Henri Matisse Artworks from £3,000 and up framed. Henri Emile-Benoit Matisse, one of the lions of the Modern era and an artist whose sensual forms and pure colors conveyed the philosophy of “luxe, calme and volupte,” was born on New Year’s eve in 1869. Influenced heavily by Cézanne, Henri Matisse was also a friend and contemporary of Picasso and Gertrude Stein. His brilliant colors and primitive forms shocked critics, who dubbed Matisse and the painters in his circle the “Fauves,” a French word for “beasts.” His greatest artworks combine form and content in a way that evokes in the viewer intense responses of joy and unity. Henri Matisse is known for his still lifes, his interiors, and his nudes—all of which make up a vivid emotional landscape in which childlike shapes reveal a sophisticated interplay of color and form. The painter also created murals and designed stained glass windows, integrating

Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s, his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody. Favoring the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter, Roy Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He described Pop Art as, “not ‘American’ painting but actually industrial painting”. In 1960, he started teaching at Rutgers University where he was heavily influenced by Allan Kaprow, who was also a teacher at the university. This environment helped reignite his interest in Proto-pop

Henry Moore Artwork from £2,000 and up. Henry Moore, British artist and sculptor. The son of a mining engineer, born in the Yorkshire town of Castleford, Henry Moore became well known for his larger-scale abstract cast bronze and carved marble sculptures. Substantially supported by the British art establishment, Henry Moore helped to introduce a particular form of modernism into the United Kingdom. His ability to satisfy large-scale commissions made him exceptionally wealthy towards the end of his life. However, he lived frugally and most of his wealth went to endow the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts. His signature form is a pierced reclining figure, first influenced by a Toltec-Maya sculpture known as “Chac Mool”, which he had seen as a plaster cast in Paris in 1925. Early versions are pierced conventionally as a bent arm reconnects with the body. Later more abstract

Mr. Brainwash, often stylized as MBW, is the moniker of Paris-born, Los Angeles based filmmaker and street artist Thierry Guetta. According to the Banksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Guetta began as a proprietor of a clothing store and videographer who evolved into a street artist and gallery artist after being influenced by the street artists he documented through video over the years. According to the film, Guetta was first introduced to street art by his cousin, the street artist Invader. The artwork attributed to Guetta strongly emulates the styles and artistic concepts of well-known street artists including Banksy and Shepard Fairey. Like Banksy, Guetta employs famous artistic and historic images, many of which are copyrighted, and amends the originals in slight or significant ways. Unlike Banksy, who is shown in the film creating his own work, Guetta states in the film that his work largely consists of “scanning

Born in Casablanca in 1967, educated in London. Michael Onona’s paintings essentially concentrate on the depiction and conveyance of human emotion. Through his personal and unconventional visions of beauty his imagery challenges our perceptions, encourages the viewer to look and interpret these immensely bold visual statements. Michael Onona’s admiration for the old masters and the Renaissance have in turn created for this self taught artist a personal quest to achieve a blend of excellence of technique combined with powerful and unnerving imagery. A constant regeneration of imagery and new themes are created within the mind of this unique artist. Michael Onona’s work deals with the ‘disturbingly normal’ and finds that his own inner peace is achieved by the act of painting and this in turn enables the exorcism from the constant and ever present imagery that resides within his mind. Michael Onona’s ever changing visions are held together as individual

Walton Fine Arts is Lawrence Schiller’s official European agent Order your Limited Edition Book today! Lawrence Schiller. Marilyn & Me: A Memoir in Words & Photographs Hardcover in clamshell box, 11.4 x 15.6 in., 210 pages Edition: English Availability: In Stock Price: £650 To buy: email or come into the Gallery BORN in Brooklyn in 1936, Lawrence Schiller’s work began in junior high school in San Diego, when he received his first camera. Though a childhood accident left him with impaired vision in one eye, he became an obsessive photographer; even while attending Pepperdine College, his pictures had already appeared in Life, Sport, Playboy, Glamour, and the Saturday Evening Post. Lawrence Schiller’s interests and ambitions soon developed into a profession in print journalism, documenting major stories for glossy magazines all over the world, including Life, Look, Newsweek, Time, Paris Match, Stern, and the London Sunday Times. His iconic images of

