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Art Under A Monkey and k Madison Moore Artist

What a nice Feature! Another surprise for this week!

Susan from Art Under A Monkey - UK has been

working  hard to promote her unique line of Kitchen

Art Original Paintings. Digital Artist Daily surprised

us with this really nice article.  7 of My Huge

Still Life Paintings are Featured in AUAM

Kitchen Art Ad. Thanks Susan.

If you may be interested in these paintings

please contact AUAM link below. 

I thought you might want to see close ups

of these paintings. If you have

an idea for a Kitchen Art Painting for your

kitchen large, medium or small contact

Madison Here

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Colmans Mustard

Golden's Syrup

16 x 20 

It’s an oft-overlooked genre now, but back in the 17th Century kitchen subjects were all the rage, especially in the northern European countries that spawned the style and in Spain, the nation that gave the earthy, foody still life genre its name – bodegon painting. Less prissy and decorative than traditional still life or vanitas, the genre wedded realism to classical motifs and a practical, pragmatic subject matter. Now affordable art site Art Under a Monkey (named for the fact that all of the art on the site is under £500, or a ‘monkey’ in London marketplace slang) has introduced a range of paintings specifically for the kitchen. So what exactly is it?
Well, if you imagine Warhol crossed with Zurburan you might just be onto something – Marmite jars, Golden Syrup tins and baked beans take on the iconic mantle of a Campbell’s soup can (you can get one of those as well) alongside semi-abstracts of sweets, cakes and cutlery. Created in oil on canvas or panel, they feel a bit more visceral than the common or garden Pop Art print. It’s certainly an intriguing idea and could potentially spark all sorts of theories on the changing role of the kitchen in 21st Century society, but as it’s a Friday I’ll spare you my cultural anthropology musings!
One thing though: I don’t know about you, but my kitchen is a shrine to the stereotypical – the ubiquitous Keep Calm and Carry On poster, some folksy ceramics and a Jurassic 5 album sleeve blu-tacced to the fridge is about as artistic as I get.   Take a look at Art Under a Monkey’s kitchen range by visiting the website here and navigating to Search Art Gallery, then use the drop-down Subject menu to select Art For Kitchens.

http://www.digitalartistdaily.com/blog/2011/01/art-under-a-monkey-launches-kitchen-range/
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Another Golden's Syrup

16 x 20

 

Allsorts Candy

14 x16

 

Big Beans

16 x 20

Heinz Ketchup

20 x 20

 

Campbells Soups

18 x 28

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"Painting with Modigliani by k Madison Moore"

 

Life with Modi
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Jeanne My Love

....and the work goes on.....

OMG...there is sooo much work going on in my studio!!!
It is just amazing what goes into a studio!
After retiring from the Art Restoration and Appraisal business
with a 3000 sq ft studio it is really hard turning a small space
in my home into a functional studio.

I have been working in this space now for a few years but 
due to painting all the time I never had it organized as it should have been.
Now my dear husband has been building beautiful new melamine
shelving with wide stained edges to match the wonderful working tables
that wrap around the room. I have shelves everywhere, even under the tables.

It is amazing just how organized I can be with a lot of shelving. 

There is so much more to go so I am still not able to paint.

It is making me crazy but hopefully I will be back at to work soon.

Until then, I will be posting some of my past work with The Masters.

All of these are sold. However, if you would like a similar painting to

any of these please contact me so we may discuss details.

Below these paintings I have posted a very cool article on Modi and

a very interesting New Take on his life. Enjoy!

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Modi and Jeanne in The Studio

