tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18532574152069624112011-10-22T16:23:20.769-04:00impression n. 1. An effect, feeling, or image retained as a consequence of experience. 2. An initial or single coat of color or paint.Margaretnoreply@blogger.comBlogger891100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-411946240701574702011-09-16T20:38:00.009-04:002011-09-16T21:10:35.929-04:00

These images are from an installation by Dragana Crnjak in a show at the main Herron art gallery @ IUPUI in Indianapolis, IN. These images are done in acrylic and charcoal. The marks in charcoal seem to have shadows underneath as the charcoal dust fall, which gives them an implied dimension while the others marks are flat. There is an interesting play of space involved. Before I had more clues as

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I saw these photos of snakes by Guido Mocafico while I was browsing on the National Geographic site: Naja samarensisWestern green mambas - Dendroaspis viridisCopperheads - Agkistrodon contortrixRhynchophis boulengeri - Rhinoceros rat snakes Epicrates cenchria cenchria Apodora papuana

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Leonora Carrington, surrealist artist, has died at the age of 94 in Mexico"She was the last great living surrealist," her friend, poet Homero Aridjis said. "She was a living legend.""She was famed for haunting, dreamlike works focusing on strange ritual-like scenes with birds, cats, unicorn-like creatures and other animals."She was born in Lancashire, England, in 1917 - her family was in the

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Image from Stan Yake's Biography, Toshiko Takaezu, The Earth In BloomToshiko Takaezu has died - she has been one of my favorite artists since I've known about her - 30 years or so. She was 88.She is mostly known for her ceramics - enclosed or nearly enclosed cylinders and spherical shapes with expressionistic glazes. I remember going to a show of hers at the American Craft Museum when it was by

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I went to the January show at the Halcyon in Terre Haute the other day. Upon walking into the foyer area, one encounters Christy Brinkman's hot glue creations. The dark grey-blue wall shows them off most effectively. The light, whitish translucent quality suggests snowflakes, but the shapes seem more like mold, or coral, or some life form yet unseen.I have seen Ms. Brinkman working on these. It's

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I noticed that Cao Fei had been considered for a big art award - so I looked her up. She was born, lives and works in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province,China. She has been in the Venice Biennale, the Taipei Biennial, the Moscow Biennale, the Fukuoka Triennale . She wants to be a bridge between art and pop culture. She works in video, performance, photography, installation and net.art.RMB City 5, 2008

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Working At Home (1969)From the New York Times:Sylvia Sleigh, the British-born artist who put a feminist spin on portrait painting, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 94."Ms. Sleigh, who came to prominence as part of the surging feminist art movement of the 1970s, turned traditional portraiture on its head by presenting the male nude posed as a reclining Venus or odalisque, although

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I was surfing along and came across this at the Villiage Voice:Sarah Sze's Return of the RealThe sculptor conjures a low-budget cosmos. By Christian Viveros-FaunéStuck between a recession and a recovery, the art world is predictably game for eating and hoarding cake, too. A perfect example of the current cupidity is Dan Colen's windily hyped exhibition at Larry Gagosian's big tent......Other

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Last evening I watched the movie, Séraphine. The movie is about Séraphine Louis, known as "Séraphine de Senlis"(1864–1942), a French artist who was mostly supporting herself by cleaning, and who was also passionate about painting. She felt she had a divine inspiration. She was self-taught and painted in "modern primitive" style.In the movie, Wilhelm Unde moves into a house that Séraphine had been

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Arahmaiani's Artist Statement:To be a feminist means one must face formidable challenges from the conservatives and the fundamentalists. Conflict happens because the religious conservatives and fundamentalists don’t want to loose the legitimacy of their power! And the second challenge is the impact of globalization, where the woman and her body tend to be exploited. Her body may be bought and

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____________Gillian Ayres______________________Therese OultonGillian Ayres and Therese Oulton are British painters who paint rather expressively. Gillian Ayres was born in 1930 - her paintings reflect more the influence of Abstract Expressionism - she started out being inspired by Jackson Pollock. Therese Oulton was born in 1953 and her work is more neo-expressionist along the lines of Anselm

