Artist: Andrew Annenberg
Title: Fuscia Faerie
Edition Size: 75
Medium: Canvas Giclee
Image Dimensions: 20" x 16"
About the Art: Andrew Annenberg is recognized as one of today’s foremost surreal artists, acclaimed for his imagination, wit and meticulous detail. Employing master techniques, utilizing traditional materials of the finest brushes and oil paints, Annenberg painstakingly applies layers of glazing by hand with a brush, oft times using a magnifying glass to achieve unsurpassed detail. Born in Santa Monica, California, Annenberg spent most of his youth in Washington, D.C., where he frequently visited the nations prime repositories of art treasure: the Smithsonian Institute, the National Museum of Art and the Natural Museum of History. After years of studying masterpieces, Annenberg was moved to begin to draw. Annenberg recalls his early years: “I was always drawing or painting. Everything else was something I had to do so I could return to my art.” Years of world travel following his time in Washington, D.C. finally brought Annenberg to his present home on the idyllic Hawaiian Island of Maui, where his sense of wonder and awe flourish. Themes from ancient Egypt, classical Greece and the lost civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria are powerful focal points in much of Annenberg’s work. Annenberg turns our minds within to the fantastic realms where consciousness is unconfined, and brings us to a meditation on that which lies beyond. Annenberg is interested in what he calls the “environment of the mind”. He believes that his provocative paintings move people to ponder their surroundings by making the viewer aware of the viewer’s own participation in the rise and fall of civilizations. The primal, the Archetypal, the Mythological, the Ancient--it is their timelessness and the enduring nature of the spirit that Annenberg captures with his art.