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Artist Statement:
Asheville
portrait painter Ron Ogle also
paints North Carolina
landscapes. His oil portraits
start at $6000. [ I
suggest that you ZOOM IN on
images - I have made many of
them very Large on your
screen, to better share them
with you } - click on 'quick
thumbs' to see many of my...
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Artist Exhibitions:
I now have 6 paintings on
exhibit in OLD EUROPE COFFEE
SHOP,
37 Broadway
Asheville, N.C.
and my panoramic landscape
painting,
The View That Made Asheville
Famous, is now permanently
installed in Pack Memorial
Library, here in downtown
Asheville, North Carolina.
It is ten feet nine inches
wide - and...
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Artist Reviews:
[ Connie Bostic, April 18,
2007, Mountain Xpress,
Asheville, North Carolina ]:
Ron Ogle is an artist and an
environmentalist who has long
expressed his love for our
area and his concern for the
earth. For years, he stapled
and pasted environmental
information around town. He
created a huge collage about
deforestation...
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Collections:
Oil portrait of Al Pacino as
Serpico,
collection of Al Pacino's
oldest sister,
Santa Cruz, California.
Oil Landscape of Mt. Pisgah,
collection of Laurie Anderson,
[ that PERFORMANCE ARTIST ]
whom I knew in high school.
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Ron Ogle Biography:
| Biographical information for Ron Ogle can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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62
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| Children |
99
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
1. Balancing smooth river-tumbled stones on rocks in certain mountain creeks when the sun shines.
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Rembrandt
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| Favorite Work of Art |
the female body
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
VISUAL ARTISTS: Rembrandt; MILLET; HIRAM WILLIAMS; MATISSE; Frank Stella; Grace Hartigan; Hokusai; Saul Steinberg; Malvina Hoffman; HIROSHIGE; GIORGIONE; ROAULT; COROT; Modigliani; Fanny Hillsmith; Chardin; Andy Goldsworthy; WILLIAM GLACKENS; Terrence LaNoue; Delacroix; FILIPPO LIPPI; Eliot Porter; Gauguin; Van Gogh; Diebenkorn: MONET; Chagall; DEGAS' drawings; Signac; RODIN; ROBERT HENRI and his book THE ART SPIRIT; Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Leland Bell; MORISOT; Margaret Ross Tolbert; Jawlenski: Albert Pinkham Ryder; Hokusai; Sargent; TURNER; SAM FRANCIS; Joseph Raffael;
and Paramhansa YOGANANDA; Will Rodgers; Glenis Redmond; Kurt Vonnegut; Richard Feynman; Ella Fitzgerald; Clare Hanrahan; Ursula LeGuin; Lena Feldman; Natalie Merchant; Annie Dillard; RUMI; Singh Kaur; LINCOLN; Annie Lalley; Opal Whitely; Greg Brown; IRIS DEMENT; A NEW EARTH by Eckart Tolle; Sinead O'Connor; Samuel Clemons; Sarah Vaughan; Charles Frazier's novel COLD MOUNTAIN; Alison Krauss; THE FINDHORN GARDEN; Steinbech's LOGBOOK OF THE SEA OF CORTEZ; Cyd Charisse; Li Po; Robinson Jeffers; EMMYLOU HARRIS; Terence McKenna; Mary Travers; Samuel Mockbee; PAUL ROBESON; Patty Larkin; Toshiro Mifune; RILKE'S book LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET; twyla tharp; Frank Muller reading [BOOKS-ON-TAPE] Pat Conroy's THE PRINCE OF TIDES; Arianna Huffington; Mark Knopfler; Defoe's ROBINSON CRUSOE; Jennifer Warnes; DICKENS' A Tale of Two Cities; Chrissie Hynde; Christine Lassiter; John Lilly; Margaret Atwood; CHARLIE CHAPLIN; Akira Kurosawa; Sara McLachlan; Wilber and Orville Wright; Cyd Charisse; Woody