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		<title>Takashi Murakami: Rare Prints Available</title>
		<link>http://blog.opus-art.com/2012/03/19/takashi-murakami-rare-prints-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Takashi Murakami is one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking Japanese artists,  his work ranges from cartoony paintings and prints, to quasi-minimalist  sculptures. Many know Murakami for making a $2.6 million diamond-encrusted sculpture with Pharrell  Williams, he has also collaborated with Louis Vuitton to produce  best-selling handbags which  are owned [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Takashi Murakami</strong></a> is one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking Japanese artists,  his work ranges from cartoony paintings and prints, to quasi-minimalist  sculptures. Many know <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tu/"><strong>Murakami</strong></a> for making a $2.6 million diamond-encrusted sculpture with Pharrell  Williams, he has also collaborated with Louis Vuitton to produce  best-selling handbags which  are owned by Elizabeth Hurley and Reese Witherspoon.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We have a beautiful collection of signed lithographs by <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/il/"><strong>Takashi Murakami</strong></a> available including <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/ir/"><strong><em>Flower Smile</em></strong></a> and <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/iy/"><strong><em>Flower Ball (3-D) Red Cliff</em></strong></a> (pictured) both from an edition of 300 and <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/ij/"><strong>priced from £1500</strong></a>.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 299px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/TakashiMurakami/6060"><img class=" " title="Takashi Murakami: Flower Smile" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/TMurakami_FlowerSmile11-1.jpg" alt="Takashi Murakami: Flower Smile" width="289" height="288" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Takashi Murakami: Flower Smile</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Takashi Murakami</strong></a>’s art encompasses a wide range of mediums and his work  has been noted for its use of colour, incorporation of motifs from  Japanese traditional and popular culture, flat/glossy surfaces, and  content that could be described at once as ‘cute,’ ‘psychedelic,’ or  ‘satirical’. Among his most famous recurring motifs are smiling flowers,  iconic characters, mushrooms, skulls, Buddhist iconography, and the  sexual complexes of otaku culture. <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Takashi Murakami</strong></a> has also created his  own pop icon, ‘Mr. DOB,’ which has developed into a form of  self-portraiture, the first of several endlessly morphing and recurring  motifs seen throughout his work.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">In addition to his work as an artist, <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Takashi Murakami</strong></a> is a curator,  entrepreneur, and a student of contemporary Japanese society. In 2000, <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Murakami</strong></a> curated an exhibition of Japanese art titled <em>Superflat</em>,  which acknowledged a movement toward mass-produced entertainment and  its effects on contemporary aesthetics. <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Murakami</strong></a> has also set up his own  art production company called Kaikai Kiki through which he manages the  careers of several younger artists and organises the biannual art fair  GEISAI.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 301px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/TakashiMurakami/6061"><img class=" " title="Takashi Murakami: Flower Ball (3-D) Red Cliff" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/TMurakami_FlowerBall3-DRedCliff08-1.jpg" alt="Takashi Murakami: Flower Ball (3-D) Red Cliff" width="291" height="288" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Takashi Murakami: Flower Ball (3-D) Red Cliff</p></div>
<p>In 2002, at the invitation of designer Marc Jacobs, <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Murakami</strong></a> began  his long-lasting collaboration with the fashion brand Louis Vuitton. He  began by contributing artwork which was used in the design of a series  of handbags. The series re-envisioned the fashion house’s signature  monogram and was a huge commercial success. Though he had previously  collaborated with fashion designers such as Issey Miyake Men by Naoki  Takizawa, his work with Louis Vuitton won him widespread fame and  notoriety as an artist who blurs the line between ‘high art’ and  commercialism. It also elevated him to celebrity status in his home  country of Japan.</p>
<p>In November, 2003, ArtNews reported <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Takashi Murakami</strong></a>&#8217;s work as being among the most desired in the world. <em>Hiropon</em>,  a life-sized satirical sculpture of an anime character with gigantic  lactating breasts, sold for $427,500 at Christie&#8217;s auction house in May,  2002. One year later a second sculpture, <em>Miss Ko2</em>, sold for $567,500. His work has continued to rise in value and in May 2008, <em>My Lonesome Cowboy</em>,  an anime-inspired sculpture of a masturbating boy, sold for $15.2  million at Sotheby&#8217;s. In 2008, <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Takashi Murakami</strong></a> was named one of <em>Time Magazine</em>&#8217;s  ‘100 Most Influential People’, the only visual artist included. <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Murakami</strong></a> also came in at 17 in Art Review&#8217;s 2009 Power 100 and is a  regular each year on the list.</p>
<p><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Takashi Murakami</strong></a>&#8217;s work has been  exhibited in prestigious museums all over the world, including the Tokyo  Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gagosian  Gallery, London and Rome, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of  Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum für Moderne Kunst in  Frankfurt, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. In September,  2010 <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tk/"><strong>Takashi Murakami</strong></a> became the third contemporary artist, and first  Japanese artist, to exhibit his works at the Palace of Versailles in  France filling 15 rooms and the park with his sculptures, paintings, a  decorative carpet, and lamps.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We offer a number of interest-free payment options, <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/it/"><strong>contact us for more information</strong></a>.</p>
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		<title>Focus on Rob and Nick Carter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob and Nick Carter are a London-based husband and wife artistic duo, who have worked  together for over 15 years. Having contributed significantly to the  genre of Op Art, they continuously push the boundaries between  photography, painting and sculpture.
