My favorite artist is Irishman Harry Clarke. Illustrator and stained glass artist extraordinaire. Died young in the early 20th century- probably from heath complications from decades of using acid to etch glass. He had a creepy streak as well and was famous for illustrating for Edgar Allen Poe.
This first one is not a painting... it is made by layering acid-etched glass...
Nice work indeed, would like to see those glass pieces in person. I really liked the Poe painting, it portraits the weirdness of his poetry. Thanks for the post.
I'm actually with you Tiki on the Escher. Definitely ranks up in my top tier as well. I've always admired his ability to temper his technical and mathematics skills with true visionary artistic concepts. Pretty hard to wrap your mind around how his mind worked.
I've always wanted to take Escher's piece "Three Worlds" and execute it in stained glass a'la Harry Clarke using 3 layers of etched and sandblasted and painted glass stacked on top of each other. It's been on my back burner for years. Maybe I'll dig it out again.
How cool Justthemaid....I was going to post that one as well.
One of my favorites for sure.
But then I always like the 'moebius' strip too;)
That would be really cool if'n ya do that. Would Love to see that someday!?
Justin....will do if things ever dry out.
Got some paintings and some pen-n-ink in the works.
Hard to get motivated sometimes tho' because of the sporadic work.
Another favorite of mine is Maynard Dixon.
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Born in Fresno. Interesting story. Seen his work while it toured.
Awesome landscapes...Big Sky.
Ed Mell is a fairly well-known painter/sculptor from the US Southwest
Remedios Varo was born in Spain, spent her young adult years in France (in the company of the usual surrealist suspects), and eventually move to Mexico, where she did most of her work. She died there in 1963 (at the far-too-young age of 53). Here's just one sample of her painting
I'm going to post some images of my nephew's works. His name is Adrian Anthony and he is an unknown. If there happens to be anyone with connections who thinks the kid has talent.... he could use all the help he can get. Not only is he pretty talented(imo), with no art school training, he is a single dad.
Ghost I have that same Ed Mell framed over the mantel here at the hut.
It's framed on the wall of my office in this Seattle tower. I'm looking at it as I type this post. I scored a bunch of Ed Mell prints for next-to-nothing at some shop in Boulder about 15 years ago.
The other one, the Varo print, is on a wall at home. Her stuff is just mind-blowing.
Yes, tiki, I've always loved Maynard Dixon's landscapes.
Reminded me a bit of an amazing landscape painter who pushed into abstraction, name of Douglas Snow, from Utah. Some of his canvases are massive and so immersive.
I forgot the woodblock prints of Tom Killion.
Our resident Nater-D turned me on to his work about four years ago.
I like the woodblock stuff from Escher so it just stands to reason I'd like his stuff too. Both artist touch on the 'oriental'.
Happy, that sheet looks awesome, he has an eye for color and detail. A good way to get his name out there, if you don't have connections, is by showing his work at a gallery. Get a portfolio of ten to fifteen pieces on a disc and target galleries that are likely to show his work. Thanks for images, those are drawings or paintings?
this just in -- I think he uses mixed media but not really sure, as I have to admit I never asked, and haven't seen his work in person(these are posted on his FB). I was at my sisters house over T/G and some oil paintings he had done were on the living room wall, but those were not the same style.
I think he is probably drawing with ink/markers and also paints, but then using scanning pieces and digital manipulation to produce the finished piece.
Amazingly diverse interests represented in this group. I love Maynard Dixon and Ed Mell. My friends gallery is now representing Ed in Palm Desert. Of course, who could argue with Gauguin. I hope to have a speck of that notoriety some day.
Here is a re-post of "Free" and another recent work from my studio, "Crow and Bear Discuss Abstraction" and "Cranes" Enjoy, Jude
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"Free" Oil on Canvas 48"x60"
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"Cranes" Oil on Canvas 48"x48"
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"Crow and Bear Discuss Abstraction" Oil on Canvas 48"x48"
Nate I dropped out of grad school a few years back and haven't done much art since. I'd rather go climbing. I only paint when injured or when it rains for days on end. So recently I started a piece but not much to show. I'll dig up some older work and post it later.
He has been shown in galleries across the country but he rather resolutely
refuses to commercialize. He wields a brush at least as well as a hammer,
and he is baad with that!