Modi and Jeanne Exhibit

Life without Modi

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 Beyond the Modigliani Myth  

Modigliani's Portrait de Jeanne Hébuterne assise dans un fauteuil, an image of his girlfriend painted in 1918, two years before his death and her suicide.
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A new biography disputes the notion of the artist as a dissolute madman
by Ann Landi
The standard portrayal of Amedeo Modigliani is of an alcoholic, dissolute bohemian: wantonly self-destructive, addicted to hashish and absinthe, and dead from his overindulgences at the age of 35.
That was a portrait that didn't quite sit right with Meryle Secrest, the award-winning biographer of Bernard Berenson, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Kenneth Clark, among others. What convinced her to take another look at the story was the art itself. "Modi­gliani's works are restrained, most of all," she says. "The exact color is always in just the right place. And you don't get that if you're fumbling around, knocking over paint cans in the morning." As recently as 2006, responding to a show about Modigliani and his models at the Royal Academy, Secrest notes, "the art critic of the Guardian said he had never liked his work because Modigliani was drunken, ranting, and stoned. It has been said so often that it's received as fact. And I thought, 'This can't be right.'"
What Secrest discovered, in five years of research, was that the artist was doing his best to conceal the tuberculosis he had contracted as a child and using drugs and alcohol to kill the pain from the disease. "If he had talked about his TB, he would have been socked away in a convalescent home or a hospital, and that would have been the end of it."
Secrest's highly readable and clear-eyed account of the artist's life, Modig­liani, out March 4 from Alfred A. Knopf, also delves into his upbringing as a Sephardic Jew from an impoverished Italian family, his affairs with the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and the English journalist Beatrice Hastings, and his fascination with psychic phenomena. "One of the things that interests me is the painting that was on his easel when he died," Secrest says. "He liked to annotate canvases, and on this one he wrote, 'Here begins a new life.' My theory is that he had convinced his girlfriend that she could follow him into another world." Two days after his death, Jeanne Hébuterne, pregnant with his child and a talented artist in her own right, pitched herself from a fifth-story window.
Hébuterne's heirs were none too helpful to Secrest in her research, forbidding her to publish any of their photographs. But she found an ally in Marc Restellini, author of Modigliani: The Melancholy Angel, an expansive catalogue accompanying a 2002 retrospective in Luxembourg; he afforded her entrée into the Paris art circles that held information about the notoriously moody but charming artist.
"There were some really awful people perpetuating the Modigliani myth, this version of him as a madman," Secrest says. One of them was André Salmon, a contemporary poet and critic, who "figured he could make some money off him after his death by fantasizing this story of the beautiful, doomed artist.
"Wouldn't it be nice if people finally looked at him with more of a nuanced eye?" asks Secrest. "That's what I'm hoping for."
Ann Landi is a contributing editor of ARTnews.

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"Painting with van Gogh by k Madison Moore"

Play this beautiful song "Vincent" by Don Mc Lean

while browsing my site.

So beautiful!

Painting with van Gogh

This week I will not be painting very much, or at all!  Everything in my studio is all over the place
accept the studio. My dear husband is making me all new tables and shelving and my son is painting the room for me. I have absolutely no place to set up and work.

It is amazing what we accumulate along the way and I think artists are even worse. We have to have "everything"! When I had my 3000 sq ft studio I had plenty of room for things so I kept getting more things. Now I am working in a very small but comfy cozy room that overlooks the gardens and the wild animals but there is no way I can get everything I have in there.  I am even liquidating things from this studio. It may be small but it's so nice to work from home.

So it will be a week of work but will be worth it in the end.

This week I will be posting about some of the artists that I have painted with from my different series. I say painted with as I research them over and over again with each painting. I read about their lives, watch videos and study more and more of their work with each work of art that I paint about them.  I vicariously live in their lives and studios. I am getting to know them very well. I feel that I am, "Painting with The Masters"

Here are some of the works I have painted over the last year painting with van Gogh.
Enjoy!

Sunflowers Exhibit - van Gogh

Art Museum Collection Series
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Through The Eyes of a Child - van Gogh

Art Museum Collection Series

 In The Gardens of My Mind - van Gogh

Art Museum Collection Series

van Gogh in The Studio

Art within Art Series

van Gogh's Shoes

Art within Art Series

van Gogh Wine Master

Connoisseur Series

A Haven for van Gogh

Art within Art Series

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Madison Featured with Foxtons Realtor UK

Madison's XO Painting Featured in 

Foxton Realtor News UK

for Kitchen Art

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Picasso - Wives and Lovers, Picasso Painting, by k Madison Moore, PA Artist

Picasso - Wives and Lovers

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12 x 16 Oil Painting on Canvas
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This was so much work, so much research and so much fun! I decided to research all the woman in Picasso's life and this is what I came up with. There were sooo many that I actually had to paint this on a larger canvas of 12 x 16 to fit them all in!  This is just the main wives and lovers and the ones that he painted. There were several more. Here is a little history on them from left on the easel,  to right and the 2 wives seated at the table. Notice Picasso peeking down from the staircase at all of his beauties.
On the steps is one of Picasso's hats and a box of cigars that I found he smoked. The flooring is also a clip from one of his paintings and full of color. Candles, Wine, Picasso, Wives and Lovers.
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Picasso's Women

1912-1915

 Picasso took an interest in Marcelle Humbert, known as Eva Gouel (1885-1915).  Picasso was devastated by her early death due to tuberculosis or cancer in 1915.   Picasso professed his love to Eva by painting "I Love Eva" in some of his paintings.   Still, during Eva's sickness Picasso managed a  relationship with Gaby Lespinasse.  (Picasso's father died in May, 1913 at the time that Eva moved in with him.)  