Their work revolves around light, colour and form, exploring mediums  including camera-less photography, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/k/"><strong>Rob and Nick Carter</strong></a> are a London-based husband and wife artistic duo, who have worked  together for over 15 years. Having contributed significantly to the  genre of Op Art, they continuously push the boundaries between  photography, painting and sculpture.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Their work revolves around light, colour and form, exploring mediums  including camera-less photography, painting, installation, neon and  film.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/u/"><strong>Rob and Nick Carter</strong></a>&#8217;s <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/o/"><strong><em>Painting Photograph </em></strong></a>series, as in <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/p/"><em><strong>Painting Photograph Oil I</strong></em></a>,  feaured here, has been created by using a large 10&#8243; x 8&#8243; camera to  photograph tiny paintings measuring just 2cm. The resulting highly  detailed photographic image is printed, and the original oil painting  destroyed. As Rob and Nick state, &#8216;These photographic artworks make us  think about the nature of  paint and the process of painting more than a painting could ever do&#8217;.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 238px"><a href="http://opus-art.com/artists/RobandNickCarter/5642"><img title="Rob and Nick Carter: Painting Photograph Oil I" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/RobNickCarter_PaintingPhotographOilI04120242.jpg" alt="Rob and Nick Carter: Painting Photograph Oil I" width="228" height="276" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Rob and Nick Carter: Painting Photograph Oil I</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Other works, such as <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/m/"><strong><em>Mag Light , Multi-Coloured VI </em></strong></a>featured here, can be described as photographs taken without a camera and paintings without brushes; instead <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/c/"><strong>Rob and Nick Carter</strong></a> work in complete darkness to &#8216;paint with light&#8217; onto photo-sensitive cibachrome paper.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">The resulting vibrant, high gloss colours and pop sensibility provoke  an immediate visual response from the viewer &#8211; a roller coaster ride for  the eye and perception.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 238px"><a href="http://opus-art.com/artists/RobandNickCarter/3635"><img title="Rob and Nick Carter: Mag Light, Multicoloured VI" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/RobNickCarter_MagLightMulticolouredVI140143.jpg" alt="Rob and Nick Carter: Mag Light, Multicoloured VI" width="228" height="154" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Rob and Nick Carter: Mag Light, Multicoloured VI</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/a/"><strong>Rob and Nick Carter</strong></a> are two of the most exciting names working in contemporary art today.  Their work has been collected by a host of celebrity collectors,  including Elton John, David and Victoria Beckham, Simon Fuller, Philip  Treacy, Matthew Williamson, Stephen Fry, Kevin Spacey, Jude Law, David  Walliams and Claudia Winkleman.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 238px"><a href="http://opus-art.com/artists/RobandNickCarter/1430"><img title="Rob and Nick Carter: Light Drawing Blue" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/RobNickCarter_LightDrawingBlue04120336.jpg" alt="Rob and Nick Carter: Light Drawing Blue" width="228" height="112" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Rob and Nick Carter: Light Drawing Blue</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Corporate collectors include Virgin, Sainsbury’s, Reuters, EMI and The  Groucho Club, and their work is held in the permanent collections of the  V &amp; A, London and the Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles. They are  available for commissions &#8211; please <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/z/"><strong>contact us</strong></a> for more information &#8211; and to date works have been commissioned by  clients including Great Ormond Street Hospital, D2 Private, Land  Securities and Sketch, London.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/v/"><strong>Rob and Nick Carter</strong></a>&#8217;s unique artworks have been featured in<em> Art Review, The Independent, The Guardian, GQ Magazine, Time Out, Time, Elle Deco </em>and<em> ​The Scotsman, </em>and the have also been shortlisted for the Sovereign Art Prize and the John Moores painting prize.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/e/"><strong>Rob and Nick Carter</strong></a> have exhibited internationally, with solo  exhibitins in London, New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Geneva, Zurich and Hong Kong.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 238px"><a href="http://opus-art.com/artists/RobandNickCarter/5643"><img title="Rob and Nick Carter: Painting Photograph Oil II" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/RobNickCarter_PaintingPhotographOilII04120400.jpg" alt="Rob and Nick Carter: Painting Photograph Oil II" width="228" height="280" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Rob and Nick Carter: Painting Photograph Oil II</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We have a small collection of work available by <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/s/"><strong>Rob and Nick Carter</strong></a>; <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/g/"><strong>click here</strong></a> to view.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">View <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/w/"><strong>Rob Carter</strong></a>&#8217;s solo <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/yd/"><strong><em>Travelling Still </em></strong></a>series by clicking <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dtljtit/l/yh/"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p>
