Wackers Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands The Wackers Academy is a private art academy specializing in figurative drawing, painting and sculpting. The academy, located in a beautiful building in Amsterdam West near the Vondelpark, has been running since 1983. Students will be taught by professional, working artists in figurative drawing and painting . Each teacher has his […]
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Kai McCall, new works from Montreal Like characters in a work of fiction, the figures in my paintings are confronted with challenges and conflicts as they navigate the settings I have created for them. I think of them as semi-autonomous individuals whose poses evolve as I paint them, and who become defined by the eventual
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Dario Puggioni, studio visit Berlin with dramatic figurative painter I came across Dario’s work when I was searching for figurative artists to visit in Berlin. His work is very dramatic and quite mysterious, figures with masked faces, lots of movement and brushwork. Thank goodness we took a taxi to find his studio because it was
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Bo Bakker, studio visit to portrait painter, Amsterdam After visiting family in South Africa, we traveled to Utrecht, and then Amsterdam. We climbed the steep, narrow and practically vertical wooden stairs to the tiny Airbnb apartment we will stay for the next three nights, quickly unpacked, got plugged into the internet, caught up with a
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Robert Dale Williams, paintings from delicate to dramatic I see my paintings as a form of time honored visual storytelling with a humanist angle. As a young artist, I was heavily influenced by the Old Masters, and it was a desire to learn more about painting techniques that drove me to study at the New
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William Thompson, dramatic figure painting My work is an attempt to document, in a very honest way, feelings or emotions that are experienced from a life devoted to solitude and introspection. The use of self-imagery in many of my pieces helps to further reinforce this idea. The closely cropped format serves to eliminate all areas
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Private art collection, Utrecht, Netherlands After visiting family in South Africa, we spent four nights in Utrecht, Netherlands, staying Airbnb with our host Cees (pronounced Keese). Dennis had originally intended for us to stay for one week in Amsterdam but he had been completely unable to book anything Airbnb for the entire week as there
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Zhanna Martin, sculptural ceramic portraits I portray people’s emotions, expressions, and human nature through clay. Through clay busts, I evoke the human experience of smugness, carelessness, drunkenness, joy, sadness, melancholy, or sullenness, and shape them into caricatures. My intention is for the observer to find humor in my work, while recognizing the truth of the
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