CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBIT with JOSEPH STERANKO

        A number of years ago I new a man named Joseph Steranko.  Joseph was 80 at the time and more creative than anyone I have ever met.  In his life time he achieved many things and had many interests, he was an artist, a floral designer, a carpenter, a book collector, an art collector, he new construction, sculpting and many many more interests that I can't even remember.

        He lived in the South Side of Pittsburgh, with his wife who was a fashion consultant, what a creative couple.  They purchased an old machine shop and converted it into a home.  The interior walls were all brick and from floor to ceiling, both floors were covered with art.

        He used to take me to art galleries and art museums.  In the early 2000's he took me to the Carnegie International Art Exhibition at the Carnegie Art Museum in Pittsburgh, PA.

        We toured the show and he examined every single piece of art very carefully, whether it was a painting, sculpture or an installation, it didn't matter to him, he loved it ALL.  Where some people at the show just strolled around, Joseph appreciated every brush stroke, every shadow, every color, it was amazing to watch and experience with him.

        I have never felt art the way I did that day, even as we were leaving, outside the building as we stepped off the curb to go to the car he stopped me and said look at the black skid marks in the parking lot against the grey asphalt and how they are placed with the yellow paint on the curb.  Now that's art he said!  And I got it, there is beauty every where, everything balances, even if it is unintentional.
     
        I have never looked at art or painted the same since that day, I can look at a tree or a sunset and appreciate it more than ever, every piece of art done by man looks good to me, I have 9 grand kids and I love every line they draw or every picture they paint me because they are expressing themselves.

     Life is truly great, stop to enjoy it.

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PAINTING SELLS FOR $142.4 MILLION

        That's what the headline read, Painting sells for $142.4 million, in U.S. dollars.  There is hope for all of us.

        So what would make a single piece of art so valuable you ask?  Well to be honest with you it makes no sense to me either.

       
 The painting titled Three Studies of Lucian Freud, by Francis Bacon, 1969.  So a little background on the artist.  Francis Bacon was born in Ireland in 1909 and died in 1992 and had gone through three different periods or fazes during his career; Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism.  Although this style of art has always intrigued me, I have to admit I find Bacon's work rather unsettling and at times grotesque.

        I believe his life and bizarre background had something to do with the exceptional high price this painting brought in, and who actually purchased it, and why, that is another mystery.

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