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		<title>Kim Baker: Flower Paintings</title>
		<link>http://blog.opus-art.com/2012/03/15/kim-baker-flower-paintings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Baker’s  paintings are based on a Romantic attitude, drawing elements from  traditional painterly values whilst communicating a unique expressive  quality with an intuitive and spontaneous approach to her work. Kim Baker often works over a previous painting, adding then rubbing back  layers of paint so that the underpainting can be seen [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/ji/"><strong>Kim Baker</strong></a>’s  paintings are based on a Romantic attitude, drawing elements from  traditional painterly values whilst communicating a unique expressive  quality with an intuitive and spontaneous approach to her work. <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/ji/"><strong>Kim Baker</strong></a> often works over a previous painting, adding then rubbing back  layers of paint so that the underpainting can be seen in part, which  gives a sense of history to the works.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/ji/"><strong>Kim Baker</strong></a>’s recent body of work is drawn from the classical theme of  Memento Mori; and uses motifs such as flowers, birds and insects, which,  historically, are said to remind the viewer of their own mortality of  the vanity of earthly glory and pleasure. The artist weaves flora and  fauna into magical, jewel-like landscapes that are a continuation from  her 2007 <em>Dark Gardens</em> series.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/jd/"><strong>Baker</strong></a> graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree from Birmingham University.  She has exhibited widely, including group and solo exhibitions and art  fairs in London, Newcastle, Reykjavik and New York. Private and public collectors of <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/ji/"><strong>Kim Baker</strong></a>’s paintings include  Birmingham University, Whitbread Group plc, Bow Arts Trust and Midland  Arts Centre, and she has recently been commissioned to create eight  paintings for the Four Seasons Hotel in St. Petersburg. Her work has  been featured in <em>Art Monthly, Time Out</em> and <em>S Magazine</em>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We have three new pieces by <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/jh/"><strong>Kim Baker</strong></a> available which are in oil on canvas. <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/jk/"><strong><em>Flower Painting 1</em></strong></a>, <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/ju/"><strong><em>Flower Painting 2</em></strong></a> and <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tl/"><strong><em>Flower Painting 3</em></strong></a> measure 12 x 16 inches and are <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/tr/"><strong>priced from £800</strong></a>.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 282px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/KimBaker/6629"><img class=" " title="Kim Baker: Flower Painting 1" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/KBaker_FlowerPainting3.jpg" alt="Kim Baker: Flower Painting 1" width="272" height="360" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Kim Baker: Flower Painting 1</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 279px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/KimBaker/6630"><img class=" " title="Kim Baker: Flower Painting 2" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/KBaker_FlowerPainting2.jpg" alt="Kim Baker: Flower Painting 2" width="269" height="360" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Kim Baker: Flower Painting 2</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 278px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/KimBaker/6631"><img class=" " title="Kim Baker: Flower Painting 3" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/KBaker_FlowerPainting1.jpg" alt="Kim Baker: Flower Painting 3" width="268" height="360" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Kim Baker: Flower Painting 3</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Alternatively UK collectors can buy these artworks using our interest-free credit facility; <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/ty/"><strong>contact us for more information</strong></a>.</p>
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		<title>Nick Walker: The Morning After &#8211; Empire State</title>
		<link>http://blog.opus-art.com/2012/03/14/nick-walker-the-morning-after-empire-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Street artist Nick Walker is one of Britain’s graffiti pioneers and has been working out of Bristol for over twenty years. Walker’s work employs a good deal of wry humour, treating iconic figures with a refreshing irreverence such as his two images of the Mona Lisa and his print of the Houses of Parliament. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Street artist <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/e/"><strong>Nick Walker</strong></a> is one of Britain’s graffiti pioneers and has been working out of Bristol for over twenty years. <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/s/"><strong>Walker</strong></a>’s work employs a good deal of wry humour, treating iconic figures with a refreshing irreverence such as his two images of the <em>Mona Lisa</em> and his print of the Houses of Parliament. <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/e/"><strong></strong></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/e/"><strong>Nick Walker</strong></a> has been influenced by films like <em>Blade Runner</em> and the visions of 2000AD into developing his own dystopian science fiction imagery. Well known works by <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/e/"><strong>Nick Walker</strong></a> include<em> Gods We Trust, Vandal, 38 Pigtails, The Morning After (TMA)</em> and <em>Mona Simpson</em>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/g/"><strong>Nick Walker</strong></a> has exhibited internationally including group and solo exhibitions in  London, Washington DC, Bristol, Los Angeles, Berlin, Toronto, New York  and San Francisco.