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Learning to swim
Dec 22, 2010
Learn to swim” is both Maire Scharpegge’s motto in life and the advice she gives to friends and acquaintances who seek to attain the success she has had since she immigrated to the United States from the former East Germany 10 years ago.
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Victorian Art Fantasies
Oct 14, 2011
Enjoy the sculptures created by Jeffrey Steorts—art which truly does not fit into any standard genre. After searching antique stores and garage sales to find metal fittings, fasteners, and objects, he begins to create intricate metal and wood sculptures which evoke a bygone era of Victorian and Medieval technology as well as Byzantine and Eastern spiritual symbols.
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Colorful, Dramatic, and Surreal:
Oct 1, 2010
Inspired by fashion, outfitted with mediums of photography, jewelry design, and painting, local San Diego artist, Emily Criscuolo, uses an expressionistic style to create art for the walls as well as add color and individuality to jewelry, clothing, and handbags.
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Quiet pots with a loud voice
Aug 24, 2010
It seems like a paradoxical idea to try to render one of nature’s most fleeting forms in a hard, stone-like substance, but that is exactly what ceramic artist Eric Rempe does.
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Ai Weiwei
Aug 11, 2011
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei continues to be harassed, attacked, and imprisoned by the Chinese government.
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The Reckless Dragon
Jul 12, 2011
Individual paintings are selling for nine figures. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on vases, desks and even bottles of wine.
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A Master of Resin Painting
Jun 22, 2010
What could be more typically Southern California than the surf, sand, sunsets over the ocean, waves, ocean spray, wind, surfboards and maybe even a green flash at sunset? Nicholas Mirandon has captured the essence of our beach environment in the unique art form of resin painting.
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No Access to Artists Detained by Chinese Government
May 25, 2011
Since the Villager profiled Ai Weiwei a few issues back, the work of the world-renowned Chinese artist seems to be popping up everywhere.
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An Art Form More Than 3,000 Years In The Making
May 25, 2010
Imagine a painting where every brushstroke is a piece of polished stone, glazed porcelain, or translucent glass—a finely detailed work of art that can withstand the tests of time and weather.
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Riding the wave
May 24, 2011
To capture the look of light coming through the water, the spray as a surfer crests a wave, the soft focus of a beach’s sunny intensity—these take a deep knowledge of both the water and artistic techniques.
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California Impressionist
May 5, 2010
Early morning and late afternoon, when the light streams sideways and the shadows are long, for artist Joli Beal, these are the times of day to paint. Beal, who lives in Del Mar, is a plein air painter, “plein” being a French word meaning open air.
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Places to Go, People to Paint
Apr 27, 2011
A rtist Richard Warner, who lives and paints in La Jolla, got curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would put it, about his wife Mary Pat’s frequent references to “the boys.”
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Artist Catherine Dzialo-Haller: "Just Work"
Mar 24, 2011
Catherine Dzialo-Haller, who lives in Carmel Valley and paints at her harborfront studio in downtown’s Little Italy, has no patience for artists who say things like “I’m not in the mood to paint” or “I’m not inspired right now.”
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Watercolors capture beauty of San Diego landscapes
Jan 25, 2011
An artist who captured the beauty of the San Diego landscape was Rex Brandt, a major figure of California art in the mid-20th century.