Joan Miro was one of the most critically acclaimed artists of the 20th century. He pioneered the transformation of the two-dimensional picture plane into a receptacle of personal dreams and imagery, characterized by the suppression of descriptive detail. As a painter, sculptor, ceramicist, muralist, and printmaker, he created a visual vocabulary unique in the 20th century and had an enormous impact on the course of modern art. Joan Miro was a brilliantly innovative artist who absorbed and then went beyond all the major art movements of his formative years: Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.   Joan Miro Gallery Joan Miro was strongly influenced by his Catalan heritage from the primary colors of local Romanesque frescoes to the curving, undulating lines and organic forms of Gaudi’s architecture. After moving to Paris in the 1920 he was strongly influenced by the Surrealists, in particular the concepts of automatism (allowing the subconscious to

Beryl Cook painted for some 40 years. Well known and much loved in her home county of Devon, she was largely snubbed by the the nation’s major art galleries. Art critics also look down their noses at Beryl Cook’s paintings of the colourful characters she has encountered in Plymouth, where she lived. Born in Surrey in 1926, she first started to paint after using her young son’s paint set. When her family moved to Plymouth, Beryl and husband John (a seaman in the Merchant Navy) ran a busy theatrical boarding house.  It was here that her talents were discovered, when guests started to talk about the unique paintings on display. A friend persuaded Beryl Cook to try and sell some of the paintings – and, much to her surprise, they sold like hot cakes! Her first exhibition was in 1975, since when her trademark pictures of larger than life characters

Banksy has become Britain’s most infamous young artist. Originally from Bristol, he has taken his provocative and inspiring brand of vandalism to sites world-wide, from the Sydney Opera House to Cuba. A media favourite for stunts like hanging his own work in the Tate gallery, but a popular star long before any of this high-profile activity – simply because the people love his stuff. Banksy has not only brought UK graphic art to an international audience but has proven, through his emotional and provocative work, that his generation are not the apathetic and unfeeling demographic they are made out to be. Banksy’s satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy’s work was born of the Bristol underground scene which

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“You’re already famous, now you’re going to make me famous,”photographer Lawrence Schiller said to Marilyn Monroe as they discussed the photos he was about to shoot of her. “Don’t be so cocky,” Marilyn replied, “photographers can be easily replaced.” The year was 1962, and Schiller, 25, was on assignment for Paris Match magazine. He already knew Marilyn — they had met on the set of Let’s Make Love — but nothing could have prepared him for the day she appeared nude during a swimming pool scene for the motion picture Something’s Got to Give.

Bridget Riley Artworks from £2,500 and up framed. Bridget Riley CH CBE (born April 24, 1931 in Norwood, London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of op art. Bridget Riley’s mature style, developed during the 1960s, was influenced by a number of sources.  It was during this time that Riley began to paint the black and white works for which she is well known. They present a great variety of geometric forms that produce sensations of movement or colour. In the early 1960s, her works were said to induce sensations in viewers as varied as seasickness and sky diving. From 1961 to 1964 she worked with the contrast of black and white, occasionally introducing tonal scales of grey. Works in this style comprised her first solo show in London in 1962 at Gallery One run by Victor Musgrave, as well as numerous subsequent shows. For

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American pop artist who specialised in found art collages. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Tom Wesselmann was drafted into the Army for the Korean War.  Afterward, he studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and later at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science, Art and architecture in New York City. While still at the Cooper Union Tom Wesselmann learned to paint, his initial purpose of going into art was to become a cartoonist. His early work was heavily influenced by the abstract expressionist painters, especially Willem de Kooning. His art became more popular in the 1960s and had his first one-man exhibition in 1962 at the Tanager Gallery, New York.  After that, his art made it to several other exhibitions such as the Young America exhibition in 1965, Whitney Museum, New York. Beginning in the 1950s, he made collages from magazine clippings and found objects, often incorporating female nudes.

