- "I like to think about myself as an expressionist even though my style of work probably best fall into the category of Contemporary Impressionism.
Well, whatever it may be you can definitely call me a Colorist.
When I paint I am taken by the transcendental vibrant color and the contrast of light and dark that are the reflection of emotion and energy of the creative process".
He studied at Eastern Illinois University, Southern Illinois at Carbondale.
"I got my masters in Art History my paper was on Bonnard and Vuillard and how the did for interiors what Monet and others did for outside scenes working in plein air, although Bonnard landscapes look like an opal exploded He, not Lautrec invented the French poster".
Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted this florid allegorical canvas, La fête de Pan, in the summer of 1879.
Commissioned to adorn the drawing room of the Bérard family’s country home, the Château de Wargemont, La fête de Pan depicts a spring festival devoted to the ancient Greek god, Pan - a rare example of a mythological subject in Renoir’s oeuvre.
This jubilant painting combines the artist’s careful observations of nature en plein air with his imaginative fantasies of beauty, both feminine and floral.
Jeanne Hébuterne (6 April 1898 - 26 January 1920) was a French artist, best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani. She took her own life two days after Modigliani died, and is now buried beside him.
Described by the writer Charles-Albert Cingria (1883-1954) as gentle, shy, quiet, and delicate, Jeanne Hébuterne became a principal subject for Modigliani's art.
Amedeo Modigliani | Jeune fille rousse (Jeanne Hébuterne), 1918 | Collezione Jonas Netter