Author: almostfinnish
Almostfinnish lives in The United States. She graduated from The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design with a BFA.
For the last 30 years she has been displaying her work around the region in group and solo shows.
She has won many awards for her artwork and continues to strive for excellence in everything she does.
Her artwork resides in private collections throughout the country.
Goal: To have a paragraph written about her in the art history books.
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.” –
-Magdalena Abakanowicz
Creativity is piercing the mundane
to find the marvellous
– Bill Moyers
Trickery and premeditation
“The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.”
– Edgar Degas
Where you can buy cheap turpentine
“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
– Pablo Picasso
The studio can be a very exciting place
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth
-Pablo Picasso
Practice what you know
Practice what you know and it will help
you to make what you do not know.
-Rembrandt
Ale house
one of 14 paintings that I am getting ready for this season.
in process painting by almostfinnish
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