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...Painters I love Raden Saleh, the great 19th century painter, and Srihadi from Bandung, who captured the spirit of Indonesia while being very modern at the same time...
...This book is about a painter’s dilemmas in Islam, and I actually painted until the age of 23. I knew how it felt to be a painter, when your hand does one thing, while your mind and your eye watch with amazement, as if someone else is drawing. I wanted to pass this experience to the reader...
Fiorentini is a classically trained artist, a painter, and comes from an artistic family. His father was also an artist and his brother, Paolo Fiorentino, is an accomplished Italian painter...
...fine-art printmaking, and then sells their work to increasingly enthusiastic collectors, who during cash-strapped times are looking for quality alternatives to overpriced canvases. "We're an amphibian," says Emi Eu, the STPI's director. "We're a gallery and a learning institution at the same time." (Read "Painter Laureate...
...Printmaking has had a dramatic effect on most of the artists spending time at the STPI. For Malaysian painter Ahmad Zakii Anwar, the process of lithography emphasized his innate drafting skills, and gave his print series of male nudes cartographic precision. Chinese installation artist Lin Tianmiao, used to working in large spaces with big props, cut her work down to a more intimate scale. She created a series of hauntingly vacant faces over which she superimposed a sheet of ribbed and pebbled paper. The scarred surface of the works imbued them with an irresistible texture...