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musetouchVisual Arts Magazine
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Cesar Santos
Artistic EnergyAn Exclusive Interview
Roni River
Finding Myself througha Lens
An Exclusive Interview
Serge Marshennikov
Sensuality Conveyed
Sven FennemaKenneth LingeP. John BurdenAnastasia PonyatovskayaDmitry LaudinKaveh H. SteppenwolfDimitris Miliotis
January 2011
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Dear readers,
The New Year has started with a new dreams, fantasies, aims to be achieved...the new exicting travel through the beautiful world of visual arts.
I proudly present to you the sixt edition of Musetouch Visual Arts Mag-azine. I hope that it will make you dream, wake up your imagination and make it productive, make you wish and want more of your life, and above all to make you feel.
I would like to thank to the people who are always with me on this hard, but wonderful path...Ljiljana Bursac, Jelena Grujic, Gines Serran, Mark Sadan, my Nini Baseema and Ian Furniss. Also, I would like to thank to beautiful Vukica Mikaca Lovren for remembering me and sending me best wishes for the New Year.
After all the hard work on this issue and all the previous issues of such a great magazine, I didn’t forget the beautiful artist who helped me. Without all of you this would not be possible. I thank everyone no mat-ter how small of a role they had on this magazine and hope I can further improve Musetouch for you, our dear readers all over the world.
Maia Sylba
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MUSETOUCH MAGAZINE January 2011
EditorMaia Sylba
Graphic designerDejan Silbaski
ContributorsNini BaseemaAshley JeanIan Furniss
CoverKiyo Murakami
MUSETOUCH is a magazine about visual arts. It has been created by Maia Sylba out of a love and passion
for art with the hope that people will be able to use the publication and website as a platform to showcase
their skills and gain recognition.
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Submission Guideline
If you want to contribute to the next edition, you can send us an email with your data and a PDF file that
shows your works, also a link of your website if you have any.
We would love to see your art so don’t hesitate to contact us and welcome.
All artwork in this magazine is copyright protected under the MUSETOUCH Magazine brand or remains
property of the individual artists who have kindly granted us permission to use their work.
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Serge MarshennikovSensuality Conveyed
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Roni RiverFinding Myself through a Lens
098Sven FennemaAlive
026Kenneth LingeMy Strength
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Dmitry LaudinReal Fantasy
112Dimitris MiliotisColors Make You Feel
126Cesar SantosArtistic Energy
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P. John BurdenInto the Unknown
140Anastasia PonyatovskayaUnique Style and Imagination
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Kaveh H. SteppenwolfBeyond your sight
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Serge Marshennikov“I was seduced by Serge Marshennikov’s alluring female oil portrait, The Pirate Style Bed. Marsh-
ennikov uses the languorous pose of his model, a delicate swatch of lace draped over her hip, and
deep folds of luxuriant bed sheets, comforters and warm pillows to convey sensuality, femininity
and the promise of endless pleasure that comes with waking each morning with original works of
exquisite art.”
Tomas Hall, art critique, Florida
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Serge Marshennikov Sensuality conveyed
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Serge Marshennikov was born in 1971 in Ufa (Bashkiria, USSR). His grandfather was gen-
eral manager of the horse breeding company, father an electric engineer and mother was in
pre-school education. Since he remembers himself, Serge always was drawing, painting and
sculpting from any material he could land his hands on. Mother encouraged Serge to study
and from an early childhood he had succession of private teachers and art studious he at-
tended. After receiving several awards for his children’s watercolor and pastel paintings, Serge
decided to become a professional painter. In 1995 he finished the Ufa Art College and then
continued education at one of the most prestigious art academies in the world, The Repin
Academy of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. As one of the most talented graduates of the
academy, Serge was offered to stay for the post-graduate studies at the studio of an Academi-
cian, Rector of the Academy, Professor Milnikov. Serge’s first solo exhibition was in the gal-
lery “Sangat” of his native UFA in 1995, year of his graduation form the college. The show was
a success and Serge was invited to exhibit at the Artists’ Union gallery. Since that time Serge
exhibited on a semi-annual basis, showing his works to his collectors and piers in both St Pe-
tersburg and Ufa. Srege’s graduation work cot an aye of a faculty of the Brownwood University
in Texas and Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, and Sergey during his post-graduation
years exhibited during summers in the art departments of those Universities.
Serge was awarded “Chairman’s Choice Award” at the 2008/2009 International Art Renewal
Center’s salon, and received Certificate of Excellence for his outstanding achievement in art.
