SOME WONDERFUL CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS WHO TAKE CHANCES & VARIOUS "STUFF"

Hello Everyone,
I apologize for not having blogged in such a long time! Like all of you, time for me just has a way of passing TOO QUICKLY! :-(
Besides being busy over the holidays with the regular "stuff", I have had the pleasure of having various STUDENTS/ARTISTS @ my studio in Mission Bch. CA. for what we call "ART & LUNCH @ THE BEACH" with a beautiful & yummy lunch prepared by the famous CHEF HANS, (my darling Husband) :-) This is an extremely fun & successful ART workshop that I have been having in the summers & Xmas break when my MIXED MEDIA class @ The Athenaeum, La Jolla is not in session.  There is only space left for the workshop on Jan.13th @ my studio & some spots left for my new class beginning @ The Athenaeum on Jan. 20th. You can message or e-mail me for my studio & call the Athenaeum if you are interested. 858 454 5872.
Below is the description for my La Jolla Athenaeum class & also some of the wonderful MASTERS that I always introduce in my classes.
JOY & HEALTH TO ALL OF YOU!
Rivian

 EXPLORING MULTIMEDIA & CREATIVITY - RIVIAN BÜTIKOFER

For many of us who practice "ART' of some sort, one of the major challenges is "What do I paint"? Or, “What new materials can I find to “INSPIRE ME’ to make ART that will be relevant to me?” The focus of this eight-week studio class will be just that: learning how & where to look for ideas, resources & inspiration to help us get going on MAKING ART. You will have the opportunity to get in touch with your unique way of CREATING ART, whether through traditional painting (abstract or representational) &/or mixed media. Some of the many media & processes with which you will have a chance to experiment besides painting include plaster, water-soluble pastels, pumice, gold & silver leaf, photo transfer, monotype, various gels & glues, and collage using many diverse materials.

Through DVDs, online sources and books we will look at renowned artists—traditional & contemporary—to see what we can learn from them, how we can benefit from their experience in our own work and relate it to the time in which we live. Where did they find their subject matter; what inspires artists working today? Of course current society is drastically different from earlier centuries, you can take advantage of this difference by searching for inspiration in personal experience; photos (yours & others); mass media; films; popular culture, such as comics, popular music, virtual worlds, theater, dance & TV. Each student will be provided personal access to images of artists whose work is cutting edge, artists who are not afraid to take chances, to invent NEW WAYS of making ART! With demonstration you will be exposed to new techniques & materials that will excite & inspire you! If you have questions, feel free to e-mail Rivian at 4choux@sbcglobal.net or via http://www.rivianbutikofer.com or http://rivian-shareart.blogspot.com. 

Wednesdays, 12:30–4:30 PM (4 hours)

Jan. 20–Mar. 9 (8 weeks)

Akunyili Njideka

Angel Rivas

John Bellany 

Mode

Nicole Eisenman

Olivier de Sagazan 

Rammellzee

Soly Cisse

Wanda Mihuleac 

                              

Willem de Kooning

                                  

HOFMAN, DIEBENKORN, EISENMAN

Following are some great ART that we just saw in Berkeley @ BAM,(Hoffman & Eisenman), and @ The De Young Museum in San Francisco.  ENJOY!

Hans Hofman (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.  He was very talented in Math & Science but became interested in ART at the death of his Father.  He imigrated to the United States in 1932. He is widely known for his Abstract work, and is reknown for his ART & teaching both in Germany & the U.S.
The list of well known Artists, especially Abstract Expressionists who studied with him is long. He authored an infuential book "Search For The Real".  Hans Hoffman invented the term "push/pull". 

Hans Hofman

Hans Hofman

Hans Hofman

Hans Hofman

Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was a well-known 20th century American painter. His early work is associated with Abstract Expressionism and the of the 1950s and 1960s.His later work (best known as the Ocean Park paintings) known as the bay area figurative work were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.

 After WWII, the focus of the art world shifted from

the School of Paris to the New York School. 

In the early 1950s, Diebenkorn adopted abstract expressionism as his vehicle for self-expression, influenced at first by Clyfford Still, Arshille Gorky, and William de Kooning. He became a leading abstract expressionist on the west coast. In 1950 to 1952, Diebenkorn was enrolled under the G.I Billin the Univ. of Mexico's graduate fine-arts department where he created a his version of Abstract Expressionism.  He lived in berkeley, CA. from 1955 to 1966. By the mid-1950s, Diebenkorn had become an important figurative painter, in a style that bridged Henri Matisse with Abstract Expressionism.  He also lived in in New York & Los Angleles .

Diebenkorn was extremely influenced by Henri Matisse,particularly his

French Window at Collioure,and View of Notre Dame.

Diebenkorn  taught at UCLA from 1967-1973. Richard Diebenkorn died due to complications from emphysema in Berkeley on March 30, 1993.

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Nicole Eisenman is an American artist living and working in New York City. She received a bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987. She was an exhibited artist in the 1995 and 2012 Whitney Biennials. 

Her work flows through various genres with wit and story telling, "Masterful in their utterly peculiar originality".  People drinking, eating, having sex, red noses, backward bodies patched rag dolls, like beings from some strange planet. Her imagination is far reaching , influenced often by Art History!  Some of her favorite Masters are Munch, Picasso, Renoir & Bonnard. 

I find her work some of the most exciting I have seen recently.  Some of the ones that were my favorites were large groupings of Monotypes, however there wasn't a piece at the show @ BAM that was boring. I was thrilled to have gotten to see her exhibit because it was the last day!

Nicole Eisenman

Nicole Eisenman

Nicole Eisenman

Nicole Eisenman

Nicole Eisenman