More thoughts of artmanlikepicasso leroy parker

So all these amazing head paintings on my website: www.leroyparker.com  Picasso, has been a great influence on my work as he was on many artists like Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock,Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Gorky, Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Murakama,  and many, many others.  Those twisted many sides of the human mind-conflict being exposed to view in the world now days; the many angles like many mirrored distortions of the way we feel and act-all suggested by Picasso as he got strong clues from the African masks.  They were used to heal to inspire certain states of spirit-emotion that we need to come to terms with. The color the patterns that I use in the paintings to suggest the awesome depth and mystery of us humans. Art is that other non-verbal part of language that we so desperately need in order to complete our sense of expression and knowing.  Without imagination there can be no knowledge.  I think Einstein said that.  So Art is that aspect of knowing which happens by the nourishment of imagination.  African Art plays a big part in the lives of many major American Artists. In 1994 there was an exhibition at the Museum Of African Art,New York  called: Western Artists/African art. It showed how many artists:  Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Terry Atkins, Arman,  Francesco Clemente, Eric Fischl, Helen Frankenthaler, Brice Marden, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, Frank Stella,Terry Winters, Fred Wilson and many other Artists in the show have to have African Art in their studios as a Major inspiration. Well I do too. Wild about it, African Art like Picasso.   Well more about this later.  Best  Leroy