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I’ve not heard of him. (A cloistered life I've led) That is until this morning, when Google used one of his surrealist portraits as their logo to celebrate his birthday. This artist came upon Earth with little fanfare and left in the same manner. He did impact his being through his art and I am glad I stumbled or should I say Googled across the mark he left behind. http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com
Excerpted from his bio at: This Link
On August 15, 1967, Magritte died in Brussels. Unlike many of his Surrealist counterparts, Magritte lived quite humbly and inconspicuously. He did not draw much attention to himself, and he lived life relatively uneventfully. Despite his unassuming lifestyle, though, Magritte managed to leave an artistic legacy of transforming the ordinary into the fantastic. While some art historians attribute Magritte's art to his desire to oppose and combat the triviality of everyday life, others suggest that his work goes beyond escapism and serves to reveal some of the murkier and complex aspects of the human condition. Whatever the impetus was for his art, it is certain that Magritte's works are at once hauntingly beautiful and deeply provocative. Examples Here: http://www.thethinkingblue.com/art/magritte.htmlI’ve not heard of him. (A cloistered life I've led) That is until this... more
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Amman the pearl of Middle East. Meeting with one of the greatest Egyptian artist. George Bahgory.Amman the pearl of Middle East. Meeting with one of the greatest Egyptian artist.... more
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Any artist knows that their product becomes a separate entity, something outside of them. Of all of the artwork completed over the past 10 years this one came alive in a way that I can't explain. I wanted to share it with you!Any artist knows that their product becomes a separate entity, something outside of... more
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Contemporary British artist Ian cook is painting a giant portrait of Lewis Hamilton using remote-controlled cars instead of brushes. The painting is the size of two double-decker buses.
Contemporary British artist Ian cook is painting a giant portrait of Lewis Hamilton... more
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This detailed article is about Giorgio Morandi, the monkish and unworldly artist. Morandi was content to do as close to nothing as a painter can do. He sat at his easel, year after year, shifting his two tins and the one damn vase, and then painting the scene in his own special vision of muted brownness. Yet, his paintings are extraordinarily beautiful and moving. That's the shock of it all.
The article includes a number of pictures and a short-film based upon Morandi's paintings.This detailed article is about Giorgio Morandi, the monkish and unworldly artist.... more
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This Current Gallery profiles the work of Silver Spring, Maryland Artist: Alan Defibaugh
http://alandefibaugh.comThis Current Gallery profiles the work of Silver Spring, Maryland Artist: Alan... more
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This Current Gallery profiles the work of Vancouver, Canada Artist: Lani Maeglin Imre
http://www.bocaseda.comThis Current Gallery profiles the work of Vancouver, Canada Artist: Lani Maeglin Imre... more
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The American painter, Edward Hopper, is among the few artists who truly captured the soul of an era. HIs paintings --of lonely lighthouses, nude women staring into space from nearly empty rooms, brick store fronts the color of dried blood --capture, as few other artists have captured, both the spirit and the alienation of an age.
It could be a still-frame from an Alfred Hitchcock movie –a stately lighthouse towering above eye level. Were not the blues so beautiful and rich it would be bleak. A window lit interior would be reminiscent of Vermeer but for the missing tapestries. There are no virginals, no Sixteenth Century maps. Just a young woman staring blankly out the open window at nothing at all.
Hopper's most famous painting is Night Hawks of 1942 --a depiction of three people together, at night, but alone in a near empty diner in Greenwich Village in the wee, small hours of a morning. It's American "film noir" set against an imagined sound track, perhaps a sax.
A parody of this painting is almost as famous as the original. In it, the diner is peopled by Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Humphrey Bogart. If the street outside is not wet, it should be and will be, soon; if not tonight, some night! Hopper is relevant today in the same way as is Casablanca --also a product of the war year 1942. Both capture the frustration of people alone in an uncaring world. As Rick might have put it then or now, the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans in a crazy, mixed-up world, nor our world on the brink of WWIII, another great depression, a police state.
