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Contemporary-Traditional Art
Contemporary-Traditional Art refers to an art produced at the present period of time that reflects the current culture by utilizing classical techniques in drawing, painting, and sculpting. Practicing artists are mainly concerned with the preservation of time-honored skills in creating works of figurative and representational forms of fine art as a means to express human emotions and experiences. Subjects are based on the aesthetics of balancing external reality with the intuitive, internal conscience driven by emotion, philosophical thought, or the spirit. The term is used broadly to encompass all styles and practices of representational art, such as Classicism, Impressionism, Realism, and Plein Air (En plein air) painting. Technical skills are founded in the teachings of the Renaissance, Academic Art, and American Impressionism. Organizations Organized groups of practicing artists and institutions dedicated to furthering classical techniques include the Grand Central Atelie ...
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Figurative Art
Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract art: Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world. Painting and sculpture can therefore be divided into the categories of figurative, representational and abstract, although, strictly speaking, abstract art is derived (or abstracted) from a figurative or other natural source. However, "abstract" is sometimes used as a synonym for non-representational art and non-objective art, i.e. art which has no derivation from figures or objects. Figurative art is not synonymous with figure painting (art that represents the human figure), although human and animal figures are frequent subjects. Formal elements The formal elements, those aestheti ...
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Suzanne Bellah
Suzanne may refer to: People * Suzanne (given name), a feminine given name (including a list of people with the name) * S. U. Zanne, pen name of August Vandekerkhove (1838–1923), Belgian writer and inventor * Suzanne, pen name of Renée Méndez Capote (1901–1989), Cuban writer * Suzanne (television personality) (born 1986), Japanese variety ''tarento'', actress, and singer * Suzanne Lynch (born 1951), New Zealand singer who performed as "Suzanne" Places * Suzanne, Ardennes, France, a commune * Suzanne, Somme, France, a commune Films * ''Suzanne'' (1932 film), a French film * ''Suzanne'' (1980 film), a Canadian film * ''Suzanne'' (2013 film), a French film * '' Suzanne, Suzanne'', a 1982 documentary film Music * "Suzanne" (Leonard Cohen song), a 1966 poem and 1967 song, covered by numerous artists * "Suzanne" (Creeper song), a 2016 song by English band Creeper * "Suzanne" (VOF de Kunst song), 1983 * "Suzanne" (Journey song), a song from ''Raised on Radio'' by Journey ...
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Richard Schmid
Richard Schmid (October 5, 1934—April 18, 2021) was an American realist artist. Early career Richard Schmid's maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, was an architectural sculptor. Richard's initial studies in landscape painting, figure drawing, and anatomy began at the age of twelve and continued into classical techniques under William H. Mosby at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Career In 1964 Schmid was the focus of the film ''The Secret Squint'', which was awarded the C.I.N.E. Award. In 1990 Schmid was a finalist for The Hubbard Art Award for Excellence. In 2000, Schmid received the John Singer Sargent Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the American Society of Portrait Artists; and in 2001, Schmid produced a short documentary film, ''An American Portrait: The Senator and the Artist'', in which Schmid interviewed then Senator James Jeffords of Vermont, while simultaneously painting his portrait. The retrospective show ''Richard Schmid - A Retrospective Exhibition'' w ...
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Jeremy Lipking
Jeremy Lipking is an American realist painter, born in Santa Monica, California on 2 November 1975.http://www.americanlegacyfinearts.com/artists/jeremy-lipking/biography/ American legacy Fine Arts Lipking was inspired by the figurative tradition of nineteenth century European painters. He was educated at the California Art Institute. Lipking's works include landscapes, still lifes, and human figures. His painting, ''The Lonely Maiden'' was created specifically for the film, The Maiden Heist and plays a major role in the plot. Awards Jeremy Lipking received the following awards: * 2014: Winner of the Prix de West, for his an oil-on-linen painting ''Silence and Sagebrush''. * 2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...: Winner of the Art Renewal Center Salon. * 2007 ...
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Everett Raymond Kinstler
Everett Raymond Kinstler (August 5, 1926 – May 26, 2019) was an American artist, whose official portraits include Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan."Biography,"
Kinstler official website. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
He was also a and artist, whose work appeared mainly in the 1940s and 1950s.


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Everett Kinstler was born in 1926 in , the son of Essie and Joseph Kunstler. He started his career age ...
