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*excerpt
*Draw it ... Draw it good
Artist/musician Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo

*http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20070404_Draw_it.html
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*Q:* There's a childlike primitivism to your art. How do you think coming into your formative years with eyesight problems [Mothersbaugh was legally blind until age 7] factored into that childishness or altered your work?
*A:* Well, among other things it made me have to sit close to the paper. [Laughs.] I had to draw from six inches away. So I tended to do things kind of small. I think I lucked out, though. It delayed certain things of the world being revealed to me rather than have them happen at a pre-vocal time. At age 7, it was like a door opened, a pretty joyous experience. 


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The art of profiteering
http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/the-art-of-profiteering/2007/03/15/1173722652416.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
One of the greatest paintings to appear at auction was Water Dreaming at Kalipinya by Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, a pioneer of the famed dot style. He sold many of his pictures to dealers for a few hundred dollars, only to see them sell later for hundreds of thousands.
His key work set a record price for an Aboriginal painting in 1997 when it was sold for $206,000 to an American collector at Sotheby's in Melbourne. The sale attracted worldwide media attention after Tjupurrula was discovered destitute and sleeping in a dry creek bed outside Alice Springs.
He was partly blind and had only two fingers on one hand, but he knew his painting was being sold and claimed a share of the proceeds - which was refused. Three years later, the painting appeared at Sotheby's again and set a new record of $486,500 when it went to another American collector. By that time, the artist had been dead for two years. 


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*Artist:* Robert Romero ( United States ) -
*Main Category:* Painting *Genres:* Contemporary North American Art *Biography: *At the age of five I was diagnosed as being color blind. When asked by others how I am able to paint if I can't distinguish color, I simply answer. "I put a lot of trust and belief in my Muse that all will come out right." (I read the labels on the tubes of paint.) I have studied fine arts in Northern California, Spain, Mexico, Central America and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Early in my career, I was influenced by the works of Van Gogh and Dali. My Later travels to Spain, where I studied Art History, exposed me to the styles of Goya, Carravagio, and Velasquez. I also admire the work of the English artist, William Turner.
A tenth generation New Mexican, my culture, family history, and religion have strongly influenced my present work. I currently live and work in Taos, New Mexicohttp://galleries.absolutearts.com/cgi-bin/galleries/show?what=artists&login=capucinesboulevard&id=1703
Artist: Robert Romero ( United States ) - Main Category: Painting Genres: Contemporary North American Art Biography: At the age of five I was diagnosed as being color blind. When asked by others how I am able to paint if I can't distinguish color, I simply answer. "I put a lot of trust and belief in my Muse that all will come out right." (I read the labels on the tubes of paint.) I have studied fine arts in Northern California, Spain, Mexico, Central America and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Early in my career, I was influenced by the works of Van Gogh and Dali. My Later travels to Spain, where I studied Art History, exposed me to the styles of Goya, Carravagio, and Velasquez. I also admire the work of the English artist, William Turner.
A tenth generation New Mexican, my culture, family history, and religion have strongly influenced my present work. I currently live and work in Taos, New Mexico. 


excerpt a bit off subject but nice
http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2007/04/05/Opinion/On.Hearing.Color-2827650.shtml
My choice to pursue music was not clear to me at first, but I have come to believe that music is the auditory ability to paint a human emotion concretely. Though with other arts, emotion is the aftereffect of the primary subject matter and what gives depth to the subject matter, I feel that music is the true ability to realistically create an image of happiness, sorrow, anguish, joy or desire.
Music is the pursuit of color, the pursuit of landscaping and pigment in such a way that the listener is transported to a world where there are brilliant colors, hues and intentions, but all painted in such ways that we are delightfully blind to them, but nonetheless affected. Our ears are given the extraordinary ability to become our eyes and to see what it is that the eye is incapable of registering.
I'd advise you, the reader, to look up some of the work of Gertrude Stein, who uses an amalgam of words that are nonsensically arranged to create this very poignant color in the eye of the reader. Her choice of wording and experimentation capture in literature the same qualities that my musical compositions endeavor to find. The perception of the human race is delightfully fragile and usually oblivious to the undercurrent of possibilities that the limitations of our senses allow us to partake in. 


On hearing color
but I have come to believe that music is the auditory ability to paint a human emotion concretely. Though with other arts, emotion is the aftereffect of the primary subject matter and what gives depth to the subject matter, I feel that music is the true ability to realistically create an image of happiness, sorrow, anguish, joy or desire.
Music is the pursuit of color, the pursuit of landscaping and pigment in such a way that the listener is transported to a world where there are brilliant colors, hues and intentions, but all painted in such ways that we are delightfully blind to them, but nonetheless affected. Our ears are given the extraordinary ability to become our eyes and to see what it is that the eye is incapable of registering.
I'd advise you, the reader, to look up some of the work of Gertrude Stein, who uses an amalgam of words that are nonsensically arranged to create this very poignant color in the eye of the reader. Her choice of wording and experimentation capture in literature the same qualities that my musical compositions endeavor to find. The perception of the human race is delightfully fragile and usually oblivious to the undercurrent of possibilities that the limitations of our senses allow us to partake in.

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