Painters - John Fekner, Jack Katz, Irene Lieblich, House Painter and Decorator, Anatoliy Nasedkin, Rafael Lopez, Don Leicht, David Fisher (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: John Fekner, Jack Katz, Irene Lieblich, House painter and decorator, Anatoliy Nasedkin, Rafael Lopez, Don Leicht, David Fisher, Dadara, Court painter, United Artists Rating, Nilufer Moayeri, Michael Flohr, Aurelio Grisanty, Old Master, Jodi Leib, Segar, Carruco, Stefan Lefterov, Tom Everhart, Xavier Sigalon, Clyde Follet Seavey, Roger Chapelet, Hans Multscher, Gilbert Stuart Newton, Edmund Nelson, List of painters by nationality, Denys Wortman, Lists of painters. Excerpt: John Fekner (born in NYC), is an innovative artist who created hundreds of environmental and conceptual outdoor works consisting of stenciled words, symbols, dates and icons spray painted in New York, Sweden, Canada, England and Germany in the 70s and 80s. A seminal figure in the Street Art movement, Fekner participated in recent urban art exhibitions such as Wooster Collective's 11 Spring Street Project in 2006. Working with Don leicht, their latest outdoor project, entitled "The Stanley Cup is missing" is currently part of the annual BLK River street art festival in Vienna, Austria. Art writer Lucy Lippard writes, "Fekner does in public what a lot of art world artists don't even do in galleries: he dispels ambiguity by naming his visions, his viewpoint." In 1968, Fekner painted the words Itchycoo Park in large white letters on an empty building in Gorman Park, New York, and in 1978 he curated the Detective Show at the same outdoor location in Queens which included the words street museum on the invitational card. In reaction to the desolation of the abandoned burnt-out buildings of the South Bronx, Fekner stenciled Last Hope in large letters above one crumbling structure so that every time you passed it you couldn't block it out of your vision. Now you know you can't change the world, but you can't sit back and watch it implode either, so you'll ...