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Frederick Hart (sculptor)
Frederick Elliott Hart (November 3, 1943 – August 13, 1999) was an American sculptor. The creator of hundreds of public monuments, private commissions, portraits, and other works of art, Hart is most famous for ''Ex Nihilo'', a part of his ''Creation Sculptures'' at Washington National Cathedral, and ''The Three Servicemen'' (also known as ''The Three Soldiers''), at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Working within the figurative tradition of American Beaux-Arts sculpture, Hart's approach was that of a craftsman. With little formal schooling, he developed his skills on the job, learning ancient techniques from master carvers. Hart modeled his work in clay. Many of his larger pieces were carved in Italian marble or limestone, or cast in bronze. Throughout his career, Hart explored themes of beauty and spirituality, consciousness and identity, sculpting in transparent and semi-transparent acrylic materials using a process he patented. Strongly influenced by ...
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Karl Dempwolf
Karl Dempwolf is a contemporary California Plein-Air Painter who is known for his California Landscapes. He is a Signature Member of the California Art Club (f. 1909), and serves in its Advisory Board of Directors. Youth and Training Karl Dempwolf was born in Delmenhorst, Germany. As a child, he spent the war years in Bavaria - a picture-perfect countryside with pristine natural surroundings: sparkling lakes, national parks and nature reserves, mist-enshrouded forests, sun-drenched vineyards, dramatic hills and, of course, the majestic Alps - where he developed his love for nature. In 1954, at the age fourteen, he and his family immigrated to the United States aboard the S.S. America, at the request of the Lockheed Corporation, where his father was to serve as an aerospace engineer. Dempwolf attended Van Nuys High where he played basketball, then continued his education at California State University, Northridge where he studied art and photography, and became the school's very fi ...
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Jacob Collins
Jacob Collins (born 1964) is an American realist painter working in New York City. He is a leading figure of the contemporary Classical Realism, classical art revival. He has founded several schools of art including the Water Street Atelier, the Grand Central Academy of Art and the Hudson River Fellowship. Life Jacob Collins was born on August 11, 1964, in New York City. He comes from a family of artists and scholars. His great-uncle was Meyer Schapiro.David Yezzi, 'An interview with Jacob Collins', in ''The New Criterion'', December 201/ref> As a child, he started copying works by Old Masters in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From a young age, Collins knew that he wanted to be an artist, although his interest and skill lay in a classical style that was out of favor in the late 20th century. Moving away from Modernism, he identified instead with works of 15th–19th century masters and their techniques and aesthetics. He studied in Europe and at the New York Studio School ...
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Ned Bittinger
Edmund Stuart Bittinger (born July 4, 1951), better known by Ned Bittinger, is an American portrait painter and illustrator whose work includes the official Congressional portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Lindy Boggs for the US Capitol, as well as Secretaries of State James Baker and Lawrence Eagleburger's official State Department portraits. Early life and education Ned Bittinger was born in 1951 in Washington, D.C. He started painting and drawing in the third grade. When he was 13, his parents sent him to the Cochran Art School of Washington, D.C. He attended Landon School in Bethesda, MD, before leaving for Denison University in Ohio, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He then earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University. Career Ned Bittinger has received awards and participated in many exhibitions, including an exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow from 1990 to 1991. Portrait o ...
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Peter Seitz Adams
Peter Seitz Adams (born August 27, 1950, Los Angeles) is an American artist. His body of work focuses on landscapes and seascapes created en plein air in oil or pastel as well as enigmatic figure and still-life paintings. He is noted for his colorful, high-key palette and broad brushwork. Adams has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums, including throughout California, the Western United States, and on the East Coast in Philadelphia, Vermont, and New York. Adams is the longest serving President of the California Art Club (f. 1909) and has served on its board of directors in Pasadena, California from 1993 to 2018. He is also a writer on subjects relating to historic artists for the California Art Club Newsletter, as well as for a number of the organization's exhibition catalogs. Family and personal background Peter Adams' mother, Mary Seitz Adams (1917–2004), was a socially active homemaker and his father, James H. Adams, also known as Peter Adams, ...
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Michael Tomar
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Michael Zakian
Michael Zakian (April 7, 1957-January 14, 2020) was an American art historian and museum curator. He was the director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum in Malibu, California for 25 years until his death in 2020. His academic research focused on abstract expressionism. Early life and education Michael Zakian was born in New York City in 1957. As a child, he visited museums, including the Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. These visits instilled Zakian's interest in the visual arts. He attended Columbia University and earned his bachelor's degree in art history. Next, he earned his master's degree and doctorate, while serving as a teaching assistant, in art history from Rutgers University. His focus was abstract expressionism. Career In 1995, Zakian became the director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum at Pepperdine University Pepperdine University () is a private research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ with ...
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