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Joseph Raffael

an american contemporary realist artist born in 1933, Brooklyn, NY, is a watercolor painter.
The Nancy Hoffman Gallery New York City NY USA official representative of Joseph Raffael is selling fine art by Joseph Raffael, watercolor paintings, reproductions, lithographs, posters and book.
Joseph is painting watercolors in his home at Cap d'Antibes in the South of France where he is living with his wife Lannis Raffael,.
Joseph's paintings are inspired by flowers, nature, water, koi, animals, parrots, wind, water, bouquets, scenes from a life.

From Michael Kimmelman's
"The Accidental Masterpiece On the Art of Life and Vice Versa"

Penguin Books 2005

Writing about Eva Hesse pp 118-119

".....Hesse's time was running short. By then she had jotted in a diary, "All my stakes are in my work.
I have given up all else. Like my whole reality is there ---I am all there." It was, and she was.
That was Hesse's declaration of ardor and commitment, for which she was willing to bet the house.
Sol LeWitt had encouraged that attitude in one of the great freewheeling examples of an inspirational letter from one artist to another.
"Learn to say 'Fuck you' to the world once in a while," LeWitt told Hesse. "You have every right to. Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, gasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, rumbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling, scumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, horse-shitting, hair-splitting, nit-pickingpiss-trickling,nose-sticking,ass-gouging, eyeball poking, finger-pointing,alley-way-sneaking, long waiting, small stepping, evil-eyeing, back-scratching, searching,perching, besmirching, grinding grinding, grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just DO.

"Don't worry about cool. Make your own un-cool. Make your own, your own world."