ART: ADMIRED PAINTERS LIFE LIST

THIS IS A LIST I KEEP AND TEND frequently.
It's meant for me to keep as benchmarks for my artistic life, touchbacks for reflection.

4-1-15   LOIS DODD

A loner figurative artist I place in a loose group with Neil Welliver, Fairchild Porter, and Charles Burchfield, other east coast figurative painters I cherish for their deep and abiding love and depiction of nature.  I love it that she's loose, gestural. She's old, lives modestly. Has a following.

2-27-15  JOYCE KOZLOFF
One of the founders of the Pattern and Decoration Movement, to which I am drawn because of it's joyous celebration of visual delights.  Scully says we create because we are divided.  P&D I think comes from the need to fill the void, and because it serves human needs for visual complexity and novelty. 

2-26-15  KIM MCCONNAL

2-27-15 ROBERT KUSCHNER

2-26-15  EGON SCHIELE

1914

I love the attenuated, hungry, bold angular geometries, the powerful delicate line, the guiltless and forbidden quality of Schiele's celebration of sexuality, 






Marlene Dumas

MARK ROTHKO

VINCENT VAN GOGH

RICHARD DIEBENKORN

MILTON AVERY

AGNES MARTIN

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

PAUL KLEE

RACKSTRAW DOWNS

FAIRFIELD PORTER

WINSLOW HOMER

CAMILLE PISARRO

JOHN SINGER SARGENT

RUSSELL CHATHAM

PETER DOIG

WAYNE THIEBAUD

EDWARD HOPPER

ROBERT MOTHERWELL

JMW TURNER

EDOUARD MANET

SEAN SCULLY

RICHARD POUSSETTE-DART

JOSEPH CORNELL

BRICE MARDEN

ROBERT RYMAN

MIRIAM SHAPIRO

HELEN FRANKENTHALER


CHARLES BURCHFIELD

EDGAR DEGAS

CHARLES DEMUTH

DAVID HOCKNEY

MAYNARD DIXON

MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE

FREDERICK KENSETT

ANTONI TAPIES

MORRIS GRAVES

MARK TOBEY

HENRI MATISSE

CLAUDE LE LORRAINE

KEHINDE WILEY

James Turrell

Andy Goldsworthy

Barbara Hepworth

Bridget Riley

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... a unified and balanced field of visual sensation which, at the same time, is organised dynamically in terms of individual colours. 

similar and contrasting colours in a way that sustains a saturated intensity of colour across the entire picture plane...