I painted all afternoon and well into this evening. Did a life study using my iPhone and worked on a large oil pastel I call “Butterfly”. I think my Buterfly is not done yet.
Archive | January, 2009
Abstract
This is an abstract I have been working on for the last week or two, on my iPhone, using the Colors application.
Did something a little different here, can you guess what?
reinvent your childhood
Suppose you grew up in a place that was ravaged with destruction, imagined, imaginary or real, where would you subsequently gravitate?
Actual destruction, I only experienced in utero as my hometown was bombed. Unlike the messy warfare in Iraq, Afganistan or Gaza, there was clean, industrial-like destruction. As bombers came …
Bonnard’s late Interiors At The Metropolitan
I went to Bonnard Exhibition at the Met tonight with a friend; fantastic show that I will return to many times in the next few months.
Here’d 2 photos I took. The Self Portrait reminds me of one of mine.
MAO Interviewed.. Twice.. about the Art Market Recession…
MAO Interviewed.. twice.. about the Art Market Recession… That’s right my little MAO-ettes.. when MAO talks… people run for cover listen. In these tough economic times.. everyone is whining about asking the same questions.. Will the Art Market Crash? Will Every Chelsea Art Gallery Close? Why wont the Government Bail out the Art World? Is now a good time to add to or dump sell my collection? Clearly no one knows where the art world is going.. (Photo by Jill Greenberg, Revelations, 2005, Archival pigment print, 50 x 43 inches) But yesterday.. posted on Hrag Vartanian’s blog (as well as…
A Shepard Fairey Primer From USA Network
Among the accolades Shepard Fairey has been receiving recently is “Character Approved” a new award from USA Network that honors leading innovators who are shaping American Culture.
For the awards, Henry Alex Rubin (the director of Murderball) has put together a fantastic five minute vignette about Shepard that is, for us, one of the most informative “Shepard Fairey 101′s” we’ve yet seen.
Ever wonder why Shepard uses only red and black in his images?
Watch the video.
In addition to Shepard, USA Network is also honoring Lupe Fiasco, Shepard Fairey, David Chang, Patrick Robinson, Charles Best, Jimmy Wales and Jennifer Siegal. Click here to watch the rest of the videos. They’re all terrific.
And the winner is…
If there was a competition category for ‘The best painted wall in town for the past eight years’ (a bit unlikely I admit) then there would only be one clear winner – Cargo in Rivington Street, Shoreditch. During that time it’s played host to a multitude of graffiti writers from all over the planet. Sandwiched between its legendary pieces – Banksy‘s ‘Authorised Graffiti Area’ and ‘Nipper With Bazooka’ (my title) – are several walls that have played host to the likes of Shepard Fairey, Adam Neate, Dface, Herakut and Pure Evil. Currently they’re rocking work from C215, Bruno Leyval and Run. There’s a very neat video of the Run install here.
Bruno Leyval
C215
Oi!
So this wall originally had work on it by Dave The Chimp, Mighty Mo and I think Elmo. It was then painted over by Sam3 with a huge feline. Whatever, I’m not getting into an argument on the rights and wrongs of going over. Its always been part of the game and always will be.
Anyway these two latest additions are obviously interracting with the Sam3 piece. The baked bean on the left doesn’t need a speech bubble to convey his feelings! It wasn’t actually done by Dave The Chimp, just in his style. It made me chuckle. And when you’ve spent a sodden wet Friday trudging around that can only be a good thing.
Rush to the exit
It may be safe to say that the news of the closing of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis has brought the panic barometer up a notch in the museum world. While the Rose’s news is particularly shocking, parallel announcements are also dropping jaws: word came yesterday, for example, that …
Sparks of Life
“I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. … By the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.”1 Thus the magic moment in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) when the creature is brought to life by what is usually considered (though Shelley does not say so outright) the infusion of an electric “spark of being” into a constructed body. Shelley’s story emerged amid heated disputes among London physicians over the nature of life itself. Against the view of mechanists and materialists, who argued life could be reduced to the complex organization of physiology, vitalists asserted that some other force or spirit must be superadded to bodies to achieve living animation. Vitalist John Abernethy thus declared, “The phaenomena of electricity and of life correspond.”2