He was chosen as “Top 30” in 2008 by the Portrait Society of America. Lately Serge’s paintings
are successfully sold through important art auctions, including famous Christie’s of London
and Bonham’s in Knightsbridge. His work is in much demand and his prices are constantly
rising. Serge’s paintings held in the Museum of Modern Art (El Paso), in The Grace Museum
(Abilene), and in many important private collections in Russia, England, Denmark, France
and Japan. Serge’s biggest influences were Andrew Wyeth & Lucian Freud. From contempo-
rary scene he likes works of Jeremy Lipking.
At the end of 2007 Serge signed an exclusive representational agreement with the Los Angeles
based Weinstein Art Management, Inc (WAM).
[email protected]@wam-art.net
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Sven Fennema
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Sven Fennema AlliveThe photo artist Sven Fennema was born in Xanten, Germany in 1981. Today he ives in Kre-feld near Düsseldorf.
After some experiences in digital processing and his first photographic steps in 2007 he actu-ated his photographic activities more passionate and developed his own photographic style rapidly in the following year. Sven learned his photographic and post processing skills always self educated and they are under continuous development.
Since the interest in abandoned places attends him already for many years it was definite that they became his first favourite motifs. But at the same time his second favoured motifs, the modern architecture evolved. Is it primarily the atmosphere and the stories behind what catches him with the decayed motifs of abandoned places it is different with the modern mo-tifs. In that case it is more the art of seeing a place or building in different eyes, to use them as tools to create completely new, own and individual sights.
Since a long time now the creative photo art is an important and elementary part in his life. Sven’s pictures are stamped by extraordinary compositions with atmosphere, special light and mood but also by the play of lines and forms. Himself he describes them as just “alive”.While photographing he invests a lot of time, first he let the place affect on him for some time, he feels and collects its mood and history. Sven thinks about it for a while and that is the way the picture he want to express later slowly evolves in his head.Especially his decay related motifs are filled up with stories he wants to tell, good as well as bad ones. They are going to be told while watching the picture, always a little different de-pending on the viewer.Sometimes Sven feels embraced to abrogate rules and reality and works beside existent ideals. For example his works use blooming or extraordinary camera positions as stylistic devices. This is also the reason he came to the working title of his website “boundless mind”. He does not want to have his fantasy and ideas controlled by rules, reality and limitations but to realize everything like he sees’s it in his own mind...
boundlessmind.net
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Kenneth Linge
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Kenneth Linge My StrengthKenneth’s loves are simple: watching NBA basketball with his boys, listening to music with his girls and either photographing people or teaching others to do the same. He enjoys Utah’s four seasons which, remind him of his native Norway. His corporate clients include Mitsubi-shi, Canon, and Bennett Communications. He also photographs a limited number of wed-dings, families and children.
Photographing professionally since age seventeen, Kenneth’s photographic awards include Norwegian Photographer of the Year, Kodak Gold Awards for the Nordic division, several Scandinavian Fame Portrait “Photographer of the Year” awards, Professional Photographers of America’s Masters and Craftsman Degrees as well as Loan Collections prints. Kenneth moved to the United States in 2000, leaving Norway as the 90’s most award-winning photog-rapher in Scandinavia.
Kenneth has chaired European judging committees and is a member of the prestigious XXV group, a group of the world’s leading speakers and photographers. Kenneth is passionate about teaching and has lectured extensively during the past 2 decades. “Mentoring other motivated photographers is very rewarding. I feel that the benefits from all my hard work are endlessly multiplied when I’m able to help another photographer. We all constantly learn from each other and teaching has taught me to analyze and improve my own work.” In 2007 Kenneth founded the International School of Photography. “My strength is making people look good,” explains Kenneth. And with assignments around the world, his clientele back his claim.
kennethlinge.comkennethlinge.cominstudiophoto.com
kennethlinge.squarespace.com
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Cesar Santos
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Artistic EnergyCesar Santos is a Cuban-American painter. He is best known for images that transmit the impression of paintings of the past, but are also imbued with contemporary, fresh concepts and philosophy. His work shows a wide range of influences, including sources as diverse as the Renaissance, Nineteenth Century academic work, and contemporary society. His artistic energy drives him to arrange elusive figures and objects in conceptual designs, yet rendering them in a believable and convincing way.
Santos was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, and grew up in Miami, where he studied conceptual art at the New World College. Later he traveled to Italy in search of a sound training in the art of painting; settling in Florence, Santos began training at the Angel Academy of Art under Michael John Angel, a student of Pietro Annigoni.
