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SURVEY OF THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE ART OF PAINTING

based on medium-specific, intrinsic criteria

Published on WordPress under the banner of international art initiative Verfhond

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 Based in Amsterdam, Holland EU

984. Makiko Kudo

(1978, Aomori Prefecture /> Tokyo, Japan)

 

Makiko Kudo (left) and Ryoko Aoki

 

  

 

 

 

 

  (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

985. George Hofmann

 (1925, Kansas /> Albany, New York, US)

-currently no portrait available-

 site

 ’…allowing myself not to be perfect in painting has become something difficult to really accept…’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (1) (2) (3)

986. Lea Asja Pagenkemper

(1979, Berlin, Germany)

 gallery

 Is the ‘what’ of appearance not the same as the ‘how’?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2-3) 

987. Michael Taylor

(1979, Bloemfontein /> Cape Town, South Africa)

-currently no photo portrait or site available-

Attention: not the same person as the Autralian and British painters with identical names.

How to ”make the viewer aware of themselves when reading the image’?

 

 

 

 

 

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988. Ronan Barrot

(1973, Carpentras, Vaucluse /> Paris, France)

Is it possible to remember old masters whithout being nostalgic,  dilletant,  suicidal or -even worse- postmodernist?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1-2) (3)

987. Misheck Masamvu

(1980, Penhalonga, Mutare, Zimbabwe /> Munich, Germany)

 “To be an artist at times I take it as a curse. It’s not a choice. You have to say something and you have to say it in the most truthful way.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

988. Matthew John Atkinson

(1985, Gravesend, Kent /> London, UK)

site 1 - site 2 

Ís painting, often regarded as a nostalgic and memorizing medium, not the best way to investigate nostalgic values and ideas – especially so, when it’s not sourced from found imagery?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

989. Raquel van Haver

 R A Q U E L    V A N    H A V E R

(1989, Bogota, Colombia /> Amsterdam, Netherlands)

What’s the fabric of the medium? Who is the stranger? Who are we?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (cell phone photos by the artist)

990. Frank Seidel

(1959, Berlin, Germany)

site

 Can painting share our most inner visions, where we seem to be alone?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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991. Pier Wright

(1954, Florida /> Northport, Michigan, US)

site 

 What appears out of the mess, and when is it finished?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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992. Adam Avikainen

(1978, Minnesota, US /> Japan)

site

What if painting is making a storyboard? What’s the movie about?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1-3)

993. Mary Addison Hackett

(1961, Atlanta, Georgia /> Nashville, Tennessee, US)

Attention: the painter’s first name is a double name, Hackett is her last name.

site

Isn’t that one of the secrets of painting: a sophisticated way to bring naievity into play?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

994. Steven Grant La Rose

(1963, Mercer Island, Washington /> Ashland, Oregon, US)

site

‘I paint because it is the time that I really know what I’m doing, even when I don’t.‘

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2-3)

995. Sven Verhaeghe

(1974, Poperinge, Belgium)

site

 What does it mean that the picture we make of the world is haunted by its past?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

996. Ivar Lövheim

(1983, Göteborg, Sweden)

site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (portrait) (1-3)

997. Anna Bjerger

(1973, Skallsjo, Sweden)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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998. Julia Dault

(1977, Toronto, Canada /> Brooklyn, NY, US)

site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (portrait) (1) (2) (3)

 

 

999. Rudy Cremonini

(1981, Bologna, Italy)

site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1000. Olly Beck

(1968, London /> London, UK)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1001. Clemens Schneider

(1972, Stuttgart, Germany)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1.

 though this site offers a survey of the world’s most interesting living painters

it does not offer a rating list.

 below: start of the longlist of a thousand painters (nrs. 2-1001)

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2. Allison Schulnik

(1978, San Diego /> Los Angeles, California, US)

click the artist’s site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Annie Hémond Hotte

(1980, Montreal, Canada /> London, UK) 

click the artist’s site

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Martin Mohr

(1973, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate /> Berlin, Germany)

click the artist’s site

 

  

  

 

 

 

 

5. Amelia Midori Miller

 (1985, Tokyo, Japan /> Brooklyn, New York, US)

click the artist’s site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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6. Nadine Feinson

(1959 /> London, UK)

 click the artist’s site