Artists you might like

 Here I will talk to you about some artists I love and that, I think do not have enough recognition 

Salman Toor is a Pakistani/American painter who lives in NYC.

His work talks about various themes like the treatment of brown men and young people. 

He joints the artistic movement of New Queer intimists, a group of young artists.

In 2019 he got an award from the Joan Mitchell Foundation

He is a part of the Magic Realism movement, you can easily recognize this movement due to the particular line it has. All the painting is realistic but with subtitle details, In Toor's work, the lines are free as you can see here.

Four Friends

 

The Star

His latest exposition"No Ordinary Love" took place in the Baltimore museum of art in 2022.    

Titus Kaphar is born in 1976 in Michigan. He went to Yale School of Art and received numerous prizes for his work.

His work is composed of sculptures, installations, and paintings. In it, he represents history and how he interpreted it.

He uses different techniques and materials to express his point of view.

He gave a TED talk about his expositions and how he uses his art to express and "change history".

I CAN NOT SELL YOU THIS PAINTING

He is part of a group of engaged artists who fight for the rights of all human beings. He is a part of NXTHVN a group that empowers emerging artists.

Not my Burden

In this painting, which he did for Time magazine, he wanted to show the view of Black mothers unseen by the world. 

As you can see in those two paintings, Kaphar uses a pattern. Indeed after the event of George Floyd's murder, he was asked by The Time to do an exposition. In those paintings, he represents Black mothers and their children. He represented the kid like that to show the anxiety and terror resent by those mothers who are scared every time their children go out. Not knowing if the police will protect or kill them.

 

Behind the Myth of Benevolence, in this picture, he reproduces the portrait of Thomas Jefferson and the woman who is behind his story. Here, he denounces the story of Sally Hemings who was a slave sexually abused at 14. She had 6 children with T. Jefferson who were raised as slaves on their "father" properties. 

Kaphar made a podcast about the story behind the painting, you really should listen to it. -> here is the link https://www.ted.com/speakers/titus_kaphar

Alex Katz was born in 1927 in NYC. He comes from a Russian family and was raised surrounded by art. His mother was an actress and took him with her during some representation. In 1946 he went to The Cooper Union Art in Manhattan. 

He focuses his art on sculpture and painting mostly in realism. In this movement, he uses derivate cartoons to paint his reality.

He mostly paints his wife and kids.

Alex Katz had been exposed in more than 200 solo exhibitions and 500 in groups. The last one took place in 2022 at The Guggenheim Museum.

He is a part of the American figurative movement.

His painting "blue umbrella" is one of the most known he there represented his wife. This painting is a pure representation of his style.

Today Katz is 95 and he is still painting daily. He even made a collaboration with the clothes brand H&M.

This painting is named "Ada and Vincent". He painted it in 1967, it represents his wife and son like in almost all his work. His family was his biggest inspiration.