Every flow of
my brush
Is the overflow
Of my Inmost
Heart;
And yet,
I know artists whose
medium
Is
life itself,
And who
Express the
inexpressible
Without brush, pencil, chisel,
or
guitar
They neither paint nor dance.
Their
medium
is BEING;
Whatever their hand touches
Has
increased
Life.
They are the artists of being
alive.
Author Unknown
Freedom of expression. Art in all
forms
leads
the heart into realms of creative freedoms, giving
the
spirit a glimpse into the divine.I've dabbled
in photography, painting, dance, music, writing and
love
them all.
The Classics are always with me whether it be
art,
dance,
literature or music while embracing many cultural art
forms and a continueing love for
Jazz and Gospel influence, the American, Celtic and
the
West Indian culture.
Included on this page are a few of my personal
favorites. A Web Museum would take up more space than
available, and there are address included here for
more
exciting and thorough information, like: The Web
Museum by Nicolas
Pioch.
Bouguereau, Aldolphe-William
"One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always
say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish.
There´s only one kind of painting. It is the painting
that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of
beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese
and Titian."
~ Adolphe-William Bouguereau, 1895
Caillebotte, Gustave
Aug. 19, 1848 - Feb. 21, 1894,
A French painter
and a generous patron of the impressionists, whose
own works, until recently, were neglected.
He was an engineer by profession, but also attended
the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He met Edgar
Degas, Claude Monet, and Pierre Auguste Renoir in
1874 and helped organize the first impressionist
exhibition in Paris that same year. He participated
in later shows and painted some 500 works in a more
realistic style than that of his friends.
Caillebotte's most intriguing paintings are those of
the broad, new Parisian boulevards.
Cassatt, Mary
(1844-1926)
da Vinci, Leonardo (1452-1519)
Timeline: The
High
Renaissance
``The first object of the painter is to make a
flat
plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from
that
plane.´´ ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine artist, one of
the
great masters of the High Renaissance, who was also
celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect,
engineer, and
scientist. His profound love of knowledge and
research was
the keynote of both his artistic and scientific
endeavors.
His innovations in the field of painting influenced
the
course of Italian art for more than a century after
his
death, and his scientific studies—particularly in the
fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics—anticipated
many
of the developments of modern science. (Special thanks to the Microsoft
Corporation for
permission to use following biographical information
from
Microsoft® Encarta '97)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)
Edgar Degas was
an
outspoken proponent of a new sensibility. He and his
contemporaries, known as the Impressionists,
organized
independent exhibitions in which they showed their
controversial work. Degas's style, subject matter,
and
artistic sensibility set him apart from the other
Impressionists.
In addition to his artistic endeavors, Degas amassed
a
collection of art so vast and of such substance that
he
considered establishing his own private museum to
house it.
The Musée Degas was never realized; instead, his
collection
was auctioned off in 1918.(Metropolitan Museum of
Art)
Gauguin,
Paul (1848-1903)
French painter
and
woodcut artist; an
influential founder of modern art. At 35 he left his
career
as a stockbroker and devoted himself to painting.
Allied
with the impressionists, in 1888 he and Émile Bernard
proposed a synthetist theory emphasizing flat planes
and
bright, non-naturalistic color with symbolic or
primitive
subjects. The Yellow Christ (Albright-Knox Gall.,
Buffalo)
is characteristic of this period. In 1891 he went to
Tahiti, where he painted some of his finest works and
wrote
Noa Noa (tr. 1947), an autobiographical novel. He
returned
to France briefly but died in poverty and despair in
the
South Seas. Gauguin rejected the tradition of Western
naturalism, using nature as a starting point from
which to
abstract figures and symbols. His color harmonies and
profound sense of mystery can be seen in such
paintings as
The Day of the God (Art Inst., Chicago), La Orana
Maria
(1891; Metropolitan Mus.), and By the Sea (1892; Nat.
Gall., Wash., D.C.). He also revived the art of
woodcutting
and did some fine lithographs and pottery pieces.
Gustav Klimt
(1862-1918)
Kahlo, Frida
Matisse,
Henri (1869-1954)
French painter,
sculptor, and lithographer, considered, with PICASSO,
one
of the two foremost artists
of the modern era. His contribution to 20th-cent. art
is
inestimable. He explored IMPRESSIONISM, e.g., The
Dinner
Table (1897; Niarchos Coll., Athens);
neo-impressionism,
e.g., Luxe, calme et volupté (1905, private coll.);
and
made variations on the old masters in the Louvre. In
1905
he began using pure primary color as a significant
structural element, e.g., The Green Line (1905; State
Mus.,
Copenhagen). A leader of FAUVISM, he always used
color in
bold patterns and different sorts of expressive
abstraction, e.g., The Blue Nude (1907; Baltimore
Mus. of
Art). In his last years he made brilliant paper
cutouts,
e.g., Jazz (Philadelphia Mus. of Art), and decorated
the Dominican chapel at Vence, France, with fresh,
joyous windows and murals.
Morisot, Gerthe
Pissarro, Camille
(1830-1903)
Rembrandt, van
RIJN
Renoir, Pierre
Auguste (1841-1919)
French
impressionist
painter and sculptor;
father of Jean RENOIR. At 13 he was a decorator of
factory-made porcelain. Later he was a friend of
Bazille,
MONET, and SISLEY. In the 1870s he began to earn his
living
with portraiture, e.g.,
Madame Charpentier and her Children (1876;
Metropolitan
Mus.). Simultaneously he developed the ability to
paint
joyous, shimmering color and flickering light in
outdoor
scenes such as the festive
Moulin de la Galette (1876; Louvre). His ecstatic
sensuality, opalescent colors, and admiration of the
Italian masters carried him beyond IMPRESSIONISM. His
most celebrated paintings include Luncheon of the
Boating
Party (1881; Phillips Coll., Wash., D.C.).
Rivera,
Diego (1886-1957)
One of modern
Mexico's
foremost painters.
Inspired by native Mexican art and by his experiences
in
Europe (1907-9, 1912-21), he painted large murals
dealing
with Mexican life, history, and social problems,
e.g., in
the Palace of Fine Arts (Mexico City). Murals in the
Detroit Institute of Arts typify his interpretation
of industrial America. He was married to Frida KAHLO.
Seurat,
Georges (1859-91)
French
neo-impressionist painter. He devised the
pointillist technique of painting with tiny dots of
pure
color. His works include A Sunday Afternoon on the
Island
of La Grande Jatte (Art Inst., Chicago).
Tanning,
Dorothea
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