Shane Wolf
Ecce Gratum : 1/6 scale maquette 2

About the Item

Shane Wolf is an American artist born in 1976 in Cincinnati. A first university career in graphic design led him to work for major French industrial brands. He then settled in Annecy while preparing a world tour that he realized four years later, allowing him to deepen a singular attraction and talent for drawing. An admission in 2005 to the prestigious Angel Acade- my of Art draws him back to the European continent, in Florence where he will study the techniques of academic painting according to the teaching of the great masters of the Renaissance. Graduated and noticed, he taught there in turn in 2009. He returns to France in 2010 and is almost exclusively interested in the anatomy of human bodies based on living models, it is distinguished by a particular intention brought to our own image, that of living beings, or beings, simply. Shane Wolf’s captivating works celebrate movement, strength and vital energy. Striking, his way leads the viewer’s gaze and approach towards an original and personal imagination. Surprising and assumed, the «academic» references are in every way renewed by a sensitive and perfectly contemporary eye. Shane Wolf holds the art of grasping us. He fuels our taste for perfect pictorial technique. The painter has received numerous awards, and his works have been added to numerous international public and private collections. Successively Shane Wolf receives the bronze medal at the Carrousel du Louvre (2011), the gold medal at the Salon du Val de Cher (2012), the sought after «Taylor Prize» during his exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris (2011), he is rewarded by the Hudson River Fellowship (New York, in 2008 and 2009), he was selected as a finalist at the International Exhibition of Art Renewal Center, New York (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), also finalist at the America-China Oil Painting Artists League (2010)

Creator:

Shane Wolf (American)

Dimensions:

Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 9.06 in (23 cm)

Medium:

Oil

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century

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