Tigran Tsitoghdzyan Creates Photorealistic Paintings →

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Tigran Tsitoghdzyan's paintings are generating buzz in the art community.

The 38-year-old artist creates photorealistic oil paintings on canvas, and has impressed art dealers and aficionados with his attention to detail and careful technique. Tsitoghdzyan paints each work inch by inch, developing elegant finished pieces with emotional depth. 

Tsitoghdzyan currently has a number of paintings on display at Arcature Fine Art gallery for Art Miami. Art Miami is an annual international contemporary and modern art fair that attracts tens of thousands people each year.

Tsitoghdzyan's popularity has increased with both professional art curators and everyday enthusiasts. Dealers and art publications have taken notice as fan enthusiasm on social media grows, and his painting Mirror V is now valued at over $70,000 at auction. 

Filmmaker Artur Balder will create a documentary about Tsitoghdzyan for the Museum of Modern Art. Balder is known for such documentaries as Little Spain, which explores the history of Spanish and South American immigrants in Lower Manhattan. 

Art Miami will run through Dec. 7.

SOTHEBY’S $50 M. VAN GOGH ACTUALLY FAILED TO SELL IN 1990 →

Sotheby’s has put together an impressive evening sale for next week, led by two works literally guaranteed to go for above $100 million and $80 million each (by Alberto Giacometti and Amedeo Modigiani, respectively). The catalogue cover lot for the sale, a Vincent van Gogh from 1890 with the sale’s third-highest estimate, however, was actually bought in under a $12 million-to-$16 million estimate in 1990. They’re now calling it Nature mort, Vase aux marguerites et coquelicots and its current estimate is $30 million to $50 million.

The painting was acquired in 1928 by A. Conger Goodyear, the first president of the Museum of Modern Art who then gave it to his son George Forman Goodyear who gifted 60 percent of it to the Albright Knox Art Gallery before deciding to sell it in 1990. According to Artnet’s price database, it was in the November 14, 1990 sale as Vase de Bleuets et Coquelicots. (That actually makes much more sense as a title since in French would be more likely say “vase de marguerites et coquelicots” to describe this painting, depending on whatever kinds of flowers you think those are. “Vas aux” something more describes a real-life vase with a depiction of something on it, Vas aux Guerriers, etc.) In 1991 Goodyear apparently managed to sell it to an “important European collection,” the seller of this work.

Why does a painting get bought in? Who knows! Doesn’t mean it’s a bad work. In fact, the auction-record-setting Van Gogh, Portrait du Dr. Gachet (1980) sold that May for $82.5 million. Should that have helped or hurt the attempted sale of this painting in 1990? Who knows! (Maybe that means the market for Van Gogh was hot at the time, or, with the sale of that painting, satiated!) Is this current estimate over-ambitious or the reflection of a booming market? Who knows! At any rate, this not guaranteed lot is definitely one to watch.

RECAP of Last Night's Spotlight on the Artist: Anthony A. Gonzalez

Visit To Picasso: Paul Haesaerts

Visite Picasso is a classic documentary by dir. Paul Haesaerts which features the frequently used footage of Picasso painting on glass while a camera films him from the other side. The trick of filming thru glass allows the viewer to witness Picasso’s true genius as he paints his famous Torros with just a few well-placed brushstrokes. Shot in beautiful black and white in Picasso’s home in Vallauris, the film is a poetic treatment of the master-painter. (from DocsOnline)

Fine Art Acrylic Paintings by Rebecca Zook

What ties together the work of award winning acrylic painter, Rebecca Zook is the high level of detail and strong sense of light found in her paintings. Viewers often feel as if they could simply step through the frame right into another world.

"I have a need to create. It's not just what I do. It's who I am."

Rebecca knew as a child she was going to be an artist and never strayed very far from that path. Her earliest memories are of spending hours at a time sitting at a table with paper and crayons drawing every animal imaginable. Taking drawing and sculpture classes all through school, Rebecca was fortunate to attend a high school that offered Commercial Art as an elective. This altered her path from fine art to Graphic Design. She received a full academic scholarship to Southern Methodist University in Dallas where she majored in Advertising Art, gaining her BFA degree. She minored in fine art - taking photography, painting, printmaking and ceramics courses. She also took computer programming as an elective, unaware of how much this was going to help her years down the road when the World Wide Web came into the mainstream.

Rebecca has been working as a Graphic Artist, Illustrator and Web Designer for the last 20 years. She turned her attention back to fine art in 2003, though still works a full-time day job. Rebecca has created art in many media, but painting in acrylics is her love and primary focus. She has found her design background to be a major asset in her fine art paintings, lending strength to her work though its principles.

Reverence to the Sun

Capturing a unique spirit of color and energy using the palette knife and paint, this Colorado commissioned painting was built around the personalities of two unique individuals.  It brings together in this composition their lives and the spirit of their marriage and their home. 

Artist of the Month: Debra Latham has a new website!

BrushWorkouts.com is a new Online Artist Community

with monthly instructional workshop videos.  Also, Artist Forums,

Art Blogs, Photo Sharing, Monthly competitions. 

There are also getting started videos for the beginner painter

to give you the basics & to take the guesswork out of what supplies to buy.

BrushWorkouts.com provides the opportunity to learn to paint in the comfort of your own home. 

Come and join me and take a tour of Brushworkouts.com today!

Colorem Art Show Interview with Alejandro Castanon