This document discusses the artistic influences of four artists: Ellen Harvey, Pat Steir, and David Kimball Anderson. It describes how Ellen Harvey was inspired by early encounters with artworks like Rogier van der Weyden's The Last Judgment and Botticelli's La Primavera and Birth of Venus in European museums as a child. It notes that Pat Steir was influenced by the colored reprints of artworks in books as a youth. Finally, it mentions that David Kimball Anderson was inspired to create works evoking certain places by items he encountered on road trips and an painting of a covered bridge in his childhood barbershop.

1. The Biggest
Influences In Art
History
Anatoly Vanetik

2. From Mona Lisa to Jackson Pollack splatters and
O'Keeffe horizons, every artist had to start
somewhere. While many of today's most recognizable
artisans carry a style as instantly identifiable as their
names, many of them looked to the greats preceding
their legacy in order to better understand and
develop their own methods and aesthetics. Below
you will find just a few of those individuals and their
inspirations— don't be surprised if you start feeling a
little inspired yourself.

3. Ellen Harvey
Ellen Harvey, a Brooklyn-
based artist who works in a
variety of mediums including
painting, installation, video,
and performance, cites early
childhood encounters with
art as life-changing.

4. Harvey recalls trips to European art museums where she
first discovered pieces like Rogier van der Weyden's The
Last Judgment (1445–50) in the Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune in
Burgundy and Botticelli's La Primavera (ca. 1477–82) and
Birth of Venus (ca. 1485) in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence,
Italy. It was after these meetings that Harvey realized she
wanted to be an artist, and moreover, the point when she
remembers beginning to draw obsessively.

5. PAT STEIR
Pat Steir, an American painter, and
printmaker, is best known for her abstract
"drip" paintings, recalls reprints of art
pieces in Skira Editore books as her juvenile
enchantment. "All the colors had an orange
or green cast," she says, reminiscing on the
primeval four-color printing process. "I
thought I could never be an artist, because
how could I control the green and orange
colors? It seemed hopeless."

6. David Kimball
Anderson
For David Kimball Anderson, a
photographer, and sculptor, it was
items encountered on road trips and
visits to foreign cities that originally
sparked his curiosity.
On the wall of his childhood
barbershop, hung a painting of a
covered bridge in New England. This
image struck Anderson so emotionally
that it compelled him to begin
creating works comprised of objects
that, when arranged together, could
evoke the geographical aesthetic and
memory of a certain place.

7. Anatoly Vanetik
Thank You!
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