Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 – 1988), Neo-Expressionist Painter

In his short life, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a pop icon, cultural figure, graffiti artist, musician, and neo-expressionist painter. He was a precocious child, and by the age of four he could both read and write.

Amedeo Modigliani

Elusive Muse: Italian Painter Amedia Modigliani (1884 to 1920)

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 - January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist of Jewish heritage, practicing both painting and sculpture, who pursued his career for the most part in France. Modigliani was born in Livorno (historically referred to in English as Leghorn), in Northwestern Italy and began his artistic studies in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906.

Stella Im Hultberg

The Daily Muse: Stella Im Hultberg
Mixed Media Artist – Solo Exhibition

Spoke Art is pleased to present “Stranger”, a solo exhibition by Portland-based artist Stella Im Hultberg. Comprised of new oil paintings and loosely rendered watercolor and India ink sketches, “Stranger” is an exploration into the fragmented dream-like world of female identity.

Herb Kornfeld

The Daily Muse: Herb Kornfeld (1915-2001)

Herb Kornfeld was an American School painter whose prolific career spanned eight decades (painting until his death in 2001) and helped forge a new style referred to by art critics as “California Modernism.” A landscape painter—who considered the outdoors his studio and executed series around the country and the world— capturing the beauty of the California coast was a lifelong passion for the Los Angeles, Calif.-based artist.

Eugène Atget

The Daily Muse: French Photographer Eugène Atget (1857 – 1927)

Eugène Atget (February 12, 1857 – August 4, 1927) was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris. Born outside the French city of Bordeaux, he was orphaned at seven and raised by his uncle. In the 1870s, after finishing his education, Atget briefly became a sailor and cabin boy on liners in the Transatlantic. After shipping on several voyages, Atget became an actor, more specifically, a bit player, for a second-rate repertory company, but without much success. He met and eventually married Valentine DeLafosse, an actress, with whom he spent the rest of his life.

The Daily Muse: Lily Hinrichsen, Mixed Media Artist and Teacher

Elusive Muse is pleased to introduce mixed media artist and teacher Lily Hinrichsen. To learn more about Lily, to review her workshop schedule, to see more of her work or to purchase something visit her website at: www.lilyhinrichsen.com

HIlma af Klint

The Daily Muse: Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), The First Abstract Artist?

Hilma af Klint (October 26, 1862-October 21, 1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were amongst the first abstract art. A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky. She belonged to a group called "The Five" (a circle of women who shared her belief in the importance of trying to make contact with the so-called 'high masters' - often by way of séances) and her paintings, which sometimes resembled diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas.

The Daily Muse: Susan Melrath
Painter and Teacher

I have recently been working on a large painting and had this idea that I wanted to finish with a final coat that was similar to resin but did not want to use something toxic. I started watching videos on youtube.com and found a great video by Susan Melrath that explained her process of using Golden Self-Leveling Gel followed by a final cold wax coating. The process gives a beautiful soft sheen similar to encaustic.

Kim Alsbrooks

The Daily Muse: Kim Alsbrooks Paints Historical Portraits on Trash

Kim Alsbrooks paints historical portraits and settings on trash. Although initially working out of Charleston, Kim now works and lives in Philadelphia.

Max Beckmann

The Daily Muse: Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Painter and Printmaker

Painter, printmaker. Known for probing the human condition in portraits, self-portraits, and enigmatic, allegorical tableaus. Emerged in Berlin in early 1910s working in late Impressionist manner. Joined medical corps during World War I. Served in Belgium, where he met Erich Heckel. Discharged after a nervous breakdown in 1915. Although he had publicly criticized Franz Marc and the Blaue Reiter’s impulse toward abstraction and spirituality in 1912, harrowing experience of war led him to incorporate strategies of distortion, angularity, and exaggerated color.

Terry Garrett

Featured Muse:
Terry Garrett, Artist & Teacher

Terry Garrett is a mixed media collage artist. He is retired after 36 years of teaching art from elementary to university level. He lives in Northern Minnesota in the woods with his husband. He has a beautiful studio in his home where he teaches workshops.

Beth Brown

The Daily Muse: Beth Brown, Visual Artist and Experimental Musician

Beth Brown is a visual artist and experimental musician practicing in Baltimore, MD. Her body of work includes intricate ink drawings on paper and euphonic processed field recordings. The drawings and musical arrangements share a common thread of representing textual micro-landscapes, articulated through obsessive (and meditative) mark-making, and improvised composition.

Zaria Forman

The Daily Muse: Photorealistic Paintings by Zaria Forman

Zaria Forman’s pristine, photorealist paintings of the ocean and remote, icy landscapes are painted by hand—quite literally using her fingertips to render marks in paint and chalk, rather than brushes. Traveling to far-flung corners of the globe affected by climate change, in order to source inspiration for her large-scale compositions, Forman takes photographs and creates sketches, working from these and her memory in the studio after she returns to the US.

Sol Lewitt

The Daily Muse: Sol Lewitt (1928-2007) Minimalist Artist

Sol LeWitt earned a place in the history of art for his leading role in the Conceptual movement. His belief in the artist as a generator of ideas was instrumental in the transition from the modern to the postmodern era. Conceptual art, expounded by LeWitt as an intellectual, pragmatic act, added a new dimension to the artist's role that was distinctly separate from the romantic nature of Abstract Expressionism.

Norbert Marszalek

The Daily Muse: Norbert Marszalek,
Artist and Author

Norbert Marszalek is an artist, author, and co-founder of Neoteric Art, an online art magazine. He was born in Chicago and received a Bachelor of Arts from Northeastern Illinois University and has also studied at the American Academy of Art and The School of the Art Institute.