Comments on: Oil Painting | Malcolm T. Liepke: The Emotional Connection in Figure Paintings

By: Barbara Patton

Barbara Patton — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:10:04 +0000

New here and find it invigorating! Love the works presented here. the “Head study – brunette ” totally made me cry!! So vivid! she looks so very young and vulnerable, so sweet, such innocence, so much to learn about life before her. I want to reach out and hug her.
Barbara

By: Ciro Caso

Ciro Caso — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:57:52 +0000

I wonder if he would take a commission ?

ciro caso
c_ciro@hotmail.com

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Sun, 17 Apr 2016 22:37:41 +0000

Hello,
I appologize for my contact through here but I don’t know any other way To do it.

As I read you comment I couldn’t help myself to comment back, as tou so close to Skip.
I would like to know an information about a especific work of Liepke, but I can find it anywhere and it was very important to me to know it has I been looking for some answers since ever!

I can leave here my e-mail if you want to help! I think Liepke would like to know thant I Look like exackly like one women of his paintings.

My e-mail is: helenaconceicao193@gmail.com

Thank you for your time!
Best regards
Helena

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Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:28:29 +0000

I feel that he puts a lot of hos emotions into the colors of his paintings, while watching paint for the past 3 years ive know his son, i watch him oaint sometimes instead of doing anything with my friend haha its just amuzing how perfect he looks with the brush in his hand its like he can show exactly whats going on in his mind and paint it out through his amazing artistic skills

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Sat, 04 May 2013 08:48:47 +0000

I am so proud of Skip, my nephew. His work is an inspiration to say the least. I especially treasure his originals I have that he painted in high school.

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Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:37:56 +0000

I have not had the opportunity to see Mr Liepke’s work in person. I do own a few of his exhibition catalogs and some printed examples of his illustration work.

i do admire Mr Liepke’s compostional and color skills. Where I begin the dissent in seeing him as “one of the greatest painters of all time” is in the generic character of his subjects and mediocre drawing skills. His people all look the same: big,dark eyes,pouting lips and red noses. In a way his people look like painterly animes or an updated version of the Margaret Keane paintings of big eyed kids I had read a article where Mr Liepke said he had worked on as many as twenty paintings at one time. Looking at his work available one can see the the abandonment of solid form in favor of a wash of color.

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Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:10:22 +0000

I think its strange to believe that only one person ever comes up with a style “first” and that anyone else is just copying and “Lacking Passion”. How many great movements in the past have been simultaneously started in completely separate parts of the world? If Liepke wants us to take something from his work, I think the main theme would be the universal human connection; therefore inferring that humans from all over the world could be feeling, expressing, and doing or creating the same things at the same time- without even knowing that they are unoriginal.

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:55:03 +0000

Maybe it was artists like John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins that helped to shape the similar artistic language of kobayashi and liepke. Both kobayashi and liepke capture a mood that is set by the figure but it is done in a thick, single-stroke style (like when liepke said letting every brush convey a message). Monet and Van gogh both had a similar impasto style. So, my guess is, when you combine the intention of capturing a mood through figurative art and combine it with concise, somewhat unfinished strokes, you get kobayashi and liepke… They paint similarly but not nearly close enough to have copied one another or “come up with the style first…”

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Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:35:19 +0000

I would also like to know who came first with this style – Kobayashi or Liepke. I think Skip’s drawing skills are more pronounced though…

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Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:13:26 +0000

It is interesting how his style conjures thoughts of Gustave Klimt and no one has mentioned this.

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Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:31:33 +0000

It is very interresting how similar Kobayashi’s and Liepke’s work is. They both worked as illustrators at Forbes and another publication as well.

As for me I hope they keep up the good and don’t mind me if I take an occasional cue from the body of their work, while working hard to keep my own artistic integrity. Love them both!

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Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:18:25 +0000

Is the painting’Head study Brunette’ available as a print?
Tony

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Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:17:16 +0000

Malcolm Liepke’s coffee table ‘retrospective’ book is available through Arcadia Gallery in New York. Just search Arcadia Gallery, New York. I recently purchased it. So inspirational!! —Mike

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Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:03:33 +0000

I have 3 prints by Liepk. “Cat Nap” “The Fitting”, and “First to Arrive”. The last 2 on Japon Paper. I just saw “First to Arrive” as an oil painting on this site.My print is marked as 10/10 artist proof. Excuse my lack of knowledge but is mine a seperate work or a computer/ photo reproduction?

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Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:59:11 +0000

I have been looking for his book. Does anyone know how I can get it?

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Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:31:39 +0000

Wow.. your art is sooo amazing. i wish i had your kind of talent