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ONE WHO PAINTS ON FACES

Ilene Meyer http://www.slideshare.net/shiloh325/art-of-ilene-meyer (especially #46 in this slideshow)

and Lois L. McDonald http://www.mbhonaker.com/mcdonald.html

WHAT ABOUT THE GUY WHO PAINTS CHURCH CIELINGS OR THE THE GUY WHO PAINTED LISA MOANING????????????????

Warhol, Rosenquist, DeKooning, Pollock, Picasso, Jasper Johns, Basquiat.....I can go on and on...........Orozco........ Man......how much time ya' got? Lichtenstein......VanGoh........I can go on all day........

The best street artist the worlds ever seen, Banksy. Love his work to pieces, it's all so original i try to create some of my own stencils in a Banksy style but they never come out that well.. lol

krupa. quite honestly

and my uncle

Rembrandt is my favorite artist.....

I feel that his ability to dramatize facial expressions knows no rival; and I feel that he was the undisputed master of Chiaroscuro (an Italian word more or less meaning contrasting light and shadow effects). There's an inherent sense of illumination in his paintings which makes them seem three-dimensional.

alice cooper............should be president too..........and ted nugent his vice............

DITTO DITTO DITTO My FAVORITE!!!!!!!!!

VAN GO..........DO HE MAKE HIS VAN GO.........????????????

I like William Bouguereau a lot too!

Salvador Dali, actually.

Representational: Hockney, Manet, Degas, Kitaj, Freidrich, Richard Hamilton and Brueghel.

Abstract: James Turrell, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin, Ian Davenport, Toma Abbts and Franz Ackerman.

Conceptual: Robert Morris, Elenor Antin, Adrian Piper, Mel Bochner and Hans Haacke.


I am a painter. I love traditional art making. But I want to encourage anyone who has been put off by conceptual art, or hasn't come across it before, to put the time into learning about it. Some of the ideas good conceptual artists can put in your head are as beautiful and fascinating as an Impressionist masterpiece. It can be hard work connecting to the pieces as art. Some are no more than typed propositions, or a seemingly mundane series of objects or actions. But don't think they required no talent, because in a conceptual piece there should be much more to it than merely what you see.
Just like a master painter puts forth his or her vision by efficiently and brilliantly constructing and composing with line, shape, color, stroke, etc., good conceptual artists do the same with ideas. There can be immense elegance in the way they construct the process by which their idea is communicated and gradually "unpacked", so to speak, in the viewer's mind (not to mention the potential power of the main idea itself). And with conceptual art, is okay to have to do a little research to understand the piece; you're not necessarily supposed to "get it" just by seeing the physical evidence of it in a gallery or a book. Sometimes you need to establish the chronological, cultural or political context it was made in or made for. But once the first piece you understand blows your mind, you realize all the "hard work" of understanding it is half the fun. The learning is part of the experience that is the work itself. I firmly believe that for every person who loves learning, there is a conceptual artist out there who's work will thrill you.
Most people work hard at realizing amazing ideas so that they can make money or neutralize a threat. Nothing wrong with either of those. But I think its so cool that these artists do it because they just really love ideas.

After much consideration.....Jasper Johns. Matisse is a close second. Most modern art. Most renaissance art and impressionism does not impress me. Dali, and most surrealist art, I find to be a bit over bearing. I like art that is minimalistic........ When an artist breaks down subject matter to primary colors and geometrical shapes, abandons the figure.....that's when it gets interesting......

Has de Koonig opened at MOMA? I thought there was supposed to be an upcoming show?

Hey T.B. De Kooning was featured at the MOMA in L.A. about 2 years ago. I'm not sure about now....... From what I can gather....his works are spread out all over the place......

How typical of me, missed it by only two years!

I've always had the idea that The Cedar Bar should be turned into a museum....cuz' all the good artists hung out there. De Kooning, Pollock....etc. They all hung out at Cedar Bar.

Oooohhhh...that tickled!

:)

I dig Oivia...that woman can paint chicks soooooooooo fantastically hot!