BEAUTY: Painting--Michael Angel

Australian-American artist Michael Angel creates some wonderful abstract works, but its his pieces which blend portraiture and figurative work with abstraction, reflecting how the paint moves, that attract me.

Top to bottom: Everything In Its Right Place; Family Tree; High and Dry; The Look Back; Man In Chair; Off Sunset; On The Hill; Portrait; They Held Hands; untitled; untitled

https://michaelangel.net/

BEAUTY: Painting--Amy Dury

I love how UK-based artist Amy Dury takes paintings modeled on vintage photographs and amps them up with unusual, saturated color choices...

Top to bottom: A Place At The Table; Brother; Gob Bless Strawberry Jam; Nan; No. 4; The Race; Ready, Set; Sail Away; Wild Boys

https://www.amydury.com/

BEAUTY: Collage--MUMI

Argentinian collage artist MUMI uses vintage, antique, and even ancient imagery to create wonderful, layered works that feel like Medieval and Renaissance portraiture but through a skewed, surreal lens.

Top to bottom: A orillas del cielo; Dreamland; El huésped; Guardián de las cenizas; Healing Nature; Insomnia; Magma Melting; Magnificent Nature; Mi jardín primitivo; The Search

You can buy prints and more at MUMI's sites (links at this Instagram page):
https://www.instagram.com/muminalab/

BEAUTY: Drawing/Painting--Dan Romer

Color! Oh my, look at the color in the amazing portraiture work of artist and illustrator Dan Romer. I love the freedom with which he uses not only color but line and shape...breathtaking...

https://www.danromerart.com/

BEAUTY: Drawing--Howard Tangye

Howard Tangye's portraits and figurative works are breathtaking in their fluidity, expressiveness, and grace (his attention to the way the body exists is stunning)...not to mention his free use of color.

The INFO section of his site states:

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Womenswear. There, he tutored many contemporary greats, including John Galliano, Stella McCartney, Christopher Kane, Wes Gordon, Zac Posen and Hussein Chalayan.

Throughout his teaching career Tangye quietly developed a particularly idiosyncratic art practice. By employing a decisive line with bold applications of richly layered materials, Tangye explores the nuances of the human form in an effort to expose his subjects’ true essence and energy.

Through these hyper-vigilant life studies what becomes apparent is an articulation of how the process of drawing offers a freedom to examine emotion in a way other mediums are unable. Tangye’s twisted line finds similarities with Egon Schiele, but what separates Tangye’s work is an intriguing, shy romanticism. Tangye himself states that, ‘[drawing is] a bit like falling in love, however unrequited.’

Examples of Tangye’s portraiture are held in many important collections, both public and private, including the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), Harvard University and London’s National Portrait Gallery.

https://howardtangye.com/