What art or artists have influenced her work most?
There are many influences that Josephine Haden takes over and makes her own. The artist appreciates the work of all artists from the past and many contemporary artists. However, they do not necessarily directly inspire her work. Her favorite artists include, but are not limited to: northern renaissance and baroque painters for the charm of their compositions including animals and plants, early French painting from the late Middle Ages to early Renaissance for expressive figuration and simplicity; Michelangelo for the “in your face” colors/surface quality and composition of the Sistine Chapel; Rembrandt for the composition and “light” quality in his engravings; ancient Chinese landscape painting; her own grandfather’s paintings and drawings; Van Gogh for clarity of form and color; surrealists painters without the rhetoric; pop art because it throbs with color power; and contemporary artists like Anselm Kiefer for reconciling the conceptual and expressive, and William Kentridge for his n
