A T h o u s a n d L i v i n g P a i n t e r s 千住画家 2012 千生きている画家

983. Mark Francis

Art Initiative Verfhond, based in Amsterdam, Holland — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:00:35 +0000

(1962, Newtownards, Northern Ireland /> London, UK)

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paintings based on magnified images of microbiology

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984. Makiko Kudo

Art Initiative Verfhond, based in Amsterdam, Holland — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:00:07 +0000

(1978, Aomori Prefecture /> Tokyo, Japan)

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‘ The paradox of being unable to escape a place that never really felt like home is Kudo’s great subject.‘ - David Pagel, LA Times

Makiko Kudo (left) and Ryoko Aoki

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985. George Hofmann

Art Initiative Verfhond, based in Amsterdam, Holland — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:00:07 +0000

(1938, Kansas /> Albany, New York, US)

-currently no portrait available-

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

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986. Lea Asja Pagenkemper

Art Initiative Verfhond, based in Amsterdam, Holland — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:00:32 +0000

(1979, Berlin, Germany)

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

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987. Michael Taylor

Art Initiative Verfhond, based in Amsterdam, Holland — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:00:40 +0000

(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

Art Initiative Verfhond, based in Amsterdam, Holland — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:00:42 +0000

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

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

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987. Misheck Masamvu

Art Initiative Verfhond, based in Amsterdam, Holland — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:00:09 +0000

(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.”

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988. Matthew John Atkinson

Art Initiative Verfhond, based in Amsterdam, Holland — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000

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

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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?

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989. Raquel van Haver

Art Initiative Verfhond, based in Amsterdam, Holland — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:00:33 +0000

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(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

Art Initiative Verfhond, based in Amsterdam, Holland — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:00:35 +0000

(1959, Berlin, Germany)

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

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