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Joseph Holodook Merry Christmas |
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SA-JH-374 |
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Yes as of 10/11/2008
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Available
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New |
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Open Edition |
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open |
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4.5" - Princess |
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$25.00
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| Merry Christmas is a hand-painted, blown glass design from Ne’Qwa Art™. You will be holding an amazing art form that dates back more than a thousand years. The same meticulous hand-painting techniques that captivated emperors and art connoisseurs in cent |
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Unique licensed art by some of the world’s top artists makes Ne’Qwa Art an impressive home décor accessory for year-round display. Each gift comes complete with a decorative, braided cord and tassle, a removable hang-tag that explains the techniques used
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***Please Note that quantities are very limited, ORDER EARLY to guarantee availability and delivery before Christmas. |
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Merry Christmas, by Joseph Holodook |
| Ne’Qwa, in the Mandarin language, is the term for this centuries-old artistic tradition of reverse painting on the inside of glass. This technique creates a brilliance and luster that is not attainable with standard painting methods. Through a small opening in each ornament, the artist uses delicate brush strokes to hand-paint on the inside of mouth-blown glass. From outlining to shading to color application, all work is painstakingly done in freehand. The Art work was originally created by Joseph Holodook |
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| Artist Bio: Joseph Holodook is one of America's finest painters of naive country Americana. In the small towns and villages of Holodook's America you can sip the cider, sit by the cracker barrel, go sugaring and skating in the winter and enjoy life as it used to be, and perhaps ought to be.
Joseph Holodook has been drawing and painting as long as he can remember. One family member snapped a photograph of Joseph at age 2, sitting at the kitchen table sketching his mother on the back of an envelope. This love of drawing and art continued throughout his childhood and took a giant leap forward when his priest gave him a set of oil paints when he was only 9.
As he grew and his abilities increased, it became known in the small Hudson River town of Hudson, New York that Joseph had a natural ability, one which his teachers did their best to nurture. In high school Joseph was allowed to use a classroom, alone, for three straight periods a day so that he could paint and draw without interruption.
After high school he worked hard during the day so that he could afford to study art at the local college in the evenings. It was in college that he came under the tutelage of Lawrence Montaldo, professor of art and former head of the art department at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. At about this time Joseph was introduced to famous landscape painter John E. Hesse who critiqued the young painter's work and had a profound influence on his future art.
In 1976 Joseph won his first honor, the Love and Heritage Award, for one of his works of folk Americana. He went on to exhibit at the Columbia County Fair, the Hudson NY Art Fair, Columbia-Green Community College in Greeneport, NY, and the Columbia County Courthouse upon the special invitation of the Treasurer of the County. He also had an ongoing one-man show at the New Leaf Gallery in Hudson, NY from 1991 through 1997.
Over the years Joseph Holodook has created hundreds of pieces of art, many of them folk art and Americana that sold quickly in the traditional markets and galleries of the Hudson River Valley, and many of his works grace fine homes as well as major corporations, among them Ernst & Young and ITG Boston. He has also created restoration artwork for the Sacred Heart Church and for the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, both in Hudson, NY.
In recent years Holodook has turned his interests toward another St. Nicholas -- Santa Claus -- as well as other holiday-related images which show the influence of the works of Norman Rockwell and the Wyeths on his art. Joseph paints primarily in oil on canvas, and his works range in size from 16x20 to 36x48.
After joining Porterfield's Fine Art Licensing, Joseph Holodook began to license his artistic works into a broad range of home decor and decorative products. These efforts have broadened public awareness of his art and increased his name recognition throughout the United States and have helped make him one of America's best-loved painters of country Americana themes.
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