At 8:00 PM EST Artist Eric Armusik made an announcement via YouTube video that he would be offering a decade of his paintings in what he called a “Fire Sale” through his website www.ericarmusik.com. For 30 days he will sell this body of work for a discounted sale and if any paintings were left on June 20, 2010 he would be setting any and all of them on fire, thus eliminating them forever from art history.
Armusik’s large figurative paintings are a journey through art history, borrowing timeless themes of mythology, faith, and history while drawing parallels with his own experiences as a representational painter rooted here in the contemporary art world. His work is unapologetic in its use of traditional painting techniques and romantic subject matter and he even takes the occasional jab at the implied inferiority of modern art with paintings like “If Picasso Could Paint”.
In early May 2010, Eric’s artwork was picked for the prestigious Chairman’s Choice Award in Art Renewal Center’s International Salon www.artrenewal.org out of 1700 entries from artists of 30 countries, establishing him as one of the most promising figurative artists in the genre of realism today.
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