Hopper himself claimed no such intention. His purpose --he says --was merely to capture the play of light and shade. He wrote: "The picture is an attempt to paint sunlight as white, with almost or no yellow pigment in the white. Any psychologic [Sic] idea will have to be supplied by the viewer."
Hopper never intended to develop an “American” style but did so in spite of himself. His goal was more modest. 'All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.'"
He succeeded admirably. His "House by the Railroad" of 1925, is a study of sunlight on the side of a house, to be sure, and much more besides. For a younger generation, it was the Bates Motel. We are curious but not enough to want to go inside. Like his silent, lonely human observers, the façade stares back at you!
In 1951, Hopper returned to the open window theme. This time he left out the staring woman. We are left with an open window to an open, flat sea.
Stare at a Hopper long enough and you will find yourself in Hopper’s universe beside the young woman staring out the open window, among anonymous souls together but alone in a diner, beside like the stately lighthouse regarding a vast but empty ocean. It was Friedrich Nietzche who said that if you stare into the abyss long enough, it will stare back at you. Is that what it means to be alone? The American painter, Edward Hopper, is among the few artists who truly captured the... more
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The American expatriate artist, John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925), was the most successful portrait painter of his era. He created 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings from locations worldwide including Venice, the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
HIs most famous painting --Madame X --created a scandal at the Paris Salon of 1884. The subject was Madame Gautreax depicted with a spaghette strap falling off her shoulder. The otherwise worldly, sophisticated Parisian society was scandalized by the suggestive gesture. Sargent withdrew the painting and withdrew himself, eventually, to London where he painted another masterpiece --Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose now at the Tate Gallery and his portrait of Ellen Terry now in the National Portrait Gallery.
Earlier, in Boston, Sargent completed another masterpiece: the Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. HIs portrait of Mrs Sears hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. The American expatriate artist, John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April... more
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We all know the great Pablo Picasso for his iconic artworks, but who'd have though he was a wordsmith as well!
See link for samples of his poetry, some pretty much as cyptic as his paintings...We all know the great Pablo Picasso for his iconic artworks, but who'd have... more
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This Current Gallery profiles the work of Washington, D.C. Artist: Billy Colbert
http://billycolbert.comThis Current Gallery profiles the work of Washington, D.C. Artist: Billy Colbert... more
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This Current Gallery profiles the work of Los Angeles, California Artist: Marco Zamora
http://www.marcozamora.comThis Current Gallery profiles the work of Los Angeles, California Artist: Marco Zamora... more
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ― Two painters are being hailed heroes after catching a baby dropped from the third floor of a burning building in Philadelphia's Kensington section Tuesday.
The drama unfolded at about 10:30 a.m. when flames broke out in a three-story row home in the 2500 block of Cedar Street.
Two painters working down the street saw black smoke billowing from a home and immediately ran to the scene. Daniel Dangler and Donald Miller said they saw the smoke and ran to the house where they found a father dangling his child out of the third floor window.
"I said to the guy, 'drop the kid,'" Dangler said. "The smoke was so thick behind them, I knew they couldn't go back inside."
With no firefighters in sight, the father dropped his son feet first safely into Dangler and Miller's arms.
"The way I was screaming at him, he trusted me to let that kid go," said Dangler.
With the father still trapped, the painters ran to retrieve the ladder from their truck, extending it high enough for the boy's father to escape.
The boy and his dad were taken to an area hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation and authorities said both were expected to be OK.
The fire was placed under control at 10:49 a.m. and the cause remains under investigation.PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ― Two painters are being hailed heroes after catching a baby... more
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This Current Gallery profiles the work of Oakland, California Artist: Ezra Li
http://www.ezrali.comThis Current Gallery profiles the work of Oakland, California Artist: Ezra Li... more
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You can look at the work of DC artist Kelly Towels at the Adamson Gallery.
There are some very strong examples of his work here.You can look at the work of DC artist Kelly Towels at the Adamson Gallery.
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