My Being There

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South-front, 1908, Albin Egger-Lienz

Medium: canvas

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Thumbelina Andersen’s Fairy Tales Franklin Edition 1884

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Art by Vera Pavlova from a Russian children’s book.

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Emmanuel Berry, Untitled #1 (2008)

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Hans Emmenegger (Swiss, 1866–1940), Fig Tree in front of Red Soil, 1911, oil on canvas, private collection

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Arnulf Rainer - Hand & Finger Paintings, 1981-82

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Jonas Wood, Untitled, from 8 Pots, 2017, etching,

Size 40.6 x 35.6 cm.

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André Robillard, born 1931 in Gien in the Loiret, is a French sculptor, draftsman, musician, creator of art brut.

Discovered by Jean Dubuffet and supported by Michel Nedjar, Robillard has two fields of predilection: the guns and the space. His “art things” as the artist calls them, are made from recycled materials such as cans, cables, wires, nails, light bulbs, plumbing elements, pipes and other spare parts.

The son of a forest ranger in the Orléans forest, André Robillard was born in the hamlet of La Maltournée near Gien. He experienced academic difficulties from a very young age and was placed at the age of seven in the annex school of the Fleury-les-Aubrais psychiatric hospital . Destined to become a farmhand, he was a runaway with a temper and was committed to the same hospital at the age of 19. After several brief releases, he was hired in 1964, at the age of 33, as an assistant to take care of the hospital's gardening, laundry, and wastewater treatment plant.

From being ill, he became a worker without ever leaving the center. That same year, he made his first rifle from salvaged materials (tin cans, used light bulbs, pieces of wood, fabric, etc.), " to kill the misery", he said. Shortly afterward, his psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Renard, sent some of them to Jean Dubuffet , who was then building his collection of Art Brut ; the two men met several times. Robillard also made spacecraft and Sputniks.

André Robillard also plays the accordion and harmonica . In 2009, he participated in a show, Tuer la misère (Killing Misery), conceived by Alexis Forestier and Charlotte Ranson of the company Les Endimanchés. In 2014, he collaborated on the creation of the album cover for the group Walabix.

André Robillard — Wikipédia

Artists boarding for space : from Robillard to INVADER - Artistes Actuels - Galerie d'art en ligne et Webmagazine

Space travel : a recurring theme for contemporary artists. Discover 7 artists who are great travelers : André Robillard, Dominique Lemoine,

Also read a good article in Raw Vision #81

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Mikael Hallstrøm Eriksen, Strata-34B

Watercolour on paper

13x20 cm.

Strata-37c

Watercolour on paper

30x40 cm

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Alenka Sottler illustrates BAMBI by Austrian writer Felix Salten.

Alenka Sottler (b. 1958, Slovenia) was born into a creative family and began her art practice early on, as a child by the side of her father, an academic sculptor. Later she pursued her formal university education in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, at both graduate and postgraduate levels.

Award winning illustrator, artist, deep thinker.

Alenka describes her technique:

"Essential for my creative process is the ability to use extreme simplification, which opens up surprising worlds and a space for creative play. I am lead by the joy of discovering the new, a respect for the material and its nature.

I produce seemingly extremely complex visual forms in an astoundingly simple manner. In my drawings I behave like someone who partakes in nature’s processes. I find an interesting abstract structure. I grasp its visual essence and its hidden logic. I add to it with its own laws of growth.

For example: What a beautiful trace a metal comb makes if you pull it across some fresh black paint on white paper. I understand that the strong impression is created by the multitude of parallel thin black and white lines, which wind across the surface of the paper. In this abstract space I see the scene. Using a brush, that creates the same fine lines in black or white paint, I add to the structure..., which then grows into a new organism—an illustration, and eventually into a book, perhaps. I begin from any kind of structure—see my letter illustrations for instance. In this process, I am influenced by the concept of evo-devo evolutionary developmental biology which is concerned with the formation of organisms. Recent discoveries bring to the visual world totally new dimensions and relationships between the large and the small. I see the world as a universe of giant forms, constructed from an endless amount of repetitious identical particles, rebuilt with the same meticulousness as the large ones, and I draw these through my illustration."

0watts.com/I-see-the-world-as-a-universe-of-giant-forms?

