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  • Review of The ‘ART’ Collection by artist John Wilson & his ‘Mini Masters’ paintings

    Released early last year, John Wilson’s exciting series was named simply as the ‘ART’ COLLECTION:


    Official Banner for John Wilson’s the ‘Art’ COLLECTION
    (Click banner to view all 7 pieces)

    …featuring limited edition prints that are bright, colourful and full of surprises, surprises that as fans, we have now come to expect from his art. In the ‘ART’ COLLECTION, Wilson has moved from just his usual (art gallery) backgrounds, to now including his character’s homes, never previously featured up until that point.



    ‘Bedtime Story’ limited edition paper print by John Wilson

    John has included some famous modern paintings in mini format in the background: including Andy Warhol’s ‘Campbell’s Soup Can,’ seen in the ‘Masters II.’

    Once again, he has also included the world’s most famous Old Masters paintings (or as he calls it ‘Mini Masters’) in his backgrounds, including Gustav Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’ (which has previously been recreated by some other modern popular artists we have blogged about: Rolf Harris and Caroline Shotton) & ‘The Mona Lisa’ by Leonardo DaVinci (also recreated by Caroline Shotton) to name just two.



    ‘The Masters II’ limited edition on canvas board by John Wilson

    John Wilson tells us that his ‘Mini Masters’ take him around four to five hours each to create and he feels he has to make them perfect to the original (except in miniature!) as firstly they are such well known and respected works of art they deserve such gravitas & secondly he feels if they were not perfect then his finished artwork would not have the same effect. In Wilson’s ‘ART’ COLLECTION there are 19 mini Masters, can you spot them all?



    ‘The Masters I’ limited edition on canvas board by John Wilson

    The 7 limited edition pieces featured in the John Wilson ‘ART’ COLLECTION where:
    – Bath Time
    – Bedtime Story
    – In The Spotlight
    – Smile
    – The Lowry
    – The Masters I
    – The Masters II

    Stayed tuned as in our next John Wilson post we will reveal all of the John Wilson ‘Mini Masters’ from the ‘ART’ COLLECTION, and you can check your answers!

    Links:
    What Is Naive Art?
    A World of Their Own: Twentieth Century British Naive Painters a book by Jill & Martin Leman
    Links to naive artist’s websites

    Thanks

    Tom

  • Last call for the Gabriel Orozco exhibition at the Tate Modern

    The famous Mexican artist’s work is available to view at the Tate Modern and this is the largest collection seen in the UK, with over 80 pieces: photos, paintings aswell as sculptures.


    Enjoy this 10 minute documentary narrated by Gabriel

    Having opened on 19th January 2011 you now have just over 2 weeks to see the exhibition before it closes on Monday 25th April 2011.


    ‘Cats and Watermelons (1992) by Gabriel Orozco’
    Tins of cat food placed on top of watermelons inside a supermarket

    Gabriel likes to challenge that all ‘Serious art’ has to be ‘serious’ and he is known for simply grabbing things, trying stuff out and creating art with what he finds in front of him; he does that at home, on the road or wherever the moment takes him, perhaps that its why his art is so inventive & inspiring for me.


    ‘La D.S.’ (1993) by Gabriel Orozco’
    A Citreon motorcar sliced into 3 long ways pieces, then placed back together minus the mid section

    thank you

    Jessica

    Useful links
    Tate Modern’s page
    Daily telegraph review by Richard Dorment
    Gabriel Orozco’ Wikipedia entry

  • Spanish Realism revisited with Gustave Courbet exhibition in Barcelona

    Spain’s Realist movement is currently being revisited with some of Courbet’s Original Artwork in Barcelona’s Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya* (MNAC)


    ‘La Source’ by France’s Gustave Courbet in situ at the Exhibition

    Spain’s National Art Museum of Catalonia* (MNAC) is exhibiting over 80 pieces by the French artist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) until the 10th July 2011, as well as other Spainish artists strongly influenced by his work including Bartolome Murillo & Pere Borrell.


    ‘Self portrait’ by Spain’s Bartolome Murillo (1617-1682)

    This will be the first time some of Courbet’s pieces have ever been seen in Spain.

    It reveals Courbet’s sway on the Catalonian artists of the era, in particular you will see the work of Ramon Martí Alsina, a man very much at the forefront of the birth of the Realism movement in Spain.


    ‘Fugint De La Critica’ by Spain’s Pere Borrell (1835-1910)

    Links:

    Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC)
    www.gustavecourbet.org
    THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF SPANISH REALISM

  • Doug Hyde – View all 8 of his Collections including the latest ‘Smiles Allround’

    Always the bearer of useful info, as a follow up to our previous post http://www.fineartblog.co.uk/?p=443 which had Doug’s previous collections 1st – 6th, we now showcase the 6th (again) the 7th and the 8th Collection, his latest: ‘Smiles Allround’


    ‘Summer Holiday’ limited edition by Doug Hyde
    Click above to view the ‘Time Of My Life Collection’ (his 6th)



    ‘Happy Campers’ limited edition by Doug Hyde
    Click above to view the ‘Heart & Soul Collection’ (his 7th)



    ‘The Modfather’ limited edition by Doug Hyde
    Click above to view the ‘Smiles Allround Collection’ (his 8th)
    (Also known as ‘Smiles All Round’)

    Please keep an eye on the blog for our commentary on the ‘Smiles Allround’ which will come very soon

    many thanks

    James