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Judy Chicago created art with content and meaning at a time when content and meaning were being scorned. It's no surprise to me that the art with content and meaning is the more survivable. In retrospect it's nice to have some idea what people were thinking in a certain time.In the 70s - when the historically disenfranchised were finding and creating unique modes of expression - the mainstream

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Prior to the 60s, women were advised to divorce art from female experience and self-awareness. During the 60s, various artists were breaking out from these restraints. Marisol, Eva Hesse, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar. Other artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel and Frida Kahlo finally started getting the attention they long deserved. Ana Mendieta (American, born Cuba 1948–

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Mercedes Matter - 1934Mercedes Matter (1913-2001) was one of the founding members (at age 23 as Jeanne Carles) of American Abstract Artists in 1936. Other founding members included: Josef Albers and David Smith. Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Louise Nevelson joined later, as did many other well-known abstract artists.She got work with the WPA, dated Arshile Gorky (when he was still a

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I have toyed with surrealism some. I like the opportunity to express ideas and emotions that could not be similarly expressed in pure abstraction or pure realism. From what I've read of the surrealist movement, however, it was dominated by misogynistic males. I saw a show in Copenhagen (2009) that was the most anti-female art that I have ever seen in a museum. It gave me the creeps.It is

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Ceramic shapes in a Japanese Gallery in Chelsea.__________________These are from various galleries in Chelsea - June 2010. I especially liked to see the abstract textured paintings - some of which suggested landscapes. There were, interestingly, a lot of drips... and expressionism.

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"The Death of Nature" is a book by Carolyn Merchant (1980).The book is about people turning toward a mechanistic view of nature - esp. in the 1600s. The founding of the microscope was one element. People gaining more of an understanding of how nature works. Prior to the microscope - the general idea in the West was that in reproduction women contributed matter, while men (supposedly being

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a few paintings these photographs were very interesting - flattened skin - rather changes the way you might think of bodies... sculptural ceramics ............................an installation

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____________________________I listened to Sherwin Nuland's book about Leonardo on my way home from visiting out east. I noticed that Chris Nickson had blogged about it by trying to find one of Da VInci's quotes I had heard:“Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses not his understanding but his memory.”“Those who study the ancients and not the works of Nature are stepsons and not sons

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I think this is a good article. It's interesting the difference about heightened use of visual cortices and the shutting down of visual cortices to allow other ideas to flow. And that “openness to experience,” is associated with creativity and corresponds with slower nerve traffic. And of course - there is the letting go of the conventional.Charting Creativity: Signposts of a Hazy Territory

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I was reading about Hypatia and came across this:Raphael was commissioned to paint The School of Athens for Pope Julius II. The fresco was to be painted above the philosophical section of the Pope’s personal library. In his original draft, Raphael placed Hypatia in the center, just below the central figures of Plato and Aristotle. The church fathers ordered her removal. Raphael still managed

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Duetto (2007) (2007) (2008)Not suprisingly - Poons liked Mondrian and Barnett Newman when he was making his (moving) dot paintings. And was influenced by music. Didn't know about Pollock at the time. Now his paintings have a more Pollock sense about them - but with some of the same ideas about colors. Via A Sky filled with Shooting StarsFrom his interview with Robert Ayers:When I think back, the

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by Alice WalkerExpect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing largerThan your own small heartOr greater than a star;Tame wild disappointmentWith caress unmoved and coldMake of it a parkaFor your soul.Discover the reason whySo tiny human midgetExists at

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EastPoint-PrinceEdwardIsland (2008)Greenich Beach II-PEI (2008)I noticed the Art of Barry Gealt perhaps 10 years ago or so.He is a professor Emeritus from IU-Bloomington (lives in Owen County, Indiana).I no doubt saw his paintings in a faculty exhibition there. Later I noticed IU's "Friends of Art" was offering a field trip to his studio and I went. I enjoyed seeing several large scale paintings

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During February I went to 2 Symposiums put on by the Feminist Art Project - One in Chicago and one in New Harmony, Indiana.There was an art exhibit in New Harmony at the Contemporary Gallery, associated with the Symposium. It was a juried show - where the criteria was Feminist Art - without a description - so it was left up to one's own interpretation.Some Feminist art - especially as described

