Connoisseur Wine Masters Series Coffee Table Art Book, by k Madison Moore

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This is my New Coffee Table Art Book

Painting with The Masters - Segment Two

Connoisseur Wine Masters

I just love doing these books for my Collectors.

 I try to do at least one a year around the holidays.

They make such wonderful gifts for those that you

do not know what to buy for. All the paintings

are full color and Blurb does great quality.

The image is printed right on the beautiful hard cover.

You also have the option for a softback or a paper

image wrap cover and different qualities of paper.

In the past you could not Preview the entire book,

only the first few pages. This year they made that

change where you can see the entire book, which 

really is much nicer. I like to see what I am buying!

Click Preview on the small image to see the book.

You can also purchase it there if you like it.

This year is The Connoisseur Wine Masters Series

I know I have many collectors that collected this series

so they will be happy to have this beautiful book for their

coffee tables.

Enjoy!

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The Lion King by k Madison Moore

The Lion King

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24 x 28 Oil Painting on Canvas

Sold - Commission

Original paintings make great gifts for the

Holidays for that special person. How many  

times do we search for something different, something

special, something original that no-one else has to

give to that special person in our lives for the holidays?

If you are interested in paintings that have already

been sold, Contact Me for similar paintings or I

can design and paint your ideas.

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Painting with The Masters 2012 Art Calendar by k Madison Moore

My New 2012 Art Calendar includes

13 Beautiful Prints on High Quality

Print Stock

$25.08

Painting with The Masters

Art within Art Series

2012 Art Calendar

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Painting with The Masters 2012 Art Calendar by k Madison Moore

My New 2012 Art Calendar includes

13 Beautiful Prints on High Quality

Print Stock

$25.08

Painting with The Masters

Art within Art Series

2012 Art Calendar

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Reflections of Rivera, by k Madison Moore, Inspired by Diego Rivera

 

Reflections of Rivera

Inspired by Diego Rivera

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14 x 14 Oil Painting on Canvas

Painting with The Masters

Art within Art Series

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I found a new painting by Diego Rivera that

included a similar beautiful woman to the one I have

painted here. I changed the face totally. I loved her gown

and her holding the mirror so that is close to his.

Diego is well know for painting Calla Lillie's so I 

thought that would be a nice touch.

I actually dreamed about the background for this

I like the dark dreaminess of the room and the birds

and vines lingering above. I think the chair took longer

to paint than anything else with the candy cane cording

and the fringe and tassels. So much fun!

Enjoy Reflections of Rivera.

Diego Rivera and his love Frieda Kahlo

Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1886. He began to study painting at an early age and in 1907 moved to Europe. Spending most of the next fourteen years in Paris, Rivera encountered the works of such great masters as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse.

Considered the greatest Mexican painter of the twentieth century, Diego Rivera had a profound effect on the international art world. Among his many contributions, Rivera is credited with the reintroduction of fresco painting into modern art and architecture. His radical political views and tempestuous romance with the painter Frieda Kahlo were then, and remain today, a source of public intrigue. In a series of visits to America, from 1930 to 1940, Rivera brought his unique vision to public spaces and galleries, enlightening and inspiring artists and laymen alike.

Rivera remained a central force in the development of a national art in Mexico throughout his life. In 1957, at the age of seventy, Rivera died in Mexico City. Perhaps one his greatest legacies, however, was his impact on America’s conception of public art.

“An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn’t a great artist.” - Diego Rivera


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Secret Lover- Matisse Inspired Painting by k Madison Moore

Secret Lover

Inspired by Henri Matisse

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11 x 14 Oil Painting on Canvas

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I Have always had an attraction for hats. I just love

Big Hats! If I lived in the time when women wore
hats all the time I would have had an entire wardrobe
of them. I never wear them because I look terrible in
them. Maybe that why I'm attracted!
On this painting I used softer colors then I
usually use but still with a lot of depth of color
created by using several layers of glazes in many
colors. It creates an interesting effect.
Wonder who the Secret Lover is?
Maybe Miss Lady in the Matisse paintings
will tell us?

Enjoy!

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Matisse Life

Henri Emile Benoît Matisse was born in a tiny, tumbledown weaver's cottage on the rue du Chêne Arnaud in the textile town of Le Cateau-Cambrésis at eight o'clock in the evening on the last night of the year, 31 December 1869 (Le Cateau-Cambrésis  is in the extreme north of  France near the Belgian border). The house had two rooms, a beaten earth floor and a leaky roof. Matisse said long afterwards that rain fell through a hole above the bed in which he was born. Matisse’s ancestors had lived in the area for centuries before the convulsive social and industrial upheavals of the nineteenth century. Matisse grew up in a world that was still detaching itself from a way of life in some ways unchanged since Roman times. The coming of the railway had put Bohain on the industrial map, but people still traveled everywhere on foot or horseback.
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Stolen Picasso And Matisse Works Possibly

'Crushed In A Rubbish Truck'

It was the perfect heist: sleeping museum guards, a broken alarm system, $140 million in loot, a police hunt that lasted over a year... there was just one problem. The paintings, including a Picasso and Matisse, ended up in the trash; according to The Guardian, while the investigation was underway, one of the suspects "panicked and destroyed the canvasses before throwing them into a rubbish bin."
Early in the morning of May 20, 2010, a lone, masked burglar entered the Paris Museum of Modern Art by removing the screws of a window, originally intending to steal Fernand Leger's 'Still Life With Candlestick.' However upon cutting the painting from its frame, he discovered the alarm was broken; it was later discovered that the alarm had been broken for over a month prior to the theft. He then proceeded to walk around the museum for over an hour, picking up four more paintings on the way and getting away in a nearby parked car. There were security cameras but no guards noticed the masked visitor.
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"A Date with Matisse", Matisse "Art within Art," Painting by k Madison Moore

A Date with Matisse

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11 x 14 inches Oil on Canvas

Art withinArt Series

SOLD  to a Collector in Canada.

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Here's is another fun painting for my Art within Art Series. I just love working with so many colors.
The main colors here being just black, red and white makes this painting so happy and brilliant.
The little lady waiting for Matisse on the sofa is from his painting, Danseuse Dans le Feuteuil, Sol en Damier, 1942. I also used the checkered background
 as a symbol of from his painting.

 Painting by Matisse

The flowers on the piano are from one of Matisse's floral works and the two paintings on the wall are
Matisse's Pasiphe Embracing and Oilive Tree and the other is Pasiphe.
Adding the accessories like the shoes, hat, sunglasses and wine and glasses completes the story of " A Date with Matisse"


Henri Matisse 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a  French artist , known for his use of color and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

Matisse was influenced by the works of Nicolas Poussin,Antoine Watteau, , Jean- Baptiste- Simeon, Eduard Manet and the Post- Impressionists Cezanne, Gauguin, van Gogh and Signac and also by Auguste Rodin.
 Matisse immersed himself in the work of others and got in debt from buying work from many of the painters he admired. The work he hung and displayed in his home included a plaster bust by Rodin, a painting by Gauguin, a drawing by van Gogh, and most importantly, Cézanne's Three Bathers. In Cézanne's sense of pictorial structure and colour Matisse found his main inspiration. Many of his paintings from 1899 to 1905 make use of a Pointillist  technique adopted from Signac. In 1898, he went to London to study the paintings of J.M.W. Turner and then went on a trip to Corsica Upon his return to Paris he worked beside lesser known painters such as Jules Flandrin.
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Our "Selfs" - Modigliani and Jeanne, by k Madison Moore Pennsylvania Artist

Our "Selfs" - Modi and Jeanne

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11 x 14 Oil painting on canvas

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I don't think I will ever paint Modi and Jeanne enough. I love the story. I love the art.
In 2000 there were many photos, stories released about Modi and Jeanne, as well as over 200 paintings by Jeanne. They were entrusted to a family friend who promised Jeanne Modigliani, their daughter, that he would follow her wishes and not release them until then which was 16 years after her death.

I found so many wonderful reference photos that I had not seen before. The first two hanging in the back ground are a "Self" Portrait of Modi and a portrait of Jeanne by Modi.
The other two are a "Self" Portrait and a portrait of Modi painted by Jeanne. Modi in the foreground is a scene that I remembered from the movie when Modi smoking a cigarette after finishing this portrait of Jeanne. The cabin rustic interior makes a great studio environment.
Always fun painting Modi and his life and more to come for my collectors and fans.

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Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Heburtene

Some truths about Modgliani. He was an alcoholic. He was a drug addict. He was sickly. As a youth in Livorno, Italy, he was afflicted with several serious illnesses; pleurisy, typhoid fever, tuberculosis. His infirm health would plague him throughout his adulthood and provide some rationale for his fatalistic attitude later in life.

