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Dive into Visual Emotion: Discover Pierre, Master of Oil Painting

Dive into Visual Emotion: Discover Pierre, Master of Oil Painting

Welcome to the vibrant world of contemporary art, where the mastery of oil painting finds its most captivating expression. Our art gallery is delighted to introduce you to Pierre, an outstanding artist whose exceptional talent transcends the limits of the canvas. Let’s plunge together into the captivating world of oil painting and discover how you can own a unique, custom-made work by Pierre.

Oil Painting: A Fusion of Color and Texture

Oil painting is an age-old artistic technique that has captivated art lovers through the ages. Rich pigments are mixed with oil, usually linen, creating a lush texture and incomparable visual depth. Artists can layer colors, create subtle nuances and play with luminosity to bring timeless masterpieces to life. Pierre, our newest talent, excels in this art form, which demands patience, skill and creativity.

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Meet Pierre: The artist behind the canvas

Pierre, an established artist, draws his inspiration from the interplay between light and shadow. His mastery of oil painting is evident in his realistic compositions, which at times border on the hyper-realistic, offering us a moment of peace and tranquility with an aesthetic touch. Between urban views that could be common to all cities, and seaside landscapes inspired by the American universe (which is very present in his work), each of his works comes from his own travels around the world.

peinture sur mesure

In addition to his precise, polished technique, thanks to which he plays between light and shadow, what touched us above all was the ability of his works to take us “elsewhere”, all calm, beauty and serenity. Time stands still, and so do we. Yes, the inspiration of American realist painting is undeniable: that of Norman Rockwell, Edward Hopper or Robert Cottingham, whom Pierre admires and whose work is at the origin of his own passion for painting.

Each of Pierre’s brushstrokes reveals a unique story, an invitation to explore the depths of the soul through visual art.

peinture à l'huile

Order a Custom Artwork: Own an Inimitable Original

With Pierre, you have the exclusive opportunity to commission a bespoke work that reflects your personal artistic vision. Imagine a unique canvas, created especially for you, that captures the essence of your emotions and lifestyle.

How to order your Masterpiece :

1. **Customized consultation:** Contact our art team to discuss your ideas, color and style preferences.

2. **Customized quotation:** We will provide you with a detailed quotation based on the size of the canvas, the complexity of the design and the materials required.

3. **Creating the artwork:** Once all the details have been confirmed, Pierre will begin creating your personalized work of art, guaranteeing meticulous attention to every detail.

4. **Secure delivery:** Receive your masterpiece directly to your door, ready to adorn your walls with beauty and emotion.

peinture à l'huile d'après photo

We look forward to working with you to create a work of art that transcends the ordinary. Contact us to begin your artistic journey with Pierre and enjoy the unparalleled magic of oil painting.

Happy Funky Family
In About, Art, Happy Funky Artist, Happy Funky Good Deal, Portrait

Handmade Art by an Artist: The Exceptional Christmas Gift

Christmas is just around the corner, a time when we’re looking to please our loved ones with meaningful gifts. Rather than opting for standardized presents, why not choose something truly special, unique and personalized? Handmade bespoke art by 50 artists is an extraordinary option to consider. In this article, we’ll explore this trend and why it makes exceptional Christmas gifts.

**1. Handmade Art: a growing trend**.

The craze for made-to-measure art is growing steadily. Consumers are increasingly looking for unique items that reflect their personalities. The 50 selected artists offer a diversity of styles and techniques, from painting and collage to drawing and digital illustration, ensuring that every gift is authentic and special.

Portrait sur mesure à l'acrylique

Loana’s portrait of friends

**2. Why Choose Handmade Custom Art for Christmas?

– Unique Gifts**: Giving a custom-made gift shows that you’ve taken the time to create something unique for your loved one.

– Support for Independent Artists**: By purchasing bespoke art, you directly support independent artists, contributing to the local economy.

– Exceptional Quality**: Each work of art is meticulously handcrafted, guaranteeing exceptional quality and attention to detail.

– Total Personalization**: You can collaborate with the artist to personalize the artwork according to the recipient’s preferences.

