Trippin' With Beckmann

A few of Max Beckmann's rich, beautiful and disturbing triptychs. So visually satisfying. So powerful. (Wouldn't his iconic figures make an incredible Tarot deck!)

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. Max Beckmann

Mark Ryden

A Face Book friend introduced me to this man's work this morning, in a conversation about Julie Heffernan's paintings. Mark Ryden's pieces are enchanting and unsettling, like any good fairy tale...