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What is art?

I can only attempt to answer this, ancient philosophical question by simply sharing my own observations and understadings which Ive gained through decades of artistic endeavor.

2009 marks the 25th anniversary of my published, multi-directional artistic style named Masg, from Gaelic meaning to mix; or infuse.

The Purple Tree: Art in Boundless Age, was published in 2009 and details Masg's twenty-five year history.

Please read this excerpt from The Purple Tree: Art in a Boundless Age, L. R. Emerson II, 2009:

Art is my visual voice, a platform which after securing opportunity to speak my mind produces a window for one to see into my personal thoughts. From that viewpoint, by examining my work each observer may bear witness to the very spark which ignited my artistic visions.

From an early moment during my childhood, whereby I was criticized for coloring my tree purple, there has existed deep in my art heart an irreverent passion to create work that was deliberately against the common goal.

I suggest to every artist living today: study the world and all its art, then go and make your own!

My quest has simply been striving to carve out new avenues of expression through experimentation, innovation and invention.

Recently internationally accalimed artist Georg Baselitz commented he found my Upside-Down Art "...inspiring".

This is considerable noting that Baselitz' own art has sold for as much as $1.1 million dollars at auction and is equally unusual - inspring to many.

In 2005, after having been kept secret for over two decades, my Masg work or Upside-Down Art was introduced to more than 500 renowned art museums and art galleries worldwide including the following:

U.S. National Gallery
National Gallery and Tate Museum, London
Smithsonian American Art Museum
National Gallery of Ireland
National Gallery of AUSTRALIA
National Gallery of Scotland
National Gallery of Modern Art, Scotland
Musée du Louvre, Paris
MOMA,The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Foundation
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
CAC, Contemporary Art Center, Virginia
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk
Harvard University Art Museums
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Art Students League, NYC
PBS: Art 21, Inc.


L. R. Emerson II
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