Drawing in The Book by Ross Smirnoff

Drawing by Ross Smirnoff

Drawing by Ross Smirnoff 5-14-2012

Drawing by Ross Smirnoff 7-26-12

Painting by Ross Smirnoff after Bosch

Still Life Drawing by Ross Smirnoff

Drawing In The Book 2011 by Ross Smirnoff

My Personal Sacrafice to Sandy

Day After The Storm in Prospect Park

New Bedroom Shrine

Giorgio De Chirico

Still Life Drawing complete by Ross Smirnoff (Mona Lisa, Dia de los muertos candle stick, troll and rock from death valley national park.)

Pablo Picasso @ MET

"Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms, well them think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely."

Paul Gaugin @ MET

"No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's — peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!"

Paul Cezanne @ MET

"Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing sensations."

Vincent Van Gogh @ MET

"Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, You can't do a thing. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of 'you can't' once and for all. "

Marsden Hartley: Albert Pynkham Ryder 1938 @ MET

Late Klee: Exhibtion @ MET

Joan Miro @ MET

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."

Hiroshi Sugimoto @ Warhol Exhibition MET

Fran Hals still life detail @ MET

Dominican Republic Statue @ MET

Cory Arcangel @ Warhol Exhibition MET

Alberto Giacometti @ MET

Leonardo Da Vinci The Annunciation @ The Uffizi Galllery in Florence, Italy.

Dwight Williams

I met Dwight Williams yesterday at the MET.  I saw him from a distance from the 2nd floor and noticed he had some folks taking pictures of him while he was drawing.  I went down and spoke with him briefly. I asked him how long he's been drawing for and he replied, "my whole life."  He told me that he sells his drawing for $95 dollars which is quite the bargain for a master drawing.  I can't wait to bump into him again. Seems like we worship folks with no talent but running into one who's got it was quite the inspiration. 

Three Cultures, Three Buddhas: China, Japan, and Tibet

Tibetan Art @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

Early Vermeer @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

Velazquez @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jean Michel Basqiuat @ Warhol exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rembrandt @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Painting lost in the storm by Ross Smirnoff circa 1999