Mr BioFile Interviews by Scoop Malinowski
By Scoop Malinowski
Status: Fine Artist based in New Jersey. www.angresanostudio.com. Instructor at Ridgewood Art Institute.
First memory of art: As an eight year old visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and being mesmerized by the “Gulf Stream” painting by Winslow Homer.
First job: Landscaper/caddy.
Last book read: “The Art of Velasquez”, by R. A. M. Stevenson.
Inspirations: Too many to list, just a few … John the Baptist, Tom Lovell, Homer, Van Gogh, George Bellows, Antonio Mancini, Joaquin Sorolla… on and on …
First famous person you met or encountered: Rocky Graziano, Middleweight Champion of the World.
Greatest career moment: Hasn’t happened yet…
Most painful career moment: Rejection from an “art group.”
Funny career memory: A horse looking over my shoulder while I painted in a field and the horse at one point snorting naying as if he was reacting to the work.
Embarrassing career memory: Having members of an art group express their remorse to me over failure to achieve membership by vote…
Strangest commission: More like an Advertising job doing storyboards for the then unknown “ Mike’s Hard Lemonade” …completely bizarre commercials that actually ran!
Favorite artists: Too many to list… some more to add to the previously mentioned, Nicolai Fechin, Dean Cornwell, Frank Brangwyn ….
Favorite ice cream flavor: Chocolate chip mint.
Favorite movies: David Lean directed films, “ Bridge Over the River Kwai”, “Dr Zhivago”, “Lawrence of Arabia”… Franco Zeffirelli films, “ Jesus of Nazareth.”
People qualities most admired: Honesty, integrity, courage, consistency, faith.
