Thursday Artist Quotes ~ Leonora Carrington ~ 1917 ~

Bird Bath


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Leonora Carrington


I Wanted To Be A Bird




Leonora Carrington (1917- present) is one of the major figures in the twentieth century Surrealist movement. Carrington, like other Surrealists, sought pictorial avenues to gain access to the unconscious, the irrational, and the instinctual. Carrington wove pieces of feminine self-awareness into fantastic narratives of magical beasts, impossible rooms, and incredible gardens. Her vocabulary included animal and plant imagery with many fantastic or metamorphosing hybrids. The rooms or landscapes were often perplexing and bizarre, in which the unusual creatures acted out strange rituals. Carrington was born in Lancashire, England in 1917 and was a spirited child growing up. After expulsion from several English schools she went to Florence to study art. Back in London, Carrington was impressed by seeing the First International Surrealist Exhibition in London and became friends with Max Ernst who was lecturing in London. Together they went to France and lived and worked together for the next three years. In 1940 Carrington fled to Spain to escape the Nazis. In 1942 she moved to Mexico where she has lived ever since.


"I didn't have time to be anyone's muse...I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist." --Leonora Carrington, 1983

Edward Hopper - 1882-1967 Thursday Artist Quotes

Morning Sun


Nighthawks



Solitude


Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. In both his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.

this quote is taken from a statement made after visiting France. "Whom did I meet ? Nobody. I'd heard of Gertrude Stein but I didn't
remember having heard of Picasso at all. I used to go to the cafe's at night and sit and watch. Paris had no great impact on me."

Francisco Jose de Goya ~ 1746 - 1828 Thursday Artist Quotes

The Milkmaid of Bordeaux



Stories of the virgin and Christ - The VIsitation



Goya Self Portrait




A Dog



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. He has been regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet and Picasso.

In 1799 Goya published a series of 80 prints titled Caprichos depicting what he called
“ ...the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance, or self-interest have made usual.

Thursday Artist Quotes - Joan MIro - 1893-1983

Obra De Joan MIro




Garden of Earthly Delights



La Leconde Sky

Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona.
Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeoise society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favor of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

How did I think up my drawings and my ideas for painting? Well I'd come home to my Paris studio in Rue Blomet at night, I'd go to bed, and sometimes I hadn't any supper. I saw things, and I jotted them down in a notebook. I saw shapes on the ceiling...

Artist Quotes - Gustav Klimt 1862 ~ 1918

My homage to Klimt - Dreaming of Klimt



Fulfillment

"...there is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night...Who ever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures."


Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery. Klimt's primary subject was the female body,[1] and his works are marked by a frank eroticism--nowhere is this more apparent than in his numerous drawings in pencil .

Artist Quotes - Georges Seurat

Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting.

His letter to Maurice Beaubourg in 1890 captures his feelings about the scientific approach to emotion and harmony. He says "Art is Harmony. Harmony is the analogy of the contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, considered according to their dominance and under the influence of light, in gay, calm or sad combinations".

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1. Chahut
2. Les Poseuses
3. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Matisse - 1869 - 1954 Thursday Artist Quotes

1. Woman with a hat
2. Blue Nude
3. L'atelier Rouge


Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.[1] His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

" It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist."