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About Me

Simply, this is a site put up to show my work to those who choose to look on the MySpace network. Included in the pic.s section are some of my large scale paintings which span a professional career dating back to 1992. I will keep it at that for now, fine art is a visual language...the paintings for better or worse are what they are. The work is surreal/pop to an extent but it branches into a lot of different genres. I have been fortunate to have trained under Peter Saul the well known Pop Artist, the late Luis Jimenez and my mentor Vincent Mariani a personal favorite and protege of the late great colorist Josef Albers...I hope I will represent them well in my lifetime."You can always tell an intelligent person, not by the answers they give but by the questions they ask. It seems to me, art's job is to ask questions of the viewer so that the viewer can enlighten their own life by what they feel the work has to say in the context of their own life experiences. To me, that is what makes a work of art worthwhile"R. Pilar 2007Myspace Layouts

My Interests

Culture, Mythology, the Arts (Fine Art, Music, Literature), History and a big love for dogs...especially Dobermans. I also do this crazy thing called running.

I'd like to meet:

Myself, because we hardly know who we really are instead of who we think we are and I hope he brings a bottle of merlot.

Music:

Wagner, Beethoven, Mahler, Vangelis, Jerry Goldsmith, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, I was a '80s child so what can I say... Big Country, The Outfield, Sting (that is The Police by the way), David Lee Roth (that is Van Halen by the way), Prince and the NPG, A-ha, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, SR-71, Adam Ant, Rick Springfield, Jimmy Eat World, Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Chris De Burgh, Trevor Rabin, Social Distortion, Fountains of Wayne, The Cult, White Lion, INXS, Toney Carey, Enuff-Z-Nuff, Billy Squier, Ratt, Faster Pussycat, Tom Jones, John 'Cougar' Mellencamp, Steve Earle, Billy Joel, Blondie, Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull, Rush, Queensryche, Queen, Duran Duran, Pink Floyd, The Killers and the list goes on and on.

Movies:

John Ford movies since he was like a painter doing film, Terry Gilliam movies, Hal Hartly films, Spaghetti Westerns, Amadeus, 13th Warrior... Bogart, Yul Brynner, Kirk Douglas, Gene Wilder, Hugh Grant, Michael Cain, ...Green Card...Highlander...Indiana Jones series... A Fish Called Wanda...Princess Bride...Big Fish...What Dreams May Come...Better off Dead...Zulu...The Thing...Glory...Dusk to Dawn...Jesus of Nazareth...Tombstone...Red/White/Blue trilogy and the list goes on and on. Get me on a classic movie channel and I can't get off it.

Television:

What is that? Oh, what I do during football season when I watch my beloved Arizona Cardinals and I'm a Texas Ex...HOOK 'EM HORNS!

Books:

Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Hugo, Douglas Adams, Joseph Campbell, JRR Tolkien, Kipling and others. Love the classics. Art history books on the Renaissance period and Romantic period. There is this book called the Bible which is pretty interesting too.

Heroes:

Someone who believed enough in what they did that they never quit doing it. Passion is the key and the ability to hold on to one's principles and nobility.

My Blog

"All I Had To Walk With Me"

"Torn garments bound your weave Clasped thy broken broch around my throat Thread upon thread To await winter’s approach All I had to warm me Comfort’s song swollen in ...
Posted by R on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:22:00 PST