This is a small piece that I used here last year in a blogpost featuring Richard Thompson’s song Shoot Out the Lights. I showed this piece but didn’t say anything about it which I think was an oversight because it is one of my personal favorites from this particular series. It’s called Two Sides and is [...]
Archive for the ‘Influences’ Category
Roger Brown’s Rhythms
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Neat Stuff, tagged Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Imagists, Comic Book Art, Primitives, Roger Brown, Surrealism on February 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I was looking up something totally unrelated to his work when I stumbled across the paintings of Roger Brown, a painter who was one of the group of Chicago Imagists, an informal school of art in the late 1960′s that had it roots in comic book art, Surrealism and Primitivism. The work was highly individual [...]
Some Good Advice
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Quote, tagged Chuck Close, Phillip Glass on February 5, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been a fan of the work of Chuck Close for some time, admiring the grand scale that much of his work assumes as well as his evolution as an artist, especially given his challenges after a spinal artery collapse left him paralyzed from the neck down in 1988. He regained slight use of his [...]
The First Modernist?
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Neat Stuff, tagged Grant Wood, Thomas Chambers, Thomas Cole, Thomas Hart Benton, William Matthew Prior on January 31, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Once again, I came across a painter from the past of which I knew absolutely nothing. That is nothing new but when I first saw these paintings I was shocked he was unknown to not only me but to most other people as well. Actually, his biography is pretty thin in content but the sheer [...]
The Coney Island Coaster of David Levine
Posted in Biographical, Favorite Things, Influences, tagged Coney Island, David Levine on January 23, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I’ve written here before about the work of David Levine, the late artist best known for his wonderful caricatures of public figures and politicos that graced many magazines for several decades, writing once about a caricature of composer Richard Wagner and another time about a painting of a pig’s head . Despite his fame as a pen-and-ink caricaturist, Levine [...]
The First?
Posted in Influences, Neat Stuff, Technique/History, tagged Asher Durand, Carolyn Bennett, Catskill Mountain Foundation, Catskills, Greene County, Levi L. Hill, Luminous Lint on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I was rummaging around in one of my favorite sites, Luminous Lint, looking for something that would somehow sum up the world of Kodak and Kodachrome film on this day when they file for bankruptcy, the end of an era. As I flipped through the photos this image caught my eye. There was a blaze of green that lit [...]
Tiffany’s Magnolias
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Technique/History, tagged Brooklyn, Louis Comfort Tiffany on January 13, 2012 | 2 Comments »
In a post from a few days ago and several times before, I have mentioned the stained glass windows that came from the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany in the early part of the 20th century. They have been a large influence on my work over the years, from their use of complex color harmonies to [...]
Beauford Delaney’s Greenwich Village
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, tagged Beauford Delaney, Georgia O'Keefe, Harlem Renaissance, Vincent Van Gogh on January 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I was looking through a book of American Expressionist paintings and came across this piece that completely pulled me in. It was a scene of Greenwich Village in the 1940′s painted in spectacular fashion by Beauford Delaney, a name with which I wasn’t too familiar. Looking at it, there was so much going on in [...]
Early Piece, Early Voice
Posted in Biographical, Early Paintings, Influences, Technique/History, tagged Early Paintings on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I think I’ve mentioned here that there is some of my early work where my documentation is a bit sketchy. There is a handful of pieces of which I have no images, which bothers me a bit now. The rest of the work from that time is from iffy slides, photos and simple photocopies where the work [...]
Leyendecker’s New Year’s Covers
Posted in Influences, Neat Stuff, tagged Arrow Collar Man, J.C Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell, Saturday Evening Post on December 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As we end this year, 2011, I thought I’d take a minute and show a few of the Saturday Evening Post covers from the first half of the 20th century that celebrate the new year, all created by the great illustrator J.C Leyendecker. Leyendecker is credited with popularizing the notion of the New Year being embodied as a [...]
