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...Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently received a rare and unusual donation, including a paint-spattered hat, a pair of shoes, and a ladder. In addition to these objects, the gift included materials like brushes, paints, models, and preliminary works that once belonged to the influential Abstract Expressionist artist Barnett Newman. Fragments of his paintings—stiff canvases with strips of red, green, and blue—sit in brown boxes in the Straus Center, crucial keys to Newman’s creative past. Newman made a name for himself with bold blocks of color and vertical lines, which...
...particular style influenced you? -Edward Romero, MadridI am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Vel?zquez and Rembrandt. All the early influences are still there, but I tried to take my painting in a different way - towards an Expressionist form. I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses. When I come to London, I go to the Royal Opera House and paint the ballerinas. I love the human form, and I like to capture movement in everything that I paint...
...very distinct personalities, just as John was the intellectual, Paul was the suave, good-looking one, George was the mystical one, Ringo was the whimsical one, just as the Beatles had these distinct personalities as human beings, they do as artists. John was an illustrator, Paul is an abstract expressionist, Ringo is a pop artist, and George had the good sense to know he wasn’t an artist,” he said, laughing...
...evidenced in 2005’s “Surfing on Acid,” a painting dominated by red, green, and yellow oozing over a hot pink background that recalls the color fields of Ellsworth Kelley and Mark Rothko. Though Heilmann identifies with the abstract expressionist movement, she prefers to see herself as offering a “postmodern look” that allows her to convey emotion more directly. She says that her work is “like meditating.” Heilmann’s relaxed demeanor enabled students and community members to examine her method...
...comedy, the third a parable. But beyond the variety of stories was a striking visual consistency: the tone was bold, dark and mature - a grownup vision, compared to the adolescent world-view of the standard superhero strip. To quote Feiffer: "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school. ?Muss 'Em Up' was full of dark shadows, creepy angle shots, graphic close-ups of violence and terror. Eisner's world seemed more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more like a movie...