From time to time I received interesting news on sites and/or artists. I want to share with you. Each new site is given in the title of the topic.
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5. H CRAIG HANNA.

If you have time, I would suggest you to read about the American painter H Craig Hanna. Craig is exposing his works at the gallery Laurence Esnol in Paris. I came yesterday and found a great number of recent works, of great quality. There are a large number of red dots (sold) on the tableaux. For the (difficult) time being, this success is really exceptional. I bought a book on him but cannot take the photos and show them to you.

In the internet, you can see a lot of references on Craig. Here is a an example :
http://www.laurenceesnolgallery.com/pdf/La...g_Hanna_top.pdf
You can find a very beautiful portrait which has been exposed in the celebrated National Portrait Gallery in London.


4. LUIS GASPARETTO, painting in trance

Luiz Gasparetto was born in 1949 in Brazil, to a modest family. At age of 13, he painted a superb tableau, that clearly reminds Claude Monet. A kind of medium painting, as if he were in communication with artists in the past. Then he continued to produce a large number of paintings that, in lines, forms, colours and style, strangely remind those of great known artists, like Leonard de Vinci, Michel Ange, Toulouse Lautrec and others. Several videos have been taken when he drew: each time, he entered in trance and drew very quickly, sometimes with both hands, and not even looking at the paper. He could draw also with his feet. Up to now, Luiz has realized more than 2400 tableaux. He gave the totality of his production to charitable associations.
Here are two typical videos. You can learn more from Luiz in Google.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhL4C78_YQs...player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtVKjbaSQfo...player_embedded
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3: A blind artist paints in colour and with perspective.

Esref Armagan was born unsighted to a modest family. He has never received any formal schooling or training in drawing. However, he draws and paints amazingly, with colour and perspective, by using his hands and fingers.

On Google, by typing ‘Esref Armagan’, you can have a considerable number of references on him. You must see some docs to try to understand and to make up your ideas.

Here is a video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QUOy83po60
And here is a short bibliography and some works from the artist :
http://www.armagan.com/paintings.asp


2. A marvellous huge painting in the museum of Shanhghai.
This huge painting (height 5.28 meter, length 24.8 meter) is one of the most famous art work of China, realised during the years 1085-1145 of the Song dynasty and continued during the Qong dynasty.
People queue for hours at the Shanghai museum to admire the work.
Turn on your sound and click on the link below to visit.
Move the mouse right or left to change the direction of the movement.
You can lower the speed of the displacement by moving the mouse towards the centre.
Take time to visit the art work totally.
In a second visit, each time you see a square, click in it to see more and listen to the music.
Best wish,
Let a word to thank me for the link, he he….
An

http://www.npm.gov.tw/exh96/orientation/flash_4/index.html


1. Pencil Drawing By Randy Hann (28 pics)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#2LJMZg/acidc...n-28-pics.html/

wow -brilliant

You are invited to see this second sharing!
Best,
An

The first link didn't work for me.
The 2nd was very cool!
Thank you An!

Sharing N°3

Esref is absolutely amazing. My Drawing I teacher has been trying to emphasize the importance of touch when drawing, and before I didn't really believe it would be helpful. Now I've got more reason to believe that I should touch a subject whenever appropriate/allowed/possible. He can't see and his paintings are beautiful!

I've learnt scupture (terracotta, with living models) for some years. You can touch (not the model, of course but) your sculpture. This is absolutely fantastic. You turn around and see that no line has a beginning and an end. Everything continues! This teaches you to see things in 3D when you draw.

See: painting in trance: Luiz Gaparetto

The great american painter H CRAIG HANNA exposes in Paris.

and here are some videos of his exhibition in 2008 :

http://vimeo.com/laurenceesnol/videos/sort:newest/format:

Thanks, Raidor. Wonderful docs. Craig is absolutely fabulous! He is very welcome in Paris! We have now galeries on some good artists too, Fabienne Verdier, Soulages, among others,...