A while back, I decided that I was going to put the following statement, "I could do that!" to the test. Rifling through the stack of art books at home and those at the library, I kept coming back to a picture of a cubist still-life by Cezanne that was in a Musee D'Orsay catalog. I paid this guy I knew to show me how to mix oil paints afterwhich I copied and blocked out the composition as best I could. At bottom left is the image from which I worked....
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Painting isn't that hard. The difficulty is in getting the values correct; if subjects are too bright or dark, the end product looks stupid. That took me a while to figure out.
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Copying stuff is also pretty easy, but arranging your own composition is not. I tried arranging a bowl of fruit and sketching it but it ended up looking like dead crap on a table. Cezanne made this still life dynamic by breaking standard rules of composition.
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Composition is hard. That's why Henri Cartier Bresson spent the last 20 years of his life in museums, copying paintings, by sketching them out in a notebook with a pencil. As far as he was concerned, he still hadn't figured it out.
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After I finished the painting, I decided to frame it in what I thought would be a period, gold leafed carved frame. However, there was no way I was going to hand carve a frame, plaster it with rabbit skin glue, and leaf it in 24K gold. Especially since I really didn't know what the frame looked like. So, off to Home Depot I went for some mouldings and a few chipboard planks.
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Luckily, I had the internets, and eventually found a tourist photo of the framed painting. It was a crappy photo but good enough to give me a rough idea of the frame configuration.
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Unfortunately, building a frame out of doo-doo meant that it couldn't support itself without some major structural engineering.
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After a couple of coats of paint, I leafed the frame in gold. OK, not real gold, but brass. Don't tell anyone.
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No doubt about it; working with gold leaf is about the biggest pain in the ass in the frikkin' world. Between the low humidity, floating cat hairs, crappy glue, and callused fingertips, I was ready to set the thing on fire more than a few times.
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When I was done, the frame looked like it had been carved from solid gold. It looked like something Mr. Tee had commissioned for his portrait.
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This would not do. Toning down the picture with some manner of antique-ing was required. I mixed up a batch of 150 years of French air-slime and slathered it on thick and heavy, then lightly wiped it off.
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When finally framed, I called it a day, stood back, and looked at it, thoroughly impressed with my efforts.
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A couple of years ago, I finally got to see the real thing, hanging up in Paris, just another masterwork amongst hundreds of thousands. I spent about an hour carefully examining Cezanne's original and finally realized what makes his a masterpiece and mine a clunky copy....
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My copy of Cezanne's still-life hangs in the parlor, a reminder of all the things still to learn.
Mental, nice work, looks the same. Master copies are fun to figure out how they did it.
Jeff m. I was about to post Magritte. By far the smoothest painter I've seen in person. The MOMA in SF has some of his work in their permanent collection. You can't find any brush strokes standing a foot from his paintings and his colors are spot on. Going to check the other artist you named.
There are lots of artists/painters that have unbelievable technical ability. Dali comes to mind. His paintings are all disappointingly small, many no bigger that an 8 X 10 sheet of paper. Which is just amazing; his paintings look like photos, smooth as silk, razor sharp edges:
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Then there are the photorealists. Amazing technical abilities, but their paintings are huge compared to Dali, typically 3 ft. X 4 ft. and larger. These paintings are photographic when viewed from a distance, or on a monitor. And working from a photo is also a whole different animal....
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But for sheer extraterrestrial technical abilities, no one even comes close to the master:
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Painting, on-the-fly, directly on top of wet stucco, on an unobservable scale, AND compensating for foreshortening is a feat of technical prowess that has yet to be equaled in the 350 years since the Sistine Chapel was painted. Never mind the fact that Michaelangelo illustrated dozens of muscles in his typical figures, far more than figure artists of his time or since.
Dali comes to mind. His paintings are all disappointingly small, many no bigger that an 8 X 10 sheet of paper. FortMental
Gotta agree. For a painting that looms large in the 20th century psyche, I too was a little disappointed at the small size of The Persistence of Memory
Yet another fuzzy point and click photo..........
How much is that Dali in the window?
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This guy's pretty cool. A good friend of my brother's. He's burning a thousand framed and empty canvases. This was up in some swanky place in mid town.
I'm a big fan of Chiura Obata's art..I also love the Supertopo artists. Matisse..mtnmum..Miss L.. Jeannie..Annie Cashner and all S.T's. Great photographers .
Did you check out that video link?
Those dudes were doing hand held video INSIDE the wave while getting tubed.
