El Mac
You know as much as one generation may criticize another, I think I am falling in love with this new generation. Their ideas are fresh and edgy. They are not afraid to leave behind old mores. They are seeing the world in new and different ways, they are interacting socially in a world environment completely out of the box. I am thinking what would Diego Rivera or Leonardo done with technology and thinking differently about the world. El Mac's world tour taking graffiti to new heights, putting art where everyone can enjoy it, not in some cooperate board room...bringing the average person to art and seeing the world in a different way. El Mac(click for link) takes ordinary people and paints them large in a space that people see on their way to work or to the store and bam!, there is art. He takes pictures of people in one country and paints them in another...a sort of a giant world howdy!!!!
A better explanation of his history and work is from his own bio...here is an excerpt from his site.
"Born in Los Angeles in 1980 to an engineer and an artist, Mac has been creating and studying art independently since childhood. His primary focus has been the lifelike rendering of human faces and figures. He has drawn inspiration from the surrounding Mexican & Chicano culture of Phoenix and the American Southwest, religious art, pin-up art, graffiti, and a wide range of classic artists such as Caravaggio, Mucha, and Vermeer. He began painting with acrylics and painting graffiti in the mid ’90s, and has since worked consistently towards mastering his signature portrait style. Around 1998 he began to paint technicolor aerosol versions of classic paintings by old European masters. This led to being commissioned in 2003 by the Groeninge Museum in Brugge, Belgium to paint his interpretations of classic Flemish Primitive paintings in the museum’s collection. He has since been commissioned to paint murals across the US, as well as in Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, South Korea, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Singapore, Germany, Ireland, and Vietnam."
source El Mac website
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