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Roberto Ferri

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Roberto Ferri (born 1978) is an Italian artist and painter from Taranto, Italy. His stunning work is represented in important private collections in Rome, Milan, London, Paris, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Miami, San Antonio (Texas), Qatar, Dublin, Boston, Malta, and the Castle of Menerbes in Provence.

As a modern-day talent, painting in a classical style, Roberto Ferri is giving the world an artist’s view of the beauty of the human form. His work is stunning.

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Jenny Saville’s Dramatic Art

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Fulcrum, 1999

Creativity often lurks in the shadowy recesses of the human mind, manifesting in lyrics and musical notes, or images captured by a camera, or brush strokes on a canvas, or replications of life in the performing arts. Jenny Saville uses the canvas. Her creativity has combined with ghosts from her youth and a fascination with the physical drama of the human condition.

Jenny Saville was born in Cambridge, England in 1970. In 1990, midway through her BA course at the Glasgow School of Art, Jenny Saville exhibited in Contemporary ‘90 at the Royal College of Art. In 1992 she completed her degree as well as showing in Edinburgh and in Critics Choice at the Cooling Gallery, London. Following the success of her show at the Saatchi Gallery in 1994, which generated a great deal of publicity for her work (the images were ubiquitous that year), Saville went on to take part in the exhibition American Passion, which toured from the McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, to the Royal College of Art and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.

Saville’s fascination with fat appears to have formed during her youth while sitting on the floor watching her piano teacher. Her view from there was big, thick thighs, a thick tweed skirt and tights. The image stuck in her mind as she stared at the way the teacher’s thighs never parted and how the flesh would rub against the tights, which is a similar experience some have by looking at one of the big early Savilles. Saville wanted to capture a mix of awe and intimacy. “I wanted both in those pictures. A large female body has a power, it occupies a physical space, yet there’s an anxiety about it. It has to be hidden.” She believed part of her endeavor was a search for intimacy, “as if being in a mother’s arms”, whereas part of it was discomfort, “the anxiety that comes from living with flesh”.

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Lucian Freud

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Born in Berlin in 1922, Freud was the son of an Austrian Jewish father, Ernst Ludwig Freud, an architect, and a German Jewish mother, Lucie née Brasch and he was a grandson of Sigmund Freud.

Lucian Freud in Studio

He moved with his family to St John’s Wood, London, in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. He became a British citizen in 1939, having attended Dartington Hall School in Totnes, Devon, and later Bryanston School.

Freud was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time. His works are noted for their psychological penetration, and for their often discomfiting examination of the relationship between artist and model.

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The Many Delights of Fepjr Studio

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Some artists are multifaceted, or should I say multi-talented … Frank Porter (aka Fepjr Studio) is one of them. He is equally comfortable behind an easel or a camera lens. This first section shows a few examples of his oil paintings, where Frank creates fantasies in fanciful lands.

To see more of his work, visit Fepjr Studio.

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Through all the mediums Frank Porter is involved in, his appreciation for the male form comes through, as if he’s telling us: Hey, it’s okay to feel comfortable in your own skin.

Behind the camera, Frank creates images in what I would call series. The following are from his body paint series.

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Mon Graffito

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Mon Graffito, photographer and artist, behind his camera.

Mon divides his time between Holland and Rome. In Holland, he lives with his husband of thirteen years in his small, well-kept apartment; his private world, as he calls it, his “refuge from a noisy and dis-ordered world outside.” In Rome, where an artist can unleash his imagination, he stays at a friend’s house.

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That’s right, Mon is an artist. During the course of our communication, Mon drew the above piece and dedicated it to me. I can’t tell you how flattered I am. The next picture gives you a glimpse of another side of this intriguing man.

Everything about Mon is a celebration of the human male, his art, his photography, his lifestyle, his persona, even his magnificent body. Mon’s first artistic encounter began as a child when his father gave him a camera. Here are a few photographs in his portfolio:

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On the street, using various lenses and tricks, he captures faces, fascinated by the limitless contortions of human expression. A few samples.

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Jim Ferringer … Master of Male Imagery

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Are male nudes really art? Are men as aesthetically pleasing as women? What about those penises and dangly bits you have to contend with?  We’ve all heard these old cliches and diatribes. Jim Ferringer puts the question to rest with his photography, his instinct for beautiful male images and his amazing creative ability to manipulate pixels.

No rational person can view Jim Ferringer’s work and not come away with a redefined perspective of nude male art. Men are one half of humanity, a  mutually complimentary part that, when combined with the other half, equals the whole. No one doubts or questions female beauty. Jim creates images that urge us to appreciate the masculine side of the equation.

A quote from Jim Ferringer’s website:

“I am fascinated and in love with light. It’s what draws me to the art of photography and what I strive to capture in my imagery. To me the art of manipulated photographs is the ability to see and paint with light and combined images. Through the manipulation of images and the overlaying of textures, most of my work ends up looking like paintings. I am captivated by the beauty of men, all men, and have embarked on a journey to explore that in my current imagery. These manipulated photos explore the world of the beauty of the male body and soul. My work is a reflection of my thoughts as I make sense of the world around me. They are my notes as I navigate through. They are part of a process of a releasing of my sense of self and finding what is beyond my limited thoughts. To me, there is something about the beauty of the human figure which stimulates contemplation of life’s deepest mysteries and stories.” -Jim

What is our most compelling ambition in life? What comprises our endless fantasies and dreams? What is physically and mentally associated with our most basic need? For virtually all of us it’s the need for a companion, a partner in life, and for many of us that happens to be a male. Jim Ferringer’s images explain why.

Original Photo By Jan Griffioen

Using his own photography or that of other photographers, Jim goes to work adding, subtracting, moving, remixing and manipulating pixels with his own unique style until the finished work can be construed as nothing short of original art.

Based on Original Photo by Aurelio Monge.

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Prints of Jim’s work are available at Red Bubble.

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Visit Jim Ferringer’s website at DREAMS AND OTHER MYSTERIES

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