Paint it Blue
by George Thomas Clark
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Pub Date Mar 12 2015 | Archive Date Apr 16 2021
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Description
We wonder what they’re thinking, so we ask Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. And you, Picasso, what are you really like? Vincent van Gogh, please tell us more about your agony and inspiration. We must also learn about distinguished women – Paula Modersohn-Becker, Séraphine Louis, Lee Krasner, Diane Arbus, and others. I know they’ll tell us.
So will expressionists like Ernst Ludwig Kirschner and Otto Dix. African American artists are certainly forthcoming. Charles White takes us inside his homes, and William H. Johnson invites us into his mind, a stimulating but often unsafe place. And other painters from the United States, Mexico, and Europe – what are they feeling? We find out as they Paint It Blue.
Advance Praise
Controversial George Thomas Clark usually challenges our sense of perception about politics and historical figures as well as contemporary ones. In this current book he gives his capacious imagination full range and enters the minds of artists both dead and living and allows us to hear their perceptions of not only their work but also that of their compatriots and the history of art and styles of that time in which they lived.
How he came up with this idea is a puzzle: he obviously is an art lover and a knowledgeable art historian, but he also displays insights into the minds of creative people based as much on the paintings he sees as on his rather deep knowledge of their lives. This is a course in art history, the psychology of the artistic temperament, and a parody of sorts. GeorgeThomas Clark simply writes very well.
-- Grady Harp - Amazon Reviewer
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9780991062362 |
| PRICE | $2.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Susan D, Reviewer
This is the first time that I have read a book by George Thomas Clark and it is like nothing I have ever read before.
The idea of writing about conversations between famous artists (dead or living) is unique, cerebral and intriguing. The lives, homes and inspiration of an artists world becomes alive and palpable throughout each short story. Tapping into the minds of Renoir, Norman Rockwell, Otto Dix, Frieda Kahlo & Diego Rivera, Lee Krasner, Van Gogh and Picasso represents the vast array of personalities, style and influence on the art world that kept me wanting more as the pages were turned.
This is a beautiful way to look at art, its history and the brilliant minds and creative hands that created it.
George Thomas Clark has shed a new light on each artist and it shines brilliantly.
I highly recommend this book and would like to thank the author, NetGalley and Books Go Social for an ARC in exchange for an honest book review.