Outside the box thinking my friends, that is cutting edge stuff... a liquid medium, but still art.
A couple months ago my wife and I moved from L.A. to the little village of St. Antonin in southwest France. These are some sketches (and a painting in progress) I've been doing.
Mntmun and B. Anderson really like your guys work and Sully those walls look amazing. The large scale needs to be seen in person. Those are your works, right?
Guido thanks for that, never heard of him before but really like his work as well. Doctors are over rated anyways. Hehehe.
Edit. Just checked it out and f-ing A awesome. My favorites were your Lake Sabrina and El portal paintings. Thanks for the art Jude and all others as well.
Madonna with Condom...hmmmm....got me there.
there is a little village here in France named Condom though. seriously.
and thanks for the compliments folks.
Hey thanks Jude. But I forgot to mention that too was a reproduction.
My bad.
The client had a calender of Angels and I used that as referance.
But I kinda painted her to have my wife's features.
The name of the artist evades me presently........off on a info quest!!
Nice pastels there, BA! That vegetable market really captures the mood. Holy cow Tiki.... you got paid to paint something? Not fair! That makes you a pro amongst us amateurs!
Seeing original art of high quality is one of the advantages of living near a major city. For a fairly small amount of $, you can be a member of your local museum, and look at art over time. There are pieces at SFMOMA and the deYoung that I've sat in front of for hours now. Diebenkorn, Thiebaud, Rothko, on and on. The Oakland Museum has a great collection of the Bay Area artists, Bischoff, Oliveira, etc.
My vacations are 99% one of two things: climbing trips or looking at art trips. Last April, we spent two weeks in Rome, looking at amazing art every day. There are so many great art cities, London, Paris, NYC, DC.
Looking at art in person, standing in front of a painting, walking around a sculpture, is a magical experience. I cannot put it into words. Emotion, beauty, transendence...
I'm actually just about to leave to go up to SFMOMA for an hour...
There's a lot of unbelievable street art around. Speed, spontaneity, execution, and location make for some pretty impressive work. They should create a special Nobel Prize for Bansky and his stuff:
I have always been partial to Dali's work. But I have to disagree with the comment that his work is all small:
The Hallucinogenic Toreador - 157in x 118in
Tuna Fishing - 119in x 159in
The Last Supper - 65in x 105in
Portrait of My Dead Brother - 69in x 69in
The Railway Station at Perpignan 116in x 158in
No famous melting watches or putrification, but I actually prefer his later work, it has the most incredible detail.
I had hoped to get there to see the Cartier-Bresson photo exhibition, but it likely won't happen. But hopefully when it opens in a month or so, I'll make it there to see the Eadweard Muybridge show.
One of the most memorable exhibits for me in recent years was of Olufar Eliasson's work.
I almost like his photographic series of Iceland more than his interactive conceptual work with light
Any recent favorites Phylp (with images to post)? Anyone else?
This just in,
The day I went up I looked again at "the Anniversary show" which highlights the historical progression of aquisitions of the collection. We arrived just before the start of a docent tour. I usually don't do docent tours - they often do not stay long enough at any particular piece for my taste - but this one was good because of the historical tidbits about the art donors to the museum.
We also went to the exhibit on wine and art, which was quite clever and fun.
Nate, I agree with you, the Olufar Eliasson exhibit was FANTASTIC. I was mesmerized by some of his stuff and he was a new artist for me.
It would be fun to do a "supertopo goes to the museum" event! Maybe I'll try to organize one the next time there's a good new exhibit opening at one of Bay Area museums.
Way back when.... there was this exhibit at the MOMA on the modern 'still life'. Tucked in the corner of one of the galleries was this:
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I barely glanced at it when I first walked past, but something made me go back to it later. I guess I wanted to see how cynical an artist had to be to pass off a cut marble slab as "Art".
Before reading the description tacked to the wall nearby, I looked carefully and noticed a hair gliding smoothly across the surface. At that point, I realized I didn't understand what I was looking at and read the description. The artist, Wolfgang Laib, created a "still life", by exhibiting milk; he scooped a shallow bowl out of a slab of Carrara marble and poured milk into it. So precise was his work that it was impossible to see the edge of the milk as it lapped up to the vertical sides, a surface so flat and glossy you could swear it was stone. What way to create still life!
Justin.....yeah slab can give ya grey hair.
Good lead btw. Got to remember to stretch my calves tho.