Palimpsest portrait of children by Aurélie

**3. How to Choose the Perfect Artist and Work**.

To give an unforgettable Christmas gift, follow these simple steps:

– Browse the profiles of all 50 artists on our website.

– Identify the style that best suits the recipient’s tastes.

– Contact us at [email protected] to discuss your project.

– Order in advance to guarantee on-time delivery.

portrait de voyage

Lison’s family portrait in digital illustration

 

Handmade bespoke art by an artist is an exceptional Christmas gift option for those looking for something unique, authentic and personal. So give a memorable gift this year and make this holiday season special for your loved ones.

Happy Funky Family
In Portrait

How does the Happy Funky Family choose its artists?

How are the artists of the Happy Funky Family selected?

The Happy Funky Sisters, Caroline and Nathalie promised themselves that one day they would create a concept that would support creation and artists. Their dream became reality in September 2020 with the launch of Happy Funky Family, which brings the commissioned portrait back to life.

However, without artists, no Happy Funky Family! They are the ones who transform your photos into works of art and motivate your choice to go through our site to order your portrait.

A wide and varied catalogue of artists

Thanks to the Happy Funky Family, it is no longer necessary to pose for hours like the Mona Lisa in front of Leonardo da Vinci to order a portrait. Simply upload a photo, select an artist according to your artistic taste and budget on happyfunkyfamily.com and you’re done.

The artists are the key to the concept. They must come from different techniques, painting, drawing, digital illustration, sculpture, embroidery and must be able to transform your mobile phone photos into a work of art…

A clearly defined style

Each artist is selected for their technique and style. Their style must be clearly identified so that our clients can choose the artist knowing what result they will get when they place an order.

We test each artist beforehand with love and kindness. They receive a photo of the Happy Funky Sisters and a brief and are asked to produce a portrait under the usual online commissioning conditions. The result often exceeds our expectations, but it happens that some artists do not succeed in making a good likeness or in providing a sufficiently aesthetic portrait.

However, if the test is conclusive, it remains the final stage of the filter of our artistic selection committee before integrating our catalogue.

Finally a decoration that looks like you!Common values

The Happy Funky Sisters have promised each other that they will work on this project with joy, good humour and goodwill. Our artists must obviously be on the same wavelength.

Buying a commissioned portrait means buying a work of art full of emotion, yours and the artist’s. You will therefore find on the site a lot of information about the artists: their biography, the details of their technique, the reason why we have chosen them as well as a happy questionnaire which reveals their personality.

Motivation is of course the primary selection criterion. The artists of the Happy Funky Family are committed to doing everything possible to satisfy our customers and deliver a work that will make them happy…

Additional printing for family or friends

Reasonable rates

Of course, prices are a major issue for the artists, for the customers and for the Happy Funky Family!

The artists sell their work to us at the price they have set. If we are not satisfied with this price, we do not collaborate. The primary mission of the Happy Funky Family is to support art, creation and artists. This is achieved by respecting their work and by paying them in proportion to the time spent, the material used and the market rate.

The catalogue is mainly composed of emerging artists from all over the world. However, some artists have exhibited in renowned galleries or in prestigious shows, which sometimes explains their higher prices.

Each Happy Funky Family portrait is made to order, by hand, by an artist in their studio. The artist will analyse the photos and brief submitted before getting to work. Some websites offer customised portraits at unbeatable prices. Be aware that in this case, they often use artificial intelligence (which can give amazing results) or pay their artists badly.

A passionate team!

Passionate about art

From a very young age, we were exposed to art and beauty by our parents. Of course, visiting museums when you are 5, 10 or 15 years old is not always a pleasure and we used to drag our feet. Our favourite places were the cafeteria where we were rewarded with a cola… However, these forced visits allowed us to forge an eye, to rub shoulders with art in all its forms and to develop our passion and critical sense. Of course, as adults, we continued to visit exhibitions, galleries and museums… and took our own children along!

Former buyers

Caroline and Nathalie are two former buyers. Curious and nosy by nature, they love to unearth new talent, to mix genres and are always looking for talented artists to add to their catalogue of portraitists.

