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Richard Wilson
"Stevie Wonder" Painting for Mural in Detroit, Musician, Portrait, Oil
2018

Name: "Stevie Wonder" Painting for Mural in Detroit, Musician, Portrait, Oil
Brand: Richard Wilson
Rating: 5 (15 reviews)

About the Item

"Stevie Wonder" is a portrait of the famous musician and the proposed design for the mural that the artist, Richard Wilson, gifted to the city of Detroit. Richard has a great admiration for Stevie Wonder and in the city where Stevie was from, Detroit, Wilson painted a mural of Stevie Wonder on an outside wall of the Music Hall for the Performing Arts. This is a much smaller version of the mural. Richard Wilson, an artist from London, England, were he currently resides began as a graffiti artist in 1984 when he began “writing” graffiti. He states: It’s something that never leaves you so even though from 1989 – 2012 I didn’t do any form of artwork at all, I was still heavily interested in who was up, who was writing, watching styles evolve.” In 2012 he started to get back into art, doing some pieces when he could but by then his fascination with portraiture had begun. He tried some different mediums and ways, pencil sketches and more realistic acrylic paintings, but he really wanted to be able to try and emulate art heroes like Belin and Smug and be able to paint faces in spray paint. He did his first one in June 2016. At that time he was doing various large portraits in spray paint around his day job working at Bonhams Auctioneers which is where his love of portraits and figurative work really took hold. Daily he would be able to look at Old Master Paintings and also Contemporary pieces and it became a passion of his … to paint people that inspired him and art that tells a story and in particular to be able to paint big walls when he can and where he can paint something that can connect with the surround community. This aspect of Street Art/Mural art is extremely important to him. In January 2017 he began using oil paints as well and since then has been focusing more on canvas pieces using mainly oils along with his mural work. He currently has a studio in West London working on his art full time taking on commissioned pieces and his own personal projects. Richard painted a massive mural commemorating Motown great Stevie Wonder in Detroit on the side of Detroit’s Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts. It is a 100 foot-tall, 8,000-square-foot painting. Wilson started the project on Wonder's 69th birthday in May 2019 and completed in July of that year. This year also happens to mark the 60th anniversary of Motown records where Stevie Wonder got his start. The painting without the frame measures: 36" h x 36" w.

Creator:
Richard Wilson (1953 - 1782, British)
Creation Year:
2018
Dimensions:
Height: 39 in (99.06 cm)Width: 39 in (99.06 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Detroit, MI
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU128616782852

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