Upon graduation, Santos returned to Miami where he built a successful career illustratingun-conventional ideas and images in complex compositions. He brings both worlds - theoreti-cal and naturalistic - into communion: taking objects out of their natural context to create a new environment for them, a new reality or world for us. More recently, he has undertaken a series of suggestive and theatrical figure paintings whose style raises questions, causing one to probe the imagery present for the inherent meaning. He has had solo shows and group exhi-bitions in Europe, Latin America and North America as well as exhibited at the Villa Bardini Museum in Florence, Italy and The Frost Art Museum in Miami, FL . Santos is based in New York City, where he continues pursuing his artistic endeavors.
“Listen to many, speak to a few.” William Shakespeare, “Listen to few, speak to many”. Cesar Santos... lol...please explain:)
Upon encountering and reflecting on that famous quote by William Shakespeare I realized that my philosophy on life is to listen and learn from a few select sources. Then filter the knowledge acquired and through my art speak to the masses. “Listen to few, speak to many”.
Why are you an artist Cesar, and when did you first become one?
I am a painter and paintings sometimes have the potential of turning into works of art. If I am an artist it is only because my paintings have given me that privilege. I am still becoming one.
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Could you tell us some more about your paintings?
My paintings represent my deepest and most irrational perceptions. I aspire to show images that transmit the impression of paintings of the past, but are imbued with contemporary, fresh concepts as well as my personal philosophy. My tools are imagination and technique; they are the essence and the basis of my work.
What inspires you to paint and how do you keep motivated when things get tough in the studio?
That which inspires me comes unexpectedly from all kinds of sources; from a feeling after an experience or from my response to a visual effect. But no matter what, it is always tough in the studio , the very challenge itself motivates me.
What’s the best and worst parts of being an artist in today’s world?
The best part of being an artist today, I’d say, is the vast amount of information and tools available to us and on top of that an immense sense of freedom to express our most inti-mate ideas. The worst part of being an artist today is that we no longer grow up in an artistic environment nor learn the craftsmanship of painting at an early age. Only when we are old enough to decide to follow the art of painting do we encounter the many challenges and dif-ficulties in this path.
Your art is influenced by Renaissance, Nineteenth Century...would you feel better living in the past, do you think that you belong to the 21th Century?
Oh, I totally belong to this century!! My work is influenced mainly by my everyday life. I only represent people and places I know. I might seem misplaced just because I present a flat canvas full of depth and volume and design, an aptitude most artist in the last hundred years lacked.
Have you found it difficult painting in a classical style in a contemporary art world?
I see myself as a contemporary artist who paints in a representational manner. Painting in this style is difficult enough on its own- thankfully I haven’t felt oppressed by the contempo-rary art world any more than my fellow artists of varying styles.
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What is the contrast between the intent of your art and the perception of it?
The intent of my art is to establish a dialogue. In a suggestive and theatrical way I seek to raise questions, to entice one to probe the imagery that I present and attempt to decipher it’s mean-ing but each individual will perceive it differently and that is the beauty of it.
What aspiration as an artist is most important to you?
Most important to me is to keep finding challenges in my work, to keep discovering better ways of painting and a more effective way of expressing that which I want to represent.
What artists have influenced you, and how?
So many artists have influenced me, I would say almost every one I have studied. From the neoclassicism of Ingres to the abstract expressionism of Frans Kline. Some have guided me to a healthy path others have told me not to take a certain route.
What has been your most exciting moment as an artist?
It happened yesterday as I saw that my latest painting had a power, a soul that my previous works didn’t have.
Where do you see yourself in let’s say...10 years?
In ten years I’ll be 38 years old, I expect to be a better person as well as a better artist by then. Seeing how I have developed in my four years as a professional painter, in ten years to come I aspire to have Museum exhibitions and a couple of books published. But I wouldn’t be sur-prised if by then a few major galleries will be in conflict over who should represent me…he he he, let’s hope!
Maia Sylba
santocesar.com
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Anastasia Ponyatovskaya
Anastasia Ponyatovskaya Pace graduated as an artist from the college in Sankt-Petersburg, Russia and Academy of art in Moldova. After joining the Union of Artists in 2004, she has become widely revered for her unique style and imagination and participated in many art exhibitions including: Moldova, UK, Russia, Germany, Latvia, Malta, Gozo and Italy. Since 2005 Anastasia Ponyatovskaya has been living in Malta and she finds that this country is full of legendary and beautiful places which are very inspiring for creations. She presents new original art works in postmodernism fantasy /fairy tales/ styles. In her art she tries to rethink heritage & old traditions, and bring new inspiration in her work.
arteforte.net
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Anastasia PonyatovskayaUnique Style and Imagination
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Roni River Finding Myself trough a Lens
Roni River is a photographer from Tel Aviv in Israel. She has made quite a noise in the world with her evocative self portraits – many of them are nudes or of erotic nature- her way of facing a self-proclaimed troubled body image. In 2009, she embarked upon an artistic journey that consisted of photographing herself every day for 365 days of the year. The result of her efforts is now available to buy.
