World’s Best Political Commentary Painters: KUPERMAN, MORPHEUS, YOFFE & LUSTIK/ 2024 Art Collectors Choice Awards
Artists from 62 countries competed in the 2024 ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS. 20 international art collectors scored 50 categories of online images covering drawing, painting, sculpture, digital and photography.
The winning works will be revealed in this column one category at a time.
Art Collectors Choice Awards takes no political stance. Selections were made on skill, composition and execution from art submitted. Not all stances were represented or submitted.
BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Eugene Kuperman is a published and an award winning artist. Eugene’s work is in many private collections including in a private collection of Robert Harris Rothchild who has many notable works in his collection by artists like: Rembrandt, Chagall, Dali, Ernst, Lichtenstein, and many more. Eugene Kuperman studied painting the landscape in the impressionistic style with the Russian painter, Alexander Antonyuk Senior since he was a child and up until his teens. An art catalog came out in 2012 featuring many of those artists as well as the work commissioned from Eugene. Eugene Kuperman studied with a renowned Russian artist Leonid Steele (from 2010 to his passing in 2014) whose works are in many museums in the world, including pieces in the notable Tretyakov Gallery in Russia. One of Leonid’s former teachers was a student of a famous Russian landscape painter: Isaac Levitan and another teacher he had, was a student of the famous Russian artist: Ilya Repin. From the end of 2014 since Leonid’s passing, Eugene studied painting with an award winning artist Lance Richlin until 2016 whose technical lineage goes back to the French Academic Masters of the 19th century and one of the teachers that he studied under taught Norman Rockwell.
Eugene has been exhibiting since 2006. In September 2019, Eugene went back to Italy for further individual studies. He experienced first hand the Medici Tombs designed by Michelangelo as well as many other invaluable Italian works of art which gave Eugene further understanding of art as well as inspiration. Since late 2014, early 2015, Eugene took a new direction in art. He took upon himself to create works of social commentary which to any extent educate, enlighten, and promote a positive change in society. Eugene Kuperman has been published in various art books, magazines, and newspapers. http://www.kuperart.com
WINNER WEBSITES: CATEGORY 29. POLITICAL COMMENTARY
1st Place EUGENE KUPERMAN USA http://www.kuperart.com “Never Again” 30x40” Oil on linen.
2nd Place — Tie EUGENE KUPERMAN USA http://www.kuperart.com “Uyghurs” 30x40” Oil on linen.
2nd Place — Tie MATTHEW MORPHEUS UK Digital collage. https://mrmatthewmorpheus.crevado.com “Political Circus” 21x29cm
3rd Place — Tie DAVID YOFFE ISRAEL https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/davidyoffe.html?tab=artwork “Cannibals Of The Word” 120x70cm Oil on canvas.
3rd Place — Tie EUGENE KUPERMAN USA http://www.kuperart.com “1915” 30x40” Oil on linen.
4th Place — Tie EUGENE KUPERMAN USA http://www.kuperart.com “Money For The Dealer” 30x40” Oil on canvas.
4th Place — Tie MATTHEW MORPHEUS UK Collage / digital. https://mrmatthewmorpheus.crevado.com “New World Order” 21x29cm
5th Place — Tie EUGENE KUPERMAN USA http://www.kuperart.com “New World Order” 30x40” Oil on canvas.
5th Place — Tie KEVIN LUSTIK USA https://www.instagram.com/lustikart/ “Two Political Parties Tied Together” 20" Yarn.
6th Place — Tie KEVIN LUSTIK USA https://www.instagram.com/lustikart/ “School Zone Bullet Holes” 5x5" Yarn.
6th Place — Tie DAVID YOFFE ISRAEL https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/davidyoffe.html?tab=artwork “Live Bait Hunt” 120x70cm Oil on canvas.
ART COLLECTORS can see the hundreds of winning images and corresponding contact info to all the artists here::
In 2024, ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS had submissions from these 62 countries: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tobago, Togo, Trinidad, Turkey, United Arabian Emirates, UK, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
