STREET ART: EL MAC EN MONTANA COLORS

Miles’ Mac” MacGregor: Born in Los Angeles in 1980 to an engineer and an artist, Mac has been creating and studying art independently since childhood. His primary focus has been the lifelike rendering of human faces and figures. He has drawn inspiration from the surrounding Mexican & Chicano culture of Phoenix and the American Southwest, religious art, pin-up art, graffiti, and a wide range of classic artists such as Caravaggio, Mucha, and Vermeer. He began painting with acrylics and painting graffiti in the mid ’90s, and has since worked consistently towards mastering his signature portrait style. Around 1998 he began to paint technicolor aerosol versions of classic paintings by old European masters. This led to being commissioned in 2003 by the Groeninge Museum in Brugge, Belgium to paint his interpretations of classic Flemish Primitive paintings in the museum’s collection. He has since been commissioned to paint murals across the US, as well as in Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, South Korea, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Singapore, Germany, Ireland, and Vietnam.

Web sites para más informaciones:

http://mac-arte.blogspot.com/

http://elmac.net/

Reportaje fotografico realizado el 6 (preparaciones) y el 13 (obra acabada) de octubre de 2011 en la fabrica de pintura MONTANA COLORS / Sant Vicent de Castelbell, Cataluña, España: camera Nicon Coolpix P90, montaje con Windows Movie Maker; musica de Stanley Clarke, Modern Man,"It's What She Didn't Say", Columbia Jazz 1978