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Andréa Fernandes
Calling all artophiles!
by Andréa Fernandes - May 31, 2009 - 2:00 PM
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For the month of June, “Feel Art Again” will feature an artist (or artists) from a different country for each day the series appears. (That’s at least 13 artists from 13 countries for 13 days.) To do so, we need YOUR help.

Submit your requests for artists from around the world today!

Comment on this post, or send an e-mail to feelartagain@gmail.com, naming the artist(s) you recommend and what countries they’re from.

In the past, “Feel Art Again” has featured artists from America, Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Thailand. The majority of the artists featured on “Feel Art Again,” though, have been American, English, French, and Russian. We’re looking to bring some diversity to the series and expose readers to art from other parts of the world. (We’re especially lacking on African art.)

Let’s get those submissions rolling in!

And don’t worry, we’re still plugging away at all the past recommendations, too.

“Feel Art Again” appears every Tuesday and Thursday and once on the weekend. You can e-mail us at feelartagain@gmail.com with details of current exhibitions, for sources or further reading, or to suggest artists.

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Comments (16)

  1. Joan Miro of Catalunya!

    posted by Jake on 5-31-2009 at 2:37 pm

  2. Gijs Bakker

    posted by Bess on 5-31-2009 at 7:04 pm

  3. Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, bad-ass painters from the UK, Guillermo Tolentino and Napoleon Abueva, Juan Luna and Felix Resurrecion Hidalgo, sculptors and painters, respectively, from the Philippines and my favorite, Alphonse Mucha. :)

    posted by Berms Bermudez on 5-31-2009 at 8:12 pm

  4. Deron Cohen and Stanley Donwood are two of my favourite artists right now. I’d love to see them a part of this :)

    posted by Jan P. on 5-31-2009 at 8:29 pm

  5. Yoko Ono of Japan! (I’m a big fan of the entire Fluxist movement)

    Any of the CoBrA group: Asger Jorn, Karel Appel, Corneille (Cornelis von Beverloo), Constant A. Nieuwenhuys, or Pierre Alechinsky.

    posted by Jenipher on 6-1-2009 at 10:04 am

  6. Lucia Buccini, a Brazilian artist in the arte naif genre. My name has the link.

    posted by DB on 6-1-2009 at 10:06 am

  7. Any of the CoBrA group: Asger Jorn, Karel Appel, Corneille (Cornelis von Beverloo), Constant A. Nieuwenhuys, or Pierre Alechinsky.

    OOPS! I forgot to specify…all are artists from Copenhagen (”Co”), Brussels (”Br”), or Amsterdam (”A”).

    posted by Jenipher Again on 6-1-2009 at 10:14 am

  8. Braam Kruger – South Africa

    posted by Ian on 6-1-2009 at 10:15 am

  9. John August Swanson. Russian iconographs meet Mexican influences. Color for a taupe world!

    posted by lisa on 6-1-2009 at 11:46 am

  10. I love Marisol Escobar from France (but she’s actually Venezuelan!).

    African art, hm? How about David Adjaye — he’s an architect. I assume architects count.

    Also, Sokari Douglas Camp. She really has an interesting style of sculpture.

    posted by gillian on 6-1-2009 at 12:05 pm

  11. Remedios Varo, born in Spain, lived in Mexico after fleeing the Spanish civil war.

    posted by Valerie on 6-1-2009 at 12:25 pm

  12. I havent seen a feel art on MC Escher… mathematician turned artist seems oh so fitting for the floss.

    posted by solipsismal displacement on 6-1-2009 at 12:28 pm

  13. Remedios Varo
    Leonora Carrington
    Kara Walker
    J. L. David
    Artemasia Gentileschi
    Tina Modotti
    Modigliani
    Banksy
    Julia Margaret Cameron

    posted by Liz on 6-1-2009 at 3:01 pm

  14. Richard Prince – Panama Canal Zone

    posted by rw on 6-1-2009 at 8:03 pm

  15. Thank you all for the suggestions!

    We’ve covered a few of them already:

    Lucian Freud: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/22446

    Alphonse Mucha: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15728

    M.C. Escher: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24109

    Artemisia Gentileschi: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/14056

    Modigliani: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16502

    The rest are now on my list of possible June artists!

    posted by Andréa Fernandes on 6-2-2009 at 12:27 am

  16. Mucha!

    posted by Peter on 6-4-2009 at 2:48 am

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