Guthrie; THOR HEYERDAHL; String Quartet number 2 in D by BORODIN; Jennifer Warnes; Jackie Robinson; Donald Sutherland; WHITMAN's introduction to his book LEAVES OF GRASS, which is only in the first edition; YES; Alan Watts; ANN DUNN; Nat King Cole; W. B. Yeats; PETER GABRIEL; Glenn Gould's recording of J.S.Bach's GOLDBERG VARIATIONS; Ram Dass; Jo Stafford; Jimi Hendrix; Edward Abbey; Rodgers and Hammerstein's CAROUSEL; THE CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE; GARY SNYDER'S journals; Barbara Cook; Kahil Gibran's THE PROPHET; Gene Kelly; Streisand; NOAM CHOMSKY; Tom Waits; Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS; Cate Blanchett; J.S. Bach's THE ART OF THE FUGUE; Cuba Gooding; ANI DIFRANCO!; the 1958 33 rpm record CHRISTMAS WITH THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS; Kevin Spacey; GREENPEACE; Merle Haggard; Hemingway's FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS; Jean Cocteau's 1946 movie BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and the movies WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, THE ENDURANCE, WATER, METROPOLIS, CHAPLIN, IPHIGENEIA, KISMET,The Golden Compass, ELIZABETH, AMADEUS, XANADU, ORLANDO, the 1935 MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, Cast Away, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, THE JERK, THE CORPORATION, GROUNDHOG DAY, I Heart Huckabees,and CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON; Louise Lecavalier; Fred Astaire; Joni Mitchell; sTEVE mARTIN; J.KRISHNAMURTI; Leon Russell; Johnathan Swift; Irving Berlin's EASTER PARADE; Steve McQueen as PAPILLION; The Byrds; Buddy Holly; Mahavishnu Orchestra's BIRDS OF FIRE; Robert A. Johnson; robin williams; swimming underwater; Rimski-Korsakov's SCHEHEREZADE; the Electric Light Orchestra; Michner's TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC; neil young/weld: CORTEZ; sleeping; Joni Summers; Schubert's AVE MARIA; dreams; Meryl Streep; THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART; ANNIE LENNOX; smooth stones; BEETHOVEN; Irish clover; TORI AMOS; birdsong; CARL SANDBURG; Richie Havens; Bonnie Raitt; dragonflies;
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Why ? Rembrandt's paintings, VIEW OF TOLEDO by El Greco, Millet, COROT, Van Gogh, Modigliani, Arthur Rackham, marbles, coins, sunlight, hand painted Japanese kites, flowers, Japanese paper decorations hanging sunlit in the wind,
-- ART LEADS THE WAY FROM LIFE AS ROUTINE TO LIFE AS REVELATION -- VISUAL ARTISTS: Rembrandt; MILLET; HIRAM WILLIAMS; MATISSE; Frank Stella; Grace Hartigan; Hokusai; Saul Steinberg; Malvina Hoffman; HIROSHIGE; GIORGIONE; ROAULT; COROT; Modigliani; Fanny Hillsmith; Chardin; Andy Goldsworthy; WILLIAM GLACKENS; Terrence LaNoue; Delacroix; FILIPPO LIPPI; Eliot Porter; Gauguin; Van Gogh; Diebenkorn: MONET; Chagall; DEGAS' drawings; Signac; RODIN; ROBERT HENRI and his book THE ART SPIRIT; Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Leland Bell; MORISOT; Margaret Ross Tolbert; Jawlenski: Albert Pinkham Ryder; Hokusai; Sargent; TURNER; SAM FRANCIS; Joseph Raffael;
and Paramhansa YOGANANDA; Will Rodgers; Glenis Redmond; Kurt Vonnegut; Richard Feynman; Ella Fitzgerald; Clare Hanrahan; Ursula LeGuin; Lena Feldman; Natalie Merchant; Annie Dillard; RUMI; Singh Kaur; LINCOLN; Annie Lalley; Opal Whitely; Greg Brown; IRIS DEMENT; A NEW EARTH by Eckart Tolle; Sinead O'Connor; Samuel Clemons; Sarah Vaughan; Charles Frazier's novel COLD MOUNTAIN; Alison Krauss; THE FINDHORN GARDEN; Steinbech's LOGBOOK OF THE SEA OF CORTEZ; Cyd Charisse; Li Po; Robinson Jeffers; EMMYLOU HARRIS; Terence McKenna; Mary Travers; Samuel Mockbee; PAUL ROBESON; Patty