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 300px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/NickWalker/6639"><img class=" " title="Nick Walker: The Morning After (TMA) - Empire State" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/NWalker_TMAEmpireState08.jpg" alt="Nick Walker: The Morning After (TMA) - Empire State" width="290" height="387" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Nick Walker: The Morning After (TMA) - Empire State</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">In 1992 <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/e/"><strong>Nick Walker</strong></a> began to combine stencils with freehand work which  allowed him to juxtapose almost photographic imagery with the rawness  which evolved from conventional graffiti styles. Stencils introduce an  impact element to his work. The appeal of stencils is that they allow  him to take an image from anywhere &#8211; dissect any part of life &#8211; and  recreate it on any surface. <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/e/"><strong>Nick Walker</strong></a> tries to add an element of  humour or irony to some paintings to add a little light relief to the  walls.</p>
<p><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/e/"><strong>Nick Walker</strong></a> was originally inspired by seeing NYC  graffiti pioneer Dondi and in his early street-spraying days used the  tag Ego. His style has attracted widespread attention and he has created  spraypaint portraits of Krust, Roni Size and Carl Cox as well as a  comic strip for Roni Size&#8217;s Dope Dragon label.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 301px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/NickWalker/6640"><img class="  " title="Nick Walker: Cans (Black on Black)" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/NWalker_CansBlackOnBlack07.jpg" alt="Nick Walker: Cans (Black on Black)" width="291" height="410" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Nick Walker: Cans (Black on Black)</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">He has also been involved  with the movie industry, painting sets for the director Stanley Kubrick  and for <em>Eyes Wide Shut, B-Monkey, Incognito, Hackers</em> and <em>Judge Dredd</em>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/e/"><strong>Nick Walker</strong></a>’s artworks have featured in <em>The Independent, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, Evening Post, Dazed and Confused, Huck Magazine, Watch</em> and the <em>Observer</em>. <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/e/"><strong>Walker</strong></a>’s artworks were also featured in the Black Eyed Peas <em>I Gotta Feeling</em> video.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We currently have two rare works by <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/w/"><strong>Walker</strong></a> available; <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/yd/"><strong><em>Cans (Black on Black)</em></strong></a> and <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/yh/"><strong><em>The Morning After (TMA) &#8211; Empire State</em></strong></a> which are <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/yk/"><strong>priced from £800</strong></a>.</p>
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		<title>Faile: Launch Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faile have become legends in the world of street art with their iconic pop  culture images which are inspired by comic strips, book covers, fiction  novels and even the Yellow Pages. Faile emphasise art making over indirect political statements or  sloganeering, but their work often contains both passive and overt  messages, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/k/"><strong>Faile</strong></a> have become legends in the world of street art with their iconic pop  culture images which are inspired by comic strips, book covers, fiction  novels and even the <em>Yellow Pages</em>. <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/u/"><strong>Faile</strong></a> emphasise art making over indirect political statements or  sloganeering, but their work often contains both passive and overt  messages, usually cloaked in ambivalence.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/o/"><strong>Faile</strong></a> have exhibited widely including in New York, London, Copenhagen, Paris,  Tokyo, Rome, Berlin, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Zurich and Shanghai.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We have one rare screenprint by <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/b/"><strong>Faile</strong></a> available called <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/n/"><strong><em>Launch Tonight</em></strong></a> which is from a signed limited edition of 100. This print measures 28 x 39 inches and is <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/p/"><strong>priced at £1200</strong></a>.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 238px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/Faile"><img title="Faile: Launch Tonight" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/Faile_LaunchTonight10135436.jpg" alt="Faile: Launch Tonight" width="228" height="326" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Faile: Launch Tonight</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/k/"><strong>Faile</strong></a> are an international artist collective comprising Patrick McNeil,  Patrick Miller and formerly Aiko Nahagowa. Their first project together  had the title <em>A Life</em>, of which their name <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/k/"><strong>Faile</strong></a> is an anagram.  Well known works by <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/k/"><strong>Faile</strong></a> include F<em>aile  Dog, Faile Bunny Girl, Faile Bunny Boy, Butterfly Girl, Bret the  Hitman, Forbidden Love, Smoking Silence, Military Love, Sinful  Pleasures, Launch Tonight, Save Stilettos</em> and <em>Happy Home</em>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/k/"><strong>Faile</strong></a>’s work involves playing around with images and layouts,  &#8216;recycling&#8217; images over and over again making both a social comment on  the society that we live in and making &#8216;icons&#8217; out of throwaway images.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Although <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/k/"><strong>Faile</strong></a>&#8217;s completed works are iconographically and stylistically  distinctive, their process of creation owes much to chance,  improvisation, and openness to outside source material. The visual  elements of their work is continuously adapted to varied materials, from  grocery store signs to wooden boxes and painted ceramics. Although they  are not graffiti writers as such, their work originated in the streets,  and their studio work bears the stylistic hallmarks of both  wheatpasting/stencilling and the vernacular of the global urban  environment.</p>
