“I have been influenced by paintings I have seen in books, and in museums, not because they defined success but because they suggested possibilities.”
-Eleanor Blair
"Calculated Dream" 24" x 24" work on panel
The artist Irwin Greenberg said, “Add new painters to your list of favorites all the time.” When Lisa Pressman began her new blog she invited readers to e-mail her their top 10-15 artistic influences with the intention of creating an interactive blog. Lisa asked me to send in my top 10. Ok, this challenge should be easy and fun! I soon realized this was not quite as easy as I thought it would be. More than once I asked Lisa to add another name! How could I have forgotten Joseph Cornell, Cy Twombly, Willem de Kooning, Paul Cezanne, Robert Motherwell, Jasper Johns, etc. You get the idea. I wanted to include some of my contemporary painters as well as the established favorites. I guess Mr. Greenberg is right, I will always continue to add new painters to my list. The “Other Artists/Friends/Websites/Blogs” list on the right names a few of my contemporary favorites. Here is the list I gave Lisa, a sampling of a few artists that have influenced my work [in no particular order]…
Robert Rauschenberg for his continual work with collage and paint
Richard Diebenkorn for his use of space and line structures
Mark Rothko for his use of color
Pablo Picasso for everything he created
Vincent Van Gogh for living, color, line, passion, energy, emotion
Jackson Pollack for his desperate joy
Henri Matisse for his spirit and color
Amedeo Modigliani for his odd quirky portraits
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec his oils and lithographs
Alberto Giacometti his sculptures of walkers
Paul Klee for his whimsy and composition
Tony Magar the space paintings for his depth of color, texture and energy
Sharon Booma I love her use of color & balance
Glen Ossiander for his freedom, emotion & joy in the work
Paul Baumer especially the cityscapes for his whimsy and color
Doug Trump for his incorporation of line, color and composition
Thank you for highlighting my work this week Lisa. What a great way to start your blog by asking this question! It is fun to see the different responses you are getting. It is also a good reminder to step back once in a while and remember the painters and people that have influenced my work. Thank you for giving me a chance to do this! I encourage you all to visit Lisa’s blog and enjoy her works along with the works of other artists she features. Send in a list of your own - you might find it is not as easy as it sounds!
“All artists are influenced not only by what has been painted before but also by what one’s contemporaries are doing.” - Raymond Leech
Painting has recently sold to Private Collectors
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