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over-the-top technique
Jean Dubuffet butterfly wings, ink, gouache and paper collage in this week’s Focus On Abstraction meeting (thursdays, 11am CST), as requested by one of the member of the group, we will be discussing extreme uses of technique when creating a painting. Albert Oehlen “More Fire and Ice” (2001), a mixed-media work on canvas the artists discussed …
similar but not the same
July 16, 2021 (updated July 23, 2021) Published by jayInStudio in our weekly online meeting of artists, this week we discussed two similar artists’ works. Richard Diebenkorn and Frank P Phillips, a contemporary artist. Diebenkorn died in 1993, after a very successful career of painting and teaching. Frank P Phillips was born in 1974. it …
Amy Sillman – surprising twists on abstraction
I’ve admired sillman’s work for a long time. and I’m happy for her success, although of course, I have wished that I was her! an inventive approach to abstraction, while rolling in quite a bit or personal information. there are several very good monographs of her work. the one I recommend is “Amy Sillman one …
recycling an inheritance
when the mother of my late partner, john reuter-pacyna, fled germany during WWII, she took only her most valuable belongings. they were limited to two suitcases. amazingly, one of the things she took was a 12-volume set of german encyclopedias attempting to show all the animals that lived on all continents, and in all of …
abstracting tradition
some artists are born within cultures that have specific visual art histories, based on traditions handed down over centuries. asian and Arab artists are particularly notable, since both may employ calligraphy (an honored tradition in both cultures) in work that otherwise feels very abstract. i think the path into abstraction for asian artists is a …