Welcome to Tom Lohre's GeoCities
Web Site
His Latest Still Life
Morgan, His Latest Portrait
Latest Mechanical Art
Tom is a life
long full time fine artist who paints portraits, commissions, landscapes,
seascapes, cityscapes, spacescapes. He also creates robotic artists and art
machines.
The amazing thing about Tom's progress is that he is moving towards creating
robot machines that paint, talk and maybe even think like him. In a world
where apprenticeship under a master is considered passé, Tom looks
to instill his knowledge in a machine.
Tom
feels that now is the time to present and develop artificial intelligent
art creating machines. These art machines have branched out into living mobiles,
light devices, whirly-gigs, using biogenetics to paint with, math formulas
for profile generation, mobiles of cut out silhouettes in aluminum and marble
sculpting.
All the while his classical manner is becoming more refined and deliberate
in copying the manner of the old masters.
Tom trained under the world's most famous portrait painter, Ralph Wolfe Cowan.
After assisting Mr. Cowan in Palm Beach in 1980, Tom started traveling the
circuit of Palm Beach, Nantucket and New York City.
He met Irene Moore while visiting home in 1990. They have lived in Clifton
since getting married in 1994 and now have a daughter.
Tom paints formal portraits in the manner of: WILLIAM ADOLPHE BOUGUEREAU
1825-1905. These paintings are oil painted a la prima on a very smooth
scrapped gessoed canvas stretched on board. The colors are as transparent
as possible and all the edges are hard.
Tom paints landscapes in the manner of: JAN VAN DER HEYDEN 1637-1712. These
paintings are also painted a la prima on a very smooth scrapped gessoed canvas
stretched on board. Figures are completely painted although they may be as
small as one inch. Trees are painted carefully and without scrumbling. All
paint is applied like icing on a cake.
Mission
Today Tom sees the advantage
of the Internet as allowing the artist to market their wares directly in
combination with good publicity and local art shows.
Profile
Tom built his first computer
at the age of ten (it was mechanical). His first PDA was a pocket computer
from Radio Shack that he used to store all his addresses in one long roll
of register tape from many cassettes of audiotape.
Tom use these pages as
a respite from the easel. Look forward to an interactive game in the future.
It will be a game where the subject comes in for a painting and has a highly
illiterate conversation with the artist all the while a portrait-taking place.
Tom's Master Web Site
http://tomlohre.com
Telephone
513-861-4146
FAX
513-861-4146
Electronic mail
tom@tomlohre.com