Artists Magazine - USA (2020-04)

16 Artists Magazine April 2020

Prime THE ASK

If you could have any artist (living or dead)

as a mentor, whom would you choose?

WE ASKED...

“I’dchooseJ.M.W.Turner[English,

1775–1851].I’dlovetospenda day

paintingoutdoorswithhim—tosee,

talk,listenandlearn,watchinghow

hecreateslightandspaceusing

‘vaporsofsteamandair’tocapture

theessenceofa place.”

ANTONIOMASI

ARTISTANDPRESIDENT,

AMERICANWATERCOLORSOCIETY

“JoaquínSorolla[Spanish,

1863–1923].Howdidhe

createsuchtranscendent

imageswithsucheconomy

ofcolorandbrushwork?”

—KEITHWHITWELL

“IthinkSavadorDali

[Spanish,1904–89].Hewas

sucha wingnutwho

sawtheworldinsuchan

originalway.I’dlovetohave

someofthatruboffonme.”

—KIMDOUCHETTE

“AndrewWyeth[American,

1917–2009]andGwenJohn

[Welsh,1876–1939]—to

teachmetoseebeautyin

theeveryday,thequietand

oftenoverlooked,andhow

topaintwithtrueemotion.”

—VICKYWHITFIELD

LIKEUSONFACEBOOK

@ARTISTSNETWORKTO

ANSWEREACHMONTH’S

QUESTIONIN“THEASK.”

RESPONSESMAYBEEDITED

FORLENGTHANDCLARITY.

WE ASKED...

YOU ANSWERED

“I would love to spend time

with Chuck Close [American,

1940–]. He has the ability to cut

through to the essence of what

is required to create art, and he

never lapses into ‘art speak.’ ”

JOHN SALMINEN

ARTIST AND INSTRUCTOR

Spring Morning,

Cloudy, Eragny

1900; oil on canvas,

25¾ x

by Camille Pissarro

TOKYO FUJI ART MUSEUM,

TOKYO, JAPAN

(WIKIART VISUAL ART

ENCYCLOPEDIA)

“Camille Pissarro [French, 1830–1903], because—

while I may not like his paintings as much as I like

Monet’s—from everything I’ve read,

I think he had a more generous personality.”

MARION BODDY-EVANS

ARTIST, INSTRUCTOR AND WRITER