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One of the presenters at the Feminist Art Project seminar at the College Art Association's conference in Chicago was Margarita Cabrera. I was very impressed with her work because of the integration of social content/mission and aesthetics.She was born in Mexico and mostly raised in the US - living in Texas and New York City. She moved to El Paso and was motivated by the horrific murders of young

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I like Zeng Fanzhi's landscape paintings.(born 1964, Wuhan, China) Zeng Fanzhi studied oil painting at the Art Academy of Wuhan and lives and works today in Beijing.From a New York Times article about him:"Sometimes I paint with two hands. Sometimes I use two brushes, sometimes four," explained the artist. "With this new technique, I create and yet I destroy. One of the brushes is creating, while

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“From too much love of living,Hope and desire set free,Even the weariest riverWinds somewhere to the sea--“But we have only begunTo love the earth.We have only begunTo imagine the fullness of life.How could we tire of hope?-- so much is in bud.How can desire fail?-- we have only begunto imagine justice and mercy,only begun to envisionhow it might beto live as siblings with beast and flower,not as

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I had seen one of Zhang Huan's Ash Head sculptures at a show at the Hudson Valley Center-Contemporary, in Peekskill, NY called "Origins".I looked him up on the web and found that he also creates drawings with incense ash.I think it's interesting how the materials add to the meaning.

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The MOMA was not designed for the type of crowds that arrived on December 30th, 2009. Where some major museums - esp. in NYC can accommodate large amounts of people waiting in line INSIDE - just trying to pay - this was not the case for the MOMA. The line of people outside was 2 blocks in the cold. And the line just to check coats was 45 minutes. Certainly this building - which was just re-done -

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Tamar KanderI like her use of color and texture. She uses:powdered gesso, cold wax, dry-wall compound, acrylic medium, marble dust and oils, ink, graphite and oil sticks.

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scratching in impermanencewinter clarityIlana Manolson Oil on panelthe wavesundanceharbinger 3big life small pond

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Catastrophe Theory II by Mary Jo BangThe foot goes forward, yes.Yet there are roots. And a giant orbwhich focuses its cyclopic eyeon a moiré morning.When the microcosm is dry—it's earth;wet—it's water.Water, reeds, electric eel: one possibility.Sun, reeds, dust mote and mite: another.Whatever the elements(it's urban/it's pastoral,it's empty/it's open), the theory saysit could always be

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“Hermit Style” (2006). Oil on Linen. Untitled 1994 MonotypeUntitledwatercolor4 x 3.5 in. "Eva Lundsager paints abstracted iconic landscapes whose imagery lingers somewhere between familiar and otherworldly.In small- to medium-sized works, Lundsager uses a complex palette that defines each piece’s distinct atmosphere, from somber browns, deeply saturated cobalt blues and glowing reds, to

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"The artist-duo Steinbrener/Dempf have set up six installations in several enclosures at Schönbrunn zoo - from a sunken car wreck in the rhino pen, railroad tracks in the bison enclosure to toxic waste in the aquarium. The installations are designed to interfere with our notions of idyllic wildlife and question the authenticity of places like zoos which recreate 'natural' environments for animals

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I heard V.S. S. Ramachandran discuss this on UCTV and thought it was interesting. Essentially - many of the compositional techniques artists use are described as having evolutionary/neurological reasons/effects.A clip:There are hundreds of types of art; Classical Greek art, Tibetan art, Khmer art, Chola bronzes, Renaissance art, impressionism, expressionism, cubism, fauvism, abstract art; the

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Some of the highlights of my recent forays over to France, the Netherlands and Denmark...The Nymphéas at Musée de l'Orangerie (by Monet) - one of the best things created by a person, ever. There was also a great collection of art there, in addition.Impression Sunrise and the Berthe Morisot paintings at the Musée Marmottan.The Kandinsky show at the Centre Pompidou.The Camille Claudel sculptures at