<p>Well known installations by <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/k/"><strong>Faile</strong></a> include <em>Lost in Glimmering Shadows</em> which occupied an ambiently-lit circular gallery space in which  large-scale prints and paintings surrounded sculptural elements in an  interior ring. <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/k/"><strong>Faile</strong></a> also collaborated with the artist Bast to produce  an installation dubbed <em>Deluxx Fluxx</em>, comprising custom-made operational arcade games and a foosball table. <em>Bedtime Stories</em> comprised of twelve works created from several painted wooden blocks to come together as unified paintings. <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/k/"><strong>Faile</strong></a> also created <em>Temple</em> a full-scale church displayed in ruins in Praça dos Restauradores Square in Lisbon, Portugal.</p>
<p><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/k/"><strong>Faile</strong></a> have produced several limited edition books including <em>Orange, Death, Boredom, Lavender</em> and <em>Prints + Originals</em> which surveys their career and explores <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djiulrl/l/k/"><strong>Faile</strong></a>&#8217;s process, influences, and iconography.</p>
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		<title>Gary Hume: Psyche</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turner prize nominee Gary Hume is strongly identified with the YBA artists who came to prominence in the early 1990s. Gary Hume is renowned for paintings distinguished by a bright palette, reduced imagery and flat areas of seductive colour. While Hume&#8217;s paintings have always emphasised their luscious surfaces and simplified forms, many are infused with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Turner prize nominee <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/dy/"><strong>Gary Hume</strong></a> is strongly identified with the YBA artists who came to prominence in the early 1990s. <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/dj/"><strong>Gary Hume</strong></a> is renowned for paintings distinguished by a bright palette, reduced imagery and flat areas of seductive colour. While <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/dt/"><strong>Hume</strong></a>&#8217;s paintings have always emphasised their luscious surfaces and simplified forms, many are infused with a melancholic beauty.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Some of <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/dy/"><strong>Gary Hume</strong></a>’s best known works include <em>Here’s Flowers</em> and <em>Snowman</em> as well as his <em>Door</em> paintings life-size representations of hospital doors.  These proved a  critical success, being shown in Germany and the United States, as well  as attracting the attention of collector Charles Saatchi.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/dy/"><strong>Gary Hume</strong></a> abandoned doors in the mid-1990s, turning to paintings in  household gloss paint on aluminium panel, for these often used  appropriated images, including pictures of celebrities (e.g. DJ Tony  Blackburn and Michael Jackson) and animals. Their forms and colours are  dramatically simplified, with people being reduced to just two or three  colours. At first, <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/dy/"><strong>Gary Hume</strong></a> used mainly bright colours, but later  pieces have used more muted tones.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 238px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/GaryHume"><img title="Gary Hume: Psyche" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/GHume_PsycheLR103723.jpg" alt="Gary Hume: Psyche" width="228" height="304" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Gary Hume: Psyche</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We have only one <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/di/"><strong>Gary Hume</strong></a> print available, <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/dd/"><strong><em>Psyche</em></strong></a> (pictured) is a two colour screenprint on anodised aluminium, measures 20 x 26 inches, from an edition of 400. <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/dh/"><strong>Contact us for pricing information.</strong></a></p>
<p><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/di/"><strong>Gary Hume</strong></a> graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1988 and his work was included in both <em>Freeze</em>, an exhibition organized by Damien Hirst in 1988, and <em>East Country Yard</em>,  a warehouse exhibition organized by Henry Bond and Sarah Lucas in 1990.  His work was also included in Sensation, a touring show of the Charles  Saatchi art collection at the Royal Academy in London. He represented  Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale, where he showed his <em>Water</em> series, a number of superimposed line drawings of women. <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/di/"><strong>Gary Hume</strong></a> was elected a Royal Academician in 2001.</p>
