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lithografie,
olieverfschilderijen en giclées van
kunstenaar
Michael Parkes
Stone Lithograph Collection,
oils on canvas and giclées
by the famous artist
Michael Parkes |
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Michael Parkes,
kunstschilder en vermaard lithograaf
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Steenlithografieën
van Michael Parkes / Stone
lithograps by Michael Parkes
Mysteries
uit het leven van de mens, verbeeld door
Michael Parkes |
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The Letter, 2005
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 89 x 61 cm
oplage: 180 exemplaren & 18 EA's
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The Garden, 2003
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 102 x 67 cm
oplage: 180 exemplaren & 18 EA's
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The secret, 2002
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 95 x 64 cm
oplage: 160 exemplaren & 16 EA's
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Oasis, 2001
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 45 x 67 cm
oplage: 160 exemplaren & 16 EA's
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Going Nowhere, 2001
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 62 x 89 cm
oplage: 160 exemplaren & 16 EA's
Michael Parkes about this theme: In this world of incredible stress and speed,
can there be a greater wish than to find a genuine place that is 'going nowhere'? |
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Waiting, 2001
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 45 x 67 cm
oplage: 120 exemplaren & 12 EA's
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Watching Time, 2000
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 66 x 45 cm
oplage: 120 exemplaren & 12 EA's |
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De series 'Collectors
Large' & 'Collectors Little'
The Collectors are creatures that find things of extraordinary interest and beauty. But what is so special about a strawberry, an egg or a frog, you might ask? Just look at these things...don't think about them, just look. The Collectors know a secret about these objects... They can stop time! Past and future do not exist; only this moment has reality. The Collectors show a way for us to stop the grinding thoughts of our mind and simply be with a timeless flower, seahorse, or hummingbird. Every person has at least one object that will stop time for them. What is
yours?!
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The Puppet Collector, 2007
uit de serie 'Collectors Little'
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 35 x 35 cm
oplage: 180 exemplaren & 18 EA's
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The Egg Collector, 2007
uit de serie 'Collectors Little'
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 35 x 35 cm
oplage: 180 exemplaren & 18 EA's
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The Seahorse Collector, 2007
uit de serie 'Collectors Little'
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 35 x 35 cm
oplage: 180 exemplaren & 18 EA's
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The Frog Collector, 2007
uit de serie 'Collectors Little'
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 35 x 35 cm
oplage: 180 exemplaren & 18 EA's
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The Dragon Collector, 2003
uit de serie 'Collectors Large'
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 36,5 x 47 cm
oplage: 140 exemplaren & 14 EA's |
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Hummingbird collector, 2004
uit de serie 'Collectors Large'
steenlithografie
beeldmaat: 36,5 x 44 cm
oplage: 140 exemplaren & 14 EA's |
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Giclées by Michael
Parkes - The Aurographics
Collection |
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The Aurographics Collection brings fine museum quality reproductions of Michael Parkes' work to a wider
audience. The Aurographics Collection includes mixed media prints, giclée prints, and other reproduction mediums. Michael works directly with the
best studio in The Netherlands to create high resolution digital images. At
times, Michael will personally make changes directly in the digital imagery to make the giclée print
unique. Other times, the original is reproduced exactly. Depending on the effect that Michael desires to achieve for the new
work, the prints are printed with archival quality inks onto canvas or archival paper.
Giclée prints are gaining widespread acceptance and auction value
generally, and appear in several prestigious museum collections, including those of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art. The prints in the Aurographics Collection represent the highest quality of giclée prints
nowadays available.
