Celebrity theory 101
When The Art Bubble Bursts Into A Splash by Elizabeth Currid
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You read Us Weekly for the articles. You can’t help but be interested in what Lindsay Lohan snorted, ran her car into or slept with this week. But, you went to college, you read the [...]
Archive for October, 2008
When The Art Bubble Bursts Into A Splash
Posted in Art and Money on October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
automatism with a heavy filter
Posted in Just Stuff on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
8:11 AM 7/16/2008 [original draft]
automatism with a heavy filter
also see the artist as a filter
My definitions of automatism and how I use it:
Automatism as a “pure” process in art making is virtually impossible to achieve. An artists process involves making history and life history and it is impossible to eliminate this history from a person’s [...]
diversity discussion, again!
Posted in Just Stuff on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
8:52 AM 5/16/2008 [original draft]
diversity discussion, again!
my art work is like handwriting; all from the same hand, just different content. There are distinguishing identity marks embedded. Sometimes they aren’t readily apparent. Even when I use a particular artist as a filter or aid, the final results come close to the originator, sometimes, but most often [...]
painting-as-process
Posted in Just Stuff on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
2:40 PM 5/11/2008 [original draft]
painting-as-process
Concept: The process, techniques, and materials, and design, and everything else painting is the subject, content, meaning, raison d’etre defining painting and its message/s communicated, real or otherwise. In many ways it [concept] has always been this way for painting save for the illustrators who work exclusively with word-to-painting translations whether [...]
Size does matter
Posted in Just Stuff on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
10:14 AM 3/24/2008 [original draft]
Size does matter
1) If it weren’t for the bad economy for the past 4 years (for me) and who knows how long for others in my situation (artists/painters), I never would have started working on small wood blocks. Another influence on me to turn to painting on wood, recent retro of [...]