Meet Mural Artist Chor Boogie

Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau in Art & Artists, Painting

artwork by Chor Boogie

Extraordinary visual artist Chor Boogie has created gorgeous mural artwork throughout California & the world. Chor Boogie has emerged from a turbulent youth – after living on the streets, battling heroin addiction, spending time in jail & going “to hell and back” a few times – to become a world renowned spray paint muralist who has created large scale artwork for public enjoyment in several countries across the world.

One of his more prominent works, “The Color Therapy of Perception”, is a 100-foot mural commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission’s “Arts in Storefronts” project to improve the city’s blighted Tenderloin neighborhood.[14][15] While painting that work he was stabbed by thieves trying to steal his tools of communication. Mayor Gavin Newsom visited Chor Boogie in the hospital, and helped complete the painting.

Chor Boogie at work

To see more of his paintings, visit
http://www.chorboogie.com/

artist Chor Boogie

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The Ghost of Magritte – Collage Art by Edvard Derkert

Posted by: Kenneth Rougeau in Art & Artists, Collage

“Edvard Derkert has small eyeglasses.
Through these he fixates on one thing at a time.”
- Ölandsbladet

“Old and new, intellect and feeling, humor and solemnity.
Everything is cut and pasted together into an unconnected connection.”
- Barometern

Edvard Derkert has been creating collage & photo montage art off & on since he was a child growing up in Stockholm, Sweden, originally inspired by the images in Life magazine. During the 1960′s & 70′s Edvard put his visual art on the back burner while he focused on expressing himself musically. “I wanted to be a great guitar player and saxophonist but the more I practiced my scales and arpeggios the less interesting playing became. My love for music wasn’t reciprocated and I more or less stopped playing music,” he explains.

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The Ghost of Magritte

In the late 1980′s Derkert returned to collaging with renewed vigor and, following a few exhibitions and sales, decided that collage was where he wanted to focus his attentions & efforts. In the 1990′s, Edvard bought an Amiga computer & began experimenting with digital art & animation. A few years later, he swapped the Amiga for a Macintosh & began using Photoshop. Lately, Edvard Derkert‘s collage art is created almost exclusively on the computer. “I have by now almost abandoned paper collage – but the collage spirit lives on,” he says.

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Recently, Derkert has created a brilliant & bizarre collage animation based on his series “The Terrible State of Santé“, shown here in two parts. “Santé emerged almost by itself, like a by-product from my daily art work-outs,” says the artist. “The scenes from the world of Santé are mostly grim and dismal. I guess that’s in line with the present taste of the media audiences.”