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I've got to give this some thought .... just 1 artist who has passed on
to have dinner & a conversation about art ?
to have dinner & a conversation about art ?
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If You Could Have Dinner & Conversation About Art With 1 Artist Who Has Passed On To The Great Art Studio In The Sky ... Who Would It Be ? 💀🎨
Bartc
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Just one? Your ambitions are rather cautious. I have several, and could probably come up with a mile long list.
But here are some: Van Gogh, Monet, Signac, Pissaro, Picasso, Vermeer, Wayne Thiebaud, El Greco, Rothko, Caillebotte, Tom Thompson, any zen master, any Hudson River School master, any of the unnamed Coptic encaustic grave marker painters, and the man/woman who painted the caves near Lascaux (or their artistic cousins).
But for live ones, I think I would get a total kick out of a lunch and a paint out with David Hockney! I'll buy the cigars and the brandy....
But here are some: Van Gogh, Monet, Signac, Pissaro, Picasso, Vermeer, Wayne Thiebaud, El Greco, Rothko, Caillebotte, Tom Thompson, any zen master, any Hudson River School master, any of the unnamed Coptic encaustic grave marker painters, and the man/woman who painted the caves near Lascaux (or their artistic cousins).
But for live ones, I think I would get a total kick out of a lunch and a paint out with David Hockney! I'll buy the cigars and the brandy....
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Just one? Your ambitions are rather cautious. I have several, and could probably come up with a mile long list.
I feel the same... although I suspect a number of my favorite artists would/could be real dicks: Michelangelo, Ingres, Turner, Degas, Gauguin... and certainly Picasso. Rubens is my favorite artist... and I suspect one who could be quite personable... but I think there are others I would find more interesting in conversation. Hieronymus Bosch might be the most fascinated figure. I would also love to talk with the Japanese Ukiyo-e master, Utamaro or the sculptors of the erotic sculpture of the Khajuraho temples in India. Alphonse Mucha, Balthus, Blake, Klimt, Max Beckmann, and Bonnard would all be high up on my list. Among the living? Michael Bergt, Daniel Galieote, Leonard Koscianski, Jim Peters, Adam Miller, Yasunari Ikenaga, Jamie Adams, Suzy Smith, Rebecca Leveille Guay, Aron Wiesenfeld, Sarah Joncas, Michael Bastow, etc... although I must admit to speaking with a good number of them through social media... some quite frequently. Then there's the marvelous Japanese painter Fuyuko Matsui who would be a gorgeous dinner companion:
I feel the same... although I suspect a number of my favorite artists would/could be real dicks: Michelangelo, Ingres, Turner, Degas, Gauguin... and certainly Picasso. Rubens is my favorite artist... and I suspect one who could be quite personable... but I think there are others I would find more interesting in conversation. Hieronymus Bosch might be the most fascinated figure. I would also love to talk with the Japanese Ukiyo-e master, Utamaro or the sculptors of the erotic sculpture of the Khajuraho temples in India. Alphonse Mucha, Balthus, Blake, Klimt, Max Beckmann, and Bonnard would all be high up on my list. Among the living? Michael Bergt, Daniel Galieote, Leonard Koscianski, Jim Peters, Adam Miller, Yasunari Ikenaga, Jamie Adams, Suzy Smith, Rebecca Leveille Guay, Aron Wiesenfeld, Sarah Joncas, Michael Bastow, etc... although I must admit to speaking with a good number of them through social media... some quite frequently. Then there's the marvelous Japanese painter Fuyuko Matsui who would be a gorgeous dinner companion:
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stlukesguild
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Sarah Joncas is quite a looker as well... although, perhaps a bit too young. 
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I’d have dinner - most definitely - with Philip Guston. He knew the way to get out of realism and into abstraction and then back into personal iconography. He’ll have some excellent advice and I’ll listen politely. I’d also allow him to indulge and pontificate on ye olde Ab-Ex and socialist days but hope he’s not a bore about it. He’ll lean back in his chair with his fat belly, puffing on his cigar, ruining the taste of the pasta dinner. But that’s the price I’d pay. Maybe we’d get drunk and no doubt, he’d be curious about our current political state of affairs.
This is what he would look like as I gave him an earful.
He’s thinking, “Oy vey. Good thing I’m already dead.”
This is what he would look like as I gave him an earful.
He’s thinking, “Oy vey. Good thing I’m already dead.”
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beautiful Japanese woman , she is a looker
wouldn't mind sharing dinner with her anytime , as for her artwork it's not my thing but it's interesting in what inspires her
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How to choose? Perhaps Caravaggio for his naughtiness? But in the end I value eloquence, so would probably go with the supremely intellectual and articulate Barnett Newman, whose work has always resonated with me. I would love to hear more about his philosophy from the man himself. Here is a sample.
Perhaps he isn't as well known as Pollock, so here is a good introduction.
Perhaps he isn't as well known as Pollock, so here is a good introduction.
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Was having a heated discussion with a close friend (he loves to argue!) about art and artists. I posit that I'm usually less interested in the artist's biography by far than the artwork itself. One of his challenges was Van Gogh (my favorite) and his cutting off his ear.
To me if I never read or heard a damn thing about him, many of his paintings would still have the same wonder for me. Yes, he was a fascinating and complex man, which is interesting (many great artists are plain by comparison), but I wouldn't care about that. I do love that he reveals so much about his thought process and development instead in all his detailed letters to his brother; it helps put some context around his paintings for me. In fact, it's a rare opportunity to almost feel/see what he did when he was creating, and those of us viewing a piece without a conversation with the artist really don't know in most cases.
So this question about dinner with a famous artist has a different meaning for me.
I love Monet's work and to sit in the dining room he deliberately made a work of art and to eat the dinners he was renowned for - another form of art - would be a real treat overall. However, I wouldn't care to be bored by conversation about the cost of chicken in the market, that damned neighbor, one of the dogs, etc., which kind of conversation with any of them would bore me to tears. I would want to hear about their esthetic experience, what they saw literally and figuratively, and what they were trying to do with their painting.
Notoriety alone would be a waste of the evening, but that's just my opinion. YMMV
To me if I never read or heard a damn thing about him, many of his paintings would still have the same wonder for me. Yes, he was a fascinating and complex man, which is interesting (many great artists are plain by comparison), but I wouldn't care about that. I do love that he reveals so much about his thought process and development instead in all his detailed letters to his brother; it helps put some context around his paintings for me. In fact, it's a rare opportunity to almost feel/see what he did when he was creating, and those of us viewing a piece without a conversation with the artist really don't know in most cases.
So this question about dinner with a famous artist has a different meaning for me.
I love Monet's work and to sit in the dining room he deliberately made a work of art and to eat the dinners he was renowned for - another form of art - would be a real treat overall. However, I wouldn't care to be bored by conversation about the cost of chicken in the market, that damned neighbor, one of the dogs, etc., which kind of conversation with any of them would bore me to tears. I would want to hear about their esthetic experience, what they saw literally and figuratively, and what they were trying to do with their painting.
Notoriety alone would be a waste of the evening, but that's just my opinion. YMMV
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I agree about notoriety. Based on just interesting artists as people, another artist I would like to meet and talk to would then be Ray Johnson.
