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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:07 AM
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Who's your favorite contemporary artist?
Mine is science fiction/fantasy artist, Boris Vallejo.
http://vallejo.ural.net/
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:18 AM
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1. Cy Twombly.
His paintings are immense, mysterious and sensous in a gestural way.


The Italians, 1961
Cy Twombly
Oil, pencil, and crayon on canvas
6'6 5/8" x 8'6 1/4" (199.5 x 259.6 cm)
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:23 AM
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5. Wow, that's adventurous!
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:12 AM
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29. I love "The Italians"
Edited on Fri Aug-05-05 07:13 AM by swag
I saw that in Philadelphia some years ago. Couldn't leave the Twombly room for the joy of it all. The haters coming in and going out of the room, muttering.

On edit: wasn't that part of "50 Days at Ilium?"
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:35 AM
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36. Have you been to the Cy Twombly gallery
at the Menil in Texas?

The Kunsthaus in Zurich also has some nice Twomblys, and its on my agenda this summer.

Here, I bet you'd love this book. (It was my Christmas gift from my wonderful Swiss mother-in-law last year.)

http://www.daros.ch/EXH/FLASH/hom_pub6_e_f.html
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:36 AM
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45. No, I haven't been there, but it sounds great.
Thanks for the book tip, Heidi.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 11:13 PM
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62. He's a fuckin' genius!
And the most expensive living artist.
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:21 AM
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2. many of my old pals in santa fe new mexico are great


liz abeyta, navajo sculptor kicks ass
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:25 AM
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8. Very cool, I love it!
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:22 AM
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3. here's another by elizabeth
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:27 AM
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10. That's exotic and beautiful, thank you.
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:33 AM
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35. here's Liz standing 2nd from the right
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:22 AM
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4. Probably Dustin Amery Hostetler
http://www.upso.org
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:31 AM
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11. I love what he did to *!
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:36 AM
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15. You might enjoy this as well
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20010655/
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:42 AM
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18. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:45 AM
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19. Not to brag, but...
I made that, haah.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:51 AM
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23. It's superb. You captured him completely. ;-)
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:53 AM
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24. Haha, thanks
:)
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:23 AM
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6. Heidi
And I'm not kidding; she's a very talented painter..
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:33 AM
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14. I'm sure she is good. I don't recall seeing them yet. :-)
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:43 AM
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38. Two.

From the Wild, 2004
80 x 80 cm
Mixed media on gallery-wrap canvas
Private collection, Ticino


Letter from Terlingua, Texas, 2002
18 x 25 cm, mixed media on prepared paper
Private collection, Argentina


Letter from Terlingua, Texas, Detail
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:59 AM
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47. Both are very imaginative! :-)
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:38 AM
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37. Thank you, enigmatic.
:hug: You can be president of my international fan club, if there ever is one. ;)

Enjoy this:


Banana Republic II, 2000
25 x 38 cm, mixed media on prepared paper
Private collection, Colorado
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 12:59 AM
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70. Wow
That's beautiful, Heidi; I'm proud to be the President of your international fan club:)
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 03:55 PM
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55. Me too dude..
She has an eye for constructing a vivid scene without being obvious about it.....
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 12:39 AM
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66. .
Bear in mind that you've only seen the "hits" and not the misses. ;) (Thank you, WC. :hug: )
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 04:23 PM
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61. Heidi is the bomb diggity highly talented imo...
:hi: Heidi
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 12:38 AM
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65. .
Thank you, bridgit. :hug: I think you're the bomb, too, gf.
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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:24 AM
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7. My sister karen....
She's not on line or anything..... just on my wall.... and locally many others

Whole name.... karen "mystupidsluttysister" Rouse.
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:25 AM
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9. mateo romero cochiti pueblo artist
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:16 AM
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31. here's what mateo looks like...
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:27 AM
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34. Expressive!
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:54 AM
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39. Beautiful!
Absolutely excellent brushwork. Thank you for sharing that, cleofus! :hug:
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:32 AM
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12. nathan begaye traditional hopi potter
does not use a wheel or a kiln...for a couple thousand dollars you can own this one
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:39 AM
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17. Whoa! That's very nice.
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:33 AM
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13. here's another by nate
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:38 AM
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16. Tony Abeyta Liz's little brother is very popular too


prints and oils is what his does...a navajo...who went to art school in paris and chicago...and santa fe...
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:15 AM
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30. here's a pic of my old pal tony
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 10:28 AM
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50. I've met him. His work is wonderful!
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 10:40 AM
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53. it's been close to 13 years since i've seen him...
we used to hang out at IAIA. with diego romero and nathan begaye and dave draper, bob gress and all the rest of those knuckleheads...
all from artist families....
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:46 AM
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20. Mark Ryden


