Painters
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Classical: |
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Zurbaran
This Spanish
master taught me the most important lessons about composition.
Variety and unity...
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Vermeer
He was my favorite at initial years. I took some elements of
his incredible paintings for my first solo show.
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Impressionists: |
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Monet
My Grandpa
gave me my first art book and it was a Monet's bio! That
influenced my 80's watercolors.
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Pisarro
Another great impressionist painter. A poet of landscape.
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Post-impressionists: |
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Van Gogh
When I
visited the US museums, the first books I bought included two
volumes about Van Gogh
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Modern and Contemporary: |
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Klee
Impossible
to avoid if you like modern art!
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Kokoschka
I received
the key of my post modern style from one of his portraits at
the MOMA. That was in 1983.
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Matisse
Color,
composition, poetry, and a lot more...
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Miro
The joy of
life with a deceive children's imaginary. Masterful color.
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Magritte
Superb
surrealist art
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Chapa
She taught
me how to convert common objects into symbols.
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Wyeth
The master
of introspective poetic reality.
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Stael
Powerful
abstraction and new vision of landscape.
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Tobey
Spirituality
and subtleness, to feel in silence.
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Pollock
The
explosion of life, one of the greatest artists of History.
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Johns
My favorite
painter. A new world and a new reality.
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Rothko
The sexiest
art, poetry of seduction of color.
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Twombly
He did that
Picasso wanted, being a child but with the knowledge of an
adult!
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Kiefer
The greatest
landscape artist. I'm still remembering one piece at the MOMA,
wao!
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Musicians
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Mozart
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Chopin
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Beethoven
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Liszt
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Perales
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Serrat
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Kenny G
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Writers
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Hugo
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Alegria
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Neruda
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Verne
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Doyle
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Hesse
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Lloyd-Jones
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Bunyan
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Packer
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Parramon
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Simpson
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