Giclee Art Prints

A large variety, great for interior decorating, college dorms, offices or residential. Various size prints on canvas, paper or metal. Framed art or unframed art, or stretched over a stretcher bar.

All types of art in a varitey of subjects.

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These works were created with a combination of pencil sketch, then acrylic paint on canvas, or in some rare cases I create works on paper that I color with acrylic. The image of Audrey is a pastel on a sheet of white paper, 8" x 10" plain paper, but it makes for good prints if you Look Here.

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Statue of Liberty by Dan Twyman

 

Ambra Tesori Artist

Impressive Abstract Mixed Media Art by Italian artist Ambra Tesori.

SOGNO

Medium: Acrylic 

Size: 36" x 36" x 2"

Availability: Available

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Downtown Art Walk in Los Angeles features artist Clara Berta

The Downtown Art Walk is January 14th and features some established talented artists. 

For more info

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Here are a few examples of Clara Berta works:

"Beyond the Clouds"

Original Mixed Media abstract on Canvas.

Clara's work was also featured at Vision Fest LA

"Falling Autumn Leaves"

by

Clara Berta

Mixed Media abstract art on canvas.

Artist from Argentina Fabian Perez at The Village Gallery in Irvine

The well known and well respected artist who recently presented an original painting to The Pope, was the special guest at an artist showing in Irvine California at The Village Gallery.

Fabian Perez dedicates a work of art to a collector as his wife looks on.

It was a packed house at The Village Gallery.

The gallery provided snacks, music and wine for guests,

and the artist talked about what inspires his works and gave

collectors more insight as to the meaning of the art.

After dedicating a work to this new client, Perez stopped to take a few photos

for the clients wife who was waiting at home for the new work to arrive.

Some of the last of the Extra Large canvases as the one behind the

front desk of the gallery, sold at the show and received special dedications

to the clients. The client in this case also received a free $350.00 value book

with a bonus print inside. Perez hand signed and dedicated the book as well.

This new collector purchased a hand signed limited edition work

for his soon to be wife. The artist added a special dedication in Spanish

on the back of the art at the clients request.

If you have any questions about Fabian Perez or his works:

Email Me

Art by Fabio Napoleoni

I did sell works by this artist in the past but have now moved on to another

gallery. For more info about this artist you can contact him at his Laguna Beach

Art Gallery on Coast Hwy.

Fabian Perez Paintings and Art

Fabian Perez paintings and art can be viewed here.

For more information about this artist: 

949-450-8282 ask for Dan

Email me with questions about Fabian Perez

Fabian Perez Prints

Saba

by

Fabian Perez

Sponsored by NFT ART FOR SALE

Laguna Beach Art Gallery

Laguna Beach has a reputation for it's art galleries and fine dining. 

There are endless art galleries all along Coast Hwy in the Laguna Beach area.

Coast Hwy looks very similar today as it did many year ago, now there are even more art galleries, some are corp owned while others are family owned or individually owned galleries.

Sponsored by www.artworkpodcast.com

What is mixed media art?

Mixed Media Art can be defined in a few ways, here is the internet definition:

Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. For example, a work on canvas that combines paint, ink, and collage could properly be called a "mixed media" work, but not a work of "multimedia art."

If the above definition seems lacking, it's because it is. Mixed media art can involve metal, coffee grounds, paper, wood, canvas, plastic, sand, dirt, shoes, spoons, motors, wire, fishing line, cue tips... getting the idea? Mixed media art can involve anything... and that means human parts or animal or bugs, or whatever. Some will see a surreal work and categorize it as a surreal work, overlooking the fact that it is a mixed media work. On one of my many trips to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, I saw an exhibit that was one of my least favorites of all time as it displayed stuffed birds impaled on sharp sticks that were anchored by balls of mud or earth. It took a few seconds and I remember saying... "uh, let's get out of here". I had one of my kids with me so that display seemed a bit harsh for ther viewing.

To give you a better idea of how an artist will use various materials to create a work, I turn to the popular artist Clara Berta who has a studio in downtown Los Angeles.

Clara uses all types of materials in her works ranging from fabric to coffee grounds, here are a few examples:

"Whispers"

by

Clara Berta

The appeal of the above work is clearly the impressive texture of the work.

Quite alot of mixed media artists tend to look at a canvas and then do whatever...

Berta's works seem to have a more deliberate and thought out feel to them

as the form of the work and composition are telling a story without using

a traditional image. This style seems to fit well with todays interior designers

as her works are being placed in high profile locations.

Here is another example of Clara's work, notice again the texture and

feel of the work and the balance and composition.

"Symphony of Love"

by

Clara Berta

When you look at vintage mixed media art, you see for the most part

an assortment of Collage Art, or images that have been cut and mixed 

together, or a drawing that includes an image cut from a magazine etc.