<p><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/di/"><strong>Gary Hume</strong></a> has exhibited at the São Paulo Bienal, Venice Biennale, the  National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh Fundação La Caixa, Barcelona  (2000), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Kunsthaus Bregenz and the  Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover. Group shows include Tate Britain, London,  Louisiana Museum, Denmark, Kunsthalle Basel and the Museum of  Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.</p>
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		<title>Focus On Alex Hill</title>
		<link>http://blog.opus-art.com/2012/03/09/focus-on-alex-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photographic artist Alex Hill creates playful work that stems from ‘a geeky obsession with cartoons  and model railways that has never really gone away’. He explores the  spectacle, reality and representation through his photographs using  advanced techniques and hyper real colour to reduce huge dioramas into  what appear to be small [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Photographic artist <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/k/"><strong>Alex Hill</strong></a> creates playful work that stems from ‘a geeky obsession with cartoons  and model railways that has never really gone away’. He explores the  spectacle, reality and representation through his photographs using  advanced techniques and hyper real colour to reduce huge dioramas into  what appear to be small plastic toys.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/u/"><strong>Alex Hill</strong></a>’s knack for creating visually intriguing images has taken him all over the world, from photographing throughout <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/o/"><strong>Cornwall</strong></a> whilst studying, to the <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/p/"><strong>Las Vegas</strong></a> strip, the French Alps and more recently on the road around the UK.  With an aesthetic borrowed from a modern consumer palette his images  both seduce and confuse the viewer.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 394px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/AlexHill/6624"><img class="   " title="Alex Hill: Las Vegas 2" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/AHillLasVegas2-03LR.jpg" alt="Alex Hill: Las Vegas 2" width="384" height="320" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alex Hill: Las Vegas 2</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">At first glance <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/m/"><strong>Hill</strong></a>’s  images show us a world that appears on a minute scale, people are  reduced to figurines, surfaces appear plastic and landscapes,  artificial. In <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/c/"><strong>Alex Hill</strong></a>’s  world, the landscape has assumed the role of theme park, and he invites  us to interrogate it both visually and theoretically. Challenging  ideologies of consumption, the photographs contemplate a world that has  become a product of the society it produced.  <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/q/"><strong>Hill</strong></a>’s images consider an environment saturated in hyper reality and the resulting society as a simulacrum.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/a/"><strong>Alex Hill</strong></a>’s  obsession with traditional photographic processes sees him using  complex photographic techniques, most notably a 5&#215;4 view camera which he  uses to make the work.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 394px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/AlexHill/6628"><img class="   " title="Alex Hill: Towan Beach" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/AHill_TowanBeachCornwall02LR.jpg" alt="Alex Hill: Towan Beach" width="384" height="320" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alex Hill: Towan Beach</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Unlike modern tilt-shift lenses that have become popular in recent  years, he prefers the unrivalled control obtained only with a plate  camera. This cumbersome beast allows all manipulation to be done in  camera using the Scheimpflug principal, allowing ultimate control over  the plane of focus. The resulting image simulates the narrow depth of  field often found in macro photography and this, combined with vivid  colour and a touch of magic, gives the impression of artifice and the  landscapes seem rendered in miniature.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/z/"><strong>Alex Hill</strong></a> graduated with a BA (Hons) with distinction from Falmouth College of  Arts, Cornwall in 2003. He has exhibited widely, with group exhibitions  and art fairs in London, New York, Germany, France and Brazil, and solo  exhibitions in Paris and Brighton.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 394px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/AlexHill/6625"><img class="   " title="Alex Hill: Grand Canyon" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/AHill_GrandCanyonArizona03LR.jpg" alt="Alex Hill: Grand Canyon" width="384" height="306" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alex Hill: Grand Canyon</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">In 2008 <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/e/"><strong>Hill</strong></a> was a UK winner of the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Emerging Photographers award. <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/s/"><strong>Alex Hill</strong></a>’s work is held in a number of corporate and private collections, including celebrity collector Dara O Briain. <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/g/"><strong>Alex Hill</strong></a> currently lives and works in Brighton.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We have a collection of digital C-type prints available from <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/w/"><strong>Alex Hill</strong></a>, including <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/djqijl/l/yd/"><em><strong>Construction London</strong></em></a>,  featured. All prints are available in editions of 90, measuring 20 x 16  inches, and priced from £250. We also have a small collection of larger  prints, from editions of just 6 and measuring a substantial 48 x 40  inches, priced from £2,500.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 394px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/AlexHill/6623"><img class="   " title="Alex Hill: Construction London" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/AHill_ConstructionLondon05LR.jpg" alt="Alex Hill: Construction London" width="384" height="320" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alex Hill: Construction London</p></div>
