Daniel Wiener Art

this is a bright vibrant abstract wall hanging tapestry by Calman Shemi. I believe the material is wool with a linen backing but i am not positive. it can also be used as a floor rug...

this is a bright vibrant abstract wall hanging tapestry by Calman Shemi. I believe the material is wool with a linen backing but i am not positive. it can also be used as a floor rug. Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was born in Argentina in 1939. A graduate of the School of Sculpture and Ceramics in Mendoza, he studied under the Italian-Argentinean sculptor Libero Badii whom he credits with putting him on the right path. “He taught me principals, not only related to sculpture, but human and philosophic principals. Shemi also carefully studied the work of such masters as Picasso, Caravaggio, Frank Stella and Matisse. “From each one of these great artists I learned something from observing them,” he says. In 1961, at the age of 20, Shemi immigrated to Israel and joined Kibbutz Carmia of which he was a member for twenty years. There he worked in agriculture and also as a sculptor working with wood and clay. Several of his large-scale fiberglass and polyester projects are situated in public buildings. He was a student of German-Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann, a pioneer of the artistic movement known as “Canaanism.” Canaanite art was an effort to create a direct relationship with the land, bypassing historic Jewish connotations—hence the land’s primordial name is used. Canaanite works, with an emphasis on the inter-action of simple shapes, bear a deliberate resemblance to the sculpture and ritual art of early civilizations of the Middle East prior to Judaism, always with an eye to the fusion of man and the land itself. Though sculpture dominated his early years as an artist, in the mid ’70s Shemi developed the idea of the “soft painting” medium. Beginning with a color drawing done to scale, Shemi layers onto the drawing irregularly shaped pieces of variously textured and colored fabrics. Using a threadless 9,000-needle sewing machine, the fabrics are meshed to one another and to the background, resulting in vibrant carpet...

Mixed media painting on the cradled wooden panel. Painting is 10"x10". The sides are 1.5" . The sides are painted black. Bold, Brave, Expressive! :: Mixed Media :: Abstract Expres...

I'm influence by the shapes in nature around me. I used the weeds found locally impressed into acrylic paint on a gelli plate. the print was taken with tissue paper, then collaged on...

Lambda c-print on acrylic glass; ready to hang. This is a combination of wet- and digital painting and photography. I do have a name for my new works: Abstract Symbolic and mystical...

Inspired by my many travels across Colorado and Utah on I-70 West. 11x14" mixed media on canvas. :: Mixed Media :: Abstract Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certifi...

Your thoughts, feelings and sensations are the waves of the ocean – coming and going. There are big strong waves and there are soft gentle waves; they are all water and all part of...

"Before we can evolve, balance must be restored. The word goddess contains the syllables expressing both the masculine, god, and the feminine, ESS, sound tones. The suffix ESS and t...

Genre: Avant-Garde Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media, Acrylic Surface: Wood Country: United States Dimensions: 23.5" x 16" Dimensions w/Frame: 24" x 16.5" Reminiscent of the Art Brut work of french master Jean Dubuffet this mixed media piece pulls it all together in a great colorful composition. Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 – 1974) Alexander Raymond Katz was born in Kassa, Hungary, and came to the United States in 1909. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director of Posters for the Chicago Civic Opera in 1930. During the Great Depression, notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright urged Katz to become a muralist. In 1933, he was commissioned to paint a mural for the Century of Progress...

True peace can only come through the surrendering of the heart. With a brushstroke of elegance and a palette of tranquility, my artistic aim in this series is to explore the transfor...

Inspired by my many travels across Colorado and Utah on I-70 West. 11x14" mixed media on canvas. :: Mixed Media :: Abstract Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certifi...

Inspired by my many travels across Colorado and Utah on I-70 West. 11x14" mixed media on canvas. :: Mixed Media :: Abstract Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certifi...