Michiel Schrijver & Mark Beck: Painting styles
After Philippe Charles Jacquet: The Better Maestro of Solitude and Il gattopardo azzurro: How I discovered Evgeni Gordiets, I’ll show you samples from two contemporary painters that are completely different in style, yet somehow I found them worth mentioning under the tag Art.
Michiel Schrijver and his surreal architecture
I discovered Michiel Schrijver (Dutch, born 1957) through his painting Silence of the sea, 2013, via this FB post:
Someone commented: “Evocative. I’m reminded of both Hopper and de Chirico.” Quite true.
Here’s how you can learn more about him:
- His website shows almost 100 paintings at a reasonable resolution (limited to 800 pixels, but a few ones are larger).
- Tutt’Art@ in English has 60+ of his pictures: Michiel Schrijver, 1957 | Surreal architecture painter
- Tutt’Art@ in Italian has a different set of 50+ pictures, as it’s a much more recent article: Michiel Schrijver, 1957 | Architettura surreale
- Here’s my source for Silence of the Sea.
- Art Revisited has about 450 works, but the images are small.
The recurrent themes can be easily identified in the sampler below.
Mark Beck, the American realist
In a completely different genre, an artist discovered via a French guy who listed his painting Hidden Narrative:
Mark Beck has his own website, with more than 100 paintings are shown, with newer additions on his FB page, and Tutt’Art@ has a page on him too: Mark Beck, 1957.
I’m not a fan of his people’s portraits, so my quick selection will mostly include landscapes.
Not of the same caliber, I’m afraid.
BONUS: Cristina Bernazzani
Cristina Bernazzani, Surreal cat:
Cristina Bernazzani, Female reading:
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