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en.wikipedia.org/…/Harry_Callahan_(photographer)

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Kenny Scharf (born November 23, 1958) is an American painter known for his participation in New York City’s interdisciplinary East Village art scene during the 1980s, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Scharf’s do-it-yourself practice spanned painting, sculpture, fashion, video, performance art, and street art....

“My eyes search for people who are grateful for life, people who forgive whose doubts have been removed, who understand the truth, whose enduring spirit is bathed by such piercing light as to provide their present and future with hope.”...

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"To a greater degree than any earlier painter, Stubbs produced genuinely individual portraits of specific horses, paying intimate attention to details of their form. Minute blemishes, veins, and the muscles flexing just below the surface of the skin are all visible and reproduced with great care and realism. Whistlejacket had...

There are many interpretations of this work, and unfortunately the author was alive long enough to write much about it and react to some of those interpretations....

“I am not often a painter of literal places", he says. "I regularly invent entire works, or paint them from memory. I like to invite observers into a world which is merely similar to the one they know, an adjacent world. Perhaps, the adjacent West.” This idea continues to inform his vision, pushing his work towards a more...

Liotard has depicted François Tronchin, a patron of the arts. He examines Rembrandt’s “Lady in Bed”. Items on the desk show his other pursuits - architecture and music. The pastel work in this piece is very precise, especially the wig!