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Megan Mullenax & Crystal Vicars-Pugh are ISU MFA painters. They recently had a show at the ISU University Art Gallery.Megan creates scenarios that refer to war and bombs but includes such things as rabbits with blue-tooth devices. She also has prints satirizing some of the fear tactics which have become part of the "war on terror". The world of war is turned on it's head._________________________

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It's always interesting to see what art is coming out of the MFA program at IU. The first image shows paintings by Allyson Smith. She has been working with figurative imagery. I found it interesting the way in which the images faded out, were painted over, etc. ____________________________The next is a more traditional approach. Good painting, color. Figures and interiors. _______________________

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Some groups in Terre Haute got together to commission a permanent sculpture from New York artist, Chakaia Booker. Like most of her recent work, it is made from old tires - transformed into art. I think it's great. ____________________________________I do like some of her looser things, but this piece shows more of her textile background/thinking. I also enjoyed hearing her talk about her work.

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I got to looking into Ikebana and found a gallery with monumental Ikebana "Sogetsu" pieces. They are awesome. I love the Japanese aesthetic. It's exiting to see how the Japanese artists have found a way to mesh their traditions with modernism. These two remind me of what Petah Coyne and others are doing with plants and other things - from the The 85th Sogetsu Ikebana Exhibition at Shinjuku

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Sandy Winters was visiting Indiana State University and while she was there she discussed the new work I have in an exhibit there. She mentioned Petah Coyne - whom I was happy to hear about. It sounds like she is someone I can relate to. ___________________________________________The New York Times has an article with a story about her and fish that reminds me of a story that my husband likes to

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I was painting figures in ink and a model mentioned Marlene Dumas to me. She is from Cape Town - lives in Amsterdam. I noticed that she mostly paints figures. She uses polaroids of friends, magazine images, and film stills, etc. I like the way she makes the looseless in the ink/paint work.SupermodelPassionSelf-portrait/PhotoMarlene Dumas has a show at MOMA through 2/16/09. Measuring Your Own

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BarnaclesSea Fan CoralJellyfish -2Art made from Fishing Line by Melissa Hirsch in Australia. At the Cape GalleryAt the Visual Arts NetworkShe has also made things out of strings of flax fiber. Climate Neutral art. "The pieces I create for galleries are very focussed and time consuming, with the foremost concerns being form, beauty and the environment. In order to engage with others, and for a

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Still Water No Water Every Drop CountsJane Ingram Allen and Marcia Widenor had a show at the Tenri Cultural Institute last May.I especially like Jane's works. She uses handmade paper and wildflowers. She has had art residencies in Taiwan and Tanzania that have informed her work. And she incorporates ecological concerns into what she does.On her website, she describes her work at the Tenri

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I also found Joan Giordano from the list of artists at the Tenri Cultural Institute. I think we must be on a similar wavelength.I'm taking a sculpture class in addition to painting and drawing - and Joan uses some of the materials that I'm interested in - plus has a sense of the natural.From TenriGiordano’s work is part of a continuing series of sculptures that relate to the energies of nature

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These are images of Sylvia Wald's from her "Polymorphs" show from the Tenri Cultural Institute of New York in 2004.Wald has dedicated herself to art making for over sixty years and is considered an American pioneer printmaker and Abstract Expressionist artist. This trailblazer innovated new methods of silk-screening with oil paint instead of ink, during the forties when the genre was still being

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'Lines and Strokes' (1969).I was browsing and noticed that Joan Snyder had won the The MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 2007. That's cool.She often uses materials similar to what I do such as: Acrylic, oil, paper-mache, cloth, herbs, glitter. I expect that her art work has a bit more impact in real life. The dimensionality does not show up much in photos.From the New York Sun on the

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The Boy With Green HairExodus Into SpaceThe False EyelidA friend of mine mentioned this artist - as being his favorite - so I looked him up. Hundertwasser ended up becoming more famous for his architecture. He prefers the organic - so even his floors are undulated. According to the Wikipedia page about him, "The common themes in his work utilised bright colours, organic forms, a reconciliation of

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Recently I have been learning about different women scientists and philosophers. I was looking at a list online and noticed Beatrix Potter on the list. I had not been aware that became a self-taught expert on fungi and lichens. She had worked as a scientific illustrator for Charles McIntosh and then began studying mycology on her own.Algae contain chlorophyll and can photosynthesize glucose from