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		<title>Hector de Gregorio: Il Musico</title>
		<link>http://blog.opus-art.com/2012/03/08/hector-de-gregorio-il-musico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Castrati were the singing superstars of the 18th Century and they travelled around the courts and capitals of Europe, pulling the crowds wherever they performed. The brainwave to create castrati had first occurred in 17th Century Rome, where the pope had banned women singing in churches or on the stage.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Castrati were the singing superstars of the 18th Century and they travelled around the courts and capitals of Europe, pulling the crowds wherever they performed. The brainwave to create castrati had first occurred in 17<sup>th</sup> Century Rome, where the pope had banned women singing in churches or on the stage.</p>
<p>In 17<sup>th</sup> and 18<sup>th</sup> Century Italy it is estimated that around 4,000 boys were castrated each year, from the age of eight upwards, with the aim of them making a fortune as opera singers and soloists with choirs in churches and royal palaces. Most of the boys came from poor families who wanted their sons to become rich and famous musical stars and escape from the poverty they had been born into. Only a small amount of these boys however would become famous castrati, the rest would end up in the Church as they were forbidden to marry.</p>
<p>The castrato&#8217;s voice was prized for its combination of high pitch and power with the unbroken voice able to reach the high notes, but delivered with the strength of an adult male giving it a quality that was different from a woman, a boy or a male ‘falsetto’ voice.</p>
<p>The vulgarity of castration and the vulnerability of the castrati themselves who remained in a body constrained in a pubescent state was the inspiration behind this new work by <a title="Hector de Gregorio" href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/HectordeGregorio/6615" target="_self"><strong>Hector de Gregorio</strong></a>.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 424px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/HectordeGregorio/6615"><img class="  " title="Hector de Gregorio: Il Musico" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/HdeGregorio_IlCastrato12LRa.jpg" alt="Hector de Gregorio: Il Musico" width="414" height="491" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hector de Gregorio: Il Musico</p></div>
<p>In <a title="Hector de Gregorio" href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/HectordeGregorio/6615" target="_self"><strong><em>Il Musico</em> Hector de Gregorio</strong></a> wanted to show the character in the image before he went on stage to perform, he wanted to show the private and vulnerable character that the castrati were underneath.  <a title="Hector de Gregorio" href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/HectordeGregorio/6615" target="_self"><strong>De Gregorio</strong></a> decided against bright colours and decorative paraphernalia and instead chose for an overall flesh colour to represent the exposed character. The white collar and beads in the image refer to the castrati’s most valuable and forever preserved virtue &#8211; the whiteness of their voice.</p>
<p>The exhibitionism shown in <em><a title="Hector de Gregorio" href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/HectordeGregorio/6615" target="_self"><strong>Il Musico</strong></a> </em>is the castrati’s strength but also his prison; he has become an engineered luxury object made for the abstract and divine.</p>
<p>Bestselling artist <a title="Hector de Gregorio" href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/HectordeGregorio/6615" target="_self"><strong>Hector de Gregorio</strong></a> has been described as ‘an  unswervingly incendiary artist’, he is interested in seducing the  viewer, and his deliciously dark photographic images certainly act as a  visual lure. In his images nothing is sacred, containing as they do  religious overtones and something beyond mere festishism.</p>
<p><a title="Hector de Gregorio" href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/HectordeGregorio/6615" target="_self"><strong>De Gregorio</strong></a> graduated from London’s Royal College of Art in 2009, with a  Master’s Degree in Printmaking, where he developed his labour-intensive  way of working. Each image involves extensive research and costume  making, photography, digital imaging and hand-finishing.</p>
<p><a title="Hector de Gregorio" href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/HectordeGregorio/6615" target="_self"><strong>Hector de Gregorio</strong></a> has exhibited widely, with exhibitions in London,  Berlin, Milan, New York, Miami and Chicago. His deliciously modern  portraiture is held in the collections of Lady Victoria Conran, Mehmet  Omer Koc and Theo Fennell.In November 2009 he won the prestigious annual  Young Masters Art Prize for his inspiring contemporary portraiture.</p>
<p>View more available works by <a title="Hector de Gregorio" href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/HectordeGregorio/6615" target="_self"><strong>Hector de Gregorio</strong></a> &gt;</p>
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		<title>Kim Baker: Garden 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.opus-art.com/2012/03/07/kim-baker-garden-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Baker’s  paintings are based on a Romantic attitude, drawing elements from  traditional painterly values whilst communicating a unique expressive  quality with an intuitive and spontaneous approach to her work.