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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:46 AM
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21. sweet....
very sweet....
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:49 AM
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22. Here's the pottery site of my closest online Friend.
Kizzy

http://www.angelfire.com/bc/potter/GALLERY1.html
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:53 AM
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25. very nice...
good stuff!
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:05 AM
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26. Thank you, she's a natural born artist.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:56 AM
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40. I love raku . . .
Your friend is very good. Does she have her own raku oven? My mother-in-law is a sculptor, and we just finished building her a woodburning raku oven from a 55-gallon (I think) barrel. :pals:
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:50 AM
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46. I think there's a potter's guild in her town...
She uses their kiln. She does some fantastic stuff. I love the glazes she uses.
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:07 AM
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27. here's another one by tony abeyta
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 12:42 AM
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68. that's a COOL picture!
grant wood + marc + Native influences = XemaSab likes it!
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:10 AM
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28. Today it's Tim Hawkinson, tomorrow it's probably somebody else.
http://www.whitney.org/exhibition/feat_hawk.shtml
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:18 AM
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32. Mark Ryden
www.markryden.com
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 10:12 AM
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48. i cannot begin to say
how much i love his work...i find it both disturbing and erotic...:dilemma:
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 10:29 AM
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51. I know!
There's just something about it! Disturbing/erotic, comforting/terrifying...
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Celeborn Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 12:57 AM
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69. He's one of my favorites too. (nt)
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:21 AM
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33. Oh, and Louise Bourgeois. Just amazing.
There was a huge show ("Memory and Architecture") at the Reina Sofia in Madrid that was a mind-blower.

http://www.artbook.com/8790029801.html

http://store1.yimg.com/I/artbook_1854_107659975
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:21 AM
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41. Rabbit Hunter
by tony abeyta
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:28 AM
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42. Anselm Kiefer
A great German expressionist. The canvases are huge, and need to be experienced first-hand. Very thick surfaces.
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:29 AM
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43. one more by mateo romero
oil and mixed media
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:36 AM
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44. oh yeah...me
Edited on Fri Aug-05-05 08:39 AM by cleofus1
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 03:54 PM
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54. Dayum, seems like you should be named our art tour guide...
for the SouthWest.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 10:15 AM
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49. Yanni!
Just teasing. I don't really listen to contemporary!
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 10:32 AM
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52. Fernando Botero (love his Abu Graib stuff)
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,462352,00.jpg

other Botero:





http://www.oceansbridge.com/oil-paintings/section.php?xSec=1002
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 04:06 PM
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56. I love Botero.
My city just installed one of his sculptures (Man on Horse) down the street from my house. It cheers me up every time I see it.


I also like Lucian Freud: http://homepages.pavilion.co.uk/lincreasey/freud.htm

His stuff is just twisted. It is almost too real.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 04:10 PM
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57. I was getting ready to post your pic on a milk carton!
Hadn't seen you post lately! :hi:

great site, btw
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 04:15 PM
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58. LOL, thanks but not necessary......
I've been around less just b/c life is busy. Soon I'll have something interesting to share...we're making a documentary movie about one of my recent campaigns. It is a larger story about entrenched power and political nepotism that carries a universal message.

Freud is a freak, but in a good way. Generally, I tend towards more abstract art, but his ultra-realism strikes a chord with me.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 04:21 PM
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59. Rabrrrrrr!
:7

Seriously, I have one of his originals in my house and I like it.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-05 11:14 PM
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63. YAY! Thanks for the props!
Now I don't have to pop a cap in your ass.

:P

I'm glad you are still enjoying it!
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 04:21 PM
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60. hubby, but i'm partial = i got me a bias...
omega string moon

sorry bout the glare, but he snapped it quick just a few hours ago, i get to witness 'the process' which is interesting to me, he is a trip to go to a museum with i'll say that, he can be like 'sister wendy' with a three day beard

though as far as what we've referred to above; i like this guy: http://frazettaartgallery.com/ff/hp/main_2.html i like allot of stuff so there's that
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 12:41 AM
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67.  ! ! ! !
Edited on Sun Aug-07-05 12:43 AM by Heidi
I _love_ these colors and the texture, Mr. Bridgit! Please, please, please: what is the support? Is this oil or acrylic? Lovely!
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 01:05 AM
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71. he's crashed out, Heidi, but i am able to confirm...
acrylic on birch panels, he'll go in-studio & mix colors for a couple days from base; i find the process fascinating to watch; i know that he loves your work & he'll be tickled when i mention what you've said, he really liked your 'banana republic' as did i

:pals:
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 01:10 AM
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72. Thank you for the info, bridgit . . .
The caramel/burnt siena background of that painting is just gorgeous!
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AVulgarianHue Donating Member (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 12:34 AM
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64. Earl Cacho
http://www.earlcacho.com/
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 01:21 AM
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73. Yoshitaka Amano
http://www.amanosworld.com/
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6000eliot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 02:32 AM
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74. He appears to really like ladies' heinies.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 07:58 AM
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76. That's fine wth me, I like ladies' heinies. too. :-)
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 02:54 AM
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75. Alex Grey
got this one on my wall
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 10:15 AM
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77. Wolf Kahn
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