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-3860123000596350082008-11-22T09:58:00.011-05:002008-11-22T10:45:39.284-05:00

Overpass at Pont Max Juvénal, Aix-en-Provence - designed by Patrick Blanc. Discussed in the Blue is the New Green article in the New York Times about water and green roofs.I love these artistic green spaces. I've done my wildflower gardens and sometimes I have spread the seeds considering how the colors will blend together. I have had truckloads of dirt moved in - but I've never sculpted the

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-66334671180369394622008-10-29T21:33:00.002-04:002008-10-29T21:39:15.120-04:00

It's good to hear about things like this going on in New Orleans...“Prospect.1 New Orleans,” - Biennial opens Nov. 1, up throuhg Jan.18th, showing the work of 81 artists in 20 museums, art centers and public spaces around the city....Billed as the largest exhibition of contemporary art ever held on American soil, the biennial is intended to help restore the cultural vibrancy of a city that

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-44260005512488794782008-09-25T12:11:00.003-04:002008-09-25T12:25:52.952-04:00

Pencils, Toothpicks, Tape, Mylar.I saw the tape installation at the Met.I like how she transforms everyday types of materials - and relates them back to nature.

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-43588637198382779152008-09-25T11:53:00.006-04:002008-09-25T12:27:25.168-04:00

The New California Academy of Sciences looks pretty interesting (by architect Renzo Piano). I especially like the roof - but it does look like an interesting combination of "Modern" with a more earth-based sensibility. A Building That Blooms and Grows, Balancing Nature and Civilization...Mr. Piano’s building is also a blazingly uncynical embrace of the Enlightenment values of truth and reason.

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_________________________________________________Yesterday, Indiana State University hosted a talk by Brian Whisenhunt from the Swope Art Museum about Joseph Cornell - preceeding a showing of the play, "Hotel Cassiopeia". The play was a dreamlike montage of Cornell's life. I think if you didn' know much about art, and Cornell in particular, the play may not make much sense. It might be

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-19480926425228192252008-09-14T11:04:00.016-04:002008-09-14T12:44:09.654-04:00

If you want to break all the rules of the artistic tradition, Duchamp reasoned, why not begin by discarding its most fundamental values: beauty and artisanship. The readymades were Duchamp’s answer to the question, How can one make works of art that are not “of art”?I've been studying aesthetics and I've been noticing how many aestheticians/philosophers of art want to make room in their

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-82357130129989311352008-09-13T21:33:00.003-04:002008-09-13T21:47:08.563-04:00

"PORTRAIT OF A PRIESTESS" Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece.By Joan Breton Connelly.I had noticed a blog about this NYTimes book review - so when I was at Bloomington's IU Art Museum, today, I noticed the women on the Greek Vases and wondered how they fit into all this.The surprising thing is that this is news (what with being 2400 - 2500 years after the fact). More covered up/forgotten

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-23648477480919766992008-09-13T19:55:00.004-04:002008-09-14T12:41:19.367-04:00

I was reading the wiki-bio of E. E. Cummings and found it interersting that he was influenced by Amy Lowell (1874-1925), and imagist poet who was an early adopter of free verse. I hadn't heard of Amy Lowell - so I had to look her up. There are whole books of hers at http://www.gutenberg.org - uncopyrighted works.The Giver of Stars Hold your soul open for my welcoming. Let the quiet of your

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-13914776051747333562008-08-12T21:53:00.002-04:002008-08-24T22:27:24.913-04:00

I visited the St. Louis Art Museum at the end of July. The Anselm Kiefer - Burning Rods - stood out as an especially compelling piece. Finished in 1987 - it was made with "oil, acrylic, emulsion, and shellac on canvas with ceramic, iron, copper wire, and lead" - 130 1/4 in. x 18 ft. 3 in.Seeing that I got to wondering where else there might be paintings of Kiefer's - I noticed that there is a

