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// Andrew Wyeth: Night Shadow (1979). Drybrush. 195/8 x 253/8 in. (48 x 63.5 cm). “In my teenage years, three artists played a major role in my idea of picture-making. Three artists that moved me emotionally, and upon viewing (in print) pushed me enthusiastically forward to pursue the arts. One was Francis Bacon, whose painting ‘Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X’, I first saw in the pages of my family’s set of The World Book Encyclopedia as an example under the heading of “Painting.” The second was Andrew Wyeth. My elderly neighbor, knowing that I was interested in art, loaned me a book of his work. It was totally a new world to me, and I quickly found myself happily lost amongst the drawings and paintings represented in the monograph. I can’t tell you how disappointed I was when my neighbor, a few weeks later, kindly asked for the return of his book. The third artist who impacted me was…” Beautiful Bizarre Guest Curator: @kentwms ... posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CRQr3OWBm2v/

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// Paul Gauguin: The Spirit of the Dead Watching (1892). Oil on burlap mounted on canvas. 281/2 x 363/8 in. (72.4 x 92.4 cm). “It’s the deeply rich, organic coloration of Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings that defines his work for me and sets him apart from other painters of his time. I wouldn’t say his palette is naturalistic, but instead, his use of color exaggerates the subject’s environment, enriching the emotive concerns or mood of his subject. I especially respond to his compositional sensibilities – the arrangement of figures and elements within their surroundings – in a way, superimposing image on image on environment – a dramatic stage-like characteristic. This quality has informed so much of my own works. It’s Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings that show him at his height of artistic maturity.” Beautiful Bizarre Guest Curator: @kentwms ... posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CRQCt9UhLio/

// Egon Schiele: Two Reclining Nude Girls (1914). Pencil on paper. 121/4 x 181/8 in. (31 x 46.5 cm). “My passion for Egon Schiele’s work has not wavered since I was first introduced to it during my freshman year in college. Though his work includes still-lifes and landscapes, it’s his uncompromising, intense, immediate and direct observational depiction of the often lone human figure that he is best known for. His was an unapologetic personal expression of the body-erotic. Part naturalistic, part personal interpretation, his work is rich and expressive, without any need of fanciful decoration or ostentatious artifice. His clean, clear contour lines executed with clinical observation, without the need of fuddling around with sketching or axis, block and square construction ghosting, defines most clearly to me the essence of craftsmanship, or simply put, is drawing.” Beautiful Bizarre Guest Curator: @kentwms posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CRPnQyohjwA/

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