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New Project

05
Sep 2009
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Greetings,
In light of this Labor Day Weekend, I have decided to begin a new labor, another project.
I want to create a series of paintings that have a common theme, I am going to be working with portraiture, which is something that I have little experience with. So far I want there to be a common theme running throughout the paintings. I want to do a study of facial expressions of wonder, amazement, delight, thoughtfulness, and/or contemplation.
I have a few photographs that I will be working with; here they are. I am in the very beginning stages of brainstorming, thus be not quick to judge. Also, Misko is not going to be in every one, he just happened to be in some of the ones I chose. If you have a good photograph, I would love to see it! I will begin sketching out some of these, and then begin to do oil paintings of them.
Also, at the bottom is a “Josh Neu Face” by Joe Amorella from our 2006 Greece Trip.




Category: Art, Misko, Painting, Wonder  Leave a Comment

01
Sep 2009
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I noticed about this comic strip:
There is art within a comic (comics are somewhat related to art); I call that Art within an Art.
Both the painting and the Comic are non-representational, but one is mocking the other for its
non-understandability (I’m thinking of a word that rhymes with pie-rony).
The painting is a surprisingly good example of analogous and complementary color schemes.
The emotion of the painting is somewhat related to the emotion evoked by laughter. I feel myself tickled and squeezed a bit by the comic and the paining in the same manner.
Oh yeah, and I didn’t go to Art School…per se…
The man(?)/ogre standing to the right of the painting is strangely floating. Notice that he has no cast-shadow. By the absence of a shadow I can only gather that he is either a strange ghost dwarf-manchild, or a floating jellobaby. Floating things and ghosts don’t usually have distinct shadows like normal people on the ground.
To whom do the words in the comic belong (there is no speech bubble)? Is it the jello-dwarf-manbaby? Or is it the omniscient narrator?

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Category: Art, Comics, Modern Art, Post-Modernity  2 Comments

Response to "Typical Anne"

25
Aug 2009
By

I want to respond to Mr. Kane’s most recent post by posting something that has nothing to do with anything he said.

Here are two quotes, by two dissimilar poets: John Donne and ee cummings. The quotes are about philosophy vs. poetry and wonder.
“[T]he clarity of literal language satisfies the intellect by giving knowledge, while the obscurity of figurative language stimulates the intellect to search further by causing wonder.”
-Donne, John. Devotions

“not for philosophy does this rose give a damn”
-cummings, ee. voices to voices, lip to lip
Category: ee cummings, John Donne, Philosophy, Poetry, Wonder  One Comment
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