, natural psychotropic substances and other organic matter, collaged elements from printed sources, and hand-painted ornament—are all suspended in gleaming layers of clear, polished, hard resin. Forms implode, explode, oscillate, buzz, loop, swirl, and spiral. Actual objects, photographic representations, and painted surfaces co-exist without hierarchy on and in a single picture plane. The combined effect, neither determinably real nor fully illusionistic, is at once electrifying and destabilizing.”
courtesy:jamescohan

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