| Links below lead to exemplary websites that detail subjects, themes, people, or images that have influenced my work. |
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| Arcimboldo, Giuseppe 1527-1593 |
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Vertumnus (Rudolf II)
Arcimboldo was a Milanese tapestry designer, scientist, and proto-surrealist painter who assembled images symbolically to form allegorical figures. |
| Blake, William 1757-1827 |
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Self-portrait drawing
Esteemed somewhat more for his poetry than for his art, Blake was an artistic movement unto himself. |
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| Botticelli, Sandro 1445-1510 |
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The Adoration of the Magi
The Florentine Botticelli’s paintings are remarkable for their complex iconography, their graceful compositions, and the ethereal beauty of his female figures. |
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| Caravaggio, Michelangelo 1571-1610 |
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The Lute Player
Revolutionizing art with his use of light and non-idealized figures in religious paintings, his style is called tenebrism, from the Latin “tenebrae” - darkness. |
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| Cornell, Joseph 1903-1972 |
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Untitled (Medici Prince)
A New York artist and filmmaker influenced by Duchamp and the Surrealists, he constructed mixed media assemblages within boxes.
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| Correggio, Antonio Allegri 1490-1534 |
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Jupiter and Io
Correggio was from Parma, and is known for the eroticism of his nudes and for his mastery of “disegno”, drawing the figure in perspective with great subtlety and beauty. |
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| Crivelli, Carlo 1430-1495 |
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Mary Magdalen
The works of the Venetian Crivelli embody Byzantine richness and a mannered stylization of the figure that prefigure the aestheticism of the Mannerists a century later. |
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| Dali, Salvador 1490-1534 |
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Slave Market with Disap-pearing Bust of Voltaire
Dali’s works often use optical illusions, like a large image made from smaller ones, or image deformation called “anamorphism.” |
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| Duchamp, Marcel 1887-1968 |
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Fountain
Duchamp was a founding father of Dada, Surrealism, and Conceptualism. With his “ready-mades” he stated that an artist's genius is in choosing what to look at. |
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| Klimt, Gustav 1862-1918 |
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Danaë
Klimt was fascinated by pattern and symbolism, and his paintings eschewed perspective to focus on the richness of the picture plane. |
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| Perugino, Pietro Vanucci 1450-1523 |
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Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter
Perugino's paintings have the most elegant compositions, and they always portray a vital stillness and repose. |
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| Signorelli, Luca 1450-1523 |
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End Times Freschi, Orvieto
Signorelli was a master at depicting anatomy, and was brilliant in the use of color, producing paintings that show proto-cinematic effects. |
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| Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista 1696-1770 |
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Bellerophon and Pegasus
Tiepolo had such a refined sense of color that he could use broad areas of monotone for a sky or piece of drapery and it would still look lifelike. |
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| Vuillard, Edouard 1868-1914 |
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La Lectrice
Influenced by Japanese prints, Vuillard mixed and balanced disparate patterns, and played with the tension between the picture plane and the perspective view. |
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| Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903 |
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Symphony in White: Three Girls
He believed that a work of art shouldn’t do photography’s work of depiction, but should instead be faithful to its own order of beauty. |
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| Goff, Bruce 1904-1982 |
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Bavinger House
Goff designed buildings that made their technology an integral part of their ornament. The spaces within his buildings sing, they're exuberantly futuristic. |
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| Islamic Architecture |
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Cordoba Mosque
In classic Islamic architecture, mathematics is intrinsic, not just equations and measurements, it’s emmeshed structurally and decoratively into the building. |
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| Kahn, Louis I. 1901-1974 |
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Kimbell Art Museum
His buildings evoke the sort of melancholy beauty found in Roman ruins, and are known for attention to the human scale within monumental proportions. |
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| Pattern Language |
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Beautful Entrance
The Pattern Language is a building ethic urging people to build their own houses, and challenging them to design humanely, in order to gain the most pleasure from life. |
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