Art Wynwood Part 6

Whisbe.  "Gummy Bear."  Germany

American Pop Art has influenced the whole world.  One of the examples from

Germany is Whisbe, who created the Gummy Bear as his main subject.  He creates

bears of resin, paints them in acrylic, photographs them, and more.  The Gummy Bear

is mischievous and sometimes gets arrested.

Whisbe.  "Gummy Bears."  Germany

Frank Hyder finds his favorite subject in fish, often koi.

Frank Hyder.  "Koi in Pond."  U.S.  Gold leaf.

Recently Frank has begun using gold foil to make the fish look even richer.

Boris Renjifo.  "Bird."  Bronze U.S.
Boris' exploration of the arts began when he was a virologist at Harvard Uiversity.
Art gradually took over his life, and he is now an artist full-time.

David Ramirey Gomez.  "The Eye."  Barcelona, Spain

David lives and works in Denmark, and he ofte deals with subjects of
dislocation, alienation, discrimination, and loneliness..

Flore.  "Basquiat."  Brooklyn.

Flore (Christopher Florentino) is a Brooklyn artist especially interested in the

life of the city and its inhabitants.  Jean-Michel Basquiat is sort of the patron saint

of such artists, and Flore here renders him homage.   The background is made up of

the words and brief messages he often includes in his paintings, like graffiti on the

walls of New York City and Brooklyn.

Flore.  "Life in new York."  Brooklyn.

Flore's works are meant to be partly humorous, partly cool, and to have a social

conscious.

Flore.  "I Love New York."  Brooklyn.

Flore's works are widely used in advertising and to promote the city.

Hunt Slonem.  "Hop Bunnies."  Steel.  U.S.
Hunt Slonem is a Louisiana painter, sculptor, and printmaker.  He is
most famous for his works based on exotic tropical birds.  He maintains
an aviary at home of more than 100 exotic birds.  More recently, he has
begun using the form of the rabbit as a popular subject.

Hunt Slonem.  "Four Bunnies."  Louisiana.

Hunt Slonem.  "A Bunch of Bnnies."  Louisiana

Hijack.  Various Works.  French / American.

Hijack is the art-name for the street artist Jacques Guetta, the son of famous French filmmaker

turned street artist. Thierry Guetta.  Jacques began his career spray painting buildings and walls,

first in London and then in Los Angeles, where he became well known.  So well that he

is sometimes called "The artistic son" of Banksy, the British and most famous

street artist in the world.  Jacques is only 24 years old.  His father's street name is
"Mr. Brainwash."

Hijack.  "Your Best Teacher . . .   "  French / American

Hijack.  "Bubble Gum Girl."  French / American

Sam Tufnell.  "Mona Lisa."  American

Cast resin lit by recessed light.  Tufnell comments on the cheap reproductions of

Warhol works and Basquiat and of the Mona Lisa and others, which many consider art

and purchase.

Sam Tufnell.  "Heroes."  American.  Cast Acrylic.

Batman is one of the superheroes known to hundreds of millions of people, from

comic books and movies and television.

Pablo Atchugarry.  "Untitled / Red."  Steel.  Uruguay

Atchugarry is the most famous Uruguayan artist today.  He spends half the year in

the Carrara quarries of Italy selecting pieces of marble which he begins to work, and

the other half of the year in Uruguay, where he completes the works and also

works in steel.  Although very hard in material, his works look like soft drapery.

Victor Vasarely.  "Op Art."  Hungarian / French.

Although the canvas is perfectly flat, the manner in which Vasarely painted makes

it seem as if the form moves in and out and has depth to it.

Victor Vasarely.  "Op Art."  Hungarian / French.

Although the painting is perfectly flat, it appears to bulge out in the

center,because of the way Vasarely painted the segments.

Fernando Botero.  "Gato / Cat."  Bronze.  Colombia.

Botero is the most famous artist from Colombia these days.  He has

developed a style in both painting and sculpture in which his subjects

seem to swell out into very large proportions.

