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Topic: email questions
Catherine from England asked me this question. I wrote a whole essay, and then near the end, mistakenly deleated it. That hurts. So here is a quick version.
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I primairly admire self-taught artists.
Henri Rousseau
Morris Hirshfield (left graphic)
William Hawkings
Jean-Michel Basquiate
And all the paintings by anonymus persons that hang in art museums, often folk art portraits or eccentric landscapes, and then the artwork that was created so long ago that the name of the artist has been lost or at the time was not important to society.
The other artists I admire are;
Giotto
Botticelli
Hieronymus Bosch
Gauguin
Paul Klee (bottom graphic)
Odilon Redon
Pierre Bonnard
David Hockney
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Posted by dignifyme
at 12:24 PM EST
Updated: Wednesday, 22 February 2006 1:31 PM EST