Paul Cezanne's Studio

Both Matisse and Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all."

Founding Father

The beautiful artwork of Native American Artist

Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya

Founding Father

Painting by Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya

The Buffalo Bull And The Cedar Tree

Painting by Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya

Here is his website http://www.ikoshy.com

Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya was born in Corpus Christi,Texas in 1956. When he was nine his family moved to San Francisco, California. His artistic abilities have been with him since his youth. As he made his way through school, this creativity was encouraged by his family and instructors. He remembers, "When I was growing up in Texas and later in California, my older brother and I spent a lot of time drawing and creating. Our family didn¹t spend time on emphasizing our "Indianess". The Indian people in our family was common knowledge just as it was with many Tejano families. It seemed that we were just trying to survive and make a place for ourselves just like the rest of America." He lived in the San Francisco bay area until his move up to Humboldt County where he attended College of the Redwoods. It was there he entered the Native American Studies Program and began his involvement with other native peoples in securing their culture and history. He remembers an elder Lakota brother referring to it as becoming a Born Agin¹ Savage. "It was at this time that I fully understood how much the Indian part of our family was a very important part of the foundation of my own life." He also began to paint using acrylics, his work making the most of ideas and inspiration from the native environment he was in. His art, from it¹s inception, represents the evolution of immersion in native teachings as it traced it¹s way through ceremonies and the everyday part of his own personal life. Ikoshy has never had any formal art training. " I was born with my artistic abilities and my elders, the sweat lodge and related ceremonies have been my art instructors", he states.

 Ikoshy is an enrolled member of the Lipan Apache Band of Texas. He currently lives in the community of Yankee Hill, California with his wife, Nadine and two children, Raina and Teo. His art has been featured in documentary videos on Native America, in various periodicals, on book covers, CD jackets and cassettes.

Rare Van Gogh Last Seen by President Kennedy

You have a rare opportunity to see this particular painting by Vincent Van Gogh at the Dallas Museum of Art until September 2013. It is currently being shown in a special exhibit about President John F. Kennedy's stay in Dallas. This painting was one of the several valuable works placed in the suite of the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas for the night of November 21, 1963. The last known outside personal phone call President John F. Kennedy ever made was to thank those responsible for arranging for the art to be placed in his suite. I saw the exhibit and it is a notable and moving exhibit worth the trip. All of the pieces that were placed in Kennedy's hotel room are in the exhibit.

The painting is on loan for the exhibition from a private collection. This is one of Van Gogh's pointillism pieces, a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Pointillism was developed in 1886 by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac who branched it from Impressionism. Van Gogh adopted pointillism for a short while when he was in Paris, but soon found out the process was not suitable for his temperament and used it and its bright, unmixed colors to find his own style.

Hotel Texas Exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art about Kennedy's stay in Dallas.

 Some of the rare art pieces placed in President and Mrs. Kennedy's suite when 

they stayed at the Texas Hotel in Dallas.

Picasso Who?

Pablo Picasso

Self Portrait

1938

Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso.

Van Gogh's Most Expensive Painting

The Portrait of Dr. Gachet

Vincent Van Gogh

1890

Oil on Canvas

I've done the portrait of M. Gachet with a melancholy expression, which might well seem like a grimace to those who see it. . . . Sad but gentle, yet clear and intelligent, that is how many portraits ought to be done. . . . There are modern heads that may be looked at for a long time, and that may perhaps be looked back on with longing a hundred years later. VINCENT VAN GOGH, JUNE 1890

Ryoei Saito, a Japanese businessman purchased the Van Gogh in 1990 for $82.5 Million. He casually remarked he wanted the painting to be put in his coffin and cremated with him when he died. He retracted the comment when it caused an international uproar, saying it was only a joke for the tax authorities, but few people thought it was funny. He had already locked the painting away from the public in a warehouse like the fabled ark in the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark,", invisible to those who might appreciate its power. Although he made a vague commitment to put it on show 'in about 10 years' time'. Saito suffered some financial troubles and may have sold it before he died in 1996. And it unclear who the current owner is, but representatives of Saito's company assured the world that it is still around.

O Wow

An emissary from Benedict XI asked artist Giotto di Bondone for a sample of his work and proof of his genius, so the artist dipped his brush in red ink and painted a perfect circle freehand in one stroke.

He got the commission.

Good Dog

This abstract expressionist painting was painted by the world's preeminent canine artist.....a dog.

Tillamook Cheddar is a Jack Russell terrier from Brooklyn, New York who works with her claws and teeth, spending hours on each canvas and biting anyone who interferes. She has had twenty solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe.
Her first official biography, Portrait of the Dog as a Young Artist by F. Bowman Hastie III, is published by Sasquatch Books (2006).