101 ARTISTS SERVE 1 PURPOSE, TO INTRODUCE THE READER TO 101 EXCITING VISUAL ARTISTS. LOVE THEM OR HATE THEM AT LEAST APPRECIATE THEIR ART. ANYONE CAN ENJOY THIS BLOG SO PLEASE SHARE WITH ALL... REMEMBER ART IS FOR THE PEOPLE AND CAVIAR FOR THE BOURGEOISIE!
Nadav Kander is a master of both light and composition. They say in order to be a great photography you must have an eye, Nadav has a gift. I believe he could make a paramount image from any subject matter i.e. Torn Posters, England while it is the simplest of compositions it somehow has great depth. Diversity is often a skill that artist lack especially photographers. Nadav shoots it all which is a rarity in an arena where there are "Portrait Photographers" and "Landscape Photographers" Nadav stands atop each genre.
Please check out his website it was extremely difficult to get images as most of his work is heavily copyrighted. His portfolio is absolutely one of the best and will inspire you to capture better images.
Has everyone forgot about Blek Le Rat? Le Rat was stenciling the streets of Paris long before Banksy's work ever surfaced in London. Yet Blek Le Rat has never become American institution, he has never created the opening sequence for "The Simpson's" and Brad Pitt has never been photographed in attendance at one of his gallery exhibitions. Well he is French and there for a moment we were eating "Freedom Fries"? Yet at almost 60 years old he continues to create "street" art with no signs of slowing.
Interview selection from Format Magazine 2007:
FM: Why are they doing this?
BLR: “The graffiti movement,” he says, “has no other intention than to speak via pictures. Words for the community, words of love, words of hatred, of life and death.”
“It’s just a fine and subtle kind of therapy and an attempt to fill the emptiness of this terrible world, to cover public space with pictures that people going to work can enjoy.”
Going "Green" is all the fad these days hell even I often paint on found wooden panels. However while the bandwagon of artist turning "Trash" into art is currently vast it is by no means new. John Chamberlain has been turning trash into art for over 50 years. John has yet to slow now into his eighties he still creates awe-inspiring sculptures from discarded items. John has a soft spot in his heart for junk cars using metal panels and parts to create magnificent sculptures from waste. While you may not enjoy John's work one should respect what John has brought to the table and is unflinching work ethic.
What can I say about Anthony Lister that this book title doesn't Anthony Lister: Tales of a White Trash Prophecy. Born 1979 in Brisbane Australia he now resides in Brooklyn New York where he is considered a leader in the "Low Brow art Movement". A movement consisting of artists who don't care if they are recognized by the fine art community instead want their work to speak to "the people". Raising his middle finger to the fine art community has in turn rocketed him to the top of commercial success where ironically he is now considered by fine art collectors as 1 of the 50 most collectible artist of today. Anthony balances his fame by completing "uncommissioned street art" at a prolific rate providing free art for the masses. Stay tuned as Lister may be coming to a town near you.