Pablo Picasso.  "Four Fish Plate."  Spanish / French.

Although Picasso was not a potter, he sometimes worked with potters and

designed works which they executed for him.  He enjoyed the challenge of the

medium different from paint and sculpture.

Pablo Picasso.  "Mask Dish."  Spanish / French.

Pablo Picasso.  "Toros - Vallauris."  Linocut 1958  Spanish / French

Picasso made prints in many forms although usually in his Cubist

style.  Vallauris was where he had a home and worked with potters.

Pablo Picasso.  "Two Glass Pieces."  Spanish / French.

In the South of France, where Picasso lived for many years, he worked with

craftsmen in a variety of media.   These are some of the pieces he designed for

his glass artisan friends from Murano to blow.

Zhuang Hong Yi "Sunset."  Chinese.  Rice Paper.
This work is 8 feet long and made up of hundreds of pieces of rice paper which have
be rolled and folded and dyed various colors before being attached to a background.
It is a very old Chinese art technique.

Monique Lassoij.  "Son of Modern Man."    Netherlands.
Monique is a Dutch artist who uses satire in her works.  This is a parody
of Rene Magritte's famous painting of "Modern Man," showing a man in bowler
 hat holding an apple.  Here the "Son of Modern Man" holds an Apple i-phone
and takes a picture of us.

Robert Bery.  "I Shop, Therefore I Am."  New York City

Bery spends six months of the year at a studio in the Hamptons.  He is fascinated and

yet perplexed by Hamptonians and their often shallow views.  This is a view of a

garden party in the Hamptons and of a shopping bag representing the main interest

if life and main activity for many Hamptonians.

Robert Bery.  "Guns and Roses."  New York City

This is another of Bery's satiric works.  The name suggest the famous musical group.

The black lines of the delicate roses are actually drawn with gunpowder, and if you

would hold a match to it,  the painting would explode and destroy itself.

Francisco Valverde.  "Yellow Stripe."  Venezuela.

The painting actually consists of the thickly applied acrylic paint, which is allowed to

drip off the bottom of the canvas.  I met Francisco, and he explained that he mustwait 6 hours
 after he applies each stripe until it dries, so that the colors do not run together.

Shepard Fairey.  "Imperial Glory."  U.S.

I had never heard of Shepard Fairey until I saw some of his great murals in

Wynwood, Miami.  Now I find his works in many art galleries, and he is commissioned 

by Miami City Ballet to do the sets for a new ballet, and he does much more.

He is strongly opposed to war as a method of solving problems.  Here the

"Imperial Glory" is not a variety of apple or peach, but a grenade.

Shepard Fairey.  "No Future."  American.

Shepard Fairey.  "Peace Guard."  Silkscreen.  American.

One of Shepard's most famous images is this one, prints of

which can be found in many galleries.

Shepard Fairey.  "Palace Power."  American.

Henrik Kersten.  "Red Turban."  Holland.  Photo.

One of the most famous of all paintings is "Man in Red Turn"

by 15 century Flemish painter Jan Eyck.  Here Kersten gives a new

interpretation to the famous work.

Manolo Valdes.  "Portrait of Vivianne."  Spanish.  6x8 feet.

Alec Monopoly.  "Monopoly Man."  California.

Alec Monopoly is a California artist who became obsessed with the

game and creates many paintings of the various characters and

game pieces in various situations.

Pablo Atchugarry.  "Untitled."  White Marble.  Uruguay.

Although carved out of very hard marble, the piece looks like the soft pleats of a curtain.

Robert Indiana.  Sculpture and Three Posters.  American.

Mr. Brainwash.  "Mickey."  French / American

Mr. Brainwash is the art name for famous French filmmaker turned street artist,

Thierry Guetta.  He uses immediately recognizable subjects in an urban setting.

David Ramirez-Gomez.  "Untitled."  Spain.

RETNA.  Sign.

RETNA is a street artists who has invented an artistic language

made up of symbols from Egyptian hieroglyphics, Arabic scripts, Hebrew lettering, 

and other forms he has created.

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