George Strasburger is the Traditional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of January 2018. He is an Arizona based artist whose work is influenced by Caravaggio, Bonnat, and Morot and characterized by a classical style that is used to communicate the contemporary human condition.

George’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of January 2018. The gallery will promote George and his work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets.  Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read George’s Biography and Artist Statement below as he describes his history, training, inspiration and process in his own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see his exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of George’s work, please visit his website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see George’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to George and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

George Strasburger Biography

George Strasburger’s work is characterized by a classical style that is used to communicate the contemporary human condition. Mr. Strasburger’s first exposure to art was the large biblical illustrations that were in the church he attended daily as a child. Inspired by the emotions and anatomy there, he continues to express the beauty of the human form, and the narrative of simple scenarios that illustrate existential truths. George Strasburger is influenced by Caravaggio, Bonnat, and Morot. He is also adept with pencil, and spends a large part of his time drawing, as a way to prepare for his paintings and as finished work on their own.

George Strasburger Artist Statement

My work includes painting and drawings that serve two purposes. I’m drawn to the physically beautiful and feel a need to explore it. I find a beauty in the world around me that is at the same time, somber and light. I use all my means to create an image that touches us on an emotional level in a very literal way. I utilize a classical technique, express romantic moods. It is my hope that a viewer may see my characters and scenes, and see their own lives and worlds in a different light. Creating these paintings satisfies a need of mine to live and explore the realities that I see.

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