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Polar Wings, 2008, Giclée on Canvas
beeldmaat: 33 x 57 cm, Canvas Size: 46 x 70 cm
oplage: 60 exemplaren & 6 EA's
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A Word from Michael
Parkes about Polar Wings:
Polar Wings is part of a re-occurring theme concerning "devas." There is a myth that creative
"devas" (whom also could be called "guardian angels") were on this Earth in the beginning to help design everything on Earth from
plants, insects, to mammals. They've watched over their creations from the beginning of their time on Earth and will continue to do so until the very end of their
existence, individually and collectively. Many of these creations are threatened with exstinction
today. This was the them in my painting, "The Last Lion." Another
painting, "Deva" shows the deva in the process of creating the
dragonfly. Here you have a tender moment between the Polar Bear and his
deva. |
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Venus - Deluxe Edition, 2008
Giclée on Canvas
beeldmaat: 131 x 112 cm
oplage: 25 exemplaren & 3 EA's
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Three Graces, The, 2005
Giclée on Canvas
beeldmaat: 107 x 83 cm
oplage: 275 exemplaren & 50 EA's
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The Last Peony, 2005
Giclée on Canvas
beeldmaat: 107 x 83 cm
oplage: 275 exemplaren & 50 EA's |
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Indian Summer, 2006
Giclée on Canvas
beeldmaat: 108 x 82 cm
oplage: 200 exemplaren & 30 EA's
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Michael
Parkes en Galerie Beeldkracht
Het is sinds de oprichting van onze galerie in 1995 mijn wensdroom
geweest kunstwerken ten toon te stellen, die absolute
'beeldkracht' bezitten. Een woord dat overigens toen - tijdens het
verzinnen van de bedrijfsnaam en in de opstartperiode van 1994 -
nog niet bestond en nergens werd gebruikt, maar door mij werd
bedacht om de echte ambitie van de galerie mee uit te drukken...
Onlangs schreef ik Michael Parkes een uitleg over de betekenis van
de naam van onze galerie:
"The name of our gallery is 'Beeldkracht', which means translated
'Imagepower'. We have chosen this name, because this reflects our wish to show only images with 'power'. In
this context images are: paintings, sculptures, lithographs, prints,
etchings, photographs etc.
Power means in this context 'with great professional skill', 'with
vision', 'made with high intensity', 'with passion for the art', etc."
Zonder het te beseffen had ik voor het eerst op schrift onze
bedrijfsnaam toegelicht en juist aan diegene, die volledig voldoet aan genoemde criteria.
Parkes beschikt immers over uitzonderlijk groot vakmanschap bij
het maken van zijn litho's. Zijn werk is niet alleen uniek van
stijl, maar ook stijlvast. Het is gemaakt vanuit een heldere en
persoonlijke visie op de mensheid, het leven op aarde, en de
harmonie en disharmonie waarmee mens, dier en natuur worden
geconfronteerd. Parkes wil middels zijn kunst bijdragen aan een
wereld van rust en harmonie.
Tientallen jaren bevindt Parkes zich reeds aan de top in de
kunstwereld, dit is niet in de laatste plaats te danken aan de
grote intensiteit, die zijn arbeidsintensieve kunstwerken
kenmerken, of het nu om litho's, tekeningen, schilderijen of
sculpturen gaat. Parkes gaat de technische moeilijkheden nooit uit
de weg. Hij toont liefde en oneindig veel geduld voor elke
millimeter, die hij creëert. Hij put daarbij steeds weer uit zijn
passie voor de kunst en zijn kennis van filosofie, symboliek en
mystiek uit alle delen van de wereld.
Zonder andere grote kunstenaars bij Galerie Beeldkracht tekort te
willen doen, lijkt, met de komst van Michael Parkes in de
collectie van Galerie Beeldkracht, de droom van Galerie
Beeldkracht uitgekomen!
Sander Kletter - galeriehouder Galerie Beeldkracht, december 2008
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Michael
Parkes op Art Nocturne Knocke 2009
Galerie Beeldkracht exposeert een aantal werken van
Michael Parkes op Art Nocturne Knocke in augustus 2009,
waaronder de originele schilderijen Morning Song en Lion's
return bovenaan deze pagina. U kunt deze schilderijen
overigens ook nu al bezichtigen in de galerie. Informatie over Art Nocturne Knocke.
Presentatie Michael
Parkes door Galerie Beeldkracht op kunstbeurs Art Nocturne Knocke, België 2009.
Galerie Beeldkracht exposeerde op de beurs o.a. de
olieverfschilderijen 'Morning Song' en 'Lion's return'.