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-43024471787716787042008-08-09T22:01:00.002-04:002008-09-13T22:20:39.440-04:00

by Anne WilsonMy daughter, Amelia, and I went to this show, Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting, at the Indiana State Museum. It had been put together by The Museum of Arts & Design in Manhatten and was traveling around.There was some really great stuff. Like these shovels which were cut out to look like lace by Cal Lane:The New York Times review was not all that favorable. It didn't like the

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-85427309476619574582008-07-17T14:59:00.004-04:002008-07-17T15:19:56.556-04:00

I really like the idea of Poet Laureates and such. I think our country could use more of this sort of thing. People recognized in that way. Brought to our attention.A clip from the New York TimesKnown for her sly, compact poems that revel in wordplay and internal rhymes, Ms. Ryan has won a carriage full of poetry prizes for her funny and philosophical work, including awards from the Guggenheim

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-31802389941025209272008-07-13T21:07:00.004-04:002008-11-06T22:03:54.475-05:00

July 10thJuneI've painted several paintings of the wildflowers over the last few weeks.The first was when they were mostly Bachelor Buttons. Now the Bachelor Buttons are not very prominent - there are a lot of Black -eyed Susans. A few white and purple Coneflowers. Not as many Cosmos as usual - probably because it's been relatively cool. I left a lot of the daisy fleabane.I haven't been painting

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-75596777991989343582008-06-23T22:07:00.005-04:002008-11-06T22:03:54.800-05:00

"Three Lives Inspire the Portrayal of a Complex Artist"New York Times Review of “Edward Albee’s Occupant” . Play presented by the Signature Theater Company at the Peter Norton Space on West 42nd Street thru July 13th.“This was the first place I came,” Mercedes Ruehl says, looking around the small white pentagonal chapel that Louise Nevelson designed for St. Peter’s Church in Midtown Manhattan...

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-89465113916888680472008-06-21T20:48:00.006-04:002008-11-06T22:03:55.082-05:00

I got to looking through images of Berthe Morisot's paintings and I came across this one, Mother and Sister of the Artist:The way the mother in black has such a strong geometric presence reminded me of Whistler's Mother Arrangement in Grey and Black. Actually - I think that Morisot's "arrangement" seems more interesting - partly because it seems more likely to have happened in real life (she

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-3427817776774805442008-06-19T10:48:00.007-04:002008-11-06T22:03:55.504-05:00

I recently watched the movie Mary Cassatt: A Brush with Independence.The movie emphasized the aspect of feminism in her artwork. Her subject matter of women and babies was meant to elevate women and what women do. I think it does have that effect. Seeing her subjects along with paintings of wars, for instance, in musuems - there is that sense that her subjects are just as important as any

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-61104426683539628822008-05-26T09:48:00.001-04:002008-12-15T09:46:05.602-05:00

Update: I returned in May and painted 3 more paintings________________________ Photo of painting next to Juney-Whank Falls...I had a great week of painting last week (April) in Tennessee at the GSMNP. I had not been down there in mid-April before and it was great to see the masses of Nodding Trilliums, Painted Trilliums, Yellow Trilliums (which I had not seen previously) as well as the other

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-72149620129880555132008-05-17T20:55:00.000-04:002008-11-06T22:03:55.791-05:00

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-39426955106580761472008-05-16T15:05:00.004-04:002008-11-06T22:03:56.130-05:00

'I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop,' he said in an interview on Captiva in 2000. 'At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore.' R.R.He was one of my favorites living artists.

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-10133826782230290642008-05-12T22:29:00.004-04:002008-05-12T22:40:54.341-04:00

Overall - it's been a cool Spring. Easily the slowest Spring I can remember - slow being good.Often the trees and plants start blooming, it heats up to 80something - and it looks like summer in a matter of days. Not this year. It seems like the redbuds have been blooming for a month. Around here the flowers are still on a lot of redbuds but the leaves are also coming out.I noticed that the

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-6941603520838362502008-05-04T08:40:00.003-04:002009-03-12T13:58:07.028-04:00

Moss Phlox in bloom...

