Eroné

It's kind of hard to post about Amose one week without following up with Eroné the next. The two French artists share many common themes and interests. Although, Eroné's work is visually softer and has a more organic feel. The figures are more relaxed and the colour palette is reduced to earthy tones.

Like Amose, Eroné's characters are masked from ethnic and emotional description, but Eroné's figures have something of Amedeo Modigliani about them with their blank, haunting eyes. There is still, however, the visible influence of Southern American street art, like Os Gemeos.

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Amose

French artist Amose hails from Lille in the north of France. He spent four years studying illustration in Belgium but has been more influenced by South American street art like that of Vitché and Vasko as well as traditional art history legends such as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.

Amose takes the human figure and distorts and exaggerates postures and the size of limbs, taking care to keep the subject's humanity but remove any sense of nationality, sex or race. He keeps their faces neutral, as if they're wearing masks.

He works in a variety of mediums: ink on paper (sometimes with collage), screenprints on plexiglass, digitally, acrylic on wood and wood collage on paper as well as out on the streets. He's also a part of the Mercurocrom collective and together with Eroné and Spyre, runs a screenprint workshop called La Carpe.

 

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New work from Aryz

Aryz has just put up a new mural in Oslo, Norway for the Oslo Triennial of Mural Art. As usual, it's insanely good: strong imagery with an intense, emotional edge. The enormous scale adds that extra kick to the teeth.

Here's the piece followed by a bunch of other examples of his beautiful, bold work.

 

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Frank Stella

I sat and watched Painters Painting the other night: a documentary covering the New York School of painters from 1940 to 1970. I hadn’t watched it in like, three years or something. And as I watched it I remembered how much I loved the interview with Frank Stella describing how he came to paint his trademark minimalist abstract work.

Stella moved to New York in 1958, after graduating from Princeton, having seen the work of the abstract expressionists (most notably, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline) which had a major influence on his artistic development.

After arriving in New York he reacted against the expressive use of paint, favouring the work of Barnett Newman and Jasper Johns, treating the painting as more of an object than a representational picture, be it objective or emotional. I always hear Clement Greenberg, “Paint is paint; surface is surface”.

Here’s an extended version of the interview used in Painters Painting...

Erik Jones

Semi-abstract figurative painting from Brooklyn, NY.

 

 

 

 

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Jeremy Mann

San Francisco-based artist, Jeremy Mann's gritty paintings of his hometown...

 

 

Chris Silva

I first became aware of Chris Silva a few years ago when he was featured in Cody Hudson's spot on The Run Up; a DVD containing one-on-one interviews with a whole host of contemporary graffiti and street artists, desigers and photographers.

The great thing about Chris is, not just his artwork, but the fact that he really is about art as a collaborative and giving experience... collaborating not only with other artists, like on The Run Up with Cody and Mike Genovese in Chicago, but also working on projects like Yollocalli Arts Reach (last picture, below) which encourages youth creativity through experimental learning and collaboration with emerging artists.

Here are just a few examples of his great, upcycled collaborations with his wife, Lauren Feece. They totally inspire me to just create art out of anything, for anyone, in order to just give something of yourself and put something out there in the world.