Andy Warhol Artworks from £10,000 and up. Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist associated with the definition of Pop Art. He was a painter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a commercial illustrator, music industry producer, writer and celebrity. Other artists of the Pop Era include: Lichtenstein, Blake, Ramos. Andy Warhol Gallery By the beginning of the 1960s, Andy Warhol was a very successful commercial illustrator. His detailed and elegant drawings for I. Miller shoes were particularly popular. These illustrations consisted mainly of “blotted ink” drawings (monoprints)—a technique which he applied in much of his early art. Although many artists of this period worked in commercial art, most did so discreetly. Andy Warhol was so successful, however, that his profile as an illustrator seemed to undermine his efforts to be taken seriously as an artist. In the early 1960s Andy Warhol tried to exhibit some of his drawings using these techniques in

Born in 1969, Nick Walker is one of UK’s leading artists creating beautiful freehand work with the help of stencils. He worked in the field of advertising and also as an illustrator and tried his hands on film set designing as well. In 1992 he began to combine stencils with my freehand work which allowed him to juxtapose almost photographic imagery with the rawness which evolved from conventional graffiti styles. ‘Stencils introduce an impact element to my work. The appeal of stencils is that they allow me to take an image from anywhere – dissect any part of life – and recreate it on any surface. I try to add an element of humor or irony to some paintings to add a little light relief to the walls. Painting is a form of escapism for me and if my work allows the spectator to do the same thing, then I’ve achieved more

Original Chagall artwork from £600 up to £50,000 framed.

Originally based and working from a studio in Asaka City, Japan, Takashi Murakami quickly established a large scale studio of assistants, taking influence from the work habits of Andy Warhol. Indeed, the Warholian similarities do not end there, for his work draws heavily from the fields of consumer culture, for so long an area deeply imbued in Warhol’s art. Since emerging onto the contemporary art scene, Takashi Murakami’s work has done so much to challenge all that is held as sacred and sacrosanct within the domain of high art. The viewer is confronted by a forty two year old artist who has a grown progressively in stature since an initial spate of small scale exhibitions in his native Japan in 1995. Since then, Takashi Murakami has progressed as an artist to a level where his name can be heard in the same breath as Warhol, Pollock and De Koonig, mooted

At the very pinnacle of Modernism, and leader of the school of Paris, Pablo Picasso continues to dominate visual art of the 20th century, even as we embark upon the 21st. His versatility, technical brilliance and imaginative depth have not been surpassed in this or in any other age, and when his greatness is compared to others, it is a comparison normally reserved to Michelangelo or da Vinci. Pioneer of Cubism, the titan Pablo Picasso was an inexhaustible inventor – yet a supreme master of the classical tradition. His protean eye and indelible hand have cast such a wild net, that even great masters still lament the inescapable vortex of his discoveries. Nowhere is this clearer than in the awe-inspiring body of Pablo Picasso’s graphic art, in which legendary powers as draftsman unite with unsurpassed mastery of the media – in an astounding range of styles, registers and affects. It

One of the most important British pop art masters. He placed his name on the map after doing the artworks for the Beetles Seargant Pepper album in the swinging 60′s. During the late 1950′s, Peter Blake became one of the best known British pop artists. His paintings from this time included imagery from advertisements, music hall entertainment, and wrestlers, often including collaged elements.  Peter Blake was included in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and had his first solo exhibition in 1960. It was with the ‘Young Contemporaries‘ exhibition of 1961 where he was exhibited alongside David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj that he was first identified with the emerging British Pop Art movement. Peter Blake won the (1961) John Moores junior award for his work Self Portrait with Badges. He first came to wider public attention when, along with Pauline Boty, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips, he was

Damien Hirst was born in Bristol in 1965. He grew up in Leeds with his mother, Mary Brennan, and his stepfather. He took a foundation course at Leeds School of Art before applying for college. He was rejected by St. Martin’s but moved to London in 1986 when he was accepted onto the BA Fine Art course at Goldsmiths College, graduating in 1989. While still a student in 1988, Damien conceived, organised and promoted “Freeze“, an exhibition held in a Docklands warehouse. The show featured several of Damien Hirst’s pieces, and work by 16 of his fellow Goldsmith’s’ students. This amazingly successful self-promoted exhibition is widely believed to have been the starting point for the “Young British Artists” movement. After seeing Damien Hirst’s work at the show, Charles Saatchi (ex Thatcher ad-man), began to collect his work and exhibited it in the first “Charles Saatchi’s Young British Artists” show. In

