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Schwartz
Carl Schwartz, born in Detroit, Michigan, is
a painter and print-maker, who currently resides in Fort Meyers,
Florida. He is a realist, whose work shows the influence of both
abstract expressionism and cubism.
For almost thirty years, Schwartz taught figure drawing and painting
in Chicago at the North Shore Art League, until moving to Florida
in 1984. There he resumed teaching at Edison Community College and
at Florida Gulf Coast University. At the home he shares with his
wife Dinah Schwartz, he raises Koi, a type of Oriental goldfish,
which, along with water lilies, are often subjects in his art.
Schwartz describes himself as a painter of light, "intrigued
and fascinated with form. To me, there are two worlds The one we
live in and the one that I create. Painting is the discipline by
which I constantly rediscover both of these worlds".
He has been the recipient of several awards, including the Logan
Medal from the Art Institute of Chicago, and his works have been
exhibited at that Institutes S&R Gallery in Chicago, as well
as at the Illinois State Museum, and numerous other shows.
His art is in many permanent collections, including The Smithsonian
Institution, and the university collections of: Michigan State,
Ball State, Loyola, Nevada, Minnesota, and Chicago. He is also in
the corporate collections of: Kemper Insurance, AT&T, Sears,
Delta Airlines, and Beatrice Foods. Various periodicals and magazines,
including Readers Digest and Playboy, have published his work, and
he is listed in Whos Who in American Art. Schwartz is a member of
A.P.A. (Alliance of Professional Artists) and FLAG (Florida Artists
Group).
source: www.AskArt.com
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Spalatin
A proponent of Op Art which evolved
from Hard-Edge Abstraction, Constructivism and Cubism, he was born
in Zabreb, Yugoslavia and came to the United States in 1963. In
1968, he earned a baccalaureate degree in art and in 1971 a Master
of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
His works are in numerous permanent collections including the Museum
of Modern Art in New York City, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris,
the Tate Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Philadelphia
Museum of Art, and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
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Zalce
Alfredo Zalce at 94 years of age,
is a diminutive bundle of talent and never-ending energy that he
directs toward his love of life and his daily routine of producing
art. Zalce has been consumed with art since his infancy and is one
of the few artists that has continued painting, rather than dedicating
himself to abstract art of questionable integrity.
When Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico, went to the Vatican
in 1996 to visit the Pope, he selected only one thing to take to
the Pope as a gift from Mexico. With great pleasure, the Pope received
an acrylic of a Mexican town, painted by Alfredo Zalce.
Zalce is one of the last living legends of art in Mexico. Among
his peers and friends have been Orozco, Rivera, Siquieros, Tamayo,
Kahlo, and O'Higgins. They have all passed away. Zalce relates numerous
memories and humorous antidotes about them, and of artistic passions
and friendly times that he shared with them. But a difference between
the majority of other artists and Zalce is that Zalce has no interest
in the fame or in the numerous responsibilities that are required
of people in the public eye. He has avoided publicity throughout
his life, and in 1990, and another time in 1998, he gratefully refused
the highest honor for artists in Mexico, the National Premium of
Art, so that someone more interested in the benefits of promotion
and raising the price of their art could be awarded the honor.
It is increasingly difficult to acquire works of Zalce, and when
they do become available they are immediately grabbed-up by art
lovers and collectors; including many well-known celebrities. Rarely
does Zalce permit his art to be sold in galleries because he doesn't
require the promotion that galleries give to their stable of artists,
and because he feels that most galleries elevate the price of the
art they sell to unrealistic levels.
His shows and exhibitions have been seen in every major city of
the free world. In Mexico City his giant murals contribute to the
atmosphere of the Museum of Anthropology and the Procuraduria General
de la Republica. His works constitute a part of the permanent collection
of the Museum of Modern Art, along with some ten other of Mexico's
greatest artists, but the main volume of his permanent works are
found in his native state of Michoacan, where in Morelia the Museum
of Contemporary Art was renamed by the government and is now the
"Alfredo Zalce Museum of Contemporary Art."Furthermore,
his works have been incorporated in the permanent collections of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in United States, the Museum of La
Jolla in California, the Museum of Stockholm (Sweden), the Museum
of Varsovia (Poland), and the National Museum of Bulgaria, to mention
a few.
Zalce has to produce art. When not producing art, he feels his
time has been wasted. He is considered by many to be the most versatile
artist ever to live in Mexico, and he is equally comfortable producing
murals, batiks, sculptures, watercolors, oils or acrylics, monotypes,
tapestries, or drawings in pencil or ink. The majority of his work
is of a Mexican orientation.
For Zalce, any object becomes an irresistible model, which he can
reproduce with the perfection of a photograph or in his own style.
He never has specialized in a theme such as the human figure, mountains,
or landscapes, but paints all with equal mastery. He has never repeated
a work of art a second time.
In recent years, Maestro Zalce has started producing works in batik,
a skill previously used mostly to produce rich designs on fabric.
Now that he has started producing fine art in batik, due to his
prestige, techniques of batik have become elevated to prominence
as "high art."
Enrique Beraha Misrachi (Galeras de Arte Misrachi) says: Zalce
puts us in contact with our history. Painter, sculptor, lithographer,
and muralist, Zalce has proved to be a great master in all branches
of art.
Dr. Jose Valadez (Art Critic) says: Alfredo Zalce is a living legend.
He is the last of a very special breed. He has contributed to the
beauty of Mexico, and is a part of the history of Mexico.
In 2001, Maestro Zalce finally accepted Mexico's National Premium
of Art
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