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The art of Misha Bittleston - learn about and view the creative visual, theoretical and inspirational artwork of prominent contemporary artist Misha Bittleston. This regularly updated site features hundreds of images of the contemporary art of British born abstract painter Misha Bittleston's works spanning more than a decade and up to the very recent. Experience the artist's persistent compositional and conceptual experiments with idea, design, technique and emotion through painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, installation and performance. Misha Bittleston is a brand, a living artist and a do-it-yourself artist, both ahead of his time, contemporary and in Ruskin's sense a "Modern Painter". Misha Bittleston is a contemporary maker of abstract, tachist, post retro, post-industrial futurist, deconstructive, non-literal-figurative, expressionist, formalist works. Bittleston grew up in Britain and Italy before migrating to the West Coast of the US. In the modern and traditional sense of the term Bittleston is an artist but not to be classified simply as a visual artist as in a "künstler moderner"; few contemporary artists like Misha who's genre-bending kunst spans movements in art with an iconoclasic approach to artistice boundaries and fashions combining: abstract expressionism, conceptual art, theoretical art, surrealism, 19th century symbolism and new symbolist art, cubism, futurism, tachism, urbanism, virtual, digital and web based art, expressionism, visionary art, spiritual art, abstractism, non-representational, nonobjective, mannerism, minimalism, black and white painting, op art, abstract art, modernist art, contemporary art, british art, bay area figurative art, california art, bad art, erotic art, european art, black white, black / white art, black and white art, landscape, graphic art, fantasy art, ideal art, romanticism, non-photorealism, pointillism, inti impressionist art (Misha is reviled by designer impressionism), pop art, post-impressionism, anti-fascist futurism, social futurist art, modern art, post modern art / postmodernism, process art, imaginary art, experimental art, formalist art, non representational art, fine art, miniature art, etc. ...modern art isn't new art. Abstraction isn't non-representation, rather it is non-literal or less-representational art. There is no genre of the past that can encapsulate British born San Francisco Bay Area artist Bittleston's Euro American ism-less art that, although it is not yet award winning art, critically acclaimed or famous in the art world, if you've seen and been inspired by his work you have got to ask yourself, is Bittleston the future art world's best artist? ...certain insiders in the art world nonplussed by no recent art controversy or artist scandal are why art non-critics review and critique the disputed masterpieces of internationally future-renowned artist Misha Bittleston? Explaining why Misha's work is yet again on exhibit at venues throughout the US; no art exhibition has yet shown a fraction of Misha Bittleston's unbridled and exhaustive output, range of talents and prolific creative oeuvre, although Misha's art has appeared in many a successful solo and group art exhibition, this web art gallery alone shows image oriented exhibitions of Misha's work; artwork by Misha Bittleston can always be seen at art web sites as digital art - art of the contemporary London, Berlin, Prague and New York scene has been inspirational in internationalizing artistic development of this British born painter Misha Bittleston. ...masterpieces of art are not created by artists but invented by art historians. It is easy for anyone to argue what art was in the past, but only artists say what art is now; Misha sees what it will be. What is art now: what makes art art, and not craft, design, illustration or performance? Does art exist in the present or only when framed in the past? With more living artists than ever before why are the most popular artists still dead and buried in history? Is the best art in the world also the most inspired? Is it impossible that every piece created by Bittleston is a timeless masterpiece? ...contemporary expressionist painter Misha's last name is Bittleston; not Bittleson, Bittelson, Bittelston or Bittlestone. Misha Bittleston's first name is sometimes misspelled as Mischa, Mishka, Micha or Mesha. The correct spelling is Misha, which is not his nickname. As a child he was known for a short time to some as Michael Bittleston, Mike Bittleston or Myk Bittleston. Even though Misha is the Russian diminutive of Michael, the artist's given name is Misha and not Michael. ...Of course Misha Bittleston's goal is to be his own favorite artist, but he does value the work of a lot of other artists and is constantly searching for more. Here are a few of Misha Bittleston's favorite artists and influences: Jacopo Pontormo; Gustave Moreau; Bridget Riley; Barnaby Furnas; Mark Innerst; Mike & Doug Starn; Goldsworthy; Tadashi Sato; David Hockney; Ross Bleckner; Nathan Oliveira; Saegesser; Sam Francis; Robert Motherwell; William Blake; Samuel Palmer; Charles Burchfield; Klee; Odilon Redon; Rorschach; Andy Warhol; Wassily Kandinsky; Albert Pinkham Ryder; James Ensor; Drawings of Victor Hugo; more artists Misha knows. ...respect and admiration for the art community work of Gallery owners Cherri Lakey and Brian Eder has drawn Misha Bittleston into ongoing exhibitions and participation in Phantom Galleries San Jose and as the artist chosen as their representative for the launch of Phantom Galleries Los Angeles... ...collectors buy or view Misha Bittleston's art work at any art museum, art gallery or any of the following art museums, contemporary art museum or so called fine art gallerys, national gallery, american, british or european art museum, auction houses or dealers : Smithsonian; Sotheby's; Whitney Museum of American Art; Tate; Guggenheim Museum; SF MOMA or SFMOMA; Sloan's; Doyle New York; John Berggruen Gallery; Stephen Wirtz Gallery;Bonhams; Christie's; Butterfields; metropolitan museum; Mary Boone Gallery; Gagosian Gallery; Victoria Miro Gallery, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Marlborough Fine Art, ADAA, PADA. ...the artist's medium, materials or media are: painting / paint; ink wash painting; ink art; ink drawing; ink paintings; ink wash; sumie or sumi-e; black and white paintings; works on paper; oil on canvas; oil painting; inkblot / inkblots; gouache; watermedia; mixed media; etching; digital art; online art; drawing / drawings; egg tempera; wash drawing; watercolor or watercolors or watercolour or watercolour painting; monoprint; monotype prints; printmaking; limited edition prints; photography; installation. ...these fine art subject matter may be interpreted to be present in Misha Bittleston's abstract works: interior scene, interiors, landscapes, nocturne, cityscape, seascape, figurative, human figure, nude figure, nudes, portraiture, architecture, sex and sexuality, technology, floral, trees. ...internationally emerging artist Misha Bittleston employs techniques / technique such as pointillism, chiaroscuro, linear and atmospheric perspective, monochrome, collage, polychrome, stipplling, line, colour, action painting, impasto. Exploring subtlety and drama of light and texture. ...fine Art is no finer than Art art. The term Fine should only be used to describe Art when emphasizing the distinction between painting, drawing printmaking, sculpture and the performing Arts of dance, drama, or music. 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