Mingled Thoughts, Inspired by Picasso by k Madison Moore

Mingled Thoughts

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Inspired by Picasso and Tarkey

11 x 14 inches Oil painting on canvas
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This is a little different than most of the Art within Art 

paintings I have been doing. Just wanted try try something 

a bit different. I found this painting of Picasso's and was the

first time I saw it. The pretty lady, I" I think" may have been

inspired by Tarkey. I say "think" because after I painted her

I realized how similar she looked to Tarkay's work. I wasn't

even thinking Tarkay when I painted her. It is funny when 

I study so many artists how much they influence my personal

compositions. The Picasso lady seems to be wondering

what the Tarkay lady is thinking?...or maybe she already 

knows? Are they having Mingled Thoughts?

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Itzchak Tarkay (born 1935) is an Australian -born Israelii painter and watercolourist.
In 1944, Tarkay and his family were sent to the  Mauthausen Concentration Camp  until Allied liberation freed them a year later. In 1949 his family emigrated to Israel, living in a kibbutz  for several years. Tarkay attended the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design from 1951, and graduated from the Avni Institute of Art and Desaign  in 1956.
His art is influenced by French  Impressionism, and  Post Impressionism. and Toulouse- His work was exhibited at the International Art Expo in New Yorkk in 1986 and 1987, and he has been the subject of three books.

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Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter and  sculptor who lived most of his life in France. He is widely known for co-founding the  Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore

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"Corked", Cork Painting by k Madison Moore

Corked

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4.5 x 14 inches Oil Painting on Canvas 
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A friend and collector in Canada recently renovated a

floor in her home to make a gallery for her all her paintings

collections. She makes me laugh when she calls it

kMM Gallery North. Here are just a few of the paintings

she purchased from my Connoisseur Wine Collection

Series to hang over her new bar area. She has many more!

After she hung all of them there was a small space that

needed something especially designed for it. She gave

me artistic license to create something for this spot.

This was a fun, out of the box painting for me

to challenge....and it was a challenge being so small

and having all the little details.

Thanks Milvi, Happy you like it.

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Here is some cool info on corks.

• Cork is an impermeable, buoyant material, a prime-subset of generic  cork tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber (the Cork Oak), which is endemic to southwest  Europe  and northwest Africa.

• Once the trees are about 25 years old the cork is stripped from the trunks every ten years. The trees live for about 200 years. The first two harvests produce poorer quality cork.

• Cork's elasticity combined with its near-impermeability makes it suitable as a material for bottle stoppers, especially for  wine bottles. Cork stoppers represent about 60% of all cork based production.

• As late as the mid-17th century, French vintners did not use cork stoppers, using oil-soaked rags stuffed into the necks of bottles instead.

• Wine corks can be made of either a single piece of cork, or composed of particles, as in champagne corks; corks made of granular particles are called "technical corks".

• Natural cork closures are used for about 80% of the 20 billion bottles of wine produced each year. After a decline in use as wine-stoppers due to the increase in the use of cheaper synthetic alternatives, cork wine-stoppers are making a comeback and currently represent approximately 60% of wine-stoppers today.

• Cork is used in musical instruments, particularly woodwind instruments , where it is used to fasten together segments of the instrument, making the seams airtight. Conducting baton handles are also often made out of cork.

• Cork can be used as bricks for the outer walls of houses, as in Portugal's pavilion at Expo 2000.On November 28, 2007, the Portuguese national postal service CCT issued the world's first postage stamp made of cork.

• Cork is used as the core of both baseballs and cricket balls. Replacing the interior of a baseball bat with cork—a practice known as corking—was historically a method of cheating at baseball; the efficacy of the practice is now discredited.

• Cork is often used, in various forms, in spacecraft heat shields.

• Cork is also used inside footwear to improve climate control and comfort.

• Corks are also hung from hats to keep insects away.

• Cork has been used as a core material in sandwich composite construction.

• Cork can be used as the friction lining material of an automatic transmission clutch , as designed in certain mopeds.
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I Live in Music - after "Romare Bearden", by k Madison Moore

 I Live in Music - after Romare bearden

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14 x 14 Oil Painting on Canvas
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Romare Bearden grew up in the Harlem of the 1920s and 30’s when that glittering neighborhood was the epicenter of the jazz universe. As early as the 1940s, jazz musicians appeared in his work, and by the 1950s he was seeking visual translations for what he heard in the structures of jazz - its improvised lines, rhythms, and textures.

The way Bearden worked was jazz. “You have to begin somewhere,” he said, “so you put something down. Then you put something else with it…Once you get going, all sorts of things begin to open up.”

The way the pianist Earl Hines spaced his notes suggested to Bearden ways of spacing lines and colors in art. “Silences” between visual elements became vital to Bearden’s art. On silences in the music, Bearden’s friend the drummer Max Roach has said, “It’s not that there’s necessarily nothing going on. There’s always a pulse there. There are times when there’s nothing but the pulse…. Bearden’s paintings are like that.”