Small screen shot of a proposed 8bit climbing video game from bitd.
Credit: tiki-jer
From a game we as game developers were trying to market.
Early 90's. Ya know for every game on the store shelves, there are hundreds that never make it due to various reasons.
I have some climber sprites(character animation) that I'll have to post sometime as an aminated .gif
Jerry that game looks badass any Xbox 360 copies? I ran into Kenny Rose yesterday, and he said him and Mac did Falling Star on Fri. So up top we were following their chalk, what a small world, huh? I'm going to Oakland this weekend but maybe next weekend we can get back on it.
Naw that game never made it :(
I think it was on the original Sega platform.
But the industry progressed in leaps and bounds.
8 bit graphics, then 16 bit, then 32......and so on.
Our programmers could not keep up and the Boss was a punk.
Gerry with a G. Huh. Congratulations on your gallery space, look forward to checking it out. Looking @ that slideshow reminded me of my house painting days, which I don't miss at all. Them fumes is no good makes me think dizzzzzzy. Nice though, did you laquer and finish the cabinets? Even black glaze in the detail, now that's where you make money. I'm starting to feel dizzy.
Bluering, he was obsessed. It is said he spent night and day, missing meals and sleep for his work. I think this dedication is what makes his work. Much like climbing where your obsession takes over.
Yes, TJI, he was. I would call it passion, but there is rumor of obsession. It is said that the chip on the right shin of Moses is a result of Michelangelo throwing his chisel at Moses in frustration that he appeared so lifelike that he wasn't indeed real.
Wow!! Simon thats pretty cool. Did you find that or perhaps family member?.....recall you saying your daughter illustrates?
Justin, no lacquer at all. Never did that sheet. All waterbase.
Special recipe ;D
Ya full name sounds prestigious.....until they find out otherwise...teehee.
I just finished reading "Michelangelo and The Pope's Ceiling" by Ross King. A book that details how Michelangelo worked for the Vatican, his travails, techniques, and , most importantly, a lot of the BS perpetuated through the centuries (and Hollywood and even Gombrich!). The book is based on his letters as well as those of a few of his contemporaries. A few gems:
Michelangelo, never painted the Sistine Chapel Ceiling while lying on his back.
He always had a team of 4 or 5 guys working with him, including other painters, and "plasterers" who'd throw on the plaster and work it properly until Michelangelo was ready to powder-on a stencil and then paint on it.
The word "Cartoon" comes from the Italian word, "cartoni", which were pencil sketches drawn on large, heavy sheets of coarse paper. There were often publicly held cartoon competitions where artists faced off against each other. At some point, Michelangelo and Da Vinci squared off in Florence.
Pope Julius pretty much made Michelangelo work for him (almost) at gunpoint, more than a few times. The historical account of the period is hilarious and gripping.
The reality of Michelangelo's skill and achievements is actually MUCH more amazing than the things we've all heard.
I found that today on a totally unrelated search. My guess is this is a Russian/Ukrainian woman based on the background in the image and her look/style of dress. A search online for typewriter art turns up a few practitioners.
So... There I was. Looking at this old vacuum jar, thinking I should do something with it. A really heavy, expensive thing found discarded with some old lab equipment, thick with waves and spot imperfections, useless for it's intended purpose, perfect for what I had in mind: a pseudo-Victorian mineral display thingy. I wanted to make a base for a mineral specimen that a relative had given me but thought that a simple standard-issue brown mahogany base was too dull.
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Wanting to see what this whole 'stone sculpture thing'was about, I went to the local stone supply company and picked up a chunk of white marble, from, of all places, "Marble", Colorado.
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Carving marble is sold by the pound in these places, and a typical piece will quickly break the bank. Good thing they had a 24" square by 2" thick piece that they sold me by the square foot.... about $25. For comparison, a equivalently heavy piece of Cararra marble would have set me back a couple of hundred. As they loaded this slab into my truck with a forklift, I wondered how the frig I was going to unload this thing at home without rupturing my lower intestine. I researched some manner of easy-looking gothic patterns and settled on this Celtic Trinity knot. I cut a sensible piece off the slab using a circular saw and a dri-cut diamond blade; talk about frightening. I cut a template, figured out some simple geometry and laid it all out with an ice-pick.