1917-1927

In 1917 ballerina Olga Khokhlova (1891-1955) met Picasso while the artist was designing the ballet "Parade" in Rome, to be performed by the Ballet Russe.  They married in the Russian Orthodox church in Paris in 1918 and lived a life of conflict.  She was of high society and enjoyed formal events while Picasso was more bohemian in his interests and pursuits.  Their son Paulo (Paul) was born in 1921 (and died in 1975), influencing Picasso's imagery to turn to mother and child themes.  Paul's three children are Pablito (1949-1973), Marina (born in 1951), and Bernard (1959).  Some of the Picassos in this Saper Galleries exhibition are from Marina and Bernard's  personal Picasso collection.

1936-1944

In 1936 54-year old Picasso met Yugoslavian Dora Maar (1907 -1997), the photographer who documented Picasso's painting of Guernica, the 1937 painting of Picasso's depiction of the German's having bombed the Basque city of Guernica, Spain during the Spanish Civil War.   She became Picasso's constant companion and lover from 1936 through April, 1944.  Maar went back to painting and exhibited in Paris soon after Picasso left her for Françoise.  Picasso referred to Dora as his "private muse".  In later years she became a recluse, dying poor and alone.

1927-1936

 In 1927 Picasso met Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909-1977), a 17 year old who Picasso then lived with in a flat across the street from his marital home (while still married to Olga).  Marie-Thérèse and  Picasso had a daughter, Maya (Maria de la Concepcion) on October 5, 1935.  (Picasso and Olga later separated although they remained married so Olga would not receive half of Picasso's wealth -- until she died in 1955. )   Picasso's relation with Marie was kept from Olga until Olga was told of Marie's pregnancy.   Marie understandably became jealous when Picasso started to fall in love with Dora Maar in 1936, a year after Maya was born.  It was Marie-Thérèse who was the inspiration for many of Picasso's famous Vollard Suite etchings.  Marie-Thérèse died by hanging herself in 1977, four years after Picasso died.  Maya's son, Olivier Widmaier wrote "Picasso: The Real Family Story" about his artist grandfather, in 2004.

 1904-1912

Artist model Fernande Olivier (1881-1966) was Picasso's first long term relation and subject of many of Picasso's Rose Period paintings (1905-07).   Picasso met her after settling in Paris in 1904.  Although Fernande was married, she stayed with Picasso for 7 years.  Fernande modeled for other artists between 1900 and 1905 after which she moved in with "the Spanish artist", Picasso, who then prevented her from modeling for others.  Fernande's having published selections from the memoirs of her life with Picasso infuriated the artist but eventually, at age 70, Picasso paid the ailing and bedridden Fernande a small pension.  The full memoir was not published until 1988, "Loving Picasso".  In early 2004 the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. had an exhibition of 60 portraits of Fernande that Picasso painted in a few months of 1909.

1943-1953

In 1943 Picasso (age 62) then kept company with young art student Françoise Gilot (born in 1921).  Their two children were Claude (1947) and Paloma (1949) who was named for the dove of peace that Picasso painted in support of the peace movement post World War II.  Gilot, frustrated with Picasso's relationships with other woman and his abusive nature left him in 1953.   Gilot's book "Life with Picasso" was published 11 years after their separation.  In 1970 she married American physician-researcher Jonas Salk (who later died in 1995).  

1953-1973

Dejected and alone, in 1953 Picasso met Jacqueline Roque (1926 -1986) at the Madoura Pottery where Picasso created his ceramics.  In 1961 (when Picasso was 79) she became his second wife.   Picasso created more works of art based on Jacqueline than any of his other loves, in one year painting over 70 portraits of her.

When Picasso died on April 8, 1973, Jacqueline, who had been with Picasso for 20 years, prevented Picasso's children Claude and Paloma from attending his funeral.  Jacqueline died from shooting herself in 1986.