All the means are good: survey galleries and art fairs, make a press review on art and emerging artists, analyze online art galleries and consult their offer, subscribe to newsletters and specialized newspapers and finally be on the lookout for everything that comes out on social networks and subscribe to the right accounts and groups…

Sourcing new artists is a passion. The walls of our respective flats prove it! By the way, don’t hesitate to check out this superb photo report, made by our regular photographer, Dorothée Piroelle, on Nathalie’s colourful and folklo interior.

Globe-trotters

We have both lived abroad for about twenty years in more than ten different countries between us. For Caroline: Germany, Denmark, Spain, Brazil, Portugal and for Nathalie: Germany, Romania, India and Serbia. During our travels, we had the chance to meet talented artists with whom we now collaborate. We also had the chance to rub shoulders with very different artistic sensibilities depending on the country. These experiences have enriched our culture and forged our taste. They have also allowed us to be very open and to appreciate diverse and varied worlds.

Artistic selection committee

A few months ago, Nathalie and Caroline decided to form an artistic selection committee to help them in their selection of artists. As sisters, they have received the same education, and have always been close friends, they like the same things. It was therefore imperative to create a mixed committee (men and women), made up of a great art history professional, Sabine Pasdelou, and a client, Philippe Gras, a lover of decoration and art. Their opinions and constructive criticism count a lot and enrich our approach.

personalized and tailor-made portrait for the Happy Funky FamilyIf you know of talented artists who could enrich our catalogue, do not hesitate to put us in touch with them. Finally, if you would like to have a portrait but cannot find what you are looking for in our catalogue, do not hesitate to tell us. We will immediately start hunting for the pearl that could satisfy you! Contact us on [email protected]

Happy Funky Family
In Portrait

Women artists…. I love you

Exhibitions: WOMEN ARTISTS… I love you

Two beautiful exhibitions highlight women artists and remedy the partial amnesia of art history about women and their role!

First exhibition: “Women Painters, Birth of a Fight” at the Musée du Luxembourg

from 03 March to 04 July 2021.

Exhibition of women painters at the Luxembourg Museum

In this exhibition, which we hope will open soon, the struggle of women artists for

  • the right to education
  • professionalism
  • a public existence
  • a place on the art market

Bringing together nearly 80 works, the exhibition highlights the pivotal period in history when, transformed by the French Revolution, the space of production opened up to women. The exhibition highlights the contribution of women to the evolution of portraiture, their favourite genre.

Second exhibition: “Valadon and her contemporaries, painters and sculptors.”

from March 13 to June 27, 2021, at the Monastère Royal de Brou, 63 bd de Brou, Bourg en Bresse

This exhibition highlights the contribution of women artists to the extraordinary artistic effervescence of the years 1880-1940. About fifty artists are presented, with Suzanne Valadon as the figurehead, who embodies the emancipation of the female artistic scene of the early 20th century, but also Camille Claudel, Marie Laurencin, Sonia Delaunay and Tamara Lempicka.

This travelling exhibition has already been presented at the museum of Limoges. Here is an overview in pictures:

At that time, women artists did not have easy access to artistic studies. Most of them were the daughters or wives of artists and often the husband’s name was remembered more than the wife’s, as was the case for Sonia and Robert Delaunay. However, in 1897, women finally gained the right to go to art school to train.

These artists painted, sculpted or drew primarily their entourage and scenes of everyday life. They left us sublime portraits such as Suzanne Valadon’s ‘La chambre bleue’ from 1923, a sort of manifesto of female emancipation. (on the poster below)

Valadon exhibition

In this exhibition, we feel the emergence of a sound between women, between artists, a desire to magnify women in general and to celebrate the links that bind them.

If you are as interested in the subject of women artists as we are, we invite you to follow the Mooc of the Centre Pompidou “elles font l’art” which is quite fascinating and has allowed us to discover many women, talented artists whose names had been forgotten in the usual courses on the history of art. Here is a brief introduction to the Mooc in question:

Another way to learn more about the subject is to subscribe to the RMN and Orange Foundation Mooc from March 29, 2021:

In the Happy Funky Family we have by chance more women than men artists. This is not a choice but the fruit of chance. Our artists are selected for their talent and kindness, no other criteria are taken into consideration.

