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ANTONI TAPIES :: ANTONI T&PIES picture by great-masters - Photobucket

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:19:57 -0700

Antoni T�pies

After studying to become lawyer in his hometown of Barcelona, Antoni Tapies switched his career to painting, but never received any formal art training. He was the founder of Dau al Set ("Seven on the Die"), a group of Spanish writers and artists. His paintings took use of many influences, including abstraction and Surrealism. Tapies held his first solo-exhibition in the United States in 1953 and created an international reputation. In his most recent paintings, he creates "matter" paintings that incorporate varieties of mixed media.

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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:19:33 -0700

Antoni T�pies was born December 13, 1923, in Barcelona. His adolescence was disrupted by the Spanish Civil War and a serious illness that lasted two years. T�pies began to study law in Barcelona in 1944 but decided instead within two years to devote himself exclusively to art. He was essentially self-taught as a painter; the few art classes he attended left little impression on him. Shortly after deciding to become an artist, he began attending clandestine meetings of the Blaus, an iconoclastic group of Catalan artists and writers who produced the review Dau al Set.

T�pies's early work was influenced by the art of Max Ernst, Paul Klee, and Joan Mir�, and by Eastern philosophy. His art was exhibited for the first time in the controversial Salo d'Octubre in Barcelona in 1948. He soon began to develop a recognizable personal style related to mati�re painting, or Art Informe a movement that focused on the materials of art-making. The approach resulted in textural richness, but its more important aim was the exploration of the transformative qualities of matter. T�pies freely adopted bits of detritus, earth, and stone--mediums that evoke solidity and mass--in his large-scale works.

In 1950, his first solo show was held at the Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona, and he was included in the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. That same year, the French government awarded T�pies a scholarship that enabled him to spend a year in Paris. His first solo show in New York was presented in 1953 at the gallery of Martha Jackson, who arranged for his work to be shown the following year in various parts of the United States. During the 1950s and 1960s, T�pies exhibited in major museums and galleries throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and South America. In 1966, he began his collection of writings, La practica de l'art. In 1969, he and the poet Joan Brossa published their book, Fr�goli; a second collaborative effort, Nocturn Matinal, appeared the following year. T�pies received the Rubens Prize of Siegen, Germany, in 1972.

Retrospective exhibitions were presented at the Mus�e National d'Art Moderne, Paris, in 1973 and at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, in 1977. The following year, he published his prize-winning autobiography, Mem�ria personal. In the early 1980s, he continued diversifying his mediums, producing his first ceramic sculptures and designing sets for Jacques Dupin's play L'Eboulement. By 1992, three volumes of the catalogue raisonn� of T�pies's work had been published. The following year, he and Cristina Iglesias represented Spain at the Venice Biennale, where his installation was awarded the Leone d'Oro. A retrospective exhibition was presented at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, in 1994-95. T�pies lives in Barcelona.

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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:18:56 -0700

24 cabezas - Antonio Saura

Antonio Saura (Spanish, 1930-1998)

Antonio Saura's artistic career began with an interest in the Surrealist movement, but a meeting with Andr� Breton in Paris during the mid 1950s combined with political unrest in Spain to move him towards a much more expressionist style that led him to feel more at home with members of the COBRA group. He was included in exhibitions of the Situationist group (with whom Alechinsky, Appel, Corneille, and Jorn also exhibited), and his art became more political in protest against the Franco regime. He was one of the founders of the El Paso group, which popularized Art Informel in Spain. He won the Guggenheim Prize in 1960 and the Carnegie Prize in 1964. His work has been shown in museums and galleries in the U.S. and Europe; his principal one-person shows include such venues as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid

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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:17:10 -0700

Autoretrato 13 - Antonio Saura

Antonio Saura

Biography:
Spanish painter, printmaker, and draughtsman, Antonio Saura was a self-taught artist. While suffering from an extensive illness in 1947, he occupied time painting and studying. Saura lived in Paris from 1953 to 1955 and painted in the Surrealist style. After his return to Spain, he adopted a harsh expressive style of painting and focused on protesting the Franco regime.

ANTONIO PESSOA 2006 :: LUST-mix picture by justartdotcom-art-mag - Photobucket

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:55:41 -0700

lust ~~ Antonio Pessoa 2006

........ mixed media ........

who framed Antonio Pessoa

Antonio Pessoa today looks at the futur but doesn't forget the recent past even though trying with mild effort to keep it at the back of his mind.
As he lauches his latest site The New Era , Antonio Pessoa,
http://www.thenewera-antoniopessoa.com ,October flows and runs at the speed of sound,the perfect therapy when it comes to scare the crows away,art action proving to be the divine scarecrow,while black angels and goblins keep on trying to haunt the artist's peace of mind,arousing specters from his past in the wicked hope of indeed spoiling his present.
Coming from them and so "heartfelt" I have to just say they have been struggling with a lot of crap lately and so it seems that thanks God the boomerang effect is no legend after all...?!!!!!!
Circumstances or some people's poisonous substances whether with malevolent lies,cheap tricks or venomous criticism and vicious gossip.
Antonio Pessoa between art action and deep reflection walks hands in his pockets and a smile on his face along the walls of his private medieval castle.The Summer is gone but talent not just yet.Many acquaintances,the mediocre crowd isn't going to come back as in the meantime new good trustworthy real friends enter pleasurably in the artist's universe,feeling good,doing fine and getting high.
Vultures,bats,crows,goblins,chickens and rabbits plus all of them burrowing animals of the family Leporidae,disguised as domesticated lambs,pets,although willing to strike werewolves on the lookout waiting for the quarry,the invisible target of an artisthunt,but the "stone pit" as the english say doesn't need to rush away just because one more time he sure knows he's been framed once,now he definitely isn't looking forward to be framed twice.
So the artist goes,blows and throws them a kiss meaning no hard feelings whatsoever,you're all free anytime to come back to me but if you wish to go who am I to hold you back,if you think that's the wise thing to do then don't stand by me.
Who framed Antonio Pessoa,well,that's something you might enjoy brooding about,nevertheless that's for him to know and for us to find out.
In the meantime,as time goes by,The New Era keeps on growing like a tree.