Though primarily a figurative painter, Mel Ramos (Born July 24, 1935) has experimented freely with realist and abstract art forms for the past twenty years. A few of his works embody both formats. This combination works to enhance the detail and feature of each format while detracting from the duality of the image making it wholly singular. Born in Sacramento, California in 1935 he has enjoyed great success and critical acclaim as an adventuresome artist with the creativity and sense of humor it takes to remain on top. Mel Ramos is one of the artists in the Pop Art movement. Mel Ramos received his first important recognition in the early 1960s; since 1959 he has participated in more than 120 group shows. Along with other artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and James Rosenquist, Mel Ramos produced art works that celebrated aspects of popular culture as represented

Phillips Takes In $78.6 Million, Led by Warhol’s $38-Million “Four Marilyns”   Courtesy of Phillips / PHILLIPS.COM A detail of Andy Warhol’s “Four Marilyns,” 1962 by Judd Tully Published: May 17, 2013 NEW YORK — Speaking of a hard act to follow… Phillips‘s evening sale commenced just 24 hours after Christie’s record-setting half-billion-dollar result. It proved mildly successful. The boutique-scaled auction house, headquartered on Park Avenue and 57th Street, sold $78,618,000 of contemporary art, with 30 of the 37 lots offered finding buyers. That translates into a buy-in rate by lot of 19 percent and 12 percent by value. The total fell shy of last May’s $86.8 million sale with a similar buy-in rate by lot of 20 percent. It just nicked (with premium added) the low-end of the $77,550,000-105,500,000 pre-sale estimate. (Speaking of the buyer’s premium: the fees added onto the hammer price for each lot offered, Phillips now charges a whopping 25 percent of the first

Richard Zarzi is a Cannes-based ‘Glamour’ artist. Coming from the fashion world and turned into an artist after a cathartic period of self-discovery, spiritual and artistic studies, Zarzi soon realized that art had to turn its attention to the icons of the modern times that captivate all of us, to make his work appeal to a wide range of taste. He uses his extensive knowledge of the fashion and marketing industry to warp the familiar popular iconic images we find daily in glossy magazines into contemporary art. The artist projects their images on canvas, crowned with a halo of light and materials that underline their natural charisma and make their beauty timeless, with the light suggesting an idea of spirituality. The highly original choice of media employed in his works render an immediate sense of sparkle and glamour, and we certainly have the impression of being in front of something

Bambi Street Artist (Virgin Atlantic Japan) 2013年5月13日 女性版バンクシー登場！　セレブが作品を買い求めるロンドン在住の謎のグラフィティ・アーティスト、Bambi   2010年のコチラのブログで、１つ訂正しなければならないことがあります。グラフィティ・アーティストのバンクシーについて書いたのですが、そこで掲載したプリムローズヒルのジューンのポートレートを彼の作品としてご紹介してしまいました。実はこれ、バンクシーの女性版といわれているグラフィティ・アーティスト、Bambi（バンビ）のものだったのです。Bambiもバンクシー同様、身元を明かさないゲリラ・ストリート・アーティスト。ロンドンの街角のあちこちで彼女の作品を見つけることができます。     プリムローズヒルで日用雑貨点を営んでいたジューン Bambiはこの店にもよく来ていたみたいです ジューンが引退し、店も閉鎖した後 このポートレートがプリムローズヒルのカフェの外壁に登場 でも、暫くして消されてしまいました 絵に添えられたメッセージは Make Tea Not War（戦争はやめてお茶にしましょう）     こちらが本物のジューンさんです     ケンブリッジ公爵夫妻（ウィリアム王子とキャサリン妃） A Bit Like Marmite（ちょっとマーマイトみたい）と詠っています イギリスのマーマイト（ビール酵母の沈殿物）といえば 日本の納豆のように万人には受け入れられないけど イギリスを代表する食品であり、欠かせないもの この作品はブラッド・ピットが気に入って購入し アンジェリーナ・ジョリーにプレゼントしたとか     故エイミー・ワインハウス     1952年、即位された当時のエリザベス女王 下のキャプションは、Diamonds are girls’ best friend （ダイアモンドは女の子のベスト・フレンド）と書かれてあります   Bambiが描く対象は大衆に愛された人たちであることから、人気商売のセレブに好まれ、歌手のアデルやリアーナ、テイク・ザットのマーク・オーエン、ロビー・ウィリアムズなども彼女の作品を入手済み。一点のお値段は３万〜10万ポンド（450万〜1,500万円）。ご興味のある方はBambiのエージェント、Walton Fine Artsにお問い合わせください。   Walton Fine Arts 152-154 Walton Street, London SW3 2JJ Tel 020 7581 2332 投稿時刻 08時54分 アート | セレブ トラックバック ｜ http://www.virginatlantic.co.jp/blogv/rica/archives/6799/trackback DOWNLOAD PDF