As the years progressed and mixed media begain to take on new form, popular 

artists like Picasso, Dali or Warhol begain to change thier canvas, but not so

much the elements they put on the canvas. If you look back at works

by these artists, you will find that they painted with acrylic, oil, ink and watercolor,

and for a while it was canvas and paper, but that changed and became metal, ceramic, lucite,

lambskin, rice paper, wood and other materials.

If you are interested in learning more about mixed media art

or are an artist who is interested in creating mixed media art

that goes beyond what you tend to see in most galleries, contact

the artist Clara Berta for help.

What is my art worth?

You found a painting in the attic and don't know where it came from or what it's worth.

The kinds of calls I get range from "I found something in my Grandma's basement" 

to, "I bought this 30 years ago and I don't know what I did the with paperwork for it"

Art comes in many forms and limited edition art or open edition decorative is

something that has been popular for many generations.

In some cases a person finds what they think is a painting but it turns out

to be a print that has been textured with varnish so it will appear to have

brush strokes. In other cases an etching might be photographed and then

printed as a lithograph or an engraving might be scanned and printed

as a giclee... It can be confusing.

There are a number of categories, here are a few:

1. Original Paintings 

2. Original drawings

3. Etchings

4. Engravings

5. Original Lithographs

6. Offset Lithogrpahs

7. Monoprints

8. Serigraphs

9. Posters

And there are more.

If you need help authenticating or appraising a work of art, it can be a 

Dali, Picasso, Chagall, Miro, Warhol or any artist and I can do the

research and help you. In some cases I can help you for free, in

other cases where I spend alot of time, I charge affordable fees.

Before you spend money on art, you should allow me to check the work

and the source and make sure you are making a good decision.

I also help art collectors find and verify works that want to add to their

collection and if you are new to art collecting and don't know where to

start, I have been helping clients with art related matters for over 25 years now.

Email me

or call: 310-461-9480

Trove of Still Lifes on the Auction Block Weldon Collection of Paintings to Be Sold at Sothebys

Adriaen Coorte’s “Wild Strawberries on a Ledge,” from 1704, part of the 

Weldon collection to be auctioned at Sotheby’s. CreditSotheby’s

Until recently, Henry and June Weldon’s Park Avenue apartment reflected a kind of passionate, obsessive collecting of a bygone era. Wood-paneled rooms featured cabinets stuffed with rare English pottery and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings hung cheek by jowl on every available wall. Asian sculptures were also scattered around the place.

“My father didn’t know when to stop,” said James Weldon, their son, shaking his head as he maneuvered through the cluttered spaces the other day. “He had an eye and understood what he was doing, for an amateur, that is.”

A prominent New York businessman who died in 2003, Henry Weldon couldn’t pass an art gallery or antique store without at least poking his head in; his wife, who died in October and was known as Jimmy, got a master’s degree in art history late in life. As a widow, she continued collecting with a vengeance — paintings, pottery and sculpture.


In 2000, the couple gave much of their pottery to Colonial Williamsburg. But the paintings — a group of about 70 works together worth more than $30 million — will be sold at Sotheby’s in New York. Breaking with the tradition of holding old master paintings sales in New York only in January and June, George Wachter, a chairman of Sotheby’s and an expert in old master paintings, said he decided instead to schedule the single-owner sale of the Weldon collection on April 22. “My idea was to hold it when New York is vibrant,” Mr. Wachter said. “It’s also at the same time as our magnificent jewelry sale.”

 

Included in the sale are tiny jewel-like still lifes by masters like Balthasar van der Ast and Adriaen Coorte; landscapes by Aelbert Cuyp and Jacob van Ruisdael; and three paintings by van Dyck that include a portrait of the artist Martin Ryckaert estimated to sell for $700,000 to $900,000. Highlights from the auction will go on view at the Sotheby’s York Avenue headquarters later this month to coincide with the old master painting sales, which start Jan. 29. They will also travel to Los Angeles, London and Amsterdam.

 MUSEUM BUYS A DELANEY 

The Brooklyn Museum has acquired its first painting by the 20th-century African-American artist Beauford Delaney. A still life that Mr. Delaney created in 1945 when he was working out of a cold-water loft in Greene Street — years before most artists settled in SoHo — the painting, 

“Untitled (Fang, Crow, and Fruit),” depicts a bowl of bright yellow fruit and next to it a Fang reliquary figure. A bird, hovering above the bowl, looks as if it were about to swoop down and devour the fruit. The painting’s original owner, Emanuel Redfield, was a celebrated civil liberties lawyer and counsel to the New York chapter of the Artists Equity Association. 

