Nick Blinko

Artist: Nick Blinko
Title: Asylum


Blinko was born Sept. 4th 1964 in Britain.  He always drew nearly microscopic whimsical creatures.  When he was age 4 he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia which is very evident in his work.  He was also in a band called Rudimentary Peni where he did vocals/guitar/ and all the artwork.  He is now retired musically but still is very renowned in the art world for his work.  He still has art shows to this day.

Claude Cahun

Title: "What do you want from me?"
Artist: Claude Cahun
Date:1928
Medium: photograph

Cahun was a for-runner for Feminist Art.  She was openly lesbian and often cross-dressed.  Her work wasn't discovered and shown proper light until the 1980's.  It was rare for a woman to be openly gay in her time yet she revered much respect from fellow artists.  This is a self portrait which shows a demonic spirit whispering into the ear of her naive counterpart.

Salvador Dali

Artist: Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech
Title: "Sleep"
Date: 1933

Medium: oil on canvas

Dali was a very talented Draftsmen and was renowned for his surreal, neurotic imagery.  His works include film,  sculpture, paintings, and photography.  He was born in Catalonia, Spain on May 11th, 1904.  Dali has been renowned as a public figure as well with his charismatic demeanor and odd/witty interviews.  He is a huge inspiration to many modern artists.

Kandinsky

Artist:Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky
Title: "On White"
size:105x98 cm
medium: oil on canvas

Born Dec. 18th 1866 in Moscow, Russia. Kandinsky was one of the first creators of abstraction in the modern form. He had many groundbreaking avant-garde exhibitions and later became solely an abstractionist. He was also an accomplished musician and played the piano. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Dr. Seuss

Artist:Theodor Seuss Geisel
Title:Martini Bird
Size: 20x30


Born in Springfield Massachusetts, German immigrant, parents were brewers and he grew up on fairytales.  Most of his work reflects his childhood memories.  In college he started doing comics for Jack-o-Lantern, his colleges Humor magazine.  After college and a long adventure in Europe Theodor returned to America to become a cartoonist.

Fracis Bacon

Artist: Francis Bacon
Size: 24 1/4 x 18"

Bacon was born in Dublin Ireland, he received no formal training in the arts. He was renowned for his massive, distorted, fleshy objects which symbolize the evils of the human condition.  He was a man who lived a life where nothing in particular interested him.  Over all, his paintings depict the isolation of the subjects from the world around them, much like Bacon's reality..

La Vie

Artist: Pablo Picasso
date: 1903
Size: 2 meters tall

Picasso painted this piece during his blue period (hence the colors).  The setting of the painting is in Picasso's studio.  The man in the painting is none other then Carlos Casagemas, one of Picasso's good friends who killed himself when denied by a lover.  Picasso never gave his own interpretation of the painting.