Larkin; Toshiro Mifune; RILKE'S book LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET; twyla tharp; Frank Muller reading [BOOKS-ON-TAPE] Pat Conroy's THE PRINCE OF TIDES; Arianna Huffington; Mark Knopfler; Defoe's ROBINSON CRUSOE; Jennifer Warnes; DICKENS' A Tale of Two Cities; Chrissie Hynde; Christine Lassiter; John Lilly; Margaret Atwood; CHARLIE CHAPLIN; Akira Kurosawa; Sara McLachlan; Wilber and Orville Wright; Cyd Charisse; Woody Guthrie; THOR HEYERDAHL; String Quartet number 2 in D by BORODIN; Jennifer Warnes; Jackie Robinson; Donald Sutherland; WHITMAN's introduction to his book LEAVES OF GRASS, which is only in the first edition; YES; Alan Watts; ANN DUNN; Nat King Cole; W. B. Yeats; PETER GABRIEL; Glenn Gould's recording of J.S.Bach's GOLDBERG VARIATIONS; Ram Dass; Jo Stafford; Jimi Hendrix; Edward Abbey; Rodgers and Hammerstein's CAROUSEL; THE CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE; GARY SNYDER'S journals; Barbara Cook; Kahil Gibran's THE PROPHET; Gene Kelly; Streisand; NOAM CHOMSKY; Tom Waits; Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS; Cate Blanchett; J.S. Bach's THE ART OF THE FUGUE; Cuba Gooding; ANI DIFRANCO!; the 1958 33 rpm record CHRISTMAS WITH THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS; Kevin Spacey; GREENPEACE; Merle Haggard; Hemingway's FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS; Jean Cocteau's 1946 movie BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and the movies WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, THE ENDURANCE, WATER, METROPOLIS, CHAPLIN, IPHIGENEIA, KISMET,The Golden Compass, ELIZABETH, AMADEUS, XANADU, ORLANDO, the 1935 MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, Cast Away, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, THE JERK, THE CORPORATION, GROUNDHOG DAY, I Heart Huckabees,and CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON; Louise Lecavalier; Fred Astaire; Joni Mitchell; sTEVE mARTIN; J.KRISHNAMURTI; Leon Russell; Johnathan Swift; Irving Berlin's EASTER PARADE; Steve McQueen as PAPILLION; The Byrds; Buddy Holly; Mahavishnu Orchestra's BIRDS OF FIRE; Robert A. Johnson; robin williams; swimming underwater; Rimski-Korsakov's SCHEHEREZADE; the Electric Light Orchestra; Michner's TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC; neil young/weld: CORTEZ; sleeping; Joni Summers; Schubert's AVE MARIA; dreams; Meryl Streep; THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART; ANNIE LENNOX; smooth stones; BEETHOVEN; Irish clover; TORI AMOS; birdsong; CARL SANDBURG; Richie Havens; Bonnie Raitt; dragonflies; |
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| Your Personal Biography |
My teachers: Father: Charles Bert Ogle [1919-1985] Mother: Barbara Jean Peters Ogle [1920- ]: at Ferguson High School, Newport News, Virginia: MARY ELLEN TABACK - Geometry; George Chavatel - Art.
at the University of Florida: Hiram Williams - PAINTING. [ HIRAM WILLIAMS is appreciated as a gifted and perceptive teacher with a firm and fluent knowledge of the history of Western Art - a knowledge which he could communicate. He was an innovative and masterful draftsman and painter and a warm and engaging person ]; John Ward - Italian Renaissance Art History; Jerry Uelsmann - photography; DRAWING: Stuart Purser and Nate Shiner [Nathan Ruiz].
I am U.S. Navy Vietnam era veteran [Jan.1968- Nov.1971]. I was on AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.
I have lived without a television since August 1965. I have been painting with oils for 38 years. My portrait of 'Mary' was commissioned by and featured in ASHEVILLE:THE MOVIE. |
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