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-63957677384990730692008-05-03T22:22:00.003-04:002008-05-03T22:45:28.298-04:00

I was painting today at the Sycamore Land Trust Paint Out "Art for all Seasons" at the The Touch the Earth Preserve.It was a pretty nice place and a beautiful day. As it turned out it was rather a windy day as well.This has been the longest lasting Spring that I can remember. It's mostly a matter of not getting hot. It seems that often - a normal Spring around here lasts a week at most. The

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-24731061648356622292008-04-28T14:59:00.004-04:002008-04-28T15:06:32.569-04:00

I've wondered if painting would go small what with the green revolution and all. The really large paintings especially - seem to mimic consumption-mode America.Interestingly "small" in this article is not small small - but 15"x18" and 34"x36". Interesting to me - because that is about the size that I've been working lately.An article from the New York Times...Small may be beautiful, but where

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-44084719064479242332008-04-24T10:05:00.006-04:002008-11-06T22:03:56.788-05:00

I'll be showing some of my nebula's and spheres at Allotropy in Indianapolis this coming May 9th and 10th. From the Allotropy site:Allotropy - Art in Multiple FormsEVENT INFORMATIONFriday & Saturday, May 9-10, 20085-11 p.m.Tickets $10 ($7 for students)1315 Shelby St. INDY MapPARTICIPATING ARTISTSAmory AbbottCarrie Rebecca ArmellinoJoe BieschkeSusan BrewerMargaret GohnKyle A. HerringtonRiva

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-91331126936812698392008-04-11T08:47:00.005-04:002008-11-06T22:03:57.086-05:00

_____________________________________Last Saturday I visited New Harmony, Indiana. I wanted to check out the gallery space at the Women's Institute and Gallery that I'll have a show in early in 2009.There was a nice show up at the WIG by Ann Cheeks. Some works are paint/pastel/collage combinations and there were also some figure studies. The painting/collages are interesting to see in person -

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-33340289385617596092008-04-01T09:24:00.007-04:002008-11-06T22:03:57.732-05:00

I delivered a couple of spheres to an art show in Rising Sun last Friday. It was interesting to see the town - as I had heard about how there was an effort to make it an "art" town. ___________________________________________________The county has some nice rolling hills, streams and old farms. And then there is the river - the Ohio river. The waterfront has been landscaped into a place where

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-56856160330792649522008-03-17T22:37:00.010-04:002008-11-06T22:03:58.004-05:00

I was surfing around and found The Human Flower Project and this post in particular which is about an exhibition of flower photography by Edvard Koinberg - Herbarium Amoris - a tribute to Carl Linnaeus of Sweden (whose 300th birthday was last year).Go to this site - to see more of his photos.__________Aquilegia__________This photo was my favorite. It seemed less predictable - more free or

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-62595396045657029592008-03-14T13:42:00.005-04:002008-03-14T13:56:43.298-04:00

Wednesday it was nearly 60 Degrees out. I painted at McCormick's Creek. There were a few icicles near the falls, some ice on the steps - not any Spring growth yet. But it's close. Lots of water from snow melts and rain coming down the falls.Yesterday was another 60 degree day. We had had some things pop out of the ground what with having intermittent warm days. But yesterday got more things going

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-11250734064758414152008-03-14T12:47:00.004-04:002008-11-06T22:03:58.161-05:00

This morning - I listened to a lecture by Martin Rossman, MD on UCTV about guided imagery and stress management. He encourages people to allow themselves to relax just as cell phones that need to be recharged. While people could meditate on a flame or their breath, for instance - he encourages people to imagine some nice, relaxing place. To imagine the sights, smells, sounds, feel - to use ones

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-50195660474749208852008-03-12T09:58:00.005-04:002008-11-06T22:03:58.304-05:00

_________________________________________Click on image to see Animation of Goat - determined to be the oldest known animation sequence - painted on an ancient Iranian earthenware bowl discovered in a grave at the 5200-year-old Burnt City.The image is of a goat jumping up to eat the leaves of a tree.From The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies:The image is a simple depiction of a tree and wild-goat

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-39513769187575745732008-03-09T14:41:00.004-04:002008-11-06T22:03:58.636-05:00

