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Category Archives: questions
Crooked Beauty
Posted in art, art issues, Inspiration, poetry, questions
Tagged Ashley McNamara, crooked beauty, Jacks McNamara, Ken Paul Rosenthal, mad pride, mental health, the icarus project, Youtube
An embrace
Another small (8″ x8″) work in progress. This one is about 50% complete- I think.
I’m supposed to be finishing these pieces for presentation at festive holiday art markets. Will they be salable with the cheerful Christmas crowd? God only knows. They are coming out just as they please, though. Never been great at channeling lucre.
Posted in art, art issues, contemporary art, fine art, new art, painting, questions
Tagged breathless, embrace, holiday art markets, not selling art, selling art, thanatos
10-10-10
“One must imagine Sysiphus happy.”
-Albert Camus
Posted in art, contemporary art, Denver, fine art, new art, printmaking, questions
Tagged Camus, monotype, Sysiphus, the only philosophical question that matters
The Lady or the Tiger
Oil on canvas, 8″ x 8″.
Posted in art, contemporary art, fine art, new art, painting, questions
Tagged The Lady or the Tiger?
Scampy Shrimp
Oil on canvas, 6″x6″.
Posted in art, contemporary art, fine art, new art, painting, questions
Tagged scamp, shrimp, shrimp scampi
Driving the Bears to Drink
Ken Smith brought this Flaubert quote to my attention (Thanks, Ken!):
“Language is a drum on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the while we wish to move the stars to pity.”
I feel this way about paint, lately. Sometimes I am happy enough to beat out that tune for bears to dance to-
and sometimes I fear that I’m beating out thin dirges that would drive the bears back into the woods.
It is very hot and there are bugs everywhere. But- the crickets have started singing already in the evenings. A pleasant noise.
Physical exhaustion for no reason. Seven months without a cigarette.
The world has lost Chris Al-Aswad, who I knew only from his vivid presence on the internet, much too soon.
Escape into Life, the arts site he created, is truly wonderful.
Posted in art, art issues, Inspiration, questions
Tagged bears, bugs, chris al-aswad, crickets, depression, devendra banhart, exhaustion, flaubert, lethe bashar, the body breaks
Face Blindness
I never would have guessed that artist Chuck Close, known for his enormous portraits of friends, suffers from prosopagnosia- “face blindness.”
Audio of fascinating conversation available here.
Posted in art, art issues, contemporary art, fine art, questions
Tagged audio, chuck close, face blindness, oliver sacks, portraits, prosopagnosia, radiolab, world science festival
Mercy
It is too hot to think clearly.
My Iweb, website designing software for the know-nothing, has stopped working completely. Everything, apparently, is corrupted and I don’t know how to fix it. I know only that I know nothing.
I am also experimenting with Lumina air dry clay and enjoying the hell out of this show when I can catch it online in this cable-free house.
The premise of “Work of Art” (that there are clear winners and losers in this life of art-making) is frustrating and I roll my eyes and talk back at the screen a lot but, still… artists- people making completely impractical things- on a mainstream reality tv show that is gaining in popularity!
I don’t know why that makes me feel better, but it does. The show is interesting and brings me back to the days of classroom critiques.
Jerry Saltz writes thoughtful recaps of the episodes, which are almost better than the shows themselves.
Posted in art, art issues, contemporary art, fine art, questions
Tagged Bravo TV, computer illiteracy, Heat Wave, hot, Iweb, Iweb disasters, Jerry Saltz, Lumina Air Dry Clay, Martha and the Vandellas, Reality TV, summer, sweat, Work of Art
Fresh Spam
In today’s inbox. Title line cheered me considerably:
HELLO MY FRIEND CONTACT REV BENSON SMACK AT ONCE FOR YOUR MONEY
Silencio
Silence is golden. Too often I forget this.
Paint Fumes 