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{{AFC comment|1=Greetings, there needs more non-primary sources.The excessive external links either need trimming or incorporating into the article. The use of primary sources as references, more especially subject only (self) sourcing for biographical content (big red flag), as well as the listing of three books that can only be bought from one place, gives rise of notability concerns. Getting an article moved into main space won't mean a lot if it won't survive AFD. The art, books, and mid-level terminal degree as an associate professor, need to be collectively combined to show notability by secondary sources. Lacking those there will remain the above mentioned notability issues. [[User:Otr500|Otr500]] ([[User talk:Otr500|talk]]) 10:22, 26 December 2018 (UTC)}}
{{AFC comment|1=Greetings, there needs more non-primary sources.The excessive external links either need trimming or incorporating into the article. The use of primary sources as references, more especially subject only (self) sourcing for biographical content (big red flag), as well as the listing of three books that can only be bought from one place, gives rise of notability concerns. Getting an article moved into main space won't mean a lot if it won't survive AFD. The art, books, and mid-level terminal degree as an associate professor, need to be collectively combined to show notability by secondary sources. Lacking those there will remain the above mentioned notability issues. [[User:Otr500|Otr500]] ([[User talk:Otr500|talk]]) 10:22, 26 December 2018 (UTC)}}

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Response: Thank you for feedback: Added additional non-primary sources (Boston Globe); trimmed external links/incorporated them into article. Removed primary sources. Remove the link to the 3 books (which can be acquired in more than three places, as they're all published by a major art publisher). There are now 13 secondary sources from major newspapers and museums.

  • Comment: Greetings, there needs more non-primary sources.The excessive external links either need trimming or incorporating into the article. The use of primary sources as references, more especially subject only (self) sourcing for biographical content (big red flag), as well as the listing of three books that can only be bought from one place, gives rise of notability concerns. Getting an article moved into main space won't mean a lot if it won't survive AFD. The art, books, and mid-level terminal degree as an associate professor, need to be collectively combined to show notability by secondary sources. Lacking those there will remain the above mentioned notability issues. Otr500 (talk) 10:22, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
  • Comment: The only issues I caught while moving your draft into the queue were the lack of a {{reflist}} and that your headers were one level too deep, both of which I fixed. Everything else looks good. Nathan2055talk - contribs 21:15, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Chawky Frenn is an American (born in Zahlé, Lebanon) artist, author, and art professor[1][2][3]. He currently teaches art at George Mason University in northern Virginia[4]. His highly realistic paintings have strong narrative social and political elements[1]. Frenn is a former Fulbright Scholar.[5]

Early Life and Education

Frenn immigrated to the United States in 1981[4] and lived for several years in Boston[6], where he studied art and received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA, in 1985 and completed his MFA at Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, and at Temple Abroad in Rome, Italy, in 1988. He has taught art at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, MA; Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA; and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in Edinboro, PA. He is currently an Associate Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.[4]

Frenn has exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and his work has been widely reviewed by major newspapers[7][8] and significant art critics[8] [7] [9].

Museum Exhibitions and Collections[4][3]

Books

Frenn is the author of the following books[11][4]

  • 100 Boston Artists
  • 100 Boston Painters
  • Art for Life’s Sake
  • Ecce Homo[12]

Reviews

A New York Times review in 2001 described him as “a painter who has nailed down the figurative mode, and this accomplishment gives him the license to convey anything he wants, including the grand theme: the elusive meaning of human existence.”[8]

A Washington Post review in 2004 added that Frenn is “an artist's artist (as opposed to a critic's artist).”[7]

America art critic Donald Kuspit wrote that “He constructs a spiritual space in which the contemporary public can feel emotionally at home, however troubling the emotions his imagery evokes in them.”[9]

Washington Life Magazine described Frenn in 2009 as an "influential metro area visual artist."[13]

References

  1. ^ a b "Bone Structures". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  2. ^ "Chawky Frenn - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Chawky Frenn". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  3. ^ a b Oweis, Fayed (2008). Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33730-7.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Chawky Frenn | The School of Art". soa.gmu.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  5. ^ "Fulbright Scholar Program". Fulbright Scholar Program. August 2017. Retrieved 2018-12-22. {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  6. ^ Smee, Sebastian (July 3, 2014). "Concord explores 'Sight Specific'". The Boston Globe.
  7. ^ a b c O'Sullivan, Michael (September 17, 2004). "The Real Deals". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  8. ^ a b c Zimmer, William (2001-07-08). "ART; Asking, and Answering, Some of the Big Questions". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  9. ^ a b "Encyclopedia of Arab American Artist - PDF Free Download". edoc.site. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
  10. ^ "HMA: Ecce Homo, Paintings by Chawky Frenn". www2.housatonic.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  11. ^ Giuliano, Charles (September 16, 2013). "100 Boston Artists by Chawky Frenn: New Book Follows 100 Boston Painters". Retrieved 2018-12-22. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  12. ^ "Ecce Homo: Chawky Frenn – Art as philosophy | The Nietzsche News Center". nietzsche-news.org. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  13. ^ "The Creative List: Visual Arts". Washington Life Magazine. 2009-11-10. Retrieved 2018-12-26. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

Artist's Website

"Interacting with the Art in Medicine: The Paintings of Chawky Frenn", Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 2015

Chawky Frenn: Artist Profile with Bio at MutualArt

Vision Series: "Chawky Frenn - “Art and Social Justice”, Lecture, George Mason University Television, February 4, 2013

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