Jeanne Hebuterne was born in Paris into a strict Roman Catholic family. She aspired to be an artist . She modeled for several painters and sculptors, but soon enrolled in the Academie Colarossi for her own artistic training. There, in the spring of 1917, she met the charismatic Modigliani, who was called “Modi” by friends. Almost immediately, the couple fell deeply in love. He was 15 years her senior.

Jeanne had much to deal with in addition to the high-maintenance lover that was Amedeo Modigliani. Her conservative family took tremendous issue with her romantic involvement with Modi. They objected vehemently for a few reasons. He was a penniless artist. he was a wild living degenerate,he was a Jew. Against her families wishes she went, to love Modigliani completely, faithfully, and ultimately to her own devastation.

Unmarried, Modi and Jeanne moved in together. They had a child, a daughter, born in November of 1918. Jeanne sat for over 20 works by Modigliani, and still found time to devote to her own art as well.
Modigliani passed away. He was 35 years old. Jeanne was shattered and overcome with grief. . The prospect of life without Modi was unimaginable. Or intolerable. Or both. Less than 48 hours after Modigliani died, Jeanne, who was nine months pregnant with her second child, threw herself out a fifth floor window. Both she and her unborn child died in the fall. Jeanne Hebuterne was just 20 years old.

Jeanne Modigliani -Daughter

Jeanne Modigliani (29 November 1918 – 27 July 1984)was the biographer of her father, artist Amedeo Modigliani, writing the 1958 book Modigliani, man and myth, later translated into English from the Italian by Esther Rowland Clifford.

Her father,  Amedeo Modlgliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920), was an Italian artist who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork, and addiction to alcohol and narcotics.

Her mother,  Jeanne Heburtene (April 6, 1898 – January 25, 1920), was a French artist, best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani.
After her father's death and her mothers suicide a day later, she stayed with her grandparents until a later date when her aunt Florence Modigliani took her and raised her.

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Bragging Time! Thank you Peter Max! by k Madison Moore

 Peter's Piano

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Homage to Peter Max

Art within Art Series

 Peter's Piano - Homage to Peter Max was a really popular

painting this year. I repainted similar...but not the same

paintings several times. I like to make each on it's own

original so I make small changes. Since Peter is still

a living artist I really change a lot of the elements

from his work to what I would have done to make

them my originals out of respect for him.

Thank you Peter Max!

My Collector Tom's friend Dawne, ordered this

painting from me several months ago for Tom's

birthday. Last year Tom purchased a Matisse
(on the back wall)

Art within Art painting from me and just loved it.

When Dawne ordered Peter's Piano she did no know 

that Tom mentioned to me that this was going to be

the next one he purchased from me so it was

a shocking surprise to him when he received

it for his birthday.

I have to say I am very blessed that I receive many

beautiful, kind emails about my work but this one

really touched my heart and no-one has ever said

these things to me. I just wanted to share this with you

and had to brag a bit!

Thanks so much Tom and Dawne.

I am thrilled about this.

Enjoy!

Hi Madison,

I want to tell you how surprised, and THRILLED, I was to receive the Max’s Piano painting from the always attentive, and inspiring, love of my life, Dawne.  I had no idea what was coming, of course, and as I opened the present, I opened it from the rear, so I quickly discovered it was some sort of painting, but when I finally saw WHICH painting I was SO happy, SO very pleased!  It’s perfect, and certainly my favorite painting of the few that I own, and probably one of the best of all I’ve ever seen.  It’s just wonderful!

 Sometimes I go the daily painters gallery, select your name from the list of artists, and am just overwhelmed, every time, by the colorful and eclectic body of work that assembles on the page.  It is truly amazing, and a museum of just your work would be a really amazing thing, on par with any assembly of art anywhere, including the artists that you so whimsically, and so complimentariy,
parody (if that’s the right word!).

And I really mean what I say!   Sometime, just take a look at your own body of work.  Prolific, imaginative, creative, researched, a compliment to the BROAD array of artists that you pay homage, and just plain FUN!  Your work is so far above everything else around.

And now I am privileged to own TWO K Madison Moore works!
Thanks for the painting, it is cherished.

P.S.  There is a WONDERFUL Joni Mitchell song performed by K. D. Lang.  It’s Joni’s song “Help Me”.  The song reminds me of you painting when I listen to it, though I’m not entirely sure why.  Perhaps they are of the same pop era and culture.  But the line “You danced with a lady with a hole in her stockings, didn’t it feel good?” is as whimsical and descriptive as your paintings.

Your fan,
Tom

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