Baker graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree from Birmingham University.  She has exhibited widely, including group and solo exhibitions and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/w/"><strong>Kim Baker</strong></a>’s  paintings are based on a Romantic attitude, drawing elements from  traditional painterly values whilst communicating a unique expressive  quality with an intuitive and spontaneous approach to her work.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/yd/"><strong>Baker</strong></a> graduated with a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree from Birmingham University.  She has exhibited widely, including group and solo exhibitions and art  fairs in London, Newcastle, Reykjavik and New York.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 299px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/KimBaker/6617"><img class=" " title="Kim Baker: Garden 1" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/KBaker_Garden1-12.jpg" alt="Kim Baker: Garden 1" width="289" height="360" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Kim Baker: Garden 1</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/w/"><strong>Kim Baker</strong></a>’s recent body of work is drawn from the classical theme of  Memento Mori; and uses motifs such as flowers, birds and insects, which,  historically, are said to remind the viewer of their own mortality of  the vanity of earthly glory and pleasure. The artist weaves flora and  fauna into magical, jewel-like landscapes that are a continuation from  her 2007 <em>Dark Gardens</em> series.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Her use of jewel-like colours against a sombre dark background gives the  paintings a backlit quality, and the contrast of mark-making veers from  subtle glazing techniques to broad, sweeping brushstrokes to create a  dramatic stage set of landscapes and gardens.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">In 2009 she completed a residency at the Signy and Olaf Willums Art  Foundation in France. Private and public collectors of <a style="color: #630f48; text-decoration: none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/w/"><strong>Kim Baker</strong></a>’s  paintings include Birmingham University, Whitbread Group plc, Bow Arts  Trust and Midland Arts Centre, and she has recently been commissioned to  create eight paintings for the Four Seasons Hotel in St. Petersburg.  Her work has been featured in <em>Art Monthly, Time Out</em> and <em>S Magazine</em>.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 296px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/KimBaker/6618"><img class=" " title="Kim Baker: Garden 2" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/KBaker_Garden2-12.jpg" alt="Kim Baker: Garden 2" width="286" height="360" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Kim Baker: Garden 2</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We have two new pieces by <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/yh/"><strong>Baker</strong></a> available which are oil on paper including <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/yk/"><strong><em>Garden 1</em></strong></a> (pictured) and <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/yu/"><strong><em>Garden 2,</em></strong></a> both measure 16 x 20 inches and are <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/jl/"><strong>priced from £400</strong></a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We also have a number of works in oil on canvas, <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/jr/"><strong>click here to view &gt;</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">Alternatively UK collectors can buy these artworks using our interest-free credit facility; <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/jy/"><strong>contact us for more information</strong></a>.</p>
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		<title>Banksy: Weston Super Mare</title>
		<link>http://blog.opus-art.com/2012/03/06/banksy-weston-super-mare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banksy is an anonymous graffiti artist, political activist, film director,  painter and print maker. His satirical street art and subversive  epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti in a distinctive  stencilling technique.
His grafitti art features in the streetscape of hometown Bristol as  well as appearing in London, Los Angeles and many [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/k/"><strong>Banksy</strong></a> is an anonymous graffiti artist, political activist, film director,  painter and print maker. His satirical street art and subversive  epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti in a distinctive  stencilling technique.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">His grafitti art features in the streetscape of hometown Bristol as  well as appearing in London, Los Angeles and many other cities around  the world. <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/u/"><strong>Banksy</strong></a>&#8217;s work has attracted celebrity collectors such as <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/o/"><strong>Damien Hirst</strong></a>, Christina Aguilera, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 435px"><a href="http://www.opus-art.com/artists/Banksy/6619"><img class=" " title="Banksy: Weston Super Mare" src="http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx227/opus-art/Banksy_WestonSuperMare03.jpg" alt="Banksy: Weston Super Mare" width="425" height="163" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Banksy: Weston Super Mare</p></div>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We have a rare <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/b/"><strong><em>Weston Super Mare</em></strong></a> print available which is signed and numbered by <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/n/"><strong>Banksy</strong></a>.  This sought-after 2003 screenprint is from an edition of 750, although  only 150 were signed, and measures 39 x 14 inches. This print is  accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Pest Control. <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/p/"><strong>Contact us for pricing information</strong></a>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We have a number of other works by <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/c/"><strong>Banksy</strong></a> available,<a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/q/"> </a><a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/a/"><strong>click here to view &gt;</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10px;">We offer a number of interest-free payment options, <a style="color:#630f48;text-decoration:none;" href="http://opusart.createsend1.com/t/r/l/dykdjdd/l/f/"><strong>contact us for more information</strong></a>.</p>
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