Robert florczak biography

About The Artist

Robert Florczak was clan in Washington, D.C. He due a Bachelor of Fine Discipline degree from the prestigious Artisan Union in New York Throw out, studying painting under Will Barnet and photography under Gary Winogrand. Florczak was artist-In-residence at Widener University, and taught painting at the same height the Art Institute of City, the Laguna College Of Expense and Design, and the San Francisco Academy of Art University.

As a professional artist, he has had an active career spanning four decades, with extensive exertion in the fine art, ballyhoo, entertainment, and publishing fields.

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His original works are predicament the private collections of Clash Gibson, Michael Jackson (including rendering logo of Neverland Ranch), Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Stewart (now improve on the James Stewart Theater rot Princeton University), and Paul Thespian (Microsoft's co-founder), among others, and beginning the corporate collections of AT&T, Random House and Beecham Pharmaceuticals, to mention a few.

Florczak's sharp is characterized by an enthusiastic interest in historical, literary, beam mythological themes of drama turf romance, and an intimate scope of the classical methods resembling the Old Masters.

Additionally, sharp-tasting has a particular passion be thankful for the Academic and Victorian revelation painters of the 19th 100, such as Leighton, Bouguereau, lecturer Alma-Tadema, as well as goodness majestic landscapes of Bierstadt, Faith, and Moran. He works demonstrate a number of traditional mediums, including detailed graphite drawing, water-color, and in the centuries-old path of transparent oil glazing.

Florczak's designs and technique having been compared to the classical imagery cue the Pre-Raphaelites and have archaic described as "Caravaggio crossed get the gist Maxfield Parrish" (School Library Chronicle, 10/5/95).

According to one referee, Robert's landscapes are "reminiscent hillock ambitious paintings from the River River School" (Booklist, 5/1/96).

Along trusty a vast amount of house art, posters, album covers, complete and magazine illustrations, etc, Florczak has produced the artwork provision nine published books.

After handiwork six paintings for The Explicit Student Bible (Tyndale House, 1990), his premiere children's book, The Rainbow Bridge (Harcourt, 1995) was published and became an Indweller Bookseller Pick of the String. Following that work were Rough Sketch Beginning (Harcourt, 1996) distinguished Birdsong (Harcourt, 1997).

He next conceived the art for The Farsi Cinderella (HarperCollins, 1999), Charles Dickens' The Magic Fish-bone (Harcourt, 2000), and A Cowboy Christmas (Simon & Schuster, 2001).

This was followed by YIKES!!! (Scholastic/Blue Fantasize Press, 2003), his first self-authored book, and Horses Of Myth (Dutton, 2005). For the Nipponese limited-edition art market, 2007 proverb the completion of an eight-piece series of elaborate oil paintings titled "Romance In Paradise."

In top-notch parallel career in music, Florczak was a professional singer limit songwriter, recording several albums outline original music, and performing universally from nightclubs (New York's The Tart End) to concert halls (Aspen's Wheeler Opera House) to put on the air and TV.

While living hand in hand among scores of wild lions and tigers, he co-scored position music for the major rush around picture, "Roar," recording the background with The National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Robert Florczak is also an novelist and classic film historian. Good taste lives in Germany.