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The Artist Project: Fred Tomaselli

Artist Fred Tomaselli reflects on Guru Dragpo in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"There's art that's easily exhaustible, but the longer you look at this work the more mysterious it becomes."

Artist Fred Tomaselli reflects on "Guru Dragpo" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Fred Tomaselli, born in 1956, is an American painter.

An abstract composition titled

Fred Tomaselli (American, born 1956)

Echo, Wow and Flutter, 2000

Leaves, pills, photocollage, acrylic, resin on wood panel ; 84 × 120 in. (213.36 × 304.8 cm). Courtesy James Cohan, New York © Fred Tomaselli

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Guru Dragpo, Distemper on cotton, Tibet
Guru Dragpo
Tibet
18th century