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Not wanting to spend a fortune on carving tools, I sharpened a couple of beater screwdrivers and set to work. That didn't last long. So I tried to heat-treat them myself. But I melted the plastic handles and set some sheetrock on fire. Finally, I bought the stupid tools, which weren't that expensive, and got back to work. If you haven't carved anything other than a ball of wax, you can't appreciate how slow and tedious carving real stone is. I tried different power tools: a drill, a router, even a belt sander, with debatable success.
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Some of the edges crumbled during the carving. I wanted to turn the goddam thing into kitty litter but that would have been too much work. So I pressed on, finally deciding that I'd make the piece look like it was a thousand years old and had been stolen from King Arthur's grave. Or some such thing. Some clay... a little bit of wax...some shoe polish...and an eye of newt. Voila. Old looking carved thing.
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A couple of holes, some soldered steel rod (no welder) and She Is Done! As Bernini would have said.
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The mineral is kind of nice. Maybe someone can identify it. It comes from a mall in New York.
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When all is said and done, the vacuum jar really completes the piece. Especially when the morning light hits it just right.
Funny; some people make art using only a pencil and paper, or a wooden flute. I used some rock, a circular saw, lots of sharp metal objects, numerous files and rasps, the local library, $50 worth of sandpaper, A router, some carbide bits, a drill, steel rods, a gift rock, 3 different electric sanding devices, and a giant bell jar.
Fort Mental- I saw the Rape of Proserpina in Rome last Spring, as well as large number of other stunning Bernini works. Really just jaw-droppingly spectacular in person.
Phyl
Hummer, I really like those images, are they digital?
Blue, that picture of your boy with the pacifier is classic. That's how I'm going to start painting, now. The kid likes Blue rings huh? Looks cool man keep him at it.
He bought that thing with his own money, in Colorado. Had it brought back to Sacramento and then installed in front of the door to the Governor's office. Then the schlep LEFT IT THERE when he flow home to Santa Monica for the last time.
Bye bye Arnold. HEY! YOU LEFT YOUR F*#KING BEAR IN THE HALLWAY!
Sensibly, Governor Brown wants no part of it. I think it should be sold to the highest bidder to help pay down the Schwarzenegger debt.
Fort Mental- I saw the Rape of Proserpina in Rome last Spring, as well as large number of other stunning Bernini works. Really just jaw-droppingly spectacular in person.
So why not post a few pics with a larger perspective, even though it's not the same as "in person"?
BLD... Wasn't it Picasso who said that it had taken him a lifetime to paint like a child? Your kid's stuff is really nice.... must be genetic? Make sure you spray it with an archival fixatif and frame it carefully. Show it off!
Yay kids and fingerpaint! More things cats and dogs CAN'T do!
Randisi - Nice of you to take the time to put up a few more views of The Bernini sculpture.
I haven’t posted any photos to this thread for two reasons. Firstly, because I feel overwhelmed at the thought of picking just a few favorites, and secondly I feel a bit guilty taking up CMac’s server space for non-climbing related photos. Is that silly of me?
But I will post a photo of a piece that not many people get to see, since it’s in my house. It’s a piece by an artist named Robert Herdlein, who is a friend of mine:
Artwork by Robert Herdlein
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I’m a big fan of color field and I never get tired of looking at that piece.
I also love the abstract expressionists. My own paintings (usually landscape but sometimes still life) are very loosely figurative, and heavily influenced by both the aforementioned schools.
Here's a Photo of (someones?)work of art. This painting is on the ceiling of a concrete bunker above Tennessee Beach near Sausalito, CA. I wish I could do that! I love the other etchings and cracks visible in the field.
Credit: BLD
Bluering......I like your kids work. I have wine boxes full of that early years work. I have to save it......just cant help it......love it!
Yes, the dog paintings are really nice. Love how the eye(s) are so photorealistic but the rest is so painterly.
And Phylp, thanks for sharing Robert's work and your own. Post up more!
Your piece also seems to have a conceptual influence, no? For some reason John Baldessari comes to mind, though I know stylistically that's not quite right.
Here are two pieces from an exhibition currently at the SF Legion of Honor, called "Pulp Fashion, the art of Isabelle de Borchgrave", which Daphne and I went to this past weekend. The artist is inspired by fashion (mostly women's dresses) from recent times, or from paintings and recreates them COMPLETELY out of handmade paper, which she paints, punches etc.
The dresses and other objects are all full size. Even the mannequins are made of paper!
