My art heroes

1853 – 1890 | Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Van Gogh is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art, also one of my personal favorites. Though he died young (committed suicide tragically), how he made those years count! In just over a decade he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860…

1904 – 1989 | Spanish painter known for surrealism From back in 1990 P and I have had a major fascination for Dali. We used to drool at Dali’s surrealistic paintings seen at BITS – can’t remember how we came across them. Maybe KM had a Dali obsession that was contagious? In 2011, I got…

Discovered this Japanese-American artist accidentally when browsing for 2020 calendars in American Book Center, Amsterdam! I’m attracted to his art not least because of the subject: his series of paintings on Yosemite, made around 1930. El Capitan, Half-dome, red woods. beautiful! Brings back my own nostalgic memories of Yosemite from the turn of the century……