“It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.” Has BeensBigsStarsDifficultSawsFeetPaintingBandJazzSizeCurrentsPortraits80sLife Size Author:LeRoy Neiman
“A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.” WayWantGivingTryingFirstsLooksKindRealityFeetPaintingPhotographyPainterMaps Author:Peter Doig
“I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.” IfsSeemsEyeFeetMovementParticularPaintingWallFinishedSpotsThirtyCanvasResponding Author:William Baziotes
“It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting. When I use 'The Rig,' my feet are firmly anchored. I lower myself horizontally just long enough to make a brush stroke - a matter of seconds - and then I'm upright again. My assistant then erases the painting quickly with a squeegee and I go for it again... until I get it right. It's like trying to hit a home run.” TryingLongSometimesMatterEnoughUseHomeRunningFeetPaintingTablesSecondsCanvasStrokesBrushesEraseAssistantsHome RunMethodologyRigsBrush Strokes Author:James Nares
“In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model--the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.” GivingMindChildrenFeelingsMotherAsksFantasyFeetPaintingCreaturesModelsIdealsPerformancesMythBreastsFulfilledNurtureTranquilBeing A MotherUnattainableRaphael Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.” SpiritFeetSubjectsPaintingTechniqueIndianSoil Author:Amrita Sher-Gil
“For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This was the Christ painting [The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 2008] in my Down exhibition [2008]. Now, I simply can't spend eight hours a day painting small, identical flowers. And so I've got a team that allows me to have these grand, sweeping statements.” ThinkingHandsLastsChristHoursTeamFeetExamplePaintingFlowerThousandHundredEightStatementsMassiveIdenticalTombsSweepingExhibitions Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.” EndsHandsTodayFeetFiguresPossibilityPaintingFlexibilityGoing To Work Author:Kehinde Wiley