Category: painting

Abstract art

  • November 9, 2024
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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 […]

Best books: Working Space

  • May 6, 2024
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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

  • June 26, 2020
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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

  • September 30, 2015
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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

  • September 6, 2015
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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 […]

Brice Marden talks about painting

  • March 5, 2011
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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 […]

Sell everything.

  • February 12, 2011
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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 […]