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An example of work by Robin John Anderson
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| From the age of 10, Robin Anderson knew he wanted to be an artist. He studied with Hungarian Tibor Kalman, who emphasized the European academic tradition. He also took instruction at the Art Students League in New York City, painting models "to understand the landscape." He became a resident of Clarkdale, Arizona, and painted scenery in the Jerome and Sedona areas. Anderson is now a resident of Jerome. (2002)
His website is: www.anderson-mandette.com, and the following biography is from that website:
Located in the Old Mingus Art Center in Jerome Arizona is the 20,000 square foot studio of Robin John Anderson and Margo Mandette. This husband and wife team has been working together at this location for 21 years.
Robin John Anderson, figurative sculptor and painter of landscape, still lifes, and figurative subjects, was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1951. The eldest of two children he was showing a precocious talent for drawing and oil painting by the age of 10. At that young age he did not wish to be just an artist, he wanted to be a great artist. By fourteen, after attempting a Renaissance like altarpiece, he was sent to a painting tutor.
Robin studied for the next two years with Tibor Kalman, graduate of the Art Academy of Budapest. Robin became his youngest student. After leaving his master's studio, Robin took a job with the Republic and Gazette engraving department in Phoenix Arizona and did illustrations for both of those Phoenix newspapers. At 21 He left the world of employment forever and became a full time artist. From the sale of his oil paintings and pastels he made an exceptionally good living. He also credits Sherry McGraw, Dan Gerhartz, Sunny Apichapong, Joseph Mendez, and John Soderberg as teachers.
In 1975, he married Margo Mandette. Another artist with a keen business sense, Margo was the perfect match for Robin and his ambitions. The young couple's fortunes flourished. They moved into a five bedroom home in Scottsdale's prestigious northeastern section.
In 1981 Robin and Margo traveled to New York City to see the famous Picasso Retrospective held at M.O.M.A. Once there, they fell in love with the city and found out about New York's Art Students League. They were to return almost monthly over the next 9 years and study at the League. Due to good fortune, Robin was admitted to the work shop of David Leffel, one of America's foremost artists of the realist tradition. Robin also studied at the New York Academy of Art.
Upon returning home, Robin created his own style of representational painting. To name this style, he chose the word, "Perceptionism." It was his intention to describe his work in a way that would distinguish it from Impressionism. He advertised the word in trade magazines thus bringing attention to the idea of creating paintings that would combine realism and impressionism to create enhanced or embellished realism.
In 1989 the couple took an apartment in New York's Greenwich Village to be closer to the art scene in New York City. The following year they opened a gallery in So Ho on Broome street. During the winter months, Robin ran the New York gallery while Margo ran her galleries in Arizona.
By 1991, running galleries on both sides of the continent, became too much of a strain, so having tasted both the East and the West, the couple opted for the large spaces and the comfort of the West. Their studio in the town of Jerome Arizona has over 20,000 square feet of work space and gallery display.
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