Helen Frankenthaler Talking about abstract painting, and attitudes towards it in general, countering some things I’ve heard said many times over the years, sometimes about my own work. Modern painting is easy to relate to […]
Category: painting
Best books: Working Space
Here’s an old favorite, by the painter Frank Stella, who died this week: Working Space— you can read it online at that link. It’s pretty dense, but there’s a lot to learn about art in it. […]
Painting is a psychological game
I’m a painter as well as a musician— I work in what’s generally called an abstract expressionist style. I’m not making pictures of things, I’m painting until I have something that looks like a painting. […]
Painting again
It looks like we’ll be seeing a small shift in emphasis, here, as I’ve set up a studio, and am painting again after about a ten year hiatus— plus another few years when I was […]
Milton Resnick
The painter Milton Resnick (1917-2004) was one of the first generation of New York Abstract-Expressionist painters— a contemporary of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, and the rest— and the longest-lived of […]
VOQOTD: Joan Miró
In the beginning, it’s a direct thing. It’s the material that decides. I prepare the ground-by cleaning my brushes on the canvas, for example. Spilling a little turpentine can also work quite well. If it’s […]
Brice Marden talks about painting
Here are some excellent YouTube clips of one of my favorite current painters, Brice Marden. The comments are entertaining- people are affronted when you talk about art as if it matters. To weed out the […]
Know your paint: Prussian blue
I have no idea what got me thinking about this, as I haven’t been painting recently, but it’s my blog so what the hell: Prussian blue is an earthy, ferric-looking blue that reminds me of […]
Sell everything.
Brilliant. Why raise taxes a few hundredths of a percent this year, when you can plunder your cultural heritage, then be forced to raise them in a few years, after you blow through all the […]
Erased De Kooning
Believe it or not, this work came up on a drumming forum. Admittedly, I was the guy who brought it up, but it was in response to this quote from GK Chesterton, posted by someone […]