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Artist As Second Career: The Wild World Of Kathy Taslitz

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.07.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Spirituality, First Person Artist, Magritte, Henri Rousseau, Fine Art, Kathy Taslitz, Kandinsky, Snake Charmer, Kimberly Brooks, Henry Moore, Painting, Son of Man, Career Change, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

I am fascinated by artists who find themselves and their art careers later in life. Unlike, say, mathematicians and scientists who allegedly peak before 30, artists tend to mature and get better with age like a fine wine

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This Hawk Flies High, But Alights on Terra Firma

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Extra-Terrestrial, Art, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Sculpture, Aliens, H.R. Geiger, Painting, Fantastic Art, Dmt, Living News
Russ Wellen

Artist Michael James Hawk mines our collective unconscious for imagery that's not only primitive, but alien.

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Artist Angela Dufresne On Recreating History

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Angela Dufresne, The Inner Life, George Bush, Fine Art, David Park, Skull and Bones, Veronika Voss, Painting, Gus Van Sant, Cinema, Du Champ, Aristotle, Elizabeth Taylor, John Steinbeck, Werner Herzog, Grey Gardens, Kimberly Brooks, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Losey, Alice Neel, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Flag Pins, Of Mice and Men, Vuillard, Fassbinder, Giotto, Bacon, Ozu, Cassavetes, Haneke, Louvre, Antonioni, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Angela Dufresne, The Bruno S Island Acting School and the S House, Paris, France, 2006, oil on canvas, 66 by 108 inches. Courtesy of the artist and M...

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The Painting Whisperer vs The Anxiety of Abstraction: Annie Lapin

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Charlie Sheen, Illusion, Still Life, Body Building, Kimberly Brooks, Abstraction, Figuration, Michelangelo, Painting, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Annie Lapin, Realism, Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone, Art, Abstract Art, Intuition, Apocolypse Now, Penicillin, Fine Art, Portraits, Oil Paint, Coppola, Godard, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Take for a moment the spectrum of Realism and the raucous jazz of Abstraction in painting and slide somewhere in the middle. Over to the left is real...

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Being a Mother is the Ultimate Artist: Alexis Weidig

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Alexis Weidig, Mother's Day, Nancy Spero, Annette Messanger, Eva Hesse, Ann Hamilton, Sculpture, Louise Bourgeois, Artist, Painting, Fine Art, Kiki Smith, Kimberly Brooks, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

As a mother and artist, there's no doubt that my greatest works of art, the magical moving 3D beings whose personalities evolve and grow each day, are...

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Photography Undergoes a Sex Change: The Art Of Tom Chambers

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Photoshop Art, Tom Chambers, The Inner Life, Photoshop Photography, Painting, Loretta Lux, Van Cleef Jewelry, Fantasy, Flickr, Henri Cartier Bresson, Kimberly Brooks, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Over the last ten years, the art of photography has undergone a sex change. The rather masculine act of capturing or "shooting" a moment ("the hunt")...

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The Artist Who Made His Ego Wait Outside His Studio Door

Russ Wellen | Posted 04.28.2008 | Living

Read More: David Hockney, Old Masters, Art, Painting, Figurative Art, Realism, Representational Art, Living News
Russ Wellen

Most art students learn to appreciate art by studying its history. But some have a natural inclination for the avant garde. Which is exactly the direction in which 27-year-old Michael De Brito is headed.

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The Last Lecture and Living in Technicolor

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Randy Pausch, Kimberly Brooks, The Last Lecture, Exhibition, Light, Nature, Earth, Landscapes, Painting, Fine Art, Illness, Death, Family, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Much has been made recently of Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture". He is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon and six months ago he was diagnosed with pancr...

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First Person Artist: Carol Es

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.12.2008 | Living

Read More: First Person Artist, Carol Es, The Inner Life, Painting, Handmade Books, Blogging, Self Help Graphics, Ricky Lee Jones, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

My gallery is in a unique place in Culver City that has one gallery after another, with the occasional hip café and museum. Often the gallerie...

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Rock Stars, Orphans and Rescue Missions: Preparing the Solo Show

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.05.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Vladimir Nabokov, Rescue Mission, Leonardo Da Vinci, Solo Show, Color, Triage Unit, Painting, Aesthetic, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

My solo show is less than five weeks away. There's nothing like a deadline to align all the atoms of the universe so I can see with crystal clarity.

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The Nudist, The Chemist and Artist Ethan Murrow

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 03.15.2008 | Living

Read More: First Person Artist, Howard Hodgkin, Ethan Murrow, Matisse, The Inner Life, Art, Wright Brothers, Drawing, Nudists, Kimberly Brooks, Painting, Chemist, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

As an artist, I consider art on a sort of spectrum in my mind by the manner in which it is rendered. I picture two opposing ends: one a chemist, who ...

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When You Fall In Love... With A Painting

moreintelligentlife.com | Ariel Ramchandani | Posted 02.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Falling in Love With a Painting, Parmigianino, Art, Painting, Antea, Culture, Lovely Painting, Living News

She's lovely of course, Parmigianino's "Antea." Standing alone in the centre of the Oval Room at the Frick, surrounded by portraits that somehow pale ...

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