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Carl Bork

Politicians use lies to cover up the truth. Artists use lies to tell the truth. -V for Vendetta

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Painters and any Plein Air painters, and also if you live in or around Milwaukee I'm always looking for Models for paintings.

Music:

Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Letigre, Bad Religion, Nirvana, Anti Flag, Pennywise, Distillers, Bad Religion

Movies:

Fight Club, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Matrix, Tank Girl, Lord of the Rings, Spirited Away, Kill Bill, Freddy Got Fingered, Shawshank Redemption

Television:

Lost, Conan O'Brien, Seinfeld, Ren and Stimpy, Simpsons, Wondershowzen!!!, Office, 30 Rock, Daily Show

Books:

Art Books ("The Art Spirit", by Robert Henri, "Alla Prima" by Richard Schmid), Evolution Monism Atheism and the Naturalist World-View by Greg Graffin of Bad Religion

Heroes:

My Grand Father, Painters: Antonio Mancini, John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri, George Bellows, Anders Zorn, Nikolai Fechin, Carl Von Marr, Frederick J. Mulhaupt, Edgar Payne, Contemporary: Richard Schmid, Quang Ho, C.W. Mundy, Scott Burdick, Clyde Aspevig, Matt Smith.

My Blog

CarlBork.com Update

Hello,Been a while since the last update, but I've got some new work uploaded to the site. New figure paintings to see. Including some in a Monochrome technique. Check it out here:http://www.carlbork....
Posted by Carl Bork on Tue, 13 May 2008 10:23:00 PST

Painting "Snow Nets"

New painting, not the best photo right now, but this is a big one for me 48" by 72" Oil on Canvasand me looking thrilled in front of it... :-0

Update

Hello,Updated website with new Gallery representation.You can see where my work can be found at here:http://www.carlbork.com/availablework.htmlThanks for the support! :-)Carl...
Posted by Carl Bork on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:24:00 PST

Another Top Hat

Having more fun with the top hat I got."Top Hat"Oil 16" by 20"$400
Posted by Carl Bork on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:17:00 PST

Light on Dark

Here's the painting where I posted the detail shots of it before:"Light on Dark"Oil 24" by 36"
Posted by Carl Bork on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:14:00 PST

Details

I'm still working on the full image so I thought it would be fun to post some details of it before I put the full image up. In this piece I'm playing with expressing the difference between light and s...
Posted by Carl Bork on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:36:00 PST

Top Hat

"Profile with Top Hat"Oil8" by 10"$200
Posted by Carl Bork on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:36:00 PST

Vivianite

Vivianite posted about my work - Yay!http://www.vivianite.net/?id=590
Posted by Carl Bork on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:39:00 PST

Talent Database.com Featured Artist

Hello,Talent Data Base.com put me up as featured artist today on their Art Channel Today :-)You can see it here:http://www.talentdatabase.com/channels/1-Artmy section here:http://www.talentdatabase.co...
Posted by Carl Bork on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:19:00 PST

Some vids not about art

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Posted by Carl Bork on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:59:00 PST