Leonardo Davinci, (1452-1519) self portrait

Leaders: Michelangelo, Leonardo Davinci, and Raphael

Neo-Classical Art

 Ingres( 1780-1867), The Source

Leaders: Jacques Louis David and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

 Rembrandt Van Rijn, (1606-1669)

Arts and Crafts Movement/ Modern Architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright. 1867-1959

As a working location photographer, architecture has a strong influence on my life and how I see things with regards to space and design. 

Favorite architects: Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolf Schindler, John Lautner, Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier,  Pierre Koenig.

Art Nouveau  was an international style of decoration and architecture which developed in the 1880s and 1890s

Gustav Klimt, Hygieia, 1900-7 (detail from Medicine)

Gustav Klimt (1867-1918). Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by eroticism.-

Austrian stylists included Gustav Klimt  Alphonse Mucha and  Egon Schile

Mark Rothko, (Russian 1903-1970).

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Pollock challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush, as well as moving away from use only of the hand and wrist; as he used his whole body to paint

Leaders of the movement included- Wassilly Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Jean Michel Basquiat ,(1960-1988)

Andy Warhol, as a central figure in pop art, was known for his presence in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats. Basquiat had the guts to confront the New York art scene and take his graffiti art and personal heritage to a level that has never been done.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). "You know, music, art - these are not just little decorations to make life prettier. They're very deep necessities which people cannot live without."

 The Ashcan School painted  pictures of alleys, tenements, slum dwellers or "real" New York City life.

Robert Henri, (1865-1929)." I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living." from  "The Art Spirit" , by Robert Henri.

 George Bellows, Sharkeys 2

 "The Eight" included Robert Henri, George Bellows and Edward Hopper

Käthe Kollwitz 1867-1945, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war

Lucien Freud (1922-   )

Robert Peak, 1927-1992

I am heavily influenced and strive to paint like the great American Illustrators including Robert Peak, Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, Bernie Fuchs, Bart Forbes, Gregory Manchess, Gary Kelly,  and Dennis Brown whom I personally studied under.

Alex Powers opened my mind to new ideas in art especially the importance of the  principles of design in portraiture.