by Kentishtowner on May 8, 2013 in Art, Wednesday Picture Amy Jade, Camden Road Photo: Stephen Emms Wednesday Picture: Tracking Bambi Street Artist Despite our urban surrounds, Kentishtowner is never short of a good animal in the starring role. And previously, on the Wednesday Picture alone, we’ve pursued elephants, mourned a goose, followed a herd of cows and encountered two generations of giant black cats. But today? We’re out hunting for Bambi. Of course, this little deer has more in common with the recent Top 5 Banksy Locations than any of our more feathered, hooved or tusked friends. For Bambi is the nom de spraycan of an artist now being endlessly referred to as “the female Banksy.” The comparison is a fairly reasonable, if perhaps lazy one, as convenient to her slick PR machine as it’s controversial to the street art aficionados/bores leaving apoplectic comments online. But, however you wish to frame it, this anonymous girl artist is certainly picking up a similar amount of

“A colourful, symbolic artist with humorous elements” as defined by the Swedish national press, Robert Hilmersson has exhibited his artworks in London, New York, Las Vegas, Stockholm, Budapest, Seattle and Gothenburg. His works were sold to celebrity collectors such as legendary 80’s pop singer Adam Ant of ‘Adam & the Ants’ fame, Swedish business magnate Hans Wallenstam, Ericsson’s CEO Hans Vestberg, internationally renowned antique specialist Björn Gremner, members of the Sainsbury family and at world famous auction house Sotheby’s. Showing a deep interest in the arts from an early age, it was only seven years ago that Hilmersson decided to make visual arts his only career path after attending an Andy Warhol exhibition in Sydney, Australia.  A true revelation it was, and nothing has been the same for Robert since that day. “I was constantly dreaming about art after that [exhibition]” he says. “I thought: this is what I’ll do”.

Walton Fine Arts are Bambi Artist’s exclusive global agents for all original art! Bambi is a British street artist that has presented numerous works throughout the city of London. Keeping her identity anonymous, she portrays current culture through her unique style, and has received wide recognition for her public murals of such figures as Prince William and Kate Middleton, and a full portrait of Amy Winehouse that is now protected by plastic. Inspired by a cross of artists including Bansky, Bambi addresses controversial subject matter that is accessible to a range of viewers. Bambi describes her work as, “I let my work speak for itself. But dreams can inspire me and I am particularly interested in people who spread love and joy…” Bambi studied at St. Martin’s Art College and she continues to live and work in London. Portrayed by some already as ‘the female Banksy!’ The up-n-coming artist known

Kate Moss and Rihanna have both commissioned her to do portraits of them. Harry Styles is a fan. Brad Pitt shelled out £75,000 for her piece that showed Noddy driving a car as a present for Ange (who knew Brangelina were fans of Big Ears)? Meanwhile, Adele asked her to create an Amy Winehouse inspired piece especially for her. Now, the notoriously elusive North London based graffiti artist they’re calling “the female Banksy” has revealed her secret past and what inspires her. The Artist Currently Known As Bambi (“My dad used to call me Bambino when I was young,” which suggests an Italian heritage, fact-hunters) studied at Central St Martins – previous alumni: Alexander McQueen, Jarvis Cocker, Gilbert and George – before embarking on a surprising, pre- art career. “I went into the music business as a singer,” she tells us. “The band became a huge success, but my passion

Walton Fine Arts Frequently Asked Questions – Can I buy art if I can’t physically visit your gallery? Of course. You can browse artworks on our website narrowing down the artist/s you or the particular artwork you like.  If you’d like recommendations: let us know your requirements in size, subject, budget and period. – Do you ship? Yes we use fine art shippers, who fine art pack, crate, door to door deliver globally with possibility to insure. – Do works come framed?  We do use fine art museum standards framing, which most works come with. – Can you help us with hanging our artwork/s? We can help recommend the right people for this who have great experience. – Do you sell prints or originals? We deal in both signed limited edition prints and originals in the for, of works on paper, canvas, metal, sculptures etc… – What is a print?