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It happens rarely to me, but when I fall in love with someone's work,

I often try to contact them about it (living artists, of course).

Shirin Neshat's work is amazing - both in film and her 2-D art -

and I've tried to buy everything I can to learn about her and her work.

After being so taken by this woman's extraordinary artistic output,

it was an extra special delight to actually receive

hugs and a kiss from her on my birthday in 2003.

Her work is very special and very much of these times!

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Philip Guston

Guston was the artist I thought of first whn I saw the thread title.

I am unspeakably ill-informed regarding most visual art...  hence I will offer my bumbling opinion that the illustrative art of graphic novelists Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware speaks to my American times.

I'm a big fan of both of these guys.

But doesn't the best art speak to all times? (I'm not positing this as an amazing revelation or anything).

I mean, come on, Bach, Ellington, Vermeer, Picasso, as different as they are, all captured something essential about the human experience in ALL times, as well as for their own

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Mark ROTHKO!

The more I look at his paintings, the more I am impressed by all there is into his art.

There was a retrospective of Rothko's work at the Paris Museum of Modern Art several years ago.

I had seen some of his paintings before but this was really like 'hearing' Charlie Parker for

the first time.

Had a similar experience at a gallery showing a number of Rothkos about twenty years ago. Sitting and looking at them for a period of time left me feeling as if I had entered his paintings and had lost myself inside them.

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