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Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:27:19 -0700

SALVADOR DALI - The Paranoic Critical

From the 1920's to the present, Spanish artist Salvador Dal� has maintained a reputation as the master magician of contemporary art. His alien and nightmarish images stimulate the viewer's imagination with extraordinary power attracting each new generation by the force of his hallucinogenic inspirations.

This publication is a delight and a revelation for aficionados of Dal� and offers new insights into his art and life. For those approaching Dali's work for the first time, it provides a perfect introduction to the cosmos as it is seen and interpreted by this self-proclaimed master of the "Paranoic-Critical."

Dal�'s art was and remains controversial. It has infuriated and enchanted both layman and art critic but it remains undeniably memorable. His painting of soft watches is one of the great icons of the twentieth century. Dal�'s detractors label him as a money-mad charlatan while his advocates praise him as the greatest painter and draftsman since the days of the Renaissance. Dal� acknowledges and capitalizes on both viewpoints with equanimity.

Dal�'s visual language is virtuosic and his range of imagery is protean. There is not one field in the visual arts that he has not explored successfully: painting, sculpture, graphics, book illustration, jewelry design, scenography. He is even acknowledged as an essayist and novelist.

His influence in all areas is staggering and the pages of this book explain his ever-fresh popularity with art lovers of all ages and all tastes. Whether the subject is inspired by Freud or the Bible, alchemy or science, or from Classical mythology or nuclear physics, Dal�'s art remains unforgettable. It is mystical. It is erotic. It is inspirational. It is obsessive and evocative.

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Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:26:56 -0700

The great masturbator - Salvador Dal� , 1929

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Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:26:38 -0700

living still life - Salvador Dal�

1 ART ON WHITE :: contemporary plus - Antonio Pessoa 2006 ( mixed me picture by antoniopessoa-artonwhite - Photobucket

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:22:18 -0700

ANTONIO PESSOA
- about Before, After... and Now -

Life is a wonderful mystery itself.Picasso used to say "Art is a mediator between this strange hostile world and us".In order to entirely understand Art I would say it is highly recommended to accomplish knowing something about the artist.Unfolding an artist's life mystery can,must and should be a unique experience wich might as well turn our narrow vision concerning a particular artist into a row of unexpected revelations,an enlightning disclosure of facts and situations,or even a metaphysical reasoning perhaps with no material form or substance,rather more like an iconic display of transformations,qualitative changes,probably the conversion of the artist's syntatic structure into another related syntatic structure,a translation of a lifetime scene onto a two-dimensional surface.
Therefore to be able to fully understand Antonio Pessoa's NEW ERA,one should take the wise option of going backwards a few years and go through the pleasurable trouble of analyse the components and essential features of Antonio Pessoa's real motives and motivations,analyse the evidence of his life and work,a very good subject to psychoanalytical treatment in the particular case of a contemporary genius such as Antonio Pessoa.
Maybe a little effort is required but worth the time one might spend in the stimulating process of doing so.
In so doing we certainly shall come a whole lot closer to the general idea and soul of Antonio Pessoa's latest period and furthermore one of Antonio Pessoa's most interesting changes of light,style,stamp,art vision,inner perception and performance.

1 YELLOW :: AT LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST picture by antoniopessoa-yellow - Photobucket

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:20:43 -0700

Antonio Pessoa - - the contemporary Art wizard

Contemporary Art reviewing requires a daily basis continuous information research.The endless amount of Art galleries and artists increases the difficult task of being more or less up dated and able to have a reasonable general idea,realistic enough to make sense.
In this universe of tendencies one might consider the ultimate possibility of going backwards and sit on the comfortable upholstered chair of the twentieth century Great Masters,such as Francis Bacon,Andy Warhol,Jackson Pollock,Botero,Kandinsky and Picasso.
Nevertheless,new contemporary Art after all provides me with many positive aspects of legitimate artistic expression,such as Antonio Pessoa.
Antonio Pessoa's remarkable talent is very probably one of the most reliable references of contemporary Art.
Totally devoted to his unmutable belief,he naturally manages to keep away of the struggling crowd,being effortlessly admited in the major highest elitist Art circles while his art works get a high rank circulation status of the classic phenomenon in this particular case leading to be part of the new century's Art History.
Despite the good and the bad critics,Antonio Pessoa keeps on the right track simply by following the nature of his belief,taming the monsters with a brave artist's attitude,by simply listening but not too much,apparently immune to the competion's friction,paging the inner mother of invention,and slow and gently printing it on canvas with the amazing mastery of the Old Masters and the easy going charming incantation uniqueness of an experienced contemporary Art wizard.