Andy Ross’s comments and observations on artwork done by other people.

  • Francis Picabia DADA

    DADA

    “Look, life is ridiculous. Nothing means anything, really, when you get right down to it. Besides, we’re all going to die. We all know all that. But, can’t we have a little fun along the way?”

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  • Robert Frank, London

    Robert Frank

    Every artist, of whatever skill or level, can point to the very specific moments when they saw work that…

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  • Joseph Cornell artwork

    Joseph Cornell

    The central metaphor of art is transformation… Turning one thing into another is where art starts.

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  • Alexander Calder sculpture

    Alexander Calder

    Seeing a piece by Calder is always a fresh and delightful experience. His work is not really “around that much.” Unlike the work of some of the recent, super-popular artists like Warhol, or Koons, or Basquiat, whose work seems to show up every time you turn a page, or click a link, you sometimes go …

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  • Ansel Adams

    Ansel Adams

    I first got interested in photography in middle school, in the 1970s. Some friends showed me there was a small darkroom at the school, and they showed me how to develop film, and how to make enlargements.

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  • The City by Michael Heizer

    The City by Michael Heizer

    The City, by Michael Heizer, has been getting a lot of attention lately.

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  • Honey, I Twisted Through More Damn Traffic Today

    Ed Ruscha

    Ed Ruscha’s paintings had a huge effect on me when I first saw them when I was in high school. They opened me up and made me realize art could be nearly anything. It could be funny. It could be sarcastic. It could be about ordinary daily life.  It didn’t have to be all that …

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  • Stylish Ruins by Paul Klee

    Paul Klee

    The artwork of Paul Klee is so imaginative and playful, I think of him as just floating along on a cloud of pure inspiration!

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  • Painting by Wassily Kandinsky

    Wassily Kandinsky

    When I first encountered Kandinsky, it was the German Expressionist style he worked in when he was part of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.

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