Mauricio González came to the U.S. from Colombia 25 years ago. With a successful career in advertising, he has gained extensive experience in art direction, brand strategy and statistical analysis. This skillset was fundamental when he started building a collection that now contains over 350 paintings and other works.
He has applied the same “passion and knowledge discipline” he has in his career to his pursuit of artists. “In advertising, you need to understand the product, the competition and the marketplace,” he explains. “In the art world, it is important to understand an artist’s multiyear performance, his or her ranking among peers, consistency across contests, rising trends and more.
“I love art but I wanted to make sure I was choosing from among the great artists,” he continues. “To that purpose, I started using the power of statistics to help me discover the best living fine art artists on the planet. My statistical analyses were initially a hobby, but I began to realize I could share them with the public and help collectors and artists alike.” This was the beginning of ARTDATAintel, which now has its home on Instagram. González says, “ARTDATAintel started as a small, yet ambitious project over 12 years ago when we began to track different art contests and competitions. Today, we have compiled a robust Art Intelligence Database that explores 350,000-plus entry submissions from diverse, high-profile competitions to identify all the award-winning artists from each competition.
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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University exhibits Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych haunts the visual lexicon of 20th century American representational art. Fifty years have passed since Dinnerstein completed the painting in 1974.
A City Perspective
Leslie Gaduzo has always been interIested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings.
Living Legacy
The Butler Institue hosts Allied Artists of America's 110th Annual Juried Exhibition.
Elegant yet Approachable
The second edition of the RTIA Show presents even more art to explore and expanded special programming.
Figuratively Speaking
New York has always been an epicenter of artists on the edge of excellence, pushing the envelope and finding their voices.
JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play
Like many artists, James Ayers' work took a turn during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing the enjoyment his kids took from playing with paint in his studio and exploring their creativity inspired him.
GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food
Gina Minichino started her journey in visual arts because of Charles Schulz. \"He was my earliest influence for drawing and the reason I wanted to be a cartoonist,\" she says.
Island Light
The Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency is held in a sprawling, 100-year-old house on an island off the southern coast of Massachusetts.
Solitary Forms
Hogan Brown has been working with Arcadia Contemporary for two and half years and is excited to be featured in his first solo show at the gallery. He doesn't take for granted the many talented figurative painters Arcadia represents and is thrilled to be among them.
Living the Dream
Counterintuitively, David Gluck was a painter before taking up tattooing little more than a decade ago. While skin is a completely different substrate and ink a far cry from oil paint, the skills must be transferrable to some degree because there is a wait-time of nine months to get an appointment with him.