We have opened the application process for the 2009 West Prize. Free to apply for anyone over the age of 18 and with works priced below $10,000. We’ve improved the application process so that applicants can go back into their…
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Artist Mark di Suvero Talks with Renzo Piano At The Morgan Library
Artist Mark di Suvero talks with Renzo Piano At The Morgan Library this Wednesday, May 13th at 6:30pm. This is one NYC event not to miss… a talk between one of the worlds greatest Architects, talking with one of the greatest contemporary sculptors at one of NYC best Libraries. Can life it get any better?? Photo of Mark di Suvero amazing sculpture “Beethovan’s Quartet, 2003″ at Storm King. Get your tickets here while they last… or email tickets@themorgan.org Here’s their press release… Le Conversazioni FMR: An Evening with Renzo Piano and Mark di Suvero Renowned architect Renzo Piano (recipient of…
Artist Mark di Suvero Talks with Renzo Piano At The Morgan Library
Artist Mark di Suvero talks with Renzo Piano At The Morgan Library this Wednesday, May 13th at 6:30pm. This is one NYC event not to miss… a talk between one of the worlds greatest Architects, talking with one of the greatest contemporary sculptors at one of NYC best Libraries. Can life it get any better?? Photo of Mark di Suvero amazing sculpture “Beethovan’s Quartet, 2003″ at Storm King. Get your tickets here while they last… or email tickets@themorgan.org Here’s their press release… Le Conversazioni FMR: An Evening with Renzo Piano and Mark di Suvero Renowned architect Renzo Piano (recipient of…
yellow canoe – critique
I had painted the yellow canoe a few weeks ago when the tasks ahead of me looked challenging. I felt that picture gave me energy and courage to face a challenging time in Germany.
In Germany, I was fortunate to get Karl Zipser’s critique on my painting, not the real one …
Travel Photos
Yes, it’s an art blog and doesn’t have much to do with travel, but such is life. I have been ping ponging all over the place lately but I keep forgetting to take my camera with me. I managed to take a few snaps though.
(Click to see larger images)
In a hotel in Canberra I had this trippy ceiling that didn’t let my eye rest. I think as an artist you just let an image take you where it wants to go, but this wallpaper on my ceiling just made me dizzy.
Most trees at home are green all year, so I found these trees interesting. There was something romantic about walking down this path, even if I was alone.. and freezing.
See the parrots in the grass? That’s why they’re called Grass Parrots I guess. I have always loved birds and get pretty excited when I see them in the wild. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Here’s the view from my hotel in Melbourne.
Here’s another view of Melbourne.
One more photo of Melbourne city.
Then I felt like I needed sun and warmth so I jumped in the car and headed North again. I have landed in the commercialized hippy town of Byron Bay. It’s a strange combination of weekend hippies, far out hippies, wealthy retired people, surfers, and BMW driving yuppy types. Along with lots of Germans, Brits, Japanese, Americans, and a number of other nationalities.
Everytime I go to the Byron Bay lighthouse I seem to get wet.
One more Byron Bay photo.
I haven’t decided what I’m doing or where I’m going next, but I check out on Wednesday so I better hurry up and figure it out 
Et in Arcadia ego – Behind The Da Vinci Code and Nicolas Poussin
Happened to flip to the History Channel as it was airing Behind The Da Vinci Code tonight and came across Nicolas Poussin’s painting Et in Arcadia ego
Les Bergers d’Arcadie (Et in Arcadia ego)
Image via Wikipedia
Artist
Nicolas Poussin
Year
1637–1638
Type
oil on canvas
Dimensions
185 cm × 121 cm (72.8 in × 47.6 in)
Displayed
Musée du Louvre
Pretty interesting theories about how Poussin used the 5 pointed star and that [...]
Catchin’ Up With Dan Bergeron
“I just finished installing a project that I have been working on since the new year commissioned by The Royal Ontario Museum and the Contact Photography Festival. The work has all been installed inside the Museum, as part of Housepaint, a larger project more specifically about homelessness and shelter. And for the purposes of working in my usual way and to create a juxtaposition between indoor and outdoor, I have also put the work up illegally in numerous spots around Toronto.
The project is called the Unaddressed and it focuses on the under-housed, giving voice to their personal opinions. Over the course of 3 months I met with 18 individuals who are currently or have recently been homeless. Through meeting, talking about their lives and discussing issues that were important to them, they developed their announcements and created a cardboard sign to reveal them. By photographing homeless and formerly homeless individuals holding cardboard signs that announce their concerns, the hope is challenge preconceived notions of homelessness and make the passers-by realize how serious the situation is and that everybody deserves the same basic necessities of life and to be treated the same way. Basically do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
This was definitely the hardest project that I have worked on in terms of trying to get it right, as you guys like to say. I want the viewer to feel compassion for these individuals and others like them, without feeling pity. I wanted the subjects to feel empowered without being exploited. I wanted the work to have presence in its aesthetic, yet hold true to the fact that these people often blend into the background when they are out in the city.”…. Dan
Vincent van Gogh Poem
I don’t know who wrote this poem as it was left by “Anonymous” on an old Vincent van Gogh Quotes post. The only details he/she left was.. “A friend of mine wrote these words today after we spoke of the life of Van Gogh and the recently published book on his history.”
Anyway, here’s a Vincent inspired poem by “HK”
Hands of colors Dutch
Swirl like a painter’s hand gone mad
Canvas of face and time reflect
Bristles of lead give hues of past
Brushes like swords are in array.
I stand in front of the easel like a jury
Words like paint on white torture my hands and eyes
They taunt me like an old pavement princess
Wanting to believe that the brush is still gold
Music I hear or is that the ringing from glimpses of you
Paint away the now. Paint with colors only seen by angels
Colors that hide and feel like a blanket on a cold day
My stand in a broken seal, trembles with dread
Hoping to cure the demon that makes me paint away the now in me
I taste the colors of your soul. I wish that I could write the words that are
In my soul. Words of color and hope. Words that make the pain stop.
Paint. Paint away the pain.
My canvas is my life, and I give you the colors and brushes of me.
HK
Nicole Danes is a Scammer
I received a few emails and comments left on the art scammers list about Nicole Danes nicodanes@live.com
She/he must be hitting a lot of artists at the moment. So I’m just publishing this post so that her name and/or email address shows up on Google, letting artists know that she is a scammer.
Here’s an example of an email sent by it..
From: Nicole Danes <nicodanes@live.com>
Date: May 7, 2009 10:45:58 AM EDT
To:
Subject: artworks purchase
Good day to you.
I am so excited that I came across of your work on internet search,I am interested in purchasing these creative artworks from you…………………
Construct Series 7,Construct Series 1,Slab,juncture and evanesce
Let me know their various prices.and how much discounts are you going to give?I will be happy to have these selected artworks hanged in our new home in South Africa. As well, I want you to take out the shipping cost.I have been in touch with a shipping firm that will be shipping other house decoratives.
We are traveling from our Dallas home to our new apartment as soon as possible.On Paying for the artworks,I will be glad to pay you with a Money Order or Cashier`s check in US funds that can be easily cashed at your local bank,please let me know on how to proceed for the payment of the creative artworks.
I will await your advise on how to proceed.Have a wonderful day.
Take care,
Nicole Danes