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Bank of America in Flames, Pasadena CA Painting

Alex Schaefer

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 20 W x 16 H x 2 D in

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This is an ongoing series of paintings that are made in protest of "too big to fail" and trillion dollar "bank bailouts" that are actually taxpayer funded welfare for a gang of financial criminals. And the fact that almost ten years has gone by since the first one of these I painted and there has been zero improvement in the 'real' economy, no one went to jail, and no significant reforms have been realized, I'm mad as hell again and I will continue with my art to shame these crooks with hell-fire and pray that they would finally FAIL so that good new institutions can come to fruition like Public Banks. This is painted "en plain air" which means I bring my art supplies and set up right there on the street and go to it.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:20 W x 16 H x 2 D in

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Alex Schaefer was born in Los Angeles, California and still resides there to this day. He lives and works in his downtown L.A. studio and is an active fixture in L.A.’s contemporary art scene. He can be found quite often with his easel on the sidewalks of the bustling downtown city streets painting en plein-air street scenes often depicting many of the historical buildings located in and around the downtown area. With his outgoing personality he is one with the city where he lives and paints. 

 Keeping abreast of current events in the news, he is not shy about including controversial and artistic satire into his paintings and often expresses his views onto the canvas. During the great American recession starting in 2008, Alex gained international notoriety for his politically charged symbolic plein-air paintings depicting banks on fire. 

 Alex studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and is now a teacher there. His main influences are the early French Impressionists and San Francisco Bay area figurative and abstract artists of the 1950’s. His oeuvre is wide ranging from traditional plein-air landscapes, cityscapes and street scenes to figurative nudes, portraits and abstract paintings.

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