My ideas by Joel Starlings https://padlet.com/joelstarlings22/2zpttyn1n3iu Made by Joel en-us 2019-04-02 12:46:49 UTC 2019-04-12 15:35:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rafaelo.png Cars........... joelstarlings22 https://padlet.com/joelstarlings22/2zpttyn1n3iu/wish/347591486
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Well-known for his vibrant, kinetic depictions of motorsport racing scenes, Patterson is the official artist at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and has done numerous commissions for the likes of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, David Letterman, and the Indy Grand Prix. The Wyoming-born artist has lived all around the world and developed a reputation for his “live painting” demonstrations.

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Pretty much all of Jesse Alexander's photographs of racing cars and the people of motorsports are very much under his copyright, so we can't show you just how clearly they capture the spirit of racing in the 1950s and ‘60s, when he traveled from America to Europe's great tracks.

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Robert Bleier was a computer programmer who was diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 43. He faced this challenge by realizing his dream as a car enthusiast to paint the car he loved, the DeLorean.

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American carmakers acted as patrons of great illustrators and artists with every advertisement and brochure they issued for a new car. Before photography became the main medium for car ads, Detroit paid illustrators to render their cars in fabulous detail, usually with one person drawing the car and another drawing the background.















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Let’s start with the man of the moment. The in-demand 18th century society portraitist managed to make time to paint more than a dozen paintings of his daughters and more of his wife, despite having a clientele that counted kings and queens. This painting shows his two daughters, Mary and Margaret, as children chasing a butterfly, and is one of the 12 surviving portraits of them by Gainsborough, all of which will be brought together in the National Portrait Gallery. 

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[F]rom Lucien Freud, a man who spent more than 4,000 hours painting his mother (not weird, right?) to John Whistler, whose portrait of his mother has become one of his most identifiable works, if you want to see some of the great artists’ most powerful work, then you need look no further than their portraits of their mothers.

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Rembrandt often used his mother Neeltgen Willensder as a model. This painting captures his fascination with the physical signs of aging; the sunken eyes, the folded skin. It was something he would return to many times in his work.

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One of the most famous works by an American artist outside of the United States, Whistler’s austere portrait of his mother Anna Matilda McNeill marked a shift in his work from realism to the more stylised form that would make his name.



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Though he’s often classified as a pop artist, it would be more accurate to call American painter Wayne Thiebaud a godfather to the genre, since much of his work that could be categorized as "pop art" came before the movement was firmly established. But even a brief glimpse of Thiebaud’s output makes it easy to understand why he is often considered alongside the likes of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. In fact, it was while spending some time in New York and being exposed to the work of those aforementioned artists that Thiebaud began recreating shape-based food displays. Thiebaud received his art training at a trade school, which helps explain the practicality in his pieces.
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Ed Ruscha’s Annie, Poured From Maple Syrup is such a fantastic compression of food, culture, and signage at a moment when Pop Art was consuming the American zeitgeist. Realized only four years after Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, Ruscha’s masterpiece has both a painterly and a graphic attitude in a way that few paintings at that time did. And, like a number of West Coast artists working in the tall shadow of New York, it has a healthy dose of humor in its play on an American icon—the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie. Ruscha’s painting points to something that would remain part of American culture, considering that his canvas came some 40 years after Annie entered popular culture and that, today, nearly 50 years later, the iconic name as well as its specific graphic depiction still hold great value.
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Plenty of pop artists took on food as subject matter: Andy Warhol focused on Campbell’s soup cans; Roy Lichtenstein, the hot dog; and James Rosenquist, spaghetti. Around this time, the American dining industry was coming into its own, and food production was getting faster. Canning lines shifted into high gear, bringing off-season edibles to be sold at any number of big-chain supermarkets. In sum, American food became more than just apple pie; it put on a suit and tie, and was transformed into a business. What sets James Rosenquist apart from Warhol and Lichtenstein is his pure dude-ness. We see food, cars, and women. Is that all there is—this lustful trifecta for the consumerist mind? I hope not.
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Sight and taste are united in this well-known canvas by Lily Martin Spencer, which shows baskets of luscious apples, berries, and pineapples flanking an equally luscious brunette. Preparing jam or a similar sugary treat, the coy chef curls the fingers of one hand around a paring knife while lifting a spoon of molasses with the other. A lass who loved a good joke, Spencer included a flirty threat in the title of the painting. Should the gawking viewer try to steal a kiss from this well-heeled lady (who is clearly out of his league), he'll get a dousing of the "'lasses" from the spoon in her hand. Forbidden fruit never looked so sweet.

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Van Gogh painted several still lifes of shoes or boots during his Paris period. This picture, painted later, in Arles, evinces a unique return to the earlier motif. However, here Van Gogh has placed the shoes within a specific spatial context: namely, the red-tile floor of the Yellow House. Not only may we identify the setting, but perhaps the owner of the shoes as well. It has been suggested that this "still life of old peasants' shoes" may have been those of Patience Escalier, whose portrait Van Gogh executed around the same time, late summer 1888.
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If there’s one artist who can capture the detail and fluidity of race cars in motion, it’s Watts. Watching motorsports events near his hometown inspired him to master a level of technical art that soon earned him commissions. Now, each of his pieces are a stunning work of atmosphere, precision, and movement–with light, rain, and backgrounds getting as much detail as the vehicular subjects.
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Being born in the communist Czech Republic in the 1940s, Zapadlik’s fascination with American-made cars often got him in trouble with the authorities, who often burned his worked. Still, his work eventually found him mild success and deserves to be appreciated for its historical significance as much as its mastery of color, soft lines, perspective, and precise depictions of classic cars.
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Working for years as an illustrator for studios and agencies, Hatala produced commercial work for many notable companies and organizations. His portfolio includes a range of styles and subjects, from sports and architecture to science fiction and family scenes. His most recognizable paintings feature photo-realistic Americana scenes of small-town corner garages or drive-in diners filled with classic cars. ]]> 2019-04-03 13:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/joelstarlings22/2zpttyn1n3iu/wish/348044909