(http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1452044)
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Finding Myself trough a Lens
Hey Roni, thank you for taking time for this interview. Can you tell us a bit more about the idea of the 365 photo shoot. How did you come up with it and what was your motivation?
It was only towards the end of 2008 that I finally picked up a camera after 3 years of not touching one. I did my October diary project in which I photographed every single day for a month. I mostly shot just around my house and my garden, myself I photographed only 4 times and I would journal a lot. After finishing that I was very content. It was the first time I have committed to something and saw it through and my passion and love for photography was reawakened finally, and then I decided to start a 365 project this time shooting myself every day for a whole year. And now I can honestly say that my 365 project has changed my life.
What has changed for you ever since the first picture - not just as an artist but also how you perceive yourself for a woman?
Its a project a lot of people take on all around the world. But for me it meant so much more. It meant taking on a commitment as well as dealing with my own issues. Shooting on a daily basis and then posting it online together with my thoughts and feelings of that day, was apart of the process and having to face myself in the image took me on a very deep journey inside myself. And it took me to places I never imaged it would. On such an emotional level.
Forcing me to face my anxieties, something I didn’t think would happen while shooting this project: Dealing with all those voices in my head that ‘I can’t do it’ and ‘I won’t see it through’ and ‘how much I suck! Having to face these voices on a daily basis was extremely helpful and it made me a lot stronger and more confident. Once I started shooting something inside me finally started to release itself. I finally had an outlet for all that was bubbling up insidefor so many years. I would look at the images and not recognize me... This woman was emerg-ing from inside myself that I had no idea even existed in the first place. I started listening to her more, to what she wants to say do and be.In the beginning I was a bit lost thinking I should shoot what people may want to look at, but that got very boring and meaningless rather quickly. And then I started looking inwards for
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what I wanted to portray about how I was feeling or what was happening and there arephotos in 365 that I feel are telling the truth and the story of what was going on, on that par-ticular day.
I learned a lot about myself. Journaling all the way through this year and sharing my thoughts as well as my photos while getting the feedback and the stories people shared with me about their anxieties and their lives was inspiring, moving and so special for me. It also helped me to realize how ‘OK’ of a human being I am even though I’m 30, single and living at home. Those titles that society are so called ‘labeling’ me as don’t define me, I realized that at the end of day I’m the one that’s labeling myself and feeling lousy about it. Society is too busy up their own ass to judge me, but I’m doing a fine job at judging myself and I needed to stop doing that.
How was the response by the audience? Was there a difference betweenmen and women? Did you have to deal with hostility and prejudices a lot or was it more support you felt? What are you most proud of?
I’m very happy to say that 90% of all the comments and mails are very very warm and sup-portive! It really is amazing that we are always so sure we are walking these hardships alone when in fact there are so many people out there with the exact same issues and thoughts as us. There are more men than women who comment and write me but I think that’s because men are usually more comfortable with nudity than women. Women worry too much about how they look and what others may think of them even for saying something about a nude photo and so on. But I have amazing women with amazing stories write me and tell me that Ihave to continue doing everything I’m doing and that they think its wonderful and very in-spiring. Which has been very humbling for me.
What are your current work projects? Any plans to collaborate with other artists maybe?
Well after the end of 365 I feel like something in me has died I have still taken self portraits but I feel like I’ve said what I had to say with it and now I don’t know how to continue. So, I am planning a new project that will include other people in my photos as well as my self por-traits, I’m afraid I can’t tell you too much right now as I am still working out the story and the details of it. I have collaborated with two painters this month - one of them Kevin Peterson painted my photo from day 350/365 and it’s for sale on his website and the other guy is Jeffrey Richter who drew me for an exhibition in Ohio. I would love to collaborate more with artists.
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If you had one wish for free, which one would that be?
Wow that’s a hard one. To sell lots of copies from my 365 book, and a full frame camera is something I’m dying for as well... I don’t know what I’d end up asking - I suppose the most important thing is to continue to challenge myself and grow and to just ask for heavenly guid-ance strength and assistance to keep being on my side would be the best wish.
