paintings – Cleveland State Art

Andrew Schoultz

Andrew Schoultz was born in 1975 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin but he has lived and worked in San Francisco, CA since 1997.

Andrew works about 80 hours a week as a full time artist, and has for a little over ten years.

“I’d describe my work as art that’s attempting to create experiences and visuals that in some way record contemporary history.” -Andrew Schoultz.

He works with many medias such as mixing drawings , paintings, collages, print making , and large scale wall paintings and sculpture , sometimes he uses gold leaf as well to create art.

He is inspired by The Nuremberg Chronicles, a book that was written in 1493 in which some of the very first cities and countries were illustrated, basically the start of map-making. Another work that inspired him was the dance movie “Breakin” it was what got him started with graffiti art.

“I’d say that my work has a lot to do with history and how it repeats itself over and over again. I’d also say that there’s definitely been an influence of underground comics as well as graffiti, which may or may not be obvious at this point in time. .”- Andrew Schoultz.

The themes that tend to pop up in most of his works are war, global warming, natural disasters and economic crisis. One way Andrew describes his work is “chaotic, multi-layering and political.”

He tells stories about everyday issues and life through his art work, by sticking political remarks in the form of graffiti and underground comics , mixed with some medieval grip mapping out man and nature’s history.

Andrew Schoultz’s big break was in the Clarion Alley Mural Project, with his “Coffee Machine” mural, supported by Aaron Noble. Aaron Noble is a well know muralist in San Fransisco, he was was the one to push Andrew in to the scene of public art.

He has spent a lot of time on the streets doing wall paintings and murals but he has also spent time doing galleries as well. He has a great passion for doing large paintings on public areas so he can inform the people of the current social and political issues.

In high school he soared through the art program and had one of his own pieces in the Milwaukee Art Museum where he won a scholarship to the University of Wisconsin, but he ended up leaving after the first semester because he was much more interested in street art and skateboarding.

(Meditations Under Stress)

(Destroyer)

(What Burns Never Returns)

The I of the Storm

(Meltdown)

(In Process)

(Monument to a Whirlwind)

(10,000 Leaves in Darkness)

Work Cited

http://www.andrewschoultz.com/

http://www.morganlehmangallery.com/artists/andrew-schoultz/

http://www.artnet.com/artists/andrew-schoultz/biography-links

Andrew Schoultz

http://inthemake.com/andrew-schoultz/

Ernie Barnes

Ernest “Ernie” Barnes was born on July 15, 1938, during the Jim Crowe era in Durham, North Carolina. Through out his long life Ernest wore many hats. He was a painter, professional football player, actor and author.

Ernest learned the value of hard work from his father Ernest E. Barnes Sr. who was a shipping clerk. His mother, Fannie Mae Geer oversaw the household staff for prominent Durham attorney, Frank Fuller, Jr.

When Ernest had the opportunity to accompany his mother to work, he used the time to study a collection of art books and listen to classical music in Fuller’s study. Ernest was inspired by the works of the master artist such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Delacroix, Rubens, and Michelangelo.

When it came to school, Ernest had problems most of us suffer today. He was a self-described chubby and non-athletic child. He was taunted and bullied by classmates. But he found refuge in his sketchbooks which he would take to his hiding place away from the other students.

Maybe it was fate on one of those unusual days when Ernest was hidden away in a quite place, that a teacher, Tommy Tucker, found him drawing in a notebook. Tucker was also the weightlifting coach and a former athlete.

Tucker was impressed with Ernest’s drawings so he asked the aspiring artist about his grades and goals. Tucker told Ernest about his own experiences of how weight training improved his strength and outlook on life. That one meeting began Ernest’s dedication which would change his life.

Ernest’s discipline paid off during his senior year at Hillside High School when he became the captain of the football team and state champion in the shot put and discus throw.

In 1956 Ernest graduated from Hillside with 26 athletic scholarship offers. However, because of segregation, he was not able to consider nearby Duke or the University of Carolina.

He chose the all-black North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University) which was then located across the street from his high school. At NCC, he majored in art on a full athletic scholarship. On the football team he played Tackle and Center and was selected to the All-Conference Team.

At the age of 18, on a college art class field trip to the newly desegregated North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, Ernest asked where he could find “paintings by Negro artists.” The tour guide responded, “your people don’t express themselves that way.”

Twenty-two years later, in 1978, justice prevailed when Barnes returned to the same museum for a solo exhibition, hosted by North Carolina Governor James Hunt.

Sometime after his final football game, Ernest went to the 1965 NFL owners meeting in Houston in hopes of becoming the leagues official artist. There he was introduced to New York Jets owner Sonny Werblin, who was impressed with Barnes and his art. He paid for Barnes to bring his paintings to New York.

When they met at the gallery some days later, , Ernest was surprised to find three art critics there to evaluate his paintings. They told Werblin that Barnes was “the most expressive painter of sports since George Bellows.”

In what was probably the strangest move in the history of the NFL, Werblin retained Barnes as a salaried player, but put him in front of the canvas, rather than on the football field. Werblin informed Ernest, “You have more value to the country as an artist than as a football player.”

Ernest’s November 1966 debut solo exhibition hosted by Werblin at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York was critically acclaimed and all the paintings sold.

Several of Ernest’s paintings were seen by a different crowd from 1974-1978 during the “Good Times” television series. It was here that most of the paintings “created” by the character JJ Walker were actually painted by Ernest.

Ernest credits his college art instructor Ed Wilson for laying the foundation for his development as an artist. Wilson was a sculptor who instructed Ernest to paint from his own life experiences. “He made me conscious of the fact that the artist who is useful to America is one who studies his own life and records it through the medium of art, manners and customs of his own experiences.”

Ernie Barnes died April 27, 2009 from a rare blood disorder.

Wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Barnes
erniebarnes.com

Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo was born on January 8, 1941 in Peru, and immigrated to the United States in 1964. He is married to Julie Bell and has two children from his previous marriage to Doris Vallejo, as well as two step-sons. Julie Bell, and his step-sons, Anthony Palumbo and David Palumbo are all painters. His daughter, Maya Vallejo is a professional photographer, and his ex-wife, Doris Vallejo is an artist and a writer.

Vallejo works mostly in the Science Fiction and Erotica genres, painting them almost exclusively. He began painting at only thirteen and gained his first job as an illustrator at sixteen. After his immigration he soon gained fans from his illustrations of Tarzan:

Conan the Barbarian:

Doc Savage:

and several other fantasy characters, which led to commissions for movie posters, advertisements and artwork for many collectibles, including Franklin Mint paraphernalia, trading cards, and sculpture.

Vallejo paints a lot of erotic pictures, often using Julie Bell for a model, though he is known for using female body builders as well.

His paintings are always full of life and color, unlike most fantasy artists. Not only is he a master of his art, but he has touched both ends of the science fiction spectrum. From heroic barbarian warriors, to beautiful landscapes, and strange alien beasts he has done it all.

His preferred medium is oil paints, however he has done several graphite and pen drawings, as well.

Even in black and white his drawings come to life.

Despite his astounding paintings and magnificent drawings, Vallejo can be considered a jack of all trades, as he is also an accomplished violin player. He began playing as a child, but put this passion aside for a long time. After really getting his foot in the door with several illustration companies he began to play again and enjoys it to this day.