Contemporary Art paintings and artists that you need to know

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Liu Wei is a contemporary Chinese artist who became famous as a result of his innovative approach to art. His paintings reflect genuine human's emotions immersed into the busy lifestyle of a big city. The canvas “Beyond the sky” itself shows the contest between natural and urban. The upper side reminds us about the warm summer sunset and the lower side, on the opposite, about concrete grayish and strict city buildings and skyscrapers.

Liu Wei witnessed a period of quick urbanization in China, that's why he implemented his experience in his personal art style. The artist works not only with the wall paintings but also with sculptures that embody everyday objects like books, fridges ets and are transformed into the art pieces by playing with shapes and colors.

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You feel peace and quiet when you look at this work. This is due to the combination of colors and composition. There is no randomness, there is a clear logic here - a horizontal rhythm. The colors become brighter and more defined towards the center, and the lines are narrower, so the eye tends to go there.
It is not boring either, because there are border lines that are blurred and also the ones which are well defined. I took inspiration in the story which is hidden behind the painting, but on the contrary, the grayish part of the painting was replaced to the green one in my work, as I chose “full nature motives” rather than the motives of contrasting nature and city.

Miquel Barcelo Gramatica general 2018

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His Art is performance, he is a master of improvisation and one of the biggest projects created by Miquel was an “Art cave”. It was a big cave with a lot of rooms inside where the artist had been creating his art with paints and clay. He is known as a great sculptor and artist.

Despite the fact that he came from Spain, his works are inspired by his travels to different countries and reflect different features of them. The artist studied the changing colors of the sea and created a lot of navy paintings. The special feature of his artworks is a dense texture and three-dimensionality.

One of the most crucial experiences in Miquel`s life is a long term trip to Mali, where he made his own little studio without electricity and water. This experience let him refresh in his mind “ the essence of the act of painting”, as you can easily forget it while working at the same comfortable studio permanently.

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The abstract sky and clouds occupy most of the space in the artwork and they are obviously more contrasting compared to the sea, so it evokes a slight feeling of pressure. I think it's about the power of nature, but the chaotic strokes create a slightly unsettling tone.
In my artwork I depict the sky from another perspective as it was shown through a 360° camera. I use darker tones on the borders and lighter ones closer to the center. But still I decided to leave this dark motive throughout the painting, as I take great inspiration in a restless sky which I can observe before the heavy rain starts.

Sean Scully Light in August 1991

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“I never work without music”, said Sean in one of his interviews. His works are rhythmic and may look chaotic, but they hide a big energi inside. When you look at the working process of the artist, you see how involved in the creation process he is, he is not distracted by anything, he is working and living in the moment. The artist tends to include “dirtiness” of lines and unevenness of the edges to show his own emotion and experience at the moment of creation. If you are too oriented on details you may forget about the real intention of the art: making you live in the moment.

The main idea of my work represents something genuinely German, I want to combine structure and emotion

As the artist says himself, his artworks reflect melancholy, and his personal experience in this world. His black and white paintings show the viewers a real melancholic mood. The art of any creator is a self-portrait in a way, and the artist claims that if you want to be a part of the world of art you should be “completely in love with what you are doing”. And Sean is in love with his art.

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There is a geometry in this painting which you shouldn't think about a lot. The blocks in different directions remind me of dominoes or a maze. I find something meditative in this painting. The technique itself and the colors are concise, but not simple. There is a texture and a bit of uneven form, the stripes are not defined and it makes them eye-catching. Also I love the warm tone of white color. I used a similar color in my artwork TRANSFORMATION. In my painting I used the motifs of a maze as well but I decided to live it without visible exit. You will be able to find it outside of the canvas.

Mark Bradford Oracle 2017

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Oracle is not a painting. It is made of black and white paper dome, which depicts an ancient grotto, where oracles would make their predictions. This installation looks majestic and mysterious, it takes a lot of space and the gold black and white circles make you hypnotized.

I didn't become an artist to do anything other than to work out my own voice and to get stuff out of me - Mark sais

His way of seeing the art is not traditional and he didn`t use paint to create his recent works. His idea is using paper instead of paint. The process is s following:

The paper from billboards, flyers, magazines, newspapers is left in water until it is soaked enoughht for using it as a paint alternative material.
It is put on canvas or different surfaces and formed in different shapes and figures.

Mark`s idea is to “use the social fabric of the time we live in”. You will definitely see the paint on canvas, while seeing his work from a distance, but as you come up to it, you will realize that paper is used instead. The artist uses “the memories of current days” left in the streets to make longlast art.

Mark is interested in the development of civilization, how people tend to destroy the experience of the previous generation, but leave just some bricks which they use when building up the new one. And this process is endless.

In fact, the artist tears apart something old and makes something new of it, following the same principle.

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When I first saw this installation I was amazed by the scale of it, it is rather huge. And while standing under this spring-shaped portal you really feel like a center of the universe. Circular compositions are usually used by the artists when they want to show cyclicity and infinity, something almost religious and philosophical.
And this installation is placed on the ceiling which makes it mystic and occult. Inspired by this installation I created the painting BRIGHT BALL. I like thinking about this artwork as about the portal to another world but I gave it the name Bright Ball to confuse people in a way and make them think beyond the obvious.

Gregory Kondos Pebble Beach Unknown date

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Gregory Kondos, makes the art of color. The color scheme of his artworks reflects his own perception of the colors of landscapes that surrounded him throughout his life.

After these years I realized that I`m a painter of life and mistakes

The artist believes that when making mistakes you can develop your hand art by solving them. The artist has been into the colors of water and in how it reflects the surrounding world. That's why he bought a cheap boat as a young, and was observing natural phenomena through the reflection of the water.

Some people consider him a legendary painter but the artist himself claims that being painter and beint artists are two different things.

A painter is one who paints, and the artist is a guy who tries to do everything

Kondos is an artist who has never chased money, but liked the idea of longevity of “what is on the walls”.

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I will be rather laconic, I love the shadows in this art piece. The way the artist made them not just gray or black, but colorful gives me a feeling of a warm summer day.
When I read about the way Kondos took inspiration from the nature sitting in his boat, I decided to feel the same experience. And it worked. The idea of the painting Stormy was born on the shore of the Black sea.

Albert Oehlen Born to Be Late 2001

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