I mentioned Woody Guthrie in yesterday’s post and it reminded me of a musical release that is coming out in the next month. It is the release of Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions from Billy Bragg and Wilco, which incorporates the remastered first two volumes from the original 1998 release with a new volume of 17 [...]
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Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
Posted in Favorite Things, Music, Video, tagged Billy Bragg, Brooklyn, Mermaid Avenue, Wilco, Woody Guthrie on March 29, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The Chapel
Posted in Architecture, At the Movies, Favorite Things, Video, tagged Architecture, Film, Karl Langhans, Patrick Kizny, Poland, The Chapel, Via Lucis, Video on March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I recently saw a short film called The Chapel which is from filmmaker Patrick Kizny. It is a high-def timelapse film that explores the interior of a decrepit Protestant church in Zeliszów, Poland, designed by architect Karl Langhans and built in 1796-1797. It has obviously been in a horrible state of disrepair for many years but [...]
A Little Eyvind Earle
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, tagged Disney, Eyvind Earle, Influences, The Complete Graphics of Eyvind Earle on March 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I recently picked up the second volume of The Complete Graphics of Eyvind Earle, a 9-pound behemoth of a book featuring the work of the artist who I have written about here once before. It’s an incredible book, full of spectacular imagery and pure color that I find both inspring and humbling. He had a [...]
Rockwell Kent in Greenland
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Quote, tagged Edward Hopper. Rockwell Kent, Greenland on March 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
He draws earth as another might draw the exciting and desirable strong body of a man or woman. His earth is essentially a naked savage earth living out of doors, not so much a cruel and terrifying savage as a wild and free one. –Grant H. Code on the work of Rockwell Kent ************************************************** I’ve [...]
Strange Victory
Posted in Early Paintings, Favorite Things, tagged Dr. Zhivago, Early Paintings, Sara Teasdale on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I woke up very early this morning with many things running through my mind. All sorts of thoughts and imagery crowded my thoughts and I found myself thinking of this painting above, Strange Victory. It was painted many years ago and this is the only image I have of it, a bit more washed [...]
Endless Time Revisited
Posted in Favorite Things, Painting, tagged Dr. Seuss, The Lorax on March 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I don’t want to get into the habit of revisiting past blogposts here, as I did the other day when I reposted a blog on the similarity between a painting of mine and the trees from Dr. Seuss’ Lorax. But there is a painting that I wrote about back in March of 2009 called Endless [...]
The Internal Prisons of Piranesi
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Neat Stuff, tagged Carceri d'invenzione, Giovanni Bauttista Piranesi, MC Escher on March 8, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I consider my landscapes to be internal, which is to say imaginary. Places that represent a place where I wish to be or at least have the feeling of it in my real world. Places that act as refuge from the sometime harshness of the real world. Giovanni Bauttista Piranesi had a much different sort of [...]
Still Seuss-y — A Replay
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, tagged Dr. Seuss, The Lorax on March 6, 2012 | 3 Comments »
With the recent release of The Lorax, an animated film based on the environmentally centered Dr. Seuss book and the continued popularity of his books (I think there are 6 in the top 100 of the NY Times bestsellers list), I thought I would reblog this post from back in August of 2010. Yesterday’s post about [...]
Done!?
Posted in Favorite Things, Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged GC Myers, internal landscape, Landscape, New Painting, Obsessionism, Painting, Red Tree on March 2, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Well, I am finished with the large canvas I started over three weeks ago. It is the largest piece in size I’ve ever attempted by quite a bit at 54″ by 84″ which I often found intimidating at times, as I freely admitted here. But that intimidation and fear faded over the weeks as the painting evolved, [...]
Snapshot
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, tagged George Hendrik Breitner, Kodak, Phillips Collection, Photography, Post-Impressionists, Washington DC on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There’s an exhibition currently hanging at one of my favorite museums, the extremely comfortable Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, called Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard. It bascially shows how the advent of personal photography in the late 1800′s, with the invention of the Kodak handheld camera, changed how many artists worked. The camera [...]
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