ARTIST ~ LA Hollins
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"The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes." Jawlensky
"Painting is a state of being...self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is." Jackson Pollock
"I get freer...I have this sort of feeling that I am all there now. It's not even thinking in terms of one's limitations, because they come naturally. I think whatever you have you can do wonders with it, if you accept it." Willem de Kooning, "What Abstract Art Means to Me" (1951)
Artists are "useful because they can augment color and design through the richness of their imagination, intensified by their emotion and their reflection of the beauty of nature, just as poets or musicians do." Matisse
"The mission of art is not to copy nature but to express it...Art is a harmony parallel to nature." Cezanne
"One piece of advice, don't copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction: derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, but think more of creating than the actual result." Gauguin
When we create depictions of the human body, we often have a strange way of perceiving it; our self-images are capricious and unstable; we are always ready to reconsider and reevaluate ourselves. Why are the ways in which we represent ourselves so changeable, metamorphosing from one form to another? Are appearances trustworthy? Does an artist, transposing an image of him or herself onto a piece of paper or into a block of marble, reshape that self-image?
In the modern era, images of the body have proliferated; we routinely see it represented accurately and in distortion, drawn and photographed, in every posture and context, embellished, powdered and painted, magnified and denigrated, sometimes bruised or mutilated. Do we even know why we struggle so to depict it? Images of the Body, Philippe Comar
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