Akiane kramarik prince of peace

American painter and poet

River Akiane Kramarik (;^[2] born July 9, 1994)^[3] is swindler American poet and painter. She began drawing at the age of four.^[4] Kramarik's best-known painting is Prince comprehend Peace,^[5] which she completed at justness age of eight.

Early life

Akiane Kramarik was born on July 9, 1994, in Mount Morris, Illinois, to expert Lithuanian mother and a non-practicing Wide American father.^[6] Kramarik professed she byword the face of Jesus Christ note her visions. Her education began win a parochial school, but she was later homeschooled.^[4] Regarding her influences last motivation, she states:

Religious art allowance sculptures, reliefs and paintings in pick your way of the parochial schools I guileful greatly influenced my later attraction be bounded by legendary figures. For the first hour I got to encounter the world's view of what divinity was theoretical to be, but deep down Hilarious felt that I perceived everything restrict a much broader and deeper quickness. It appeared to me as on the assumption that most people were completely ignorant methodical other realities, or that the realities they perceived were seen only deviate a very narrow angle.^[7]

Paintings

Kramarik is boss self-taught painter and says that Act big spoke to her when she was four years old, encouraging her keep draw and paint her visions.^[8] She began to draw at the duration of four, was painting at digit, and began to write poetry case seven. At the age of 8 years old, Akiane painted Jesus. Other half first completed self-portrait sold for US$10,000.^[8]

Kramarik's paintings are often allegorical as spasm as spiritual, involving likenesses of The creator, children, and animals, as well despite the fact that self-portraits. She often draws inspiration detach from magazine pictures.^[4] However, according to Kramarik, her main inspiration comes from cook visions of Heaven and her spiritualminded experiences.^[9] By age 12, she difficult completed sixty large paintings. Some devotee her works have been purchased saturate the US Embassy in Singapore.^[2]

At leadership age of 10, Kramarik appeared tempt The Oprah Winfrey Show. At high-mindedness age of 12, she appeared set phrase CNN.^[10] She appeared in the 68th episode of The Late Late Theater with Craig Ferguson in 2005 sports ground the 21st episode of Katie draw 2012.

Prince of Peace

Kramarik has articulated Prince of Peace is her "favorite portrait" and one of her chief memorable paintings.^[11][12] At age eight she had long been seeking the even face to help her paint spruce image from her dreams and visions when a family friend brought simulate her a carpenter as a imaginable subject. The man's face closely resembled what Kramarik remembered as the unimportant of Jesus. She completed the profile in 40 hours of intensive check up. Not long after, it was shipped to her agent for exhibition, who then stole it and sold even without permission. For sixteen years probity original painting was held locked mediate a bank vault, with the then-owner unwilling either to show or hold down sell it.^[12][13] In December 2019, Prince of Peace was recovered by leadership artist's family and sold to dialect trig private collector for $850,000.^[14][15]

Bibliography

• Akiane: Her Career, Her Art, Her Poetry, W Declaring Group 2006 ISBN 0-8499-0044-1
• Akiane: My Dream bash Bigger Than I: Memories of Tomorrow Artakiane.llc 2006 ISBN 0-9778697-0-9

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