Art 75 Featured Artist – Monica Allen-Perin

 

Monica Allen Perin, a painter from her youth, began her fine art studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California.  She subsequently obtained  a Masters degree in the decorative arts (Museum Studies)  at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and consecrated her theses to the garden frescoes found in and around Pompeii.

Teaching art history with the University of Maryland she continued to teach studio art and paint watercolors of the Italian country and seaside.

Following a move with her French husband to the South of France in 1998 she expanded her repertoire to include  ‘buon fresco’ painting on fresh lime plaster in the manner of the Renaissance, and is currently involved in an important project to add fresco work to the façade of the parish church in Le Pradet, France.

Monica is also a US Navy artist attached to the Naval Historical Center at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C.  As a ‘combat’ artist she has passed numerous weeks in ex-Yugoslavia and more recently with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean documenting daily life in an operational capacity onboard an aircraft carrier or logistics support with a forward deployed unit. Monica has exhibited her watercolors in Italy, the US and in France, in particular in Marseille, Toulon (awarded best in show for watercolors at the Salon des beaux-arts 2002), and most recently in Cannes where she was awarded the silver medal at the salon international des arts and culture.

Monica teaches watercolor painting and fresco from her studio in France.

Art 75 – Monica Allen Perin’s Art

Navy Art Collection – Monica Allen Perin’s Art

Photographing Fine Art

Joe Presentation
Annual Symposium of Combat Art
Sept. 5 – 7 at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, VA

Joe Rudinec was invited to talk about his approach and techniques to photographing fine art to an audience composed of military artists from around the world. Stating there is no single solution to photographing art and artifacts, he explained that the key factors are knowing what you need to accomplish, what tools you have available and when you need specialized equipment.

Marine Corps Contract Extended!

We have just been awarded another 5 year contract for photography and production of fine art prints of The Marine Corps Art Collection. It’s been a real honor to have the opportunity to work with such great people and amazing art collection!

Image: Missing Him by Captain Charles G. Grow, USMC. Order your very own reproduction of this piece from RequestAPrint! https://www.requestaprint.net/marines/itemdetail.php?work_id=2969&fbclid=IwAR3Xd05mDeGymAJJqyDqEVMMFuqpkggtIb90KZgtWP5G6PKY2Fxf-WSKrwk

Missing Him Captain Charles G. Grow, USMC

The Navy of the Future – Subsurface by John Berkey

“His art appeared on book and magazine covers, in ads, on movie posters such as King Kong, Star Wars and the Towering Inferno, and on U.S. postage stamps, most memorably, the Santa Claus Christmas Stamp in 1983 and again in 1991. He painted beautiful women of all ages, cars…classic and innovative, disaster scenes, landscapes, seascapes, sporting events, festivals, airplanes, monorails …whatever he was asked to do. With his ability to see things from a different perspective, John’s illustrations depicted the full spectrum of life-past , present, and future. This quiet, contemplative genius will not soon be forgotten.” – on John Berkey

This piece is from The US Navy Art Collection! You can order your very own reproduction of this piece online here – https://www.requestaprint.net/navy/itemdetail.php…

Every sale benefits the museum directly!

Quote Credit: johnberkey.com/about