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Artist Statement:
I admire the eccentric artists
of the 19th century, like
Albert Pinkham Ryder and
William Blake as well as many
who were untrained and painted
primitively. I’m drawn to the
way light was beautifully
expressed in paintings by
Romantics like Eugene
Delacroix and Goya.
Wordplay interests me and I
can see humor in life along
with the absurd. I can’t help
but include some of that in my
paintings. Since having a
stroke, I moved to Laguna
Honda Hospital and have been
telling friends this address
sounds like a car dealership
(which I hope would not be
held against me by Saab
specialists) . Like Simon on
the Monty Python BBC series,
“I like to draw pitchers”.
I’ve reread Jules Verne again,
more recently, “The Sphinx of
the Ice Fields: A Sequel to
Edgar Allan Poe's The
Narrative of Arthur Gordon
Pym” after which I made a
painting in 1977.
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Artist Exhibitions:
Arthur Bell OPEN STUDIOS at
Garage Gallery
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16 10am-2pm
Show extended and Gallery
Hours
Monday through Friday 10am-
5pm
655 Bryant St, @5th St, San
Francisco 94107
see
http://www.embarcaderoauto.com/
garagegallery.html
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Artist Galleries:
1. Garage Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
2. Sanchez Art Center,
Pacifica, CA
3. Marin Artists' Society,
Ross, CA
4. Chow's Restaurant, Church
St. San Francisco, CA
5. Bazaar Cafe, California St.
San Francisco, CA
6. Annual Art with Elders San
Francisco, CA
7. Peninsula Art Museum,
Belmont, CA
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Artist Reviews:
from ARTILLERY (killer text on
art) volume 4,issue 6 July/Aug
2010
ARTHUR BELL: Paintings
1970-2010
Garage Gallery
In James Ensor’s huge 1889
painting, The Entry of Christ
into Brussels, at the Getty
Museum, the earthly return of
Jesus (who resembles the
artist) goes unnoticed by
the...
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Arthur Bell Biography:
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Age
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61
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Music - Grateful Dead, Elvis Costello, Dylan, Beatles, Prokofiev, many more. Reading, Jules Verne, Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe and many more |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Whenever I am asked by a viewer of my work to explain a situation or figure in one of my paintings, I almost always find that that person is either disappointed or had a completely different idea before asking. I am amazed at the things people see in my work that I never noticed. Being no fool, I quickly adopt their views. I accept the new titles they think up. Occasionally I give them the painting and apologize for having stolen their ideas. When I go home and paint a new and better picture based on their suggestions. When they see the new work some months later they ask, “Arty, how in the hell do you think up these things?” |
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