draw or DIE

THEORY
The figure/ground and form/facture/ “Post-Feminism”/the photographic/ abstraction and more creative copying
Reading: Painting Today: ch’s on Abstraction, Photographic, and  Post-Feminism; PDF:Shutz-Sillman interview
Podcast/Video:  TJ Clark on Rembrandt  (Links to an external site.for Thursday’s studio workshop) Continue reading

THEORY
The figure/ground and form/atmospheric perspective/paint as skin/a la prima/the work of art in the age of mechanical reproducibility and the naked and the nude and more creative copying
Reading: Painting Today:  ch’s on The Global Scene,  Western Traditions, and The Figure; PDF: The Creative Copy (for Wednesday)
Podcast/Video: John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1972,  episode 1 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and episode 2 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.  (30 min each); ALS Hanneline Rogeberg (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (1.5 hrs) Continue reading

FIGURE DRAWING WEEK 4

FIGURE DRAWING WEEK 4

PAINTInG COPIES WEEK 4

PAINTING COPIES FROM WEEK 3, STILL LIFE FROM WEEK 3,

SKELETON PAINTING FROM WEEK 4

THEORY

Still life/ Supports/Perspective/Color/Aesthetics

Reading Painting Today: ch’s on Still Life and Life and Death; PDF: Thierry de Duve, Nahum Tevet: Works on Glass p 38-47; PDF: Sillman, Amy, “On Color (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.,”

Podcast/Video: Video recording of Thierry de Duve Links to an external site.Evergreen Art Lecture in 2015 (take notes to keep track of his argument for seminar discussion)


READINGS
In Sillman’s text on color I learned more about paint as physical material along with the kind of relationship a painter might have with paint (along with the disconnect between non-painters and paint).
Of the readings this week, the one that I resonated with most was Thierry De Duve’s essay (but I did not understand his lecture at all).  I thought he had some interesting ideas about the art and objects. This was only a small part of the essay, but I especially liked how he spoke against conclusive answers to the question of what separates art and objects at the beginning.  Simple conclusions (that may not even be true) are disengaging and kill the conversation while asking questions and exploring the unanswerable can expand people’s thinking. Continue reading

Sunday…..

CONTOUR PORTRAITS

PHOTOS: INTENTIONAL + ACCIDENTAL + FOCUS

ART: INTENTIONAL + ACCIDENTAL + FOCUS

SOUNDSCAPE

SEA/SKY COLOR STUDIES

SUNSET+SUNRISE

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