“Delaney probably gave the painting to Redfield for services rendered,” said Teresa A. Carbone, curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The son of a Tennessee preacher, Mr. Delaney studied art in Boston before settling in New York in 1929. He became a fixture in the downtown art world, hanging out with a bohemian circle that included the writer James Baldwin, whose portrait Mr. Delaney painted several times. In 1953, Mr. Delaney moved to Paris, where his style of painting became less figurative and more aligned with the Abstract Expressionists.

The Brooklyn Museum bought “Untitled (Fang, Crow, and Fruit)” from the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in Chelsea for an undisclosed price, with money from the museum’s five-year-old African American Purchase Fund. “I’d seen the work a few years ago, but at the time we couldn’t afford it,” Ms. Carbone said. “It’s so powerful it stayed with me.” The painting fits well in two categories in the museum’s holdings — the first, its growing collection of 20th-century African-American artists, and the second, its strong group of American Modernist works that include paintings by Stuart Davis and Marsden Hartley. “Delaney and Davis were close friends,” Ms. Carbone added. “And this painting allows us to discuss traditional African-American art alongside Black Modernists.”.

“Untitled (Fang, Crow, and Fruit)” will go on view on Feb. 24 in the museum’s fifth-floor “American Identities” galleries.

‘DESIRE LINES’ AT THE PARK

The giant colored spools on three monumental industrial shelving units might at first glance seem to have been inspired by the coiled Con Edison cables that often dot the city, but the installation, which will occupy the Doris C. Freedman Plaza at the southeast corner of Central Park, contains 212 wooden spools wound with brightly colored ropes. In addition to coincidentally being the best-known Manhattan area code, 212 is the exact number of pathways that wind through Central Park, according to research conducted by the Italian-born, Paris-based artist Tatiana Trouvé, whose installation “Desire Lines,” which begins March 3, will be her first public art project in New York. Each rope is a different length, corresponding to the lengths of each pathway.

Tatiana Trouvé’s “Untitled”(2014), which will occupy the Doris C. Freedman Plaza on Fifth Avenue and 60th Street.CreditCourtesy of the artist, Johann König Gallery, Berlin and Gagosian Gallery, New York, Laurent Edeline

Like much of Ms. Trouvé's work, the installation deals with themes like memory, time and space. “It’s a site-responsive work,” said Nicholas Baume, director of the Public Art Fund, which organized the project, which will be on view through Aug. 30. “Besides the actual pathways, the project also is about the notion of our own mental maps.”

Ms. Trouvé, who is known for her meticulous research, went to great pains to measure every pathway she could find in the park. Her thinking behind the installation will be the subject of an exhibition, also opening on March 3, at the Gagosian Gallery’s Park Avenue space at 75th Street. On view will be drawings, models and small sculptures related to the project. “Although it’s a small show, it will have a lot of information,” Louise Neri, a director at Gagosian, said. “It will give the public a chance to see the thinking and work that went into the installation.”

NEW ROLE AT SOTHEBY’S

When Joshua Holdeman left Christie’s for Sotheby’s, where he started work last year, it was unclear what his new role would be. An expert in photography, 20th-century design and contemporary art, Mr. Holdeman has been dipping his toe in various departments without a specific role. But this week, Sotheby’s announced that he had been made worldwide head of Sotheby’s 20th-century design, photographs and prints.

Correction: January 10, 2015 

A report in the Inside Art column on Friday about the Brooklyn Museum’s acquisition of its first painting by the African-American artist Beauford Delaney misstated part of a comment by Teresa A. Carbone, curator of American Art at the museum. She said she believed the museum was the first to display African traditional art as art, in the 1920s, not that it was the first museum to show African-American art as early as the 1920s.

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

The Creation of Adam is a fresco painting by Michelangelo, forming part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted circa 1511–1512. It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God breathes life into Adam, the first man. The fresco is part of a complex iconographic scheme and is chronologically the fourth in the series of panels depicting episodes from Genesis. It is the most well-known of the Sistine Chapel fresco panels, and its fame as a piece of art is rivaled only by the 

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.

The image of the near-touching hands of God and Adam has become iconic of humanity and has been reproduced in countless imitations and parodies. Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and Michelangelo's Creation of Adam are the most replicated religious paintings of all time.

                                                              

Artist Michael Godard new release Theory of Mixology

Theory of Mixology

by

Michael Godard

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Paul Gauguin 1.7 Million at Auction

When Menzies Art Brands director Rod Menzies caught wind of the sale of a long lost Brett Whiteley painting in New York in May, he expected much more competition.

He was braced for a fight from collectors, institutions and auction houses to secure the 1968 work, Paul Gauguin on the Eve of His Attempted Suicide, Tahiti, which had been held in the US since its creation by Whiteley, one the most collectable of Australian artists on the current market.

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