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1. 1. About Mark Sanislo Oil Portrait Artist of Minneapolis Minnesota, Baker Center

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   Published on: 8/14/2008   Last Visited: 8/14/2008

   About Artist Mark Sanislo
   
   Nationally known artist, Mark Sanislo, began his distinguished art career as an accomplished commercial artist and photographer.A work history that would latter enhance his portrait career.After several years, Mr. Sanislo decided to go into business for himself, building a business that included two art galleries with several artists working in a busy Mackinac Island resort in northern Michigan.For ten years Mark's talents received wide acclaim of his quick renderings by capturing the realism of the vacationing families.
   
   While operating his Mackinac Island business, he added a third gallery closer to home in Gaviidae Common downtown Minneapolis, MN.Mr. Sanislo steadily attracted new portrait clients in Michigan and Minnesota interested in highly realistic oil painting and pastel drawing.Mark's portraits commissions are found in executive, family and individual private collections nationally.
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   Mark Sanislo is also recognized nationally for employing his portraiture to religious art.Leaders in the church that Mark painted include Mother Anglica, Founder of The Eternal Word Television Network, Reverend Fr. Robert J Fox, founder of The Fatima Family Apostolate, Reverend Fr. Bernard Reiser, Archbishop Harry Flynn and former Archbishop John Roach of the Minneapolis and Saint Paul Diocese.Mr. Sanislo currently is co-owner of Fiat Studios which publishes and distributes his art through out the country in churches and religious gift stores.Works commissioned by The World Apostolate of Fatima, and the Fatima Family Apostolate have been published as art prints and featured on the covers of quarterly magazine "The Immaculate Heart Messenger".
   
   See a recent article in the Downtown Journal Minneapolis Newspaper - "Skyway Portrait Painter Mark Sanislo"
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   Mark Sanislo can be reached atmark@marksanislo.com612.245.0022 , 763.755.7395 Minneapolis, Minnesotawww.marksanislo.com
   
   Welcome to the official website of professional portrait painter Mark Sanislo.
   
   Mark enjoys painting in traditional classic portraits in oil and pastel.Portrait painting is one of the most rewarding art forms, for it captures the physical likeness as well as the personality and soul of the person, while still creating a wonderful piece of art.
   
   From live sittings, photographs and charcoal sketches, Mark is able to portray a realism in the portraiture.Paintings can be produced by the artist from a photographic likeness or from a live sitting in your own surroundings.

2. 2. The Story Behind the Artist Mark Sanislo, who wrote the Icon: Union of East and West in Christ

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   Published on: 10/10/2002   Last Visited: 5/1/2007

   The Story Behind the Artist Mark Sanislo,
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   Mark Sanislo, who wrote the Icon Union of East and West in Jesus Christ, gracing the cover of this issue of the Immaculate Heart Messenger, is among the artists who are taking seriously the challenge given them by Pope John Paul II.Mark has established "Fiat Studios" to produce and promote good Catholic art, and to some day train artists.
   
   Many of our new churches lack taste and beauty and good religious art.Many of our homes lack good religious art.
   
   Pope John Paul II knows that the uplifting of the human spirit to God and evangelizing the true faith, can effectively and powerfully be assisted by good Catholic artists producing noble works.Since I've long been convinced of the role of sacred art in evangelizing the family, I've taken an interest in Mark's "turn in the road" in his artistic endeavors.
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   Mark has asked me to write the Rosary meditations to go with his 15 productions for the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries.
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   The largest painting Mark Sanislo has done is one of The Last Supper.It measures 8 feet high by 20 feet wide.Here is the story of how Mark came to paint that very large "Last Supper" in the Twin Cities "Upper Room."
   
   Tom Kuehn is a fellow parishioner of Mark in the Epiphany parish in Coon Rapids, Minnesota.
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   Sanislo quickly agreed."It piqued my interest.What appealed to me," said Sanislo, whose interest in religious art had been more and more developing, "was doing a piece of religious art that would speak to people."
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   The occasion was to celebrate the new shrine to Our Lady of Fatima on the parish grounds - a Fatima shrine that Mark Sanislo had designed and members of the Epiphany parish promoted.It would be the first major event for the new shrine since the bishop had dedicated the shrine just before winter set in.
   
   At the two day shrine event I spoke various times, offered Masses, led the Rosary involving children, then adults.All this led to an acquaintance with Mark Sanislo.
   