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Louisa Boyd is a British multidisciplinary artist and sculptor. She graduated in 2001 and has worked as an artist ever since. She always wanted to be an artist, even as a young child, it was almost as if she didn’t have any other option.Louisa's work centres around the persistent human desire to belong within the natural world. She considers environment and how we navigate place in her pieces. Her work features celestial symbols, sacred geometry, natural landmarks and map-like imagery to describe a sense of belonging.https://louisaboyd.com/

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Willy Aractingi (Lebanese, 1930-2003) was a self-taught artist born in New York in 1930 who lived in France since 1975. He is best known for painting all of Jean de la Fontaine’s fables with oil on canvas, a six-year endeavour culminating in 244 works in 1995.

Aractingi’s colours are carefully chosen, producing works that are both exciting and showing harmony.

Artist: Willy Aractingi

Willy Aractingi took to painting when he was 12 years old. Born in New York in 1930 and quasi orphaned early in life, he was brought up in C

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Adel El Siwi was born in 1952 in Beheira, Egypt. He studied medicine at Cairo University between 1970 and 1976 and in the same years he studied art at the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 1980 he moved to Milan, Italy, where he lived and worked for a decade before moving back to Cairo, where he currently lives and works.

Adel El Siwi

Artist

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Brahim Dhahak, Tunisia (1931–2004)

Born in Gafsa, Brahim Dhahak lost his parents when he was only nine years old, and while living a tough childhood, he manifested a particular talent for drawing at primary school.

Doing odd jobs, he ended up working as a head waiter in the capital city, where he led a bohemian life, painting and attending classes at École des Beaux-Arts in Tunis. With the help of the Italian consul, he received a scholarship to study at Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome from 1957 to 1962, training in painting, mosaic and ceramic under the supervision of Amerigo Bartoli.

Dhahak went back to Europe in 1972 when he lived at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In Tunisia, he established his atelier in a little alleyway in the village of Sidi Bou SaÏd.

Brahim Dhahak — Yosr Ben Ammar Gallery

BRAHIM DHAHAK (1931-2011) Self-taught painter and engraver — between Tunis, Rome, and Paris A self-taught painter and member of the École de

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Maria Yakunchikova (1870 – 1902) was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in a prosperous industrialist family, and grew up in Moscow. Her family was very musical: her father, Vasily Ivanovich, was an expert at the violin, while her mother, Zinaida, played the pianoforte. Indeed, her father sponsored the construction of the Moscow Conservatory.

Yakunchikova's own interests, however, turned towards the fine arts. In 1882, following her sister Natalya's marriage to the landscape artist Vasily Polenov, his sister - Elena Polenova - also a fine artist, became a close friend. The Polenov residence was to become an important training centre for budding artists, and Yakunchikova joined as well, taking evening lessons with Elena between 1886 and 1889. Here she met artists such as Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Nesterov and Konstantin Korovin, among others.

Beginning in 1883 she had private lessons in art with Nikolai Avenirovich Martynov, and from 1885 she studied as an external student at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

Yakunchikova was associated with the Abramtsevo artists, especially her teacher Elena Polenova, whose revival of traditional handicrafts inspired her to embroider and to execute pokerwork. Between 1887 and 1889 she began to collect folk art.

Landscape art remained her favourite genre, having been inspired to plein air painting by Polenova.

Yakunchikova traveled to Austria and Italy in 1888; the following year she went to France and Germany, and from then on worked mainly in western Europe. From 1889 to 1890 she attended the Académie Julian in Paris, studying under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. Here she painted natural scenes, and later exhibited at the Salon de Champ-de-Mars. She remained in Paris throughout the 1890s, except for occasional trips to Russia to recuperate and gain inspiration for her work.

Yakunchikova suffered from tuberculosis, which had been diagnosed in the late 1880s. Her first son fell ill of the disease aged two, and although he survived, when her second son was born in April 1901, her health failed irreparably. To recuperate, her husband took the family to Switzerland. She died of the disease near Geneva in 1902.

Sergei Diaghilev wrote her obituary in the magazine Mir Isskustva:

"Yakunchikova's time was all too short for all the things she might have done. But in all that she had time to do, harassed by baby-napkins and the bustle of Paris, she revealed the depths of a lovely talent, a profound feeling and affection for our Russian forests, oh, so remote, 'those little pines and firs', which for her were instinct with religious feeling, and which she longed for all her life."

https://www.tretyakovgallerymagazine.com/.../broadening...

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Dirk Stewen

Born 1972 in Dortmund, Germany

To produce his works Stewen uses a wide variety of papers, inks, paints and his own photographs with elegance and precision, achieving a remarkable balance despite the most contradictory materials. After studying art history in Bochum, Stewen graduated from the Hamburg University of Fine Arts.