This Sculptor tried again and again to be accepted into his area Art School. A friend of Rodin later claimed to have found a sculpture in a junk store. When it created a sensation the friend declared, "This piece was created by a man whom this school rejected three times!". His The Thinker and The Kiss are simple truths. I love to visit our city's Rodin Museum.
A local Artist who began a lifetime of portraits of his wife, Rae, after his Mother-in-Law remarked about the first painting: "I can only see one side of her".
He painted many self-portraits to explore the use of facial muscles to express emotions. After the early death of his first wife during childbirth he painted his second, young wife over and over as a goddesslike figure in his works.
This man's profound love of subject and painting is, at times, overwhelming. His use of color is a constant source of complete amazement to me.
He is best known for the paintings he produced while spending many years in native Tahiti. His unique style is probably closest to Impressionism, but what attracted me to his work was how he showed a very different culture as something beautiful.
Many years before the movie "Frida" I borrowed and studied a book on this artist from our city's Central Library. With the release of the movie in 2002 the Internet became so flooded with half-baked websites that finding a good one was impossible - I bought a book. The current link is to her life in Wikipedia, and this fan site is also worthwhile. In 2007 I saw over 40 of her paintings at our city's art museum.
His Expressionist painting style is very different from my own, but his work holds such depth for me. Often avoiding great detail his strong brushwork usually shows dark emotions in a very powerful way. His subjects of death, age or fear are so different from mine, but I must write that his method of portraying them is one of my favorites. His messages are so undeniable.
With remarkable confidence she has put a "love of motion" into my paintings.
A Russian Artist with a beautiful philosophy of Womanhood. I cannot describe my awe when first discovering the over 500 Madonna paintings he has completed, using his wife as model.
His first novel "Ultimate Rush" is, without a doubt, one of the best books I have ever read - and I read a lot. I can get lost in his beautiful writing style the same way I can get lost in Renoir's beautiful brushwork...
a charming, intellectually charged coffee shop that regularly changes its' wall art - hey, sometimes it's my art !
