I came across a photo recently and it really pulled me in immediately with an almost mystical appeal. It’s an image of an iceberg taken under a midnight sun by during one of the great Antarctic expeditions of the early part of the 20th century. The photographer was Frank Hurley and doing a quick search revealed [...]
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Frank Hurley’s Photos
Posted in Favorite Things, Photography, tagged Antarctica, Frank Hurley, Mawson's Will, Memorial Day, World War I on May 27, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Almost Blue
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Music, Painting, Recent Paintings, Video, tagged Chet Baker, Diana Krall, Elvis Costello, Principle Gallery on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A new painting that is headed for my upcoming show , A Place to Stand, at the Principle Gallery , opening June 8. This is a 12″ by 36″ canvas that carries the title Almost Blue, a title taken from the great Elvis Costello song. I often talk about the color blue as being addictive, about how difficult it is [...]
He Appears To Be An Artist/ Redux
Posted in Biographical, Favorite Things, Opinion, tagged Asheville NC, Haen Gallery, Popeye, Salvador Dali on May 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been running a few of my favorite posts from the past recently as I’ve been very busy in the studio. This one from back in December of 2008 speaks a bit about our perceptions of an artist and how these views might affect the way we see their work. In the comments from the [...]
Black Crow
Posted in Favorite Things, Music, tagged Black Crow, Diana Krall, Joni Mitchell on May 13, 2012 | 4 Comments »
One of the benefits of having my studio located in the woods is the opportunity to watch the wildlife from a fairly close perspective. I have known all manner of animals over the years, from the mother raccoon and her kits that took up residence for a short time in the roof of my first, more [...]
The Photoallegory of Sarolta Ban
Posted in Favorite Things, Neat Stuff, Photography, tagged Budapest Hungary, Digital Manipulation, Photography, Robert and Shana Parkeharrison, Sarolta Ban, The Architect's Brother on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I came across some very interesting allegorical photos on the PhotoBotos.com site. They are the work of a young photographer from Budapest, Hungary by the name of Sarolta Ban, who digitally manipulates images of basically everyday items into thought-provoking scenes. Her work reminds me very much, in tone and substance, to that of Robert and Shana [...]
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Posted in Favorite Things, Music, Video, tagged Johnny Cash, Paul and Mary, Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger, Peter, Roberta Flack, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face on April 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Most people immediately think of Roberta Flack when they think of the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, and for good reason. Her 1972 version was truly beautiful and deserved every bit of the acclaim it earned. But the song didn’t originate with her and has had many versions through the years, [...]
The Art Brut of Adolf Wolfli
Posted in Favorite Things, Folk Art, Outsider Art, tagged Adolf Wolfli, Art Brut, Bern Switzerland, Martin Ramirez, Outsider Art on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written here before about some of my favorite Outsider artists, those untrained artists who follow their obsessive need for expression even as they suffer hardships such as illness, extreme poverty and mental disabilities. People like Martin Ramirez, the Mexican-born artist who was committed to an asylum in his thirties and spent the rest of his [...]
Down in Mexico
Posted in Favorite Things, Music, Video, tagged Lieber and Stoller, The Coasters on April 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A young friend of mine posted this video online yesterday. It’s a song that I haven’t heard in many years, Down in Mexico from The Coasters in 1956. This was their first single and was a mild hit although ost people remember The Coasters for the string of hits that followed, all written , like Down in [...]
Amiel’s Journal Intime
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Quote, tagged Henri-Frederic Amiel, Journal Intime, Project Gutenberg, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on April 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. **************** One of the great things about the cyberworld is the ability to find the work, either in image or words, of those people that might easily go unnoticed in the past. You can [...]
The Evolution of Stuart Davis
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, tagged American Modernism, Armory Show, Ashcan School, Modernism, Picasso, Pop Art, Robert Henri, Stuart Davis, Tioga Pennsylvania, Van Gogh on April 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Many of us are familiar with the work of Stuart Davis (1892- 1964), the American Modernist whose paintings presaged the Pop Art of the 60′s. They were bold and colorful abstracted collages that use imagery from the landscape of the popular culture at the time they were created, creating works that immediately evoke a time. [...]
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