Sergio Rangel - Beautiful Deterioration

Sergio Rangel was a student at Pasadena Memorial High School, when he won ninth place for this painting in the 2008 Culture Shapers Visual Arts Contest.

The annual Culture Shapers Visual Arts Contest enables student artists to compete for nearly $70,000 in cash prizes in six categories... drawing, painting, electronic media, mixed media, photography and sculpture. The contest takes place in the autumn, and is open to all High School Students in Harris, Waller, Liberty, Chambers, Galveston, Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Montgomery counties.

Culture Shapers jurors are a combination of educators and professionals, who come highly recommended to us by other notable organizations, such as the Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE), as well as others. Many of our jurors have experience both in and out of the classroom, which gives them a unique and valuable perspective on evaluating student artwork.

Ethelyn Cosby Stewart - Sung Tranquillity [1936]

Ethelyn Cosby Stewart (Arlington, New Jersey, 1900 – 1972) was an American artist.

[Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 102.5 cm]

Roselina Hung - The Return Home

Roselina Hung received an MA Fine Art in Painting from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, and a BFA from the University of British Columbia. She also spent a year at L’Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris. Her work has exhibited internationally and can be found in private collections around the world. Born in 1980, Vancouver, Canada; she currently lives and works in Vancouver.

[Oil on oak, 31.7 X 38.7 cm]

See: http://www.roselinahung.com

Donald M Mattison - Portrait of the Davico Sisters [before 1934]

Donald M Mattison (Beloit, Wisconsin, 1905 - Indianapolis, Indiana, 1975) was an American artist.

[Oil on canvas]

Gladys Nilsson - Arytystic Pairanoiya [1978]

Gladys Nilsson (born 1940) is a Chicago artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. Her paintings "set forth a surreal mixture of fantasy and domesticity in a continuous parade of chaotic images." She is married to fellow-artist and Hairy Who member Jim Nutt.

[Watercolour and pencil on paper sheet, 63.9 x 102.4 cm]

John Lewis Krimmel - The Quilting Frolic [1813]

Krimmel (American, born Germany, 1786–1821) gathered information for his paintings in the field, observing local habits, rituals, and ceremonies in Philadelphia, so even though he took his compositional formats from British models, popular prints made after paintings by the satirical artists William Hogarth and David Wilkie, he keyed his subject matter to his potential audience at the Pennsylvania Academy. In this canvas, a richly detailed parlour, which evokes the burgeoning middle-class consumer culture, provides the setting for the narrative: a group of smartly dressed folks, accompanied by a minstrel, have burst in to celebrate the completion of a quilt before the seamstresses have cleaned up their scraps of fabric and sewing implements or changed into party attire. A critic applauded in 1813: "The subject is good and executed with great judgment, and if Mr. Krimmel only perseveres in the path he has chosen, we are decidedly of opinion that his labours will contribute largely towards giving character to the arts in our country."

František Kupka - Vertical Plains Blue and Red [1913]

František Kupka (September 23, 1871 - June 24, 1957) was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and orphic cubism (Orphism). Kupka's abstract works arose from a base of realism, but later evolved into pure abstract art. František Kupka was born in Opočno, eastern Bohemia (now Czech Republic). Kupka had a strong interest in colour theory; around 1910 he began developing his own colour wheels, adapting a format previously explored by Sir Isaac Newton and Hermann von Helmholtz. This work in turn led Kupka to execute a series of paintings he called "Discs of Newton" (1911-12). Kupka was interested in freeing colours from descriptive associations. His work in this area is thought to have influenced other artists like Robert Delaunay.