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Madison Featured in Scotland's Homes and Interiors Magazine

I was so thrilled to receive this news yesterday.  My 18 x 28 Huge Tobasco 

Painting was featured in Scotland in Homes & Interiors Magazine.

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Meant to be!!!!

"Everything Primary" - After Mondrain

  Meant to be!!

Some things are just meant to be!!

I really believe that some things are just meant to be!

I have a new collector from Beverly Hills who found my painting "Everything Primary"

after Mondreain and purchased it. The funny thing is that when I researched for this painting,in trying

to find all Mondrain objects for it, I found these great sneakers. Who would have 

thought that the collector would actually own those sneakers! How funny!

He was so nice to take a photo of them with the painting.

I thought this would make a fun post and wanted to share.

Thanks James!

If you have a pair of favorite sneakers or shoes that you would like

to have painted contact Me with details!

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Napping at a Matisse Place, Matisse Painting, by k Madison Moore

Napping at a Matisse Place

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11 x 14 Oil Painting on Canvas 

SOLD

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This was such a fun painting.  Just browsing through all the Matisse paintings to come up with one

design idea brings so much joy. This painting is a room full of Matisse. It is a combination of 6 Matisse works. The flooring is a design that he uses in many of his pieces, the table setting and wall paper is from two others as well as the little sleeping lady from yet another and of course the three paintings are small renditions of his works. I never really know where they are going until I start sketching elements for all the different paintings and it starts coming together....with a lot of erasing! 

I don't think I would be sleeping if I was in a room full of Matisse.... Napping at a Matisee Place was

a fun place to be!

 Henri Matisse was born at Le Cateau-Cambrésis in the North of France on December 31, 1869. His parents, Emile Matisse and Héloise Gérars, had a general store selling household goods and seed. Henri planned on a legal career, and in 1887/88 studied law in Paris, in 1889 he was employed as a clerk in a solicitor’s office. It was in 1890 that he was first attracted to painting. Confined to his bed for nearly a year (1890) after an intestinal operation, he chose drawing as a pastime. Then the hobby took best of him and he decided for the painting career.
            The long years of learning followed: in 1891 Matisse studied under Bouguereau at the Académie Julian, and in 1892 transferred unofficially to Gustave Moreau’s studio at the Ecole Beaux-Arts, where he met Marquet, at the same time attending the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs. 

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Henri Matiss at Olga's Gallery

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Love Is.. Watching Her Dream."Leighton painting", by k Madison Moore

Love is Watching Her Dream

11 x 14 Oil Painting on Canvas
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Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton  (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton, Bt, between 1886 and 1896, was an English painter and sculpture. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. Leighton was bearer of the shortest-lived peerage  in history; after only one day his hereditary peerage became extinct.


Flaming June is a painting by Lord Fredric Leighton  produced in 1895. Painted with Paintis on a 47" x 47" square canvas, it is widely considered to be Leighton's magnum opus, showing his classicist nature. It is thought that the woman portrayed alludes to the figures of sleeping
Flaming June was auctioned in the 1960s, during a period of time known to be difficult for selling Victorian era paintings, where it failed to sell for its low reserve price of $140  USD (the equivalent of $840 in contemporary prices). Afterward, it was promptly purchased by the Ponce Museum of Art in Puerto Rico where it currently resides (see the following account).
The painting was honored in a song by Paul Weller on his Stanley Road album and Mexican singer Luis Miguel in his music video  for the song Amarte es un placer.

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Lord Fredric Leighton Online

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Life without Modi III, Modigliani Inspired, by k Madison Moore

Life without Modi III

11 x 14 Oil Painting on Canvas

Art within Art Series

Sold - Commission

My collector just loved the original Life without Modi that I painted. However, after the original I had another request to repaint it again. I didn't want to make it exactly like the first so we made several changes and therefore created another original.

Now, this one, Modi III was created for yet another Collector and we only used part of the elements from the others and did this one in a vertical format. I love the way it turned out and that there was even one more original painted inspired by the first one.

This painting was so popular. Modigliani is a big favorite of mine and obviously my collectors.
If you may be interested in a painting that has already been sold, we can always create another original from a similar painting.  You can see the other two on my portfolio gallery/ www.kmadisonmooreartistportfolio.com Just email me with your requests.

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