Bill bell artist biography
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Bill Bell
A native of Philadelphia, Bill Bell is a completely self-taught artist who took up painting full-time in after a successful career as a musician and record company executive. For Bill, painting is a compulsion; &#;it is also my fun, my therapy, and my challenge.&#; Working in brilliant acrylics, he creates richly detailed and visually complex scenes based on memories and impressions of people, pets, events, and dreams that have shaped his life. His unique and enchanting designs have been reproduced as prints, posters, greeting cards, T-shirts, puzzles, children&#;s books, album covers and several series of collectors plates for the Franklin Mint.
Bill likes to emphasis the activities of people and animals in pleasant, but often absurd context. His work always invites the viewer to explore the entire canvas and revel in the activity, color and fantastic details he manages to include so effectively. &#;I paint nostalgia and nonsense,&#; says the artist. &#;Nostalgia for t
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Who is Bill Bell?
‘LIGHTSTICK’ OF ILLUSION
You will only see its essence if you don’t look directly at it; you can only see it in the dark; and if you’re not prepared for what you see, you might think that you’re hallucinating.
An apparition? A new sort of hologram? Neither. It’s “Lightstick II,” an electrical artwork installed downtown that lends new meaning to the begrepp optical illusion.
The two-inch-thick lodrät bar of bright red light, invented and designed by artist Bill Bell, is affixed to an exterior vägg of the Museum of Contemporary’s Temporary Contemporary at the corner of Temple and Alameda streets.
When stared at straight on, the six-foot-tall device appears to be a steady remsa of light. But when one glances past the strip, the museum’s acronym, “MOCA,” spells itself out horizontally in bright red neon-like letters. (Other words, such as art , can be made to flash from the computerized artwork.) Advertisement
“Images appear to jump out of the lightstick and h
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William Bell (artist)
English painter
William Bell | |
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"Mr Bell" - probably a self-portrait | |
| Born | c Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Died | 8 June Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Nationality | British |
William Bell (/5 - ) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. A prize-winning student at the Royal Academy of Arts, influenced by Sir Joshua Reynolds,[1] he achieved eminence in his native area, the North East of England. His best-known works are portraits of Sir John (later Lord) Delaval and his family,[2] which are in the collection of the National Trust at Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland. Bell's portrait of Robert Harrison, –, is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.[3]
Early life
[edit]The son of a well-regarded bookbinder,[4] Bell was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in /5. His father, also called William,[5] had at least eleven children; but the only son who certainly survi