Showing posts with label El Mac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label El Mac. Show all posts

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Some Works of El Mac

Some works of EL MAC

Seres Queridos project. Campeche, México



Title: Manuel Chang Lee
Wall : Mercado
Location: Campeche, México
 Location: San Fransisco... Upper playground

 Background by Retna. Culver City, California




background painted by Retna. Salt Lake City



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Monday, 23 July 2012

Graffiti Art of El Mac

Born in Los Angeles in 1980 to an engineer and an artist, Mac has been creating and studying art independently since childhood. He was inspired at a young age by classic European painters such as Caravaggio, and Vermeer and Art Nouveau symbolists such as Klimt and Mucha.  This was mixed with the more contemporary influences of graffiti and photorealism, as well as as the Chicano & Mexican culture he grew up around. He began painting with acrylics and painting graffiti in the mid ’90s, when his primary focus became the life-like rendering of human faces and figures.  He has since worked consistently toward developing his unique rendering style, which utilizes repeating contour lines reminiscent of ripples.  Turing patterns and indigenous North American art.  In 1999 he began to paint portraits of his friends and anonymous Mexican Laborers in public spaces throughout the American southwest, both legally and illegally.  He also started painting large technicolor aerosol interpretations of classic paintings by old European masters. This led to being commissioned in 2003 by the Groeninge Museum in Brugge, Belgium to paint his interpretations of classic Flemish Primitive paintings in the museum’s collection. He has since been commissioned to paint murals across the US, as well as in Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, South Korea, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Singapore, Germany, Ireland, the UK, Vietnam and Cuba.