The Legion of Honor and the de Young have been criticized for presenting too much of the "decorative arts" rather than "fine art". I'm not interested in the whole "but is it art" debate. I do enjoy seeing these exhibits, as do many others - they are very popular with the public. When we were there it was packed with people walking around with their mouths dropped open in amazement at the perfection of the craft. Everybody was commenting how much they wanted to touch them.
photo credit rene Stoeltie, from a painting of Eleanora of Toledo by Bronzino
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photo credit Andreas von Einseidel, dress inspired by a portrait by Allori of Maria de' Medici.
Upthread FortMental said "Dali comes to mind. His paintings are all disappointingly small, many no bigger that an 8 X 10 sheet of paper"
Odd sentiment. I've seen lots of Dali works (the Dali museum in St. Pete, FL is fantastic) and some of them are absolutely huge, one of them posted in that post is IRL about 6' x 4'. The Hallucinogenic Toreador is enormous, as is the Columbus landing one (can't recall the actual title). I wouldn't think of his stuff as being typically small at all, although one of the most impressive pieces to me was fairly small, about 20x30ish and not the surrealist stuff people think of, it was a still life of a bread loaf in a basket done to essentially prove to his mentors/teachers that he'd mastered the "normal" painting techniques/style.
I've always thought that climbers were among the most talented, interesting, creative, intelligent, inspiring people on the planet.
These threads on ST continue to support my belief.
Here's one of my oil paintings.
Yosemite Meadow, oil on canvas
A watercolor of Tahquitz' Open Book.
Open Book, watercolor
1969
I work on really big paintings.
Part of a 75'x35' drop for Seattle Opera's -Amelia. 2011
TJI- Thanks for the kind words. I emulated painters like Moran and Bierstadt in the 60's and 70's.
Yosemite, oil on canvas
Your stark images are reminiscent of surrealists like de Chirico. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Cezanne is considered a post-impressionist and the "father of modern art", while Picasso, though inspired by Cezanne, is thought of as the first Analytical Cubist (although some believe that honor should really go to Braque-especially Synthetic Cubism).
There are usually 3-4 artists who work on the large backdrops. That one took us about a week. Check out this set for Wagner's "Ring" Opera: sculpted foam over steel and ply, then polyshielded and painted. We spent 2 years making sets for one Opera!
Granite Cliff for Wagners' "Ring" Opera
sculpted beadfoam 75'x35' 1999
Mental-Nice drawing of Pigeon Spire. Your style reminds me of Gunnar Widforss' large watercolors hanging in the Ahwahnee Hotel. You must have had training? Fun thread!
KL
It's always a treat to see this thread come back and to see the new additions from the many talented climber-artists among us, as well as to see what people are viewing at museums and exhibits.
If you are in the SF Bay area, the "Steins" exhibit at SFMOMA is well worth seeing. Besides the wonderful art (many excellent Picasso and Matisse), the curation is excellent! One of the most interesting features are the large scale (whole wall size) reproductions of photos of rooms in the different Stein's apartments and houses - which shows how they lived with several dozen paintings hung on the walls of one room - 3 or 4 high, arranged from floor to ceiling.
Next week, we have tickets for the Picasso show at the de Young. I'll report back about it!
Yeah for Tiki! Man I wish I could be there. Best to ya, pal!
Cool work, Keith. Thanks for sharing. Do any of the sets you've worked on travel and get used at other Opera houses? I've seen quite a few nifty sets and drops in recent years backstage at the San Francisco's War Memorial Opera house. Fun stuff.
The TACO HAS TALENT!!! I am so impressed by the creative drive, the ability to be on the edge and channel the muse. The aliveness displayed in the posted art has me very curious.
What is it about this clan, who scale walls and as Eckart Tolle says, climb to find that moment when it is just you and the rock. The noise stops and you find God. This ability to find this place and channel the inspiration into art. But not just art, magnificent manifestations.
Here are my latest projects to reach completion. The landscapes were painted on site at Scottsmans Creek above Washington CA. and in The Gold Lakes Wilderness.
Yesterday I went to SFMOMA and saw the Richard Serra "works on Paper" exhibit. It was fabulous! Totally not what I thought it might be. I guess I was expecting a series of line drawings as studies for his steel works. But, no! This huge show (17 rooms total) features a lot of wall sized paint pieces, many of them "solid" black. It's the texture, scale and interaction of the pieces in the room that makes these so wonderful.
I have a show of landscapes coming up at the Monterey Museum of Art starting in November. Opening is from 5-7pm November 17th and the show runs through to March 4th. If you're in the area drop by.
