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Cocktails with Pablo, wine painting, art within art, k Madison Moore Cocktails with Pablo SOLD This morning Thanks MS - Canada
16 x 20 inches Oil on Canvas Art within Art Series I had such fun designing this one. I am still looking through old photos and things from my storage from years ago. This is another painting with thoughts in mind from when I was young finding my way around the art world and was modeling and then into fashion design for runway models. The four dresses and accessories on the models in the front row were actual designs of mine that were executed and were all in one show. It was very exciting for me as a young designer. Thought it would make a great painting combining my designs into an Art within Art Composition. I have so many sketches of fashion and design in these old portfolios that I have decided to use a lot of them in my Art within Art Series, of course along with my excerpts from the Masters. These paintings will come in on a very personal level in this series. My love for all phases of art and design. Most of the Art with Art Series will be in larger format than my usual 10 x 12 , 9 x 12 sizes. This painting took me a very, very long to create interest with all the details om a 16" x 20" format.     Commission Projects Welcome Certified Original Art © 2009 MkM k. Madison Moore Artists Mount Pocono Pennsylvania  Learn how to win a free painting in the left column.
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Esref Armagan The Artists with No eyes
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Eşref Armağan - The Blind Painter Esref Armagan If I had not seen this gentlemen paint with my own eyes I would not have believed it. I saw a show about him on TV last week while nursing my flu and just had to do a splash on my blog about him. This is an amazing story......
Eşref Armağan (born 1953) is a blind painter of Turkish origin. He was born both unsighted and to an impoverished family. As a child and young adult he never received any formal schooling or training; however, he has taught himself to write and print. He draws and paints by using his hands and primarily oil paints. In this manner, Mr. Armagan has been perfecting his art for the past thirty-five years. He needs absolute quiet when working. First, using a Braille stylus, he etches an outline of his drawing. He needs to feel that he is "inside" his painting-- in fact, when he is drawing a picture of the sea, he often wonders if he should wear a life jacket so as not drown! When he is satisfied with his drawing, he starts to apply the oils with his fingers. Because he applies only one color at a time (the colors would smear otherwise), he must wait two or three days for the color to dry before applying the next color. This method of painting is entirely unique to Mr. Armagan. He receives no assistance or training from any individual. He also learned to draw perspective. He has also developed his own methods of doing portraits. He asks a sighted person to draw around a photograph, then he turns the paper over and feeling it with his left hand, he transfers what he feels onto another sheet of paper, later adding color. He has done portraits of the former first lady of Turkey, the current president and current prime minister. In 2008 two researchers from Harvard, Dr. Amir Amedi and Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, tried to find more about neural plasticity using Mr. Armagan as a study case.[1] Both scientists had evidence that in cases of blindness, the "visual" cortex acts differently than how it acts with the non-blind. Pascual-Leone has found that Braille readers use this very same area for touch. Amedi, together (with Ehud Zohary) at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel), found that the area is also activated in verbal memory tasks. When Amedi analyzed the results, however, he found that Armagan's visual cortex lit up during the drawing task, but hardly at all for verbal recall, meaning that some unused visual areas might be used in collaboration with ones needs from the brain. Moreover in scans that were held while Armagan drew, his visual cortex signals seamed as he was seeing to the extant that a naive viewer of his scan might assume Armagan really could see. Mr. Armagan is married with two children. He has displayed his work at more than 20 exhibitions in Turkey,Italy,China,Holland and the Czech Republic. He has appeared several times on television and in the press in Turkey and has been on programs on BBC and ZD. In 2004, he was the subject of a study of human perception, conducted by the psychologist John Kennedy of University of Toronto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eşref_Armağan     A Painting A Day Objets d' Art by k. Madison Moore  Bearden Picasso Art Musem Painting by k Madison Moore
Romare Bearden Celebrating Picasso Exhibit
11 x 14 inches
Oil on Canvas
Art within Art Series
This painting was a dream! I had a very long conversation with a collector / friend who always has such great suggestions for me for new work. She fills my head with so many ideas that sometimes when I am trying to work out a design some of the paintings start running together. This is one of them. I was studying Picasso and Bearden at the same time. I went to sleep thinking about the composition and saw two Bearden paintings of musicians running together and a Picasso's paintings floating in the background. The next day I combined my impression of a few of his musicians from two of his paintings for the band and saw them in a very vivid colored room full of Picasso paintings floating across the walls. Such fun to paint in my dreams! LOL!
This is the first of my Art Museum Collection Series II.
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. Commonly known simply as Picasso, he is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
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Chagall Wine Label Art, Wine Painting by k Madison MooreMy Birthday Painting "There's a Party Above the Town!" Inspired by Marc Chagall 10 x 12 inches Oil on Canvas Connoisseur Wine Masters Series
 There's a Party Above the Town Another fun painting to do. Any time I can use a variety of bright colors, I'm happy. "When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is. I saw Chagall many years ago at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. What a great exhibit. I heard at the time that he would not be back in Philly in my life time so for my birthday that year, my girfriend took me to see him. I was remembering this as tomorrow is yet "another" birthday, so I decided to paint Marc Chagall - "Double portrait au verre de vin" - (1917-18) - " Above the Town". Because it's my birthday painting, I decided to call it "There's a Party Above the Town" It was fun separating the figures and and giving the female a full face. I like him much better hugging the wine bottle rather than sitting on her shoulders. Sometimes I wonder where Chagall's head was when he did things like that. What does this represent? My painting represent me and Dominic on top of our mountain, overlooking the town...with a giant bottle of wine, toasting my birthday. I am so happy that I took a break from a very heavy commission schedule to celebrate my birthday playing in paint with Marc Chagall. Enjoy!
 Above The Town by Marc Chagall He was known to have two basic reputations, writes Lewis – as a pioneer of modernism, and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism’s golden age in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism." Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk." Read more about Marc Chagall here Commission Projects Welcome. If you have an idea for a commission, email me with your ideas.
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