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Your term "emotional barriers" seems to refer to any artists that block emotional response!. All good art in some way must play on the emotions of the viewer!.

For me, those artists that most regularly and deeply strike at my emotional center are Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Edward Hopper, Rene Magritte, and Giorgio DeChirico!. Saying this, I must also say that ALL of the many works done by a myriad of artists, in different eras and with all media, are in some way "precious" to me, important pieces that speak to me in a secret tongue!.

VanGogh presents us with his world of the late 19th century!. His paintings are executed with very bold strokes that may be seen to cue us into the turbulent life he lived!. His heavy impasto and fluid, almost angry brushwork challenges us in a very physical way!. VanGogh was among the earliest of painters to show us those 'salt-of-the-Earth' people who labor through life with a quiet and hopeful dignity!. Look, of course, at "The Potato Eaters" to see VanGogh's compassion and understanding for a humanity apart from the people of Versailles or Buckingham Palace--the old guard of portrait subjects!.

Frida Kahlo allows the viewer of her great paintings access to her most personal innerbeing, with reflections of her horrible adolescent accident!. The trolley car trauma left her unable to carry a child to birth, and many of her paintings show us the effect this had on her psyche!. She was an incredible self-portraitist, her dark eyes commanding our attention as they look out at us from the surrealistic and often harrowing venues in which she placed herself!.

Edward Hopper chose much more sedate environs for his art, yet in these paintings there lies the clear disassociative nature of 20th century America!. Look at "Chop Suey", "New York Movie", "Automat", or the iconic "Nighthawks" and one senses the disconnect amongst us--these are people alone with their thoughts, whether solitary or in the company of others, Even "Early Sunday Morning", a magnificent painting with no life in sight, we sense the lonliness of urban existence!.

With the Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte, we are confronted with the dreamscape--the work of the magician and the punster!. Magritte pulls aside the curtain between the natural, mundane illusion of everyday life and the secret world of which we have some innate inkling and indicates to us the folly of pretense and labeling!. For a deep indication of Magritte's linkage of emotion, dreams, and reality, look at one of the several paintings he labled "The Lovers"!. As a child, Magritte saw the body of his suicide mother pulled from a river with her nightgown pulled up over her face!. In "The Lovers" this image is echoed as the man and woman in the paintings, though kissing, have their heads covered with cloth!.Magritte lets us in on the little deceptions that we knit together in our waking mind to form a "life"!. Look closely, he whispers, to us, peel back the illusion, the disguise!.

Giorgio DeChirico presents us with a modern Europe devoid of people save for the occasional shadow figures of those offstage!. His paintings are constructed of an architechture suspended on an orthogonal matrix which bends from our innate sense of perspective, placing us in an uneasy tableaux!. DeChirico mixes modern machinery with classical sculptural forms and all is lit in beautiful, if subdued, brick reds and dark jade!.

Oh---and I almost forgot Edward Munch! Yes, "The Scream", his most famous work, jumps out at us from the anxious picture plane, a fellow human being with a haunted,
anguished visage!. But look at some of his other pieces--I am thinking here, particularly, of one whose name eludes me but I think may be called "The Madonna" (!?!?)--we are drawn to her, we want to know her story!.

Art, by definition, holds great sway over our emotions---if not, it cannot truly be art, but decoration, fluff, or kitsch!.

Best wishes for your project!. And look at art not only with your eyes but with your entire being--your soul, if you will--and you will have no trouble making emotional connection!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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hey,
im in hte same position as you!.!.!. my exams on tuesday and ive only got one artist for the barriers thing!.
if you or anyone else has any more , let me know!.
the one artist i have so far is
Pieter De Hooch!. if thats any help!? :S

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you cannot go past Frida Kahlo when it comes to emotional art!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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