Walter Logeman Art Project 2006-7
Other peoples work I discuss and find interesting.
#0566 Balancing Rock
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11″ x 8.5″ image on 13″ x 19″ archival matte paper.
This is an art work by my friend John H – which I took a photo of and now sketched. The digital version will survive this ephemeral creation. Rocks are balanced by feel – feel and more feel, an act of love & concentration, a meditation. Balance more rocks!
This particular one with its heart shape reminds me of works by Jim Dine. See the image below
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This is a great blog. Lots of good art. I try to put something there most days, and with more time freeing up will do more of that.
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I did this one blind (almost). It is a sketch. I coloured in the spoon rather carefully and with metallic silver… not sure if it prints that well though.
One reason it is here & not deleted like a lot of others is that I like the background, and the added painterliness, something the earlier autopix did not have.
If the silver does not print well, then I could always add it in some other way. John Badcock uses gold plate in some of his. paintings.
#487 Duchamp
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I have a lot of time for Duchamp. I recall the controversy when an exhibition came to Sydney, must have been late 50s? I was a kid. I thought it was stupid. But now I can see it more clearly. Art looking at art. Art asking what is art, art art. And here is a sketch, hardly art, but a little portal into the question what is art.
It was Duchamp who came up with the idea of recapitulation art, he had a go at all the styles before him, I can see how that leads to thinking about what it is all about.
One thing that it *is* about is the process, the idea, the concept. Was he the first who really got that? Maybe the first to make that idea into art.
How does it tie in with Thousand Sketches? Simple, the idea in the form of the blog + digital images (all open source & on the web) plus prints for sale is the idea that comes tied into the wehole thing. The prints have the Thousand Sketches # on them – they are a physical portal to the site. Buy one now! (or just download one but it won’t have my signature on it.
That was another thing that Duchamp bought into focus. Found objects – signed. Signing something makes quite a statement.
Links:
An earlier post, with a podcast I made that quotes another podcast on Duchamp
Animated images related to Duchamp’s Nude (images of that follow!)
Images follow, all by Duchamp.
#486 Andy Warhol on TV
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As the American art critic Dave Hickey explained in Ric Burns’s excellent Warhol documentary, “He wanted to be very famous. It was very important to him. To succeed. It was a mode of survival. He was really driven. I don’t think he spent an hour of his life without thinking about how to make it work.â€
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Available in a limited edition of 25 prints, pigment ink on archival paper.
This print is available exclusively through the Allen Gallery in Chelsea New York. If you would like to purchase a print please contact Michel Allen.
See prints from the Thousand Sketches exclusive to the Allen Gallery
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#485 Kurt Vonnegut
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I am reading Bluebeard – a novel and also a profound commentary on art. I will add art quotes here as I go.
The interesting thing is that Kurt Vonnegut is also a print producer, I say is, because new work is coming out posthumously through his screen printer collaborator.
Links:
Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84: New York Times
Working on the new website for http://www.lyfordtreks.co.nz – it is almost done & will look a lot fresher & be up to date & hosted on a cheaper server. But in the midst of overdoing that my eyes have got very sore – strain? Infection? New drops. Does not stop me from looking though.
Saw the movie As it is in Heaven feel good type movie but with an edge, I liked it a lot, and the music too. I thought how I would like to make images like that music!
Then to keep going with my flax sketches I took some photos, flax photos & some from a video -> -> ->
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My friend Sandra showed me John’s book today. I love the work, the concept & the people’s stories. John Badcock is a New Zealand artist who does not live all that far from Christchurch where I live. A few hours drive away to Geraldine.
Links, book image and a photo of his work follows.
I have now read the interview with Eric Maisel on Jan’s …in my spare time another down-under blog, from Coff’s Harbour in NSW, Australia.
I was impressed by how many books Eric has put our & has on the go. Inspiring.
Another question for Eric emerges, same theme as I’m my last post… the eastern ideas of enlightenment, and the psychological ideas on positivity seem to go against the notion of the unconscious, Jung’s notion of embracing the shadow in particular. Eric, what do you make of that?
And another question: I am curious about how you learnt this stuff Eric. You almost seem to say, here are the answers I learned the hard way so you don’t have to. Do you think there is struggle can be bypassed?
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Let me say how I enjoyed looking Jan’s blog. Creativity, books, GTD, coffee… we share a few interests. Jan is doing a series of paintings for each incantation in the Ten Zen Seconds book. Here is the first one, (I am) (completely stopping) Jan can I pinch that idea? One sketch per incantation, I’ll do it too! Look at this painting:
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