I like these, and most of his work. There is a sense of line texture and colour that I like. His smoothing of the world and boldness. It is these qualities I seek in my work.
Grant Hanna
iPad Art
Went to the apple store in San Francisco today and heard iPad artists talk about their medium. I particularly liked the work of hgberk in flckr There is also a show on in San Francisco I might try to get there next Tuesday.
Future/Canvas – the emerging medium of ipad art:
It has been just over a year since the release of the iPad and already it has inspired an exciting new world of digital art. Artists and programmers are using the iPad as a digital canvas and are creating radical new artwork that pushes the bounds of imagination. Future/Canvas showcases a variety of different artistic pursuits involving the iPad from interactive art to photography to painting. Taking place during the Apple World Wide Developer Conference, this is a must-stop destination for iPad enthusiasts who are interested in art. The original Future/Canvas was the first ever multiple-artist iPad art show held in December 2010 at The Box Factory in San Francisco. Our goals is to encourage the creation of iPad art by bringing together the diverse range of people necessary to create it in an environment that demonstrates the possibilities of the medium.
Constantin Brâncusi birthday
Saturday, February 19, 2011
found this as the Google doodle today.
Have seen images of some these items but not known the artist at all: Constantin Brâncu?i Wikipedia
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Later: How do I get the s right in his name?
Great little portraits
Wonderful use of the tools by Eric Molinsky New York
Thursday, October 21, 2010 R Train.
Abstract Expressionist Women
Feature image: Joan Mitchell, Cross Section of a Bridge, 1951, oil on canvas, 79 3⁄4 × 119 3⁄4″. © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
Postage Stamps, Abstract Expressionism and Joan Mitchell:
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The ten artists included in the stamp series are Hans Hoffman, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Joan Mitchell. Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) is the only woman in the group, though her contemporaries Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner certainly could have found their way to abstract stamp glory as well. Joan Mitchell, however, is a great choice, a unique talent and appealing conversationalist as transcribed here in a 1986 interview with Linda Nochlin. Joan was born in Chicago, went East to Smith College and while there watched Rufino Tamayo paint a fresco in the art library; she returned to Chicago to study at the Art Institute, sojourned to New York then traveled to Mexico and Paris, Cuba and Haiti, then back to New York, though France would eventually become her home base.
Joan Mitchell – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was a ‘Second Generation’ Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era’s few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. Her paintings and editioned prints can be seen in major museums and collections across America and Europe.
Another article on Joan Mitchel:
https://www.artforum.com/print/202102/molly-warnock-on-the-art-of-joan-mitchell-85006
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Charlotte Park: Abstract Expresionist Paintings, 1950-63 – Hamptons.com:
Charlotte Park: Abstract Expresionist Paintings, 1950-63 — By Exhibition May 25 – June 26, 2006
Charlotte Park
Untitled, ca. 1951
Oil and gouache on muslin, 22 x 30 inches
Signed lower right: C. Park(dead Link to the painting.)
Spanierman Gallery, LLC is pleased to present Charlotte Park: Abstract Expresionist Paintings, 1950-63. Curated by the noted art critic and scholar Ronny Cohen, this exhibition presents the most extensive survey of the Abstract Expressionist art of Park to date, featuring her paintings and drawings from the 1950s through the early 1960s. Many of the works have rarely or never been on view, providing new ways of considering the artist and her oeuvre. A brochure by Cohen discussing Park, her work, and her relationship within the context of the Abstract Expressionist movement accompanies the exhibition.
Park’s dynamic all-over style of composition, with its rich repertory of abstract shapes and bold imaginings, made its appearance in the early 1950s. From the beginning she put her own personal stamp on Abstract Expressionism, demonstrating through her art how profoundly well she understood the character of the movement and its means for reshaping reality and for discovering the essence of form and content. The irregular shapes appearing initially in Park’s works have as a general antecedent, the animated forms in the emergent Abstract Expressionist paintings of the late 1940s, such as those of Mark Rothko. Eventually Park evolved these shapes into a central feature of her painterly vocabulary, and the paintings in gouache that she created in the mid-1950s, in which references to nature on eastern Long Island appear, are revealing of the emblematic kinds of meaning with which she endowed her art. The wavy lines and twisty organic shapes in her works can be seen as the marks of a lively and commanding gestural hand, while the way that these forms sweep across the brilliant surfaces of a number of her gouaches of the mid-1950s can also be taken as the fascinatingly reductive signs of the ocean, bay, and countryside of Long Island.
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Later
Tuesday, 07 September 2021
Untitled, ca. 1959
Oil and oil crayon on canvas
30 1/4 × 30 1/4 in
76.8 × 76.8 cm
Chagall
New painting by Chagall. Just listened to the BBC program interview. Love these insights & stories.
Art?
This is an image of Edgar Degas.
It began as a self portrait. Was captured in a movie and then I snapped it off the TV – made this using an iphone ap. But is it art? Anyway, I like it.
Rembrant!
Got this via Louvre iPhone app. Cropped. Wonderful!
More Comic Art
This is from “Where Grows the Bitter Herb” by Ben Powis