artists who inspire me (lexi consentino) volume one
color-field painter
HELEN FRANKENTHALER ^ “Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.�
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before the caves, 1958
pop artist
ANDY WARHOL ^ “We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.�
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robert mapplethorpe, 1983
self-portrait photographer
CINDY SHERMAN ^ “I feel I’m anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren’t self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.”
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untitled film still #52, 1979
singer & writer
GERARD WAY ^ “I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that’s what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.”
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black parade era, 2008
pop artist
KEITH HARING ^ “You see that’s why I work like a dog and I worked like a dog all my life. I am not interested in the academic status of what I am doing, because my problem is my own transformation.”
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untitled, 1983
singer & songwriter
DAVID BOWIE ^ “All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.�
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haute couture designer
ELIE SAAB ^
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“My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I’m in sync with myself and I’m transparent, just like my designs.”
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spring/summer 2020
action painter
JACKSON POLLOCK ^ “When I’m painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. It’s only after a get acquainted period that I see what I’ve been about. I’ve no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.”
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number 31, 1949
painter & sculptor
JEAN DUBUFFET ^ “There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man’s reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore.”
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paysage aux argus, 1955
abstract expressionist
HYMAN BLOOM ^ “I tried Abstract Expressionism and came as close to it as I wanted to, but I thought that it was mostly emotional cartharsis with no intellectual basis. It had no emotional control. All that thrashing around seemed infantile and beside the point.�
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christmas tree, 1944
neoexpressionist
JEANMICHEL BASQUIAT ^ “The more I paint the more I like everything.”
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glenn, 1984
singer & songwriter
MARINA DIAMANDIS ^ “I’ve always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I’ve never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.”
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froot era, 2015
abstract expessionist
JOAN MIRÓ ^
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“I painted in a frenzy, with real violence so that people will know that I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go. I’m heading in new directions.”
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this is the color of my dreams, 1925
mocern painter
JOAN SNYDER ^ “Painting is the way I speak. I had such an anxiety-ridden youth that when I started to paint, it was as though I was speaking for the first time. I was creating a visual language through which I could say anything I wanted.�
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angry woman, from femfolio, 2007
contemporary artist
YOKO ONO ^
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“Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it’s all right. We’re scared that if the truth comes out that it’s not all right. It’s the other way around.”
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cut piece, 1964
painter
JOHN SINGERSARGENT ^ “Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind... a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen.�
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nancy viscountess astor, 1908
autobiographical author
PATTI SMITH ^
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“Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.�
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impressionist painter
CLAUDE MONET ^ “I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.�
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poppy field, 1873
surrealist painter
SALVADOR DALI ^ “Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.�
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naissance d’une divinitÊ, 1960
book artist
ALEXANDRIA CONSENTINO ^ Helloooo, I’m Lexi! I design & create zines, books, websites, branding, and plenty more. This zine is part of a larger project to learn more about the artists and movements that inspire my work. A big thank you to Austin Kleon and his books, inspiring me to make an “artist family tree”, and thank you for checking this out!
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another century, 2019
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