Edvard Munch
I say this because the media and therefore the public seem to wrap in the concept of the Mad Artist. I don’t think insanity is confined to creative types. There is enogh craziness in the world to cover everyone els. The Chicago Institude is having an exhibition of some of his work starting now until it starts to get warmer. Don’t I will go Chicago when it’s cold. The wind is truly not very kind.
If you are in New York, stop by the Metropolitan Transit Authority Museum and see the work of Marvin Franklin, read his story and appreciate him and his work.
“Art Thursdays”, drawing and watercolor classes for beginning and intermediate
artists and a plein air open studio, to be held in Cave Creek beginning on January 17, 2008.
The classes will run for 8 weeks, through March 6.
“Beginning Drawing” will be taught by Larry Charles on Thursdays from 9 am to noon and Bill Lundquist will teach “Watercolor” from 1 to 4 pm at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, located at 6502 East Cave Creek Road. James Coulter’s “Plein Air Open Studio” will be held on location at different sites in the North Valley.
Registration begins on November 28th. For more information please call the School at 480-990-1422.
Says Joe Ray, a wonderful artist I met at the family day at the new “Tempe Center for the Arts” this past weekend. His work is lush with color and fun.
There may have been over 5 thousand people who visited on Sunday and I shook hands with a couple of hundred so my arm tells me.
If you are in town, please join me at the Shemer Art Center and Museum in Phoenix AZ. for an exhibit of my paintings. The opening reception is on the September 18th from 7PM to 9PM
The City of Tempe Arizona has been under going a change to its skyline. The new Tempe Center for the Arts’s structure is a eye catcher as you drive east or west on the state highway 202.
Inside the center there is a combination of the elegance of natural wood, glass, steel and concrete and reminds me of the lofts and galleries of New York’s Chelsea and Soho.
One of the features at the new building will be a 3,500 foot gallery, featuring the works of local artist.
Can some explain why we are bombarded with information that neither educates or propels our vision. We are served up the same old same oh stuff. We pay for things that are free and feel good about it. We love people who apologize, we adore them when they go to jail and we hate them when they get out. We feel we have made a contribution when a nobody (meaning nobody we know) wins A.I., cause we phoned in our vote (also not free).
Currently there are about 90 people running for President of the United States and all are asked beauty contest questions, and you can see their eyes search for the answer that Paris Hilton would give, cause that would certainly be the right answer.
If we need to be entertained, go to a play, see a good movie, go to a museum or a little league game but don’t watch the news, cause it’s not new or free.
When something is just right the first time you see or hear it, can it be attributed to formula or technique? Usually not. It is obviously something that can’t be learned just by taking classes or mingling with masters.
Recently I watched for the third or fourth time Gorillaz: Demon Days Live in Harlem and think a certain type of magic had to take place in order Albarn to pull this off. I know it is well produced and staged, but so are so many things that don’t work and are far from being magical. How does the magic happen. For something to be important and seen as a contribution it has to not be before or after its’ time.
It has to have an enduring beat, something that time can’t dull, like “Little Rooty Tooty”
So it is for me with the Paintings of Hopper. There is Poetry in his paintings. Old style rap, you can see and feel the “Rhythm”
The Phoenix Museum recently completed an expansion which has allowed it to offer its visitors the opportunity to see more great works of art from all over the world. Starting this Sunday 1/28 until the 5/6 there is “Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Treasures from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam”.
I’ve never visited the Rijksmuseum, so I am very pleased to have the opportunity to see these paintings, here in my backyard.
