Menorah be the one

Menorah be the one
Menorah be the one. artbytonybulmer.com

Friday, March 4, 2011

SEBASTIAN KRÜGER new pop realism

Keef by Sebastian Kruger
When it comes to iconic modern portraiture there really is only one artist who encapsulates the full gamut of emotion, from madcap fun to dark angst and that man is German artist Sebastian Krüger.

Krüger likes to paint iconic figures who define the modern age and fill our collective consciousness with high art mystery and lowbrow cult of personality pervasiveness. Kruger loves musicians, actors and iconic media figures. He is literally obsessed with the Rolling Stones in general, and Keith Richards in particular, having painted many iconic portraits of the band.

Getting his start as a magazine illustrator Krüger did much work for Stern, Speigel and Rolling Stone magazine. More recently he has transcended the world of the illustrative hamster wheel, breaking out into the lucrative world of commissioned portraits. He is a close friend of Rolling Stones Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood and paints a yearly portrait of Richards.

Krüger paints freehand in acrylics. His technique can be observed at the Utube link below, in which he paints a tortured view of the late, great Michael Jackson. Krüger’s work owes much to the art of caricature, he borrows the distortion and the immediacy of the genre, often incorporating jokes or visual gags into his work. But the artistry and strength of technique places Krüger firmly in the realm of the artisan craftsman. This guy knows how to paint. His works look as if they have been projected or otherwise doctored in Photoshop, but he uses neither.

The artists work is highly valuable and collected. Limited edition prints of his work run at several thousand dollars, original artworks much more. He has to date completed several hundred paintings.
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