Left to right:

Silently, to herself: “Schnabel once used dishes like this back in the ’80s for those big paintings that helped make him famous…”.

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“Rothko is clearly, (or hazily, if you consider how the work presents) better – he started that movement when he passed from figurative urban vignettes to pure abstraction.”

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“But Frankenthaler refined it so. She dyed those canvases with a lighter touch, and expanded the palette in ways to create more movement and space. Those chunky blocks became passe’. Lets talk free form, lets talk freedom.”

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“I like flowers and Monet does them best, so he’s my guy.”

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Yeah, well how about Van Gogh’s irises? So punk!”

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“Pollack is great if you are listening to Jazz”.

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“No, no, no – Jazz is the soundtrack for Stuart Davis” work – much more symbiosis there than with Pollack.”

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“Hey, boss, can we plate this masterpiece I just cooked up?”

-Danny Grosso