Walton Fine Arts

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, 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 as someone that can join the upper echelons of the artistic hierarchy in the twenty first century. Continue reading

At the very pinnacle of Modernism, and leader of the school of Paris, 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 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 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.

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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.
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