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My Favorite Artists

I love art that has a message to it, so it's no surprise that Barbara Kruger is one of my favorites. I love how she uses the contrast of vintage black and white images with bold red and white lettering. Her point is almost never lost on her viewers.









Another artist who portrays powerful messages in their work is George Segal. His plaster molds of people in real life settings can be very unsettleing. Because these plaster people look so real and put out for all to see, his message is hard to ignore. In this particular image he brings to life an unsettling, startling image of the Holocaust so we never forget.










Some artists don't have a big commercial message to send out, sometimes they have personal messages, secrets, tid bits of their life stored away and hidden in their work just waiting to be found. Andrew Wyeth has symbolic meaning to almost every aspect of his paintings, from the farm house, the girl in the feild, and the tire tracks in grass he is letting you into his life. Take the time to learn and you will be blown away. It also never hurts how beautifully rendered his works are. (He also lived 5 minutes from my house so theres a personal connect their too.)

Christo is another artist who sends out messages with his work, but the message is to look at things differently and to come out and appreciate art. His big wrapped projects that he installs around the world are for all to come and enjoy. They are meant to change the way you look at something and maybe challenge you to change the way you look at things everyday.





I love Henri Toulous Lautrec, he dosn't really send out messages in his work either but his life's story and his subject matter draw me into his work all that much more. I also love his very individual style and how he really broke from the norm during his lifetime. He was an amazing artist. ( You might know him better for his images of the Moulin Rouge and it's can can girls)











I also love art sometimes just because it's pretty or intrigues me, like Tamara de Lempicka. I love her pin up like old beautiful girls in a sort of cubist style. I just think it's really neat.















Note: I strictly put up my favorite images from these artists their other stuff is really awesome you should look them up :).

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