Perhaps you’ve heard about the dream I had, the one that led me to invent the Figurative Art Convention & Expo (FACE). In my dream I was dining at a castle, seated at a very long table, and each chair was occupied by a famous artist from the past.
Earlier this year I had that dream again, but this time, the great French master William Bouguereau stood up and toasted “The Whole of Art!”
When I asked him what that means, he replied that artists can become too narrow and therefore hurt themselves. “All artists should study other art forms, not just their specialties,” he explained. “For instance, I was once obsessed with figures, but realized that if I did not also learn landscape painting, I could never place my…
