Painting Art Biography
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Marta Wiley Gottfried is of Mexican Jewish descent and is generally considered one of the greatest classical contemporary artists of our time. Marta's unique as a figure painter, as an innovator of styles and techniques, as a master of various media, and as one of the most prolific artists of the 21 century. As a multi-media artist Marta has created thousands of paintings, hundred's of songs recently hitting top charts on the radio "Beggar" & "Signal", Author of Ring of Light & The Water Daughter, Marta stands at the top of her field. She is currently published by prestigious company Cap/ Winn Devon/ Larson-Jul/ Artissance. Some publications have been top sellers now for over 15 years, grossing millions in revenues for her publishers, gallery's and licensee’s world wide.
Born in Mexico City, Marta's Grandmother, Martha Gottfried, a famous landscape artist in Mexico City, taught Marta how to paint at the age of two. And, as Marta claims, "Painting became her first language". Her Grandmother, considered a national treasure in Mexico, painted in the same circles as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Juan O’gorman. Marta's genius was cultivated by her grandmother and pushed by Irene Debohus, one of Martha's painting friends and Fridha Kahlo's lover. Moving from Mexico City to Miami at the age of 9 and then to Arizona. Marta's Mother Nena Wiley, an artist and a search and rescue pilot, kept young Marta in Magnet schools focusing on the arts, many hours of painting and drawing a day for 15 years. At the age of 18, Marta was accepted at the Otis Parsons School of Fine Arts in Los Angeles on full scholarship.
Between 1992 and 2005, Marta published her works with the Phoenix Art Press, Wynn Devon, Grand Image and New York Graphic Society, all prestigious publishing houses. As a result, her art has become well known. Marta traveled extensively during these years, painting and drawing what she saw. Her travels took her throughout Europe and Asia. She found the city's bohemian street life fascinating, and her pictures of people in dance halls and cafés show how she assimilated the postimpressionism and the romantic painters. The themes of the French painters Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as the style of the latter, exerted the strongest influence. Her famous painting, “Living the Dream", (Published by Winn Devon), reflects the influence of both these painters and, at the same time, shows her evolution toward the Definitive Marta
In the summer of 1994, during Marta's stay in Europe, her work entered a new phase, marked by the influence of Indian and European art. She found in this style an in depth understanding of the ideal form of the female nude, which Marta restructured and developed into soft linear imagery. This style brought her continuously back to "the love of the line". The Scottish landscapes of her 1997 travels brought about an important watercolor series, very dreamy and romantic in nature. This series followed the development of "the way of the eye". Influenced tremendously by India and Nepal, both spiritually and artistically, Marta popularized the Asian style with the original "Lepa Zena” horse (Published by Wynn Devon and the top selling poster in the word today). With many other works in this style, she has helped bring the Asian-American revolutionary movement to home decor in the USA. Her art in this series has been heavily influenced by feng shui. Marta's African series (Published by Grand Image) also help reinforce the African-American cultural movement. These works were offered nation-wide through Bombay and Pier One Imports.
Marta immersed herself the museums of Europe, Prague, Holland, France and Mexico. She studied the old masters' techniques by working directly from the original paintings of Rembrandt, Van Dyke, Vermeer, Monet, and many others. The aesthetics of the Old Masters impressed her a great deal, and she continued the classic tradition in her work, meticulously combining the techniques of the Old Masters with her own contemporary sensibility to create unique works. She came to understand their sense of composition, color and portrayal of the human spirit. Marta's beautiful treatment of the human figure draws from the religious, mythological and secular visions of the past. By adding visual elements of a more modern style, the results have been uniquely aesthetic. And, perhaps hope has been revived that the ideal of beauty sought by the Old Masters still exists in today's world.
If you've been to the Tate Britain gallery in London, you'll know that JMW Turner has a whole wing to himself. This biography tells the remarkable story of how Turner, whose father was a barber (in an era where social status mattered greatly) became an associate at the Royal Academy of art at the age of only 24 and eventually one of the most celebrated (and hated in some quarters) painters Britain has ever produced. It also shows how determinedly Turner worked at ensuring his success.
At a time when the Royal Academy's annual show was an unmissable event on the yearly art calendar and one of the few places to display paintings, Turner boldly opened his own art gallery. He also diversified, creating prints of his works (some schemes being more successful than others), taking commissions to illustrated travel guides, and doing watercolors to be turned into engravings.
Turner was an enthusiastic traveler, venturing into France and Italy (when wars on the continent didn't prevent it) and traversing England and Scotland. He always had a sketchbook to hand, making cryptic sketches and notes about what he'd seen and experienced, to be used in paintings somewhere down the line. He varied his subjects, from grand historical themes to small, local scenes. He could emulate the styles of esteemed artists (when he chose to) and developed a very distinctive, expressive and loose style of his own, which now seems to foretell what the Impressionists did.
Turner's is a life story that's as full and intriguing as his paintings. Hamilton's telling of it is compelling reading and doesn't get bogged down by art jargon or detail (although he could perhaps have quoted less of Turner's dubious poetry, even if it did accompany some of his paintings).
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Painting Art Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Painting Art Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Painting Art Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Painting Art Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Painting Art Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Painting Art Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
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