Art and the beauty of it, is truly in the eyes of the beholder in my opinion. I liked how Henri Matise found art beauty in painting the human body. The human body is very extraordinary and beautiful and has great value in beautiful art. Henri Matise's 'Blue Nude' really seemed ahead of his time, if I didn't know when the painting was created I would have thought it was a very recent painting. The "Blue Nude" painting was nice because of the flow and smoothness of it. Patrick Heron's painting really didn't catch my eye but I did appreciate his loose and free lines through out his art. Julie Olitski's art was very bizarre and unique to me. The way Olitski threw his paint on the canvas was very free and almost kind of reminded me of a child on a playground having fun in the sand pitts and creating everything the eye could see around them. I would have never thought or took actor Dennis Hopper as an art collector, I found that kinda of funny but interesting because you could tell he appreciated art and knew a lot about it. Elizabeth Peyton art was nice and I liked how her colors blended together in her paintings. Alex katz paintings are very realistic and elegant. Katz painting have a very fresh and cool look to them. For some reason Katz paintings reminded me of the 1980's but not really sure why.
Questions:
1. Why did Henri Matise find fascination in painting the human body?
2. Why did Chris Ofili choose elephant dung so much to express his art?
3. Why did Patrick Heron become an art critic?
4. Did Jules Olitski try to do any other art form besides painting?
5. Why did Alex Katz like to paint in a realism kind of way?
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