Our artists, painters, illustrators, embroiderers, ceramists, collage specialists… are all, men and women, at your disposal to transform what you hold most dear into a work of art from a photo. A gift as original as it is moving, which is sure to please!

Happy Funky Family
In Portrait

The Art of Being a Grandmother…

The Art of Being a Grandmother…

The Happy Funky Family wouldn’t exist without our grandmothers.

Mam and Mamou have been two incredible women, two inspiring models and two great grandmothers. They have deeply rooted the values of the Family and forged intergenerational bonds that we share with YOU every day!

portraits de nos grands-mères

They were available and always motivated to play, discuss and exchange.

They were generous, literally and figuratively. We loved our subscriptions to educational magazines (like pif gadget!!!!), our good meals, our walks in places we chose, our excursions in the country listening to the scary stories of Pierres Bellemare, in short, memories that were all more moving than the others.

They were brave! Their generation experienced two wars, May ’68 and a changing status of women in society. They never complained. Yet they were not resigned, far from it, and they chose their fight carefully.

They were modern. They were interested in everything and especially in us and tried to understand our world to better accompany us.

Grandmothers other than our own have made their mark on people’s minds, in literature or cinema.

Poupette, confidant grandmother, accomplice grandmother, always ready to accompany her little girl and take up challenges in the film “La Boum”!

Film la Boum

The Queen of England, immortalized by Annie Leibowitz in this moving photo.

portrait de la reine d'Angleterre avec ses petits enfants
Bathilde Amédée: a sweet and loving grandmother. In the cult work “À la recherche du temps perdu”, Marcel Proust recounts the memories of an unnamed narrator, including those he has with his somewhat whimsical maternal grandmother to whom he devotes infinite love. His death will affect him deeply, and the passage in which it is told is one of the most moving of the novel. “À la recherche du temps perdu”, Marcel Proust, Quatro Gallimard.
portrait de la grand-mère de Marcel Proust

If, like us, you have or have had the chance to have fantastic grandmothers, think about giving them a little gift on March 7th, for Grandmothers Day. Our little finger tells us that nothing can make them happier than a family portrait, a portrait of the children, grandchildren or even a touching portrait of their pet.

You will find inspiring examples on our happyfunkyfamilywebsite.

Happy Funky Family
In Portrait

The Perfect Beauty…

The perfect beauty…

At a certain time, portraits were moving away from the truth so that the models approached perfection. In antiquity, for example, it was a way of showing the rank of the subjects treated because perfection was then the prerogative of the gods. On this coin, for example, King Alexander the Great appeared in the effigy of Apollo, the Greek sun god. The result is superb!

Piece de monnaie avec Apollon

This young woman, portrait of a lady in yellow, was also idealized by the Italian painter Alesso Baldovinetti, around 1465. Her skin is surprisingly smooth and clear, her expression peaceful, but the painter did not only give her gifts, he also left her a slightly irregular nose! A little anecdote: at the time, it was fashionable for women to depilate the top of their head to make their forehead appear larger. Beauty criteria have therefore evolved…

Portrait d'Alesso Baldovinetti

L’Delphian charioteer Hêniokhos, or Hêniokhos (in ancient Greek ἡνίοχος, “who holds the reins “), is one of the most famous sculptures of ancient Greece, and one of only five great bronzes that have survived from theclassical period. It is kept in the Archaeological Museum of Delphi and is dated, thanks to its inscription, between two Panhellenic games, either in 478 or 474, or between 470 and 467 BC. The sculpture was made to celebrate the winner of a chariot race. Its features are too symmetrical and smooth to be real.

statue grecque

These few examples among so many others make us smile, because isn’t art by definition the pure and simple idealization of reality? How could we deny the beautifying and purifying power of art? For those who would like to delve deeper into the subject, this philosophical essay, the truth in Art is absolutely exciting!

In the Happy Funky familyWe think that life is too short not to enjoy ourselves, not to take advantage of the people we love and not to surround ourselves with beautiful things. This is why we use and abuse the beautifying power of Art and the talent of our artists to transform family, friends, colleagues into a work of art.

Our artists see you as Apollo’s and as wonderful subjects of inspiration that they will be happy to showcase.

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