   Mark then came to the Fatima Family Congress in Alexandria, South Dakota in both 2001 and 2002.He also attended October retreats there, all of which led to further deepening acquaintances.
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   During the time Mark and his wife were awaiting the birth of their sixth child who arrived in July 2002, Mark wrote the Icon UNION OF EAST AND WEST IN JESUS CHRIST.It would be a major beginning of moving his artistic talent more in line with evangelization.An artist does not paint an icon, he writes an icon.Icons carry special religious messages to be read.
   
   Past experiences prepared for new beginning
   
   Mark was formerly an accomplished commercial artist and photographer; a work history that enhanced his portrait career.He is currently a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists and The Portrait Institute in New York.But his career focus is changing.
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   Then I suggested to Mark Sanislo the possibility of writing an icon expressing "Unity of East and West in Christ."
   
   The icon Mark created (see cover) is at the Catholic Church of the Fatima Family Shrine in Alexandria, South Dakota.Because the Orthodox do not see the Pope as Catholics do, Mark wrote a separate but similar icon for the cover of the book.
   
   Pope John Paul II's Letter to Artists
   
   Mark is [was] proprietor of "Artists Corner" at Mackinac Island, Michigan, employing up to ten caricature artists each summer.He goes there part of each summer, but mostly he is at his studio in the Twin Cities area.
   
   What is in great need in our modern day is for good artists to devote themselves to liturgical art, good religious art for our churches and our Christian homes.Mark hopes to help fill the void.Mark has been inspired by Pope John Paul II who in 1999 wrote to all artists "who are passionately dedicated to the search for new 'epiphanies' of beauty so that through their creative work they may offer these gifts to the world" (Letter of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Artists - April 1999).
   
   Mark hopes to help teach Catholic values and thus evangelize through his art.
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   Mark shared with me that while he was in training, his teachers attempted to introduce him to the monstrosities of modern art that tells so much about the confusion of our times.Mark did not fall for it.First, he was engaged in commercial art, then portrait painting.Now he feels ready to finally fulfill the goals envisioned by Pope John Paul II.
   
   Mark had me searching for a Latin title he could use for his logo and studio that would express "Evangelizing through Sacred Art."I got some help from a Latinist at the Vatican, acquainted with elegant Latin, and came up with SACRAM EVANGEUZARE PER ARTEM.Mark finally settled on something very simple."Fiat" (Let it be done) for his Fiat Studios, To that I responded, "Well then, for your noble goal in harmony with the vision of Pope John Paul II for artists, 'Let it be done.'"
   
   I showed some of Mark's art to Mother Angelica and her Poor Clare nuns.Mark will be doing a special portrait of Mother Angelica as the nun of evangelization.
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   Mark Sanislo can be reached atmark@marksanislo.com

3. 3. Fiat Studios - Original religious art work created by Mark Sanislo

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   Published on: 7/7/2008   Last Visited: 7/7/2008

   About Fiat Studios and Religious Artist Mark SanisloFiat Studios - Original religious art work created by Mark Sanislo
   
   Fiat Studios Inc
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   Original religious art work created by Mark Sanislo
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   About Mark Sanislo
   
   Mark Sanislo, a resident of Coon Rapids, Minnesota is an accomplished representational artist working in oil and pastel medium.Classically trained, his work ranges in style from high realism to impressionism.His style is evocative of some of the great master painters of the Renaissance.
   
   Mark's strength is particularly evident in his ability to capture on canvas the emotion and essence of the human spirit.Having been inspired by His Holiness Pope John Paul II Apostolic Letter to Artists, Mark has focused his talent upon religious artwork.Before moving in this direction Mark has been best known as a portrait artist.
   
   In the picture, Mark receives a blessing of his hands from Father Robert J. Fox.
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   Mark is famous for his 8 feet by 20-foot mural of the Last Supper that had been featured in an April 2002 edition of the Catholic Spirit.
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   Mark studied graphic design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and St. Cloud State University.Mark underwent accelerated training in classical realism at the Atelier Lack School of Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN.Mark routinely focuses and refines his skills by participating in workshops and seminars conducted by contemporary masters in portraiture and painting.
   
   Mark is married with 6 children and he is an active member of Epiphany Catholic Church in Coon Rapids, MN