User:Penboy

Alexander Michael Tietge (a.k.a. Penboy), born Feburary 5th 1978, is a multi faceted artist in many mediums including sculptures, pen art, fine art, photography, landscaping, graffitti and bonzai. First known pen drawings from 1993, many others have adopted this form different from conventional ink art and etchings. More commonly known as bic art, pen art or pen drawings.

The name Penboy was adopted in 1998 in Germany where the artist resided at the time. Penboy was told by an art scholar during an interview for the Städelschule "Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste" in Frankfurt am Main, that art is not created with a pen. It was followed that such doodles will never be considered as art, and they should belong in Playboy. This gave Mr. Tietge the idea to combine pen and boy. Attempts to patent the name have not yet succeeded.

Moving away from exhibitions in 2004, Penboy has concentrated on donating art to charitable organizations and causes. The more liberal approach to the fake and

Penboy moved away from impressionistic art towards the more abstract. Drawing something that was already there seemed elementary and easy. Especially whe n using a medium where mistakes cannot be made.

By 2010, drawing mostly only in trains, planes and busses throughout europe in the late 90's, Australia in the early 00's and USA in late 00's, Penboy had created over 350 works of art, using more than 1250 pens. Penboy has attracted a large audience to his works not using the conventional methods of the art world. His philosophy to art and the art market are very avant garde. There are simmilar artists that incorporate the same techniques but different philosophy in thier works (artists such as Juan Francisco Casas, James Mylne and many others). He has had exhibitions in Europe, The Americas and Australia.