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Picasso |
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything which surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting…that they must understand.
-Pablo Picasso interview in Cahiers d'Art 1935 |
Painting is a state of being…Painting is self-discovery. Every good painter paints what he is.
-Jackson Pollock |
Pollock |
Christopher Brown |
When you come right down to it, all you have is yourself. Your self is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing. -Pablo Picasso |
| There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. It was a fine compliment. -Jackson Pollock |
de Kooning |
Thiebaud |
Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. -Pablo Picasso 1945 |
| It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning. -Frank Auerbach quoted in The Observer (1986) |
Diebenkorn |
Moses
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Forrest Moses is one of the foremost landscape painters of his generation.
“I began finding my way by direct observation and feeling. The land
became my teacher.” Moses’ expressionistic landscape paintings, ranging from
gentle New England streams to vast New Mexican panoramas, display a strikingly
vivid juxtaposition between the literal and the abstract.
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Oliveira
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Nathan Oliveira is one of the Bay Area’s most gifted
and respected artist’s. His bronze sculpture are compelling studies in
vulnerability and endurance, charged with both energy and restrained pathos.
Oliveira's figures speak eloquently of time and decay, destruction
and perishability, and of a will to endure and to create that persists in
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DeForest
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Roy DeForest is a true painting legend. His works hang in major museums the world over, and he has had many of the major names in contemporary art as students.
Roy DeForest has represented the USA at the prestigious Biennale and has been featured in numerous traveling one man museum exhibitions. DeForest's luscious "Country Dog Gentlemen" is an immensely popular work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(and their gift shop's #1 selling poster). Roy DeForest's playful spirit and rich, colorful pallet endear his work to generations of collectors and art lovers.
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Rodefer
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Stephen Rodefer is a major American poet
currently living in Paris. A young member of the Beat poets and personal
friend to Allen Ginsburg, Gregory Corso, Charles Olson, etc, Rodefer took up
painting on found materials in the late 1990's In NYC and Paris as a reaction to
his personal frustration with being unable to literally create visual language.
Considered one of the founders of Language Poetry, Rodefer's paintings are
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Frohsin
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Kim Frohsin's art is a deliberate extension of the early Bay Area Figurative painters, most noticeably, the work of Wayne Thiebaud. Using Thiebaud's most popular '60s work as a starting point, Frohsin
takes a hard look at ordinary objects and finds beauty in their contour, color, and general uniqueness of form.
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