Nini Baseema
wix.com/roniriver/roniriver2
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Dmitry Laudin
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Dmitry Laudin Real Fantasy
Dmitry Laudin is a photographer, artistic furniture restorer, and a member of the Artists Union of Russia. Winner of the 19th TRIERENBERG SUPER CIRCUIT 2010 - DIGITAL IMAGES EXPERIMENTAL GOLD MEDAL, he was born in Moscow in 1968. He bcame a professional photographer in 2007. Using the possibilities of digital photography, computer art processing, he shows the beauty and harmony of nature and women.
laudin-art.com
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Dimitris MiliotisDimitris Miliotis was born on Corfu Island – Greece.He took his first painting lessons in his native town and then continued in Athens under famous art teachers. He graduated in Math-ematics and continued his studies in Printmaking at the University of Fine Arts in Athens. Dimitris is an active member of the Union of Greek Printmakers and a member of the Cham-ber of Visual Art of Greece.
Already he has made 12 personal exhibitions around Greece and participated in more than 35 group exhibitions in Greece and abroad (Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Bul-garia, Slovakia, and France). His paintings are exhibited in the Municipal Gallery of Corfu, in various Pubic halls and are part of galleries and private collections all over the world.
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Dimitris Miliotis Colors Make You Feel
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P. John Burden“In painting my job is to be to peel away the never ending layers that describe us. Like the archaeologist, I use hard won skills. But what I uncover has been there waiting - forever.I’ve been sharpening my skills by drawing, printmaking, and painting, just about every day. I try to push further into the unknown each time I work, although I eventually run back to safe centre - yet already relishing the thought of the next sortie. There is a multitude of paintings still clamouring to be done. Nearly all my work is about relationships. With my beleaguered self , between persons, with the larger social, and natural environment, or perhaps with a god or two.”
P. John Burden
How do you decide what to create?
Something is always trying to come through. Even if I start in a very premeditated way, other images and ideas will push to the forefront. My head is full of memories of this and that, some from years ago, waiting to be used.
Why do you use surrealism as your art form?
Surrealism, is a label. I just do my best, with complete honesty. But, to try to address that question in the spirit it is asked I, would say: I think we humans have repressed many ways of seeing. Ways which often only emerge when we have less control - when we dream.
How do you describe what art is? Where is the line?
I think anyone who is striving to improve, be it changing a car tire or painting Rembrandt’s Night Watch, is doing art. I do not believe complacency, fashion, or the endorsement of con-temporary academics, has much to do with art.
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P. John Burden Into the Unknown
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Any advice to people who do not understand contemporary art?
There’s a lot of good stuff, and a lot of nonsense out there. Each person has to believe in their own reasoning. Personally, I have no time for the artist who blindfolded, stabs at rats in a box (I like rats.)I remember a gallery showing where the artist displayed her baby’s used diapers, framed and hung on the wall. The critics and experts all stood looking thoughtful before these oddities. None dared to say what any sensible person would say.My advice would be to read Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Emperors New Suit of Clothes” (Don’t think that’s the correct name - quite.)
Who, if anyone, inspired you to become an artist?
Just me. I didn’t intentionally become an artist. I always was. But the influence of my master, Henry Wilkinson, becomes more powerful as I grow older. (My work looks nothing like his.)
Did you always know that art was your talent, or did it gradually grow into what it is to-day?
I just worked hard each day, to perfect whatever skills I may have had. When I first “aban-doned” the fine arts scene in London I found greater freedom as an Illustrator and Commer-cial Artist (but not for big time commerce). These can be rigorous disciplines.Now I am older and mellower, I hope I can handle the ofttimes limitations and tomfoolery of the fine arts scene. (Been there - done that - too restrictive.)
Did you aspire to have a different career, or was art your dream?
I do not think of my work as a career (I work over 100 hours per week, but do not believe in the work ethic). I feel that Artists have no choice - they have to do it.
How did you develop your own original style?
I must allow images to express themselves upon the paper, canvas, or whatever. I just try very hard to be true to them. I believe that Van Gogh was not trying to develop any style. He was just painting as well as he could.
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What do you think the biggest misconception about art is?
In addition to all the preceding, I would say that expertise, in the appreciation of art, is of lim-ited value. There may well be a place for experts, but the history of art has often proved them wrong. I have pictures and pieces collected in many countries, and boring people do not like my work.
Ashley Jean
johnburdenart.com
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Kaveh H. Steppenwolf
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Kaveh H. SteppenwolfBeyond Your Sight
He should be praised for climbing; yetThe other man comes always from a heightAnd lives where praise can never get-Beyond your sight.
steppenwolf.1x.com
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