--Artcity21
is online as the ultimate pioneer and the most complete
Art Directory - Magazine, and the Must Art Space in
internet, the World Wide Web planet, springing up
to stimulate and promote the very best of today's
worldwide Contemporary Art, a special homepage for
artists, art galleries, auctions, public and art collectors.
--Emerging
as a unique universal Art Scene Must reference,
Artcity21 comes up with a brand-new
vision of promoting Art, artists, art galleries
worldwide, creating a new interest in Contemporary
Art among public and art collectors, therefore creating
a stimulating, striking feedback on everyone's work
and projects.
Andy
Warhol
Hang
Him on my Wall
--No
other artist is as much related with Pop Art as Andrew
Warhola, worldwide known as Andy Warhol... The Prince
of Pop.
--For
many of you who still don't know this peculiar uniqueness
of the artist, ...
Nana
Andersen
The Mystery, the Beauty
... and the Best!
--Belief
in the dramatic value of a strange vision of the world
and human nature, is on the whole the artistic flame
of Nana Andersen, sometimes showing plainly those
traits which all human beings have in common, some
other times assimilating aspects of those different
emotional peculiar energies of the grotesque beauty,
by exploring in her quality artworks, form, body,
soul ...
Sonia
Rijnhout
Absolutely
Cutting - Edge!
--Today,
in the beginning of the New Millennium, when contemporary
art very often seems to be reaching that stand by
point of helpless lack of innovation and originality,
it's good to know that it's not quite so after all,
when under our normal daily systematic research
process, Artcity21 stumbles ...
Nina
Nolte
An Insight of Paradise
--The
work of Nina Nolte is, strange as it may seem,
utopian. She portraits a universe prior to the
expulsion of Paradise, with clothes and attidudes
strictly contemporary, just like the masters
of Renaissance and Baroque, who painted characters
from the mythologie or the Bible with garments
and gestures of their time. We find in Nina´s
work a inalienable will based on two principles:
figuration - censured so many times and even
considered finished - and contemporanity. But
at the same time never loosing sight of her
edenic vision of mankind.
Juan
Béjar’s
Poisoned
Sweets
--Transparent,
nearly always swollen little faces with generous double
chins. Dark eyes that show little or no emotion. Self-satisfied
little mouths; ringlets; perfect outfits. Such are
the children’s portraits by the Spanish painter,
Juan Béjar (1946). But they are not real portraits;
not replicas of real people but metaphors.
Aspiring
Art Stars
Guidelines
--People
you do business with aren't necessarily your friends.
--They
are not people you go home with. They are a fact
of the Art world and once you're done with them,
that's it until next time. In certain cases you
have to tolerate them and perhaps they tolerate
you.
Contemporary
Artists
Digest
--Most
artists would rather cut off their right arm (...
or their ear off !!!), then engage in the entrepreneurial
dance that Artcity21 call "SELLING".
For many artists, that's because trying to make a
dale feels like an uncomfortable means to an end.
But selling your art doesn't have to be forced and
awkward. Artists can develop a sales cycle that fits
their personality and isn't offensive to the buyer
using ...
Fernando
Botero
The
Art World Legend
--Fernando
Botero is one of the most successful contemporary
artists right now, his paintings sell for millions.
The ageing Botero is returning to his troubled homeland,
Colombia, where he was raised in the same city as
the drug lord, Pablo Escobar, the subject of one
of Botero's most controversial paintings.
--The
artist has been target of kidnap attempts and must
now be accompanied everywhere by armed guards. --As
Fernando Botero touches down, a huge storm is blowing
up over his son, a charismatic politician dubbed
the "Kennedy of South America", Botero
senior is mortified by his son's self-destruction
and anxious about the reception he himself will
receive from his long-suffering countrymen.
Art
and Stardom
Protocol
Pointers
--For
many artists, the primary purpose of their website
is to attract the attention of art galleries and
dealers. A well designed website showcasing quality
Art will get the attention of arts professionals
when they see it.
--But
how do they find you in the first place?
--Send
Letters of Invitation!
--It
sounds so obvious but many artists forget that galleries
are accustomed to invitations and query letters
by mail. In the past, we all sent packages of slides,
bios, prints, press clippings, etc... to galleries.
Francis
Bacon
Painter
of a Dark Vision
--Inseparable
Art and Life?
--For
most of his many years it was simply not to
speak or write of Francis Bacon's private life,
whispered to be not merely disreputable but
punishable, at least in his first half century,
by sanctions almost as harsh as those for treason
and murder!
--Though
to critics of any sensibility it was obvious
that his private life was largely the source
of imagery and energy in his paintings and unquestionably
crucial to his aesthetic development, there
were others who - through overwhelming prominence
on the Arts Council and our television sets,
almost as celebrated as himself for their performances
as his interpreters - gave us a Francis Bacon
distorted and bowdlerised.
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