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Alice Beamish - Studio Corner - 1960's

Alice Beamish, (New York and California 1938? - 1992), Studio Corner (late 1960's), oil painting on canvas, 9 x 9 inches (11 x 11 inches framed).

Here's a wonderful little find from a small antique store in Orange, California. It measures only 9 x 9 inches and is painted on canvas. I love the simplicity of the composition and her choice of coloring. The frame sets it off perfectly. Her rendering of the chair in the foreground reminds me of the old colonial dining room set we had when I was a kid and that may have been the subliminal message it sent just before I picked it up. Read more

Raymond Sipos - Sheltered Cove - 1989

Raymond Sipos, (Michigan and California 1939 - ), Sheltered Cove (1989), Acrylic on Plexiglas, 20 x 30 inches.

Yeah, I know. Wallpaper. I always thank my parents for exposing me to art by the occasional purchase of an oil painting by a local artist and the presence of all kinds of art books around the house when I was growing up, but I swore I'd never invest my time and money on the same mundane landscape scenes and wrought iron rooster sculptures that decorated our wood-paneled 1950's living room walls. But there comes a time when, after cultivating a great interest in abstract art and its many incarnations through museums, art galleries, books and documentaries, the return to a sublime landscape now and then to relax our senses and prepare them to once again embark on that strange and wonderful genre is a welcome repose. Read more

Rick Wedel - Domestic Composition No. 1 - 1998

Rick Wedel, (Michigan 1968 - Present), Domestic Composition No. 1 (1998), 28 x 22 inches, Oil on Masonite.

"Choosing a predominantly cool palette, Wedel has produced a view of silent everyday life, beneath which tension and anxiety lie."

That brief artist's description accurately and elegantly describes this thought provoking abstract-figurative work by Michigan artist Rick Wedel. Executed in oil on the rough side of a Masonite canvas, Wedel depicts the underlying tension and daily monotony that can erode and eventually destroy a relationship if we so carelessly allow it to happen. Read more

Emigdio Vasquez - Early Morning at OVC - 1980

Emigdio Vasquez, (Arizona and California 1939 - Present), Early Morning at OVC (1980), 24-1/2 x 30-1/2 inches, Oil on canvas.

I first became acquainted with Emigdio Vasquez some 20 years ago during one of my visits to Rita Chemer's Gallery in Tustin, California. When entering the gallery that day I was confronted with an assortment of colorful and realistically rendered scenes of Chicano life and historical figures from the past and present. These reflective depictions of everyday, ordinary people struck a chord with me as I had always thought a missing study in modern art to be that of ordinary man. Read more

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Jackson Pollock: An American Saga

by Steven Naifeh

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Biography - Jackson Pollock (A&E DVD Archives)

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The Mystery of Picasso

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The Ultimate Picasso

by Brigitte Leal, Christine Piot, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Jean Leymarie

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Confessions Of an Art Addict

by Peggy Guggenheim

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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King

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In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (though famed for his sculpture David), Michelangelo was reluctant to begin the massive project.

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling recounts the four extraordinary years Michelangelo spent laboring over the vast ceiling while the power politics and personal rivalries that abounded in Rome swirled aro...0 points

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Michelangelo's Notebook by Paul Christopher

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Life may imitate art...but death follows it.

While studying art history at New York University, brilliant and beautiful Finn Ryan makes a startling discovery: a Michelangelo drawing of a dissected corpse-supposedly from the artist's near-mythical notebook. But that very night, someone breaks into her apartment-murdering her boyfriend and stealing the sketches she made of the drawing. Fleeing for her life, Finn heads to the address her mother had given her for emergencies, where she finds the en...0 points

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Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

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Jackson Pollock was more than a great artist, he was a creative force of nature. He changed not only the course of Western art, but our very definition of "art." He was the quintessential tortured genius, an American Vincent van Gogh, cut from the same unconforming cloth as his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and James Dean--and tormented by the same demons; a "cowboy artist" who rose from obscurity to take his place among the titans of modern art, and whose paintings now command millions of dol...0 points

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Biography - Jackson Pollock (A&E DVD Archives)

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A look at the celebrated "spatter-and-drip" artist who made a major contribution to abstract expressionism. With his canvas laying flat on the floor, Pollock would slosh paint on it in trickles that would dribble, disguising the "beginning" or focus point, and leading the eye in a frenzy over the colorful design. Macho and misunderstood, Jackson Pollock, who studied under Thomas Hart Benton, is one of American art's most tragic legends. He died in a car crash at age 44 in 1956.0 points

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The Mystery of Picasso

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Like a matador confronting a bull, the artist approaches his easel. As he wields his brush, the painting dances into being before our eyes. Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of the 20th century, is making art, and famous French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique, The Wages of Fear) is making a movie. This entirely new kind of art documentary captures the moment and the mystery of creativity; for the film, the master created 20 artworks, ranging from playful black-and-white sketc...0 points

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