Michael Parkes op het weblog van Galerie Beeldkracht
- 21 augustus 2009: Verslag van Art Nocturne Knocke 2009
- 27 december 2008
Helaas zijn deze berichten niet bewaard, wegens het opheffen van het weblog in augustus 2011 |
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About
Michael Parkes
Michael Parkes is the world's leading magical realist painter,
sculptor, and stone lithographer. His decades of success as a fine artist stand out in the art
world, where fewer than 1% of artists ever achieve success in both primary and secondary art
markets. Parkes' works are collected by celebrities, private collectors, and galleries
internationally. Parkes continues to create new works, all of which are widely sought
after.
Exhibitions
Michael Parkes has had one-man exhibitions at Basel Art in
Switzerland, Art Chicago, Art Fair NY, Frankfurt Bookfair, Amsterdam Art Fair, Tefaf Art and Antiques Fair Maastricht and is eagerly represented by galleries in Amsterdam,
Paris, Denmark, Italy, New York, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay
Area, and around the United States. In 2007, Michael was the guest of honor in the international show "Venus and the Female
Intuition," exhibited in Denmark and Holland. Parkes' work inspired a contemporary ballet production by Scorpius Dance Theater of
Phoenix, where his art came alive in the ballet's sets and
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Place in Art History
John Russell Taylor, art critic for the London Times and
contributor to The New York Times, says: "With Parkes we may be
reminded, now of some Victorian, now of Botticelli, now of Tiepolo,
now (though much more infrequently) of Goya. But all of these,
though Parkes has undoubtedly observed them, have been absorbed
into an entirely modern sensibility. If we were looking for a
twentieth-century stalking horse, we might well look to
Surrealists like Dali and Magritte."
"There is one important distinction. In Surrealism, there is
always a sense of stress and [the] blues beneath the smooth
surface. Maybe there was a touch of that in Parkes at the
beginning of his latest phase: the clowns and dwarfs could seem
threatening, not all the animals had their claws safely sheathed.
But Parkes always seemed to be hankering after calm and
tranquility, and in his latest works he has achieved it."
Personal History
Parkes could draw even before he could read and write. He was an
only child, raised in small town Missouri. He attended art school
where he met the woman, artist and musician to whom he remains
married more than three decades later, Maria Sedoff. Parkes has
been a serious and lifelong student of spirituality and esoterica.
In the seventies, Michael and Maria set off on a spiritual journey
where they found excellent teachers and a lifelong passion for
India. Returning to Spain soon after their daughter's birth,
Michael and Maria worked together, beginning with humbly making
and selling leather belts to tourists to achieving the
international recognition that Parkes enjoys today. Parkes remains
as much like your favorite neighbor as the sage weaver of myth and
dreams whom we know through his art. In 2008, Michael and Maria
welcomed their first grandchild into the world, a joyous occasion
that led to Parkes' new painting, The Gift.
By Brooke Oliver, 2008 |
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The Art of Stone Lithography
Michael Parkes is a living master of the stone lithograph process, which is an increasingly rare art
form, dying art. Michael's ability to draw a firm line around his ideas is one of his greatest gifts - and absolutely essential for the demanding discipline of stone
lithography. Parkes began in the early 1980's making hand-pulled original stone
lithographs, drawing them in the traditional manner directly on the
stone. He has always been attracted to the immediacy of stone
lithography. The medium is very intolerant of mistakes. The artist needs to know exactly what he wants to do and exactly how to do it.
Parkes stone lithographs can use as many as 14 colors and traditionally that would mean 14 different
stones, but over the years Parkes created a technique where he used two or three stones to produce the same
results. The image for each new color is drawn on the stone and in doing
so, the previous color-image is completely erased and
irretrievable. One cannot backtrack for correcting or adding to a previous color already
printed. It makes the process much faster but the safety net is
gone. To many artists this is terrifying and they refer to it as the "suicide run." To
Parkes, it is a stimulating challenge that he loves to meet one of the reasons for his 25 year love affair with stone
lithography.
All of Michael Parkes stone lithographs are done with his direct participation - he draws on the
stones, hand checks each print, and signs only those that meet his very exacting
standards. Because the printing process involves so much
hand-work, each stone lithograph in an edition has slight differences from each
other, and so they are individually numbered and one of a kind. Many experts consider hand-drawn limited edition stone lithograph prints to be original works of fine art.
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