figurative
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“One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.”
by Andrew Wyeth
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BBC Northern Renaissance 02 The Birth of the Artist
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Got Beef?
by Francis Bacon
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“My colour has no symbolic function whatever. I don’t want any colour to
be noticeable. I want the colour to be the colour of life, so that you
would notice it as being irregular if it changed. I don’t want it to
operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent. I don’t
want people to say, “Oh, what was that red or that blue picture of
yours, I’ve forgotten what it was.”
Lucian Freud a Painted Life
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“It’s hard to be creative and it’s also hard not to think what you do
is creative or hard not to be called creative because everybody is
always talking about that and individuality. Everybody’s always
creative. And it is so funny when you say things aren’t, like the shoe I
would draw for an advertisement was called a ‘creation’, but the
drawing of it was not. There are millions of actors. They’re all
pretty good. And how many painters are there? Millions of painters and
all pretty good. How can you say one style is better then another. You
ought to be able to be an Abstract-expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you’re given up something.”
Mao (1972) by Andy Warhol
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Oil on canvas painting by Gini Lawson
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Art by Norman Rockwell
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By Jean-Pierre Gibrat
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“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”
The Rape by Rene Magritte
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Stag at Sharkey’s (1909), oil on canvas by George Bellows
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keep it real
by ERIC FISCHL
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“A person with normal
eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of ‘Impressionism’ unless
he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.”
Simplon Pass: Reading (1911) by John Singer Sargent
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Lesbia (1878) by John Reinhard Weguelin
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I can’t say I’m wiser; I’m probably more foolish. But I think I’ve accepted that making things that are beautiful is interesting, whereas before I was not interested in beauty at all. I was anti-beauty, I would say. I like that something reveals itself slowly, it doesn’t have to shout it. That’s shocked me.” It was having children that changed her work. “I find watching them so beautiful that I have accepted that sort of beauty into my life.