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artists, daily fix
Ronnie Landfield
02.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Evening Music
2004
76 x 132 inches
acrylic on canvas
© 2004 Ronnie Landfield. All rights reserved. www.ronnielandfield.com
abstraction
The Abstract Language
02.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

As a human my experience is embodied. I am not a disembodied reason or a brain in a vat. For a more in depth discussion see Lakoff and Johnson’s Philosophy in the Flesh. In other words, Descartes’ idea that “I think, therefore I am” is totally wrong. The language of representation is built on linear […]
Texts and Sources, abstraction, artist writings, the masters
the origins of the blind swimmer
02.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

So a lot of readers have been asking me about the origin of name the blind swimmer. The first part of the answer is pretty straight forward - I used to be a competitive swimmer. Then, I was reading The Writings of Robert Motherwell while I was trying to come up with a name for […]
artists, daily fix
Frank O’Cain
02.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

©2008 Frank O’Cain. All rights reserved. www.frankocain.com
art bloggers, reviews, the masters
The Phillips’ two 1971 Diebenkorns
02.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Excerpted From Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes - February 21, 2008
When I left off yesterday, I was writing about Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park No. 38. More specifically I was trying to perform some kind of archeology on it in an effort to ’solve’ the painting, particularly its dominant diagonal.No. 38 isn’t the only 1971 Diebenkorn […]
artists, daily fix
Ginger Marshall - Late July
02.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Late July
Acrylic on Canvas
2007
© 2008 Ginger Marshall. All Rights Reserved. www.gingermarshall.com
abstraction
decoration, illustration, and abstraction
02.22.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I was at the art students league tonight and overheard two gentlemen saying that the two worst words were decoration and illustration. I thought about it for a moment because this is an issue that comes up a great deal in discussions of painting, particularly in debates between abstraction and realism. Often the two terms […]
art bloggers, reviews
Ocean Park No. 38 at the Phillips
02.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Excerpted From Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes - February 21, 2008
So on Saturday afternoon I found myself at the Phillips Collection, which had just installed a show of recent acquisitions that might as well have been subtitled, “While you’re here, perhaps you can explain to us what in the name of Duncan Arthur Phillips three […]
artists, daily fix
Brantt - Belgian Visual Artist
02.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Brantt in action from Brantt on Vimeo.
© 2008 Brantt. All Rights Reserved. www.brantt.be
artists, exhibitions
introversions - 2/9/08 - 3/21/08
02.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

introversions: an exhibition of paintings by gordon fraser from LE ARSENAL AV on Vimeo.
Introversions, an exhibition of 10 major new egg tempera and oil paintings and 20 watercolors is representative of Fraser’s recent work, and explores the fusion of asian and western “old master” techniques with his post-Expressionist vision. For the last several years, […]

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