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Romare Howard Bearden was born on September 2, 1911, to (Richard) Howard and Bessye Bearden in Charlotte, North Carolina, and died in New York City on March 12, 1988, at the age of 76. His life and art are marked by exceptional talent, encompassing a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, including music, performing arts, history, literature and world art. Bearden was also a celebrated humanist, as demonstrated by his lifelong support of young, emerging artists.

After joining the Harlem Artists Guild, Bearden embarked on his lifelong study of art, gathering inspiration from Western masters ranging from Duccio, Giotto and de Hooch to Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse, as well as from African art (particularly sculpture, masks and textiles), Byzantine mosaics, Japanese prints and Chinese landscape paintings.

Recognized as one of the most creative and original visual artists of the twentieth century, Romare Bearden had a prolific and distinguished career. He experimented with many different mediums and artistic styles, but is best known for his richly textured collages, two of which appeared on the covers of Fortune and Time magazines, in 1968. An innovative artist with diverse interests, Bearden also designed costumes and sets for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and programs, sets and designs for Nanette Bearden's Contemporary Dance Theatre.

Bearden was the recipient of many awards and honors throughout his lifetime. Honorary doctorates were given by Pratt Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Davidson College and Atlanta University, to name but a few. He received the Mayor's Award of Honor for Art and Culture in New York City in 1984 and the National Medal of Arts, presented by President Ronald Reagan, in 1987

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Peter Max Collector - Eddy Gugliotta, Peters Piano by k Madison Moore

Eddy Gugliotta

The Max Collector

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Peters Piano

Homage to Peter Max 

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Eddy is a avid Peter Max Collector.

He commissioned me to do Peters Piano for him in

larger format of 24 x 30. I have done a similar  painting

before in small format but it is amazing how different

 this one looks so large. I am happy that you like it

Eddy and that it will be hanging in your beautiful home 

in Miami.  Thanks for sending this photo of you

with the painting. 

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"Composing with Beethoven - Inspired by Andy Warhol," by k Madison Moore

Composing with Beethoven

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11 x 14 Oil painting on canvas
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I have so many fans and collectors that

love music as well as art so I thought

It would be cool to do a painting around

the late great Beethoven. When Warhol

was asked why he painted Beethoven, he

said because so many people love Beethoven

that he thought is was and interesting subject.

I guess I feel the same way. I just had to sneak

in a silhouette of a conductor here to portray

Ludwig van Beethoven. Enjoy!

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Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola August 6, 1928.
Born to Slovak immigrants, he was reared in a working class suburb
of Pittsburgh. From an early age, Warhol showed an interest in
photography and drawing, attending free classes at Carnegie Institute.

Throughout the nineteen fifties, Warhol enjoyed a successful
career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations
 from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of
Graphic Arts. During this period, he shortened his name to
 "Warhol." In 1952, the artist had his first solo exhibition at the
Hugo Gallery

Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), the second-oldest
child of the court musician and tenor singer Johann
van Beethoven, was born in Bonn. Ludwig's father drilled
 him thoroughly with the ambition of showcasing him as a
 child prodigy. Ludwig gave his first public performance as
a pianist when he was eight years old. At the age of eleven
he received the necessary systematic training in piano
 performance and composition from Christian Gottlob Neefe,
organist and court musician in Bonn.


Beethoven's career as a virtuoso pianist was brought to an
 end when he began to experience his first symptoms of
 deafness. In a letter written to his friend Karl Ameda on
1 July 1801, he admitted he was experiencing signs of deafness.

How often I wish you were here, for your Beethoven's career as a virtuoso
pianist was brought to an end when he began to experience his first symptoms 
of deafness. In a letter written to his friend Karl Ameda on 1 July 1801, 
he admitted he was experiencing signs of deafness.

The final years in the life of the restless bachelor
(he changed living quarters no fewer than fifty-two times
) were darkened by severe illness and by the struggle over
the guardianship of his nephew Karl, upon whom he poured
his solicitude, jealousy, expectations and threats in an effort
 to shape the boy according to his wishes. When the most
 famous composer of the age died, about thirty thousand
mourners and curious onlookers were present at the funeral procession on March 26, 1827.

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A Room for My Pansies, Happy Birthday Marti, by k Madison Moore

A Room for My Pansies

14 x 14 Oil painting on canvas
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Happy Birthday Marti

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I have a wonderful friend and collector that celebrated her

 Birthday yesterday. She ordered and Art within Art painting

a couple of months ago for a gift for herself for her birthday.

She wanted Pansies all over the room and the floor in her 

favorite colors. I guess you can figure that Pansies are her

favorite flowers. She gave me total artistic license to create

this painting for her which is always fun and they always seem

to turn out great. 

Even though she has has this painting for weeks

 she would not open it until yesterday, her Birthday.

I am so happy that she loved it and that I came so close with

her and her sweet little dogs. 

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