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Artist Malcolm T. Liepke biography

Malcolm T. Liepke is an American contemporary artist born in 31 oct. 1953 in { Minneapolis, Minnesota} in the united states. Liepke went to the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California, but dropped out after a year and a half. then he travelled to New York and decided to study on his own there he was looking for studing the classical art style , but today's teachers were only conceptual ideas.

" When I moved to New York, I started going to museums and learning from great artists ... Velazquez, Whistler, Vuillard, Sorolla and others. I studied color, style and technique. They were my heroes, so I became their student. " liepke said

artists such as John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Diego Velázquez, James McNeill Whistler and Édouard Vuillard. In turn, his style has inspired others.

liepke's painting was very realistic, with their sharp strokes and color transitions are drawn into an unobtrusive play with texture and ask more questions than they give answers. Lipke penetrates deeply into the human being, giving birth to living and frank images. Light and shadow, glare on the lips, a delicate blush that betrays some embarrassment .. Details make up the mood, bringing seductive frankness into classic modesty.

His art has been on the covers of Time, Newsweek, Forbes and Fortune. His artworks are now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution and the Brooklyn Museum. Liepke's work has been widely shown and exhibited in the Pastel Society of America, the American Watercolor Society, National Academy of Design and the National Arts Club. Liepke's emphasis has been on figurative artworks. His paintings and drawings often focus on intimate moments of sensual pleasure and introspection. Malcolm T. Liepke has been selling out his exhibitions since his 1986 show at Eleanor Ettinger Gallery.