This is pretty cool artwork by Chris Jordan @ chrisjordan.com - attempting to show the quantity of consumption in this country... (cross posted at Universal Jellyfish )_______________________________________________First image depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes - 60x120"- /second a detail._______________________________________________An

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-55428900067687508122008-03-06T17:30:00.005-05:002008-11-06T22:03:58.786-05:00

One of my concerns at the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show was how some quilter's tried to make their quilts look like paintings. I was googling to find links to the Gee's Bend Quilt show and found this blog - outofthebasement. Kay seemed to share some of the same concerns.I tend to not like quilts that seem to be about mimicking painting. Some go so far as to be landscapes or portraits. Some of the

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-82004651569174064282008-03-05T16:04:00.004-05:002008-03-05T16:10:44.543-05:00

I was going through some stuff and came across this that I wrote a couple of weeks or so ago:Sitting in a heated room with fluorescent lights,chairs of wood, tables of wood particlescovered in wood-grain plastic, plastic covered floors, cement walls, fan blowing, people sittingworking...thinking about sitting in a cold woods with sunlight,bright snow, rocks, water flowing, plants growing among

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-42028211434943306512008-03-05T11:27:00.007-05:002008-11-06T22:03:59.727-05:00

The experience at the Democracy and Politics panel (which IU President McRobbie kicked off with a speech congratulating everyone) which I discussed in this post inspired me to write to Adelheid Gealt, the director of the museum. The experience mostly concerned me bringing up in an open forum the problem of the IU Museum having so few works by women on their walls. (They do have several jewelry

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-43012778414202971732008-03-04T09:48:00.004-05:002008-11-06T22:03:59.834-05:00

I love this project, Want to Save a Coral Reef? Bring Along Your Crochet Needles, described by PATRICIA COHEN for the New York Times (also posted at UNIVERSAL JELLYFISH). It's a great example of taking a traditionally women's creative activity and turning it on it's head for social activism and commentary. One thing that is great about it is for it to make an effective statement - it takes many

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-39755445266079098962008-03-03T16:03:00.006-05:002008-03-04T09:15:13.150-05:00

Friday afternoon I went to the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show in Bloomington.Later, I went to panel discussion on Democracy and Politics in the Arts in conjunction with the Writing on the Wall exhibit at IU's School of Fine Arts Gallery. That exhibit included the work of five local graffiti artists who were asked to create something specifically relating to democracy.Of course the quilters created

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-62842162299129461832008-02-18T15:49:00.002-05:002010-04-12T23:00:12.076-04:00

I like paintings with texture to the point of becoming relief paintings. When I was in NYC last month I had the opportunity to go the Metropolitan and the paintings that stand out in my mind are the ones with a lot of texture.Jean Dubuffet’s is one who championed texture. From the Met’s page about one of his works:In 1945 Dubuffet had begun creating what he referred to as hautes pâtes, paintings

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-23655610294622793462008-02-13T15:45:00.001-05:002008-03-04T09:19:04.677-05:00

A couple of weeks ago, I headed over to the Newport Aquarium in Newport, Kentucky, which is across from Cincinnati.I had arranged and gotten permission to paint the jellyfish there on a Monday - when it would be relatively quiet. Being winter, it was a nice, warm place to paint some wildlife - and I particularly like jellyfish.Besides looking interesting - I am intrigued by the fact that they are

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-76971017259125701032008-02-13T15:44:00.001-05:002008-03-04T09:20:14.585-05:00

Starting in January, the The Luna Moth Art Gallery got off the ground.The Caldwell Eco-Center had a nice, underused space in the front. So with some cleaning, a logo, some advertising, some people to volunteer to keep the place open, and plenty of artwork to exhibit - we have a gallery.The gallery should get more exposure for both artists who create nature and/or ecologically themed artwork as

Margaretnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853257415206962411.post-10528680066429032922008-02-13T15:36:00.002-05:002008-03-04T10:10:11.895-05:00

Recently I had the opportunity to go to the Brooklyn Museum and see The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. I had heard about for over 30 years and it was good to see that it had such a nice home.The place settings were great, of course, and easy enough to take in in a reasonable amount of time. But the Heritage Panels contained far too much information to take in while I was there. So it was a happy

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