Julie Monaco

Julie Monaco (2010)

Julie Monaco (* 1973 in Vienna ) is an Austrian contemporary artist .

education

Julie Monaco studied from 1991 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , where she took the master classes for free graphics and sculpture and worked in the studio for new media. In 1998 she moved to the University of Applied Arts Vienna and specialized in cross-media image and room design. In addition, she attended a graphic design college from 1995. From 2000 she worked in Hollywood , Los Angeles , with the creation of 3D soft image works and animations . In 2002 she received her diploma with distinction from the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Artistic work

Julie Monaco's works are gloomy, extremely realistic, computer- rendered representations of nature . On them you can see primarily “stormy, whipped sea, low-lying horizons and brilliant cloud formations”. To the viewer they look like photographs with extremely unusual take-up positions. Monaco's lifelike works, mostly in shades of gray, are created purely digitally , she works neither with templates nor with sketches. She describes the creation process as follows: “The image develops while you work. I have a certain feeling that I follow, and I try to arrange things in such a way that it comes close. ”In later picture cycles she sometimes combines her realistic depictions of nature with abstract elements from the graphics area of non-photorealistic rendering , which look like brush overpaintings Act.

Monaco's works are compared in particular with those of the romantic Caspar David Friedrich , as both artists often work with atmospheric sea views that have a dark, metaphysical - transcendent character.

Julie Monaco has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad.

Trivia

Julie Monaco, whose first and last name is not a stage name but her real name, has a great passion for hats . In addition to her mostly black and white outfit, she mainly wears black headgear, which has now become a kind of trademark.

Awards

• 2002: Appreciation award from the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture
• 2003: First grant grant from the University of Applied Arts Vienna
• 2007: Foreign scholarship for photography in New York from the Austrian Federal Chancellery
• 2008: State grant for fine arts from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ monaco.at - biography
2. ↑ ^{a b} diepresse.com - Julie Monaco: Catch the Hat , January 10, 2008
3. ↑ artfacts.net  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ kunstnet.at ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Hilger Gallery

Web links

• Literature by and about Julie Monaco in the catalog of the German National Library
• Artist's website