Spent several days last summer painting this piece on site with Horse Tail Falls to my back and the Pyramid Creek Cascade at the bottom of the painting.
Paul- It's on my "list" to go down to Monterey to see your work very soon!
I was in NY at the beginning of December and saw the amazing de Kooning retrospective at MOMA. I went in thinking he was not one of my favorites and came out a believer.
Today we went to see the exhibit
"The Cult of Beauty", about the aesthetic movement, at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
It's a well done exhibit of painting, furniture, other objects of utility like fireplace screens, clothing and tea pots, etc. While the style is not something I personally want in my minimalist modern space, they are quite beautiful.
In particular, I admired the James Whistler paintings. When I look at his work in person it seems to me that he was ahead of his time, and setting the stage for the greater freedom in brushwork, mood etc that followed him. Maybe someone who knows more about art history than I can comment.
Stahlbro, the mosaics are beautifu,l but the market has got to be limited to wealthy people with big houses who love to surf! Can there possibly be enough of that category for the artist to make a living off them? Phyl
She does all kinds of really interesting glass work besides the surfboards. This is kind of an experiment because she enjoyed the concept. She has a show going on in Carlsbad right now. My girlfriend helped her set up and open the show.
It will be interesting see how it is recieved. Debbie and I are headed down next week to see how it is going. I agree it is probably a small target list, by they are really well done and a surfer looking for an art piece for the house might get stoked ;-)
Cindy Sherman makes her own costumes, does here own makeup and paint, set design, lighting, and composition to reinvent herself over and over. First show in a long time that completely blew me away.
Security busted me for taking this picture next to the NO PHOTOS sign.
Cindy Sherman retrospective at the NY MOMA
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I'm a big fan of Alice Neel. She painted in relative poverty and obscurity until late in her life. Fortunately, she gained prominence and money before she passed away.
Alice Neel painting for sale at the Frieze art fair, Randall's Is. NY If you have to ask how much you can't afford it.
Credit: Timid TopRope
I saw a lot of art my last trip to NY in April/May but nothing compared to the ultra hyped and hipped pre opening on Randall's Island for the first ever London based, Frieze Art Fair. The place was crawling with one percenters. This fair is meant to shock and awe.
Nate, I have been feeling better as of late and have done a little climbing. Not as much as I'd like but I'll take what I can get. Hopefully you aren't to busy with work and have done some climbing too. Let's see them doodles.
Hey Thanks Nate and Justin. Not much stone lately. Real busy.
Tried to get out for this weekend but commitments are first and play second. Still have to pick up my shoes from Barry!!
You know that feeling you get when you go to an area that has climbing near by but for whatever reason you can't get on the rock? I, and I'm sure a lot of you, get that same feeling when I'm travelling and can't get to a local art museum. I've been here in the DC area for four days and haven't had time for any art. My nieces just have no interest. And the time with them is too precious to do both.
Good luck Phylp. If you can sneak away to the Smithsonian art museum it's a good one. The Korean war memorial is some of the coolest sculptures I've ever seen. Have fun and hopefully we get to see some pictures of art that you got to see. Laters.
Slowly TJI.
I go in next week for another MRI
to make sure I didn't mess up his surgery wehe I tripped and fell on the sidewalk a month and a half ago.
I've been working on very large projects for many years (a few years ago I completed a 4,000 sq ft ceiling mural of clouds for the Jones Museum of Archaeology in Moundville, AL). So these small plein-air quick oil sketches are an enjoyable departure.
Heart Rock Falls 14"x11" plein-air oil sketch
Seeley Creek 14"x11" plein-air oil sketch
Here's my friend Jon (Anthropologist, musician, artist etc...) painting at one of my favorite bouldering areas in So Cal.
Jon plein-air painting in the San Bernardino Mtns.
Cosmic-
Have you tried Japan drier with the oils? Small amounts are recommended, but I use it liberally, so paintings dry in a few hours. Acrylics are my usual medium too, especially for murals, used with an extender.
Keith, I've often wondered which of the "well known" artists of times past might have painted with acrylics if they had been available.
I've always thought Van Gogh. I've heard him described as a colorist but I've never agreed with that description.. Though I love his work, it's not for his use of color. Much of it gets muddy and I'm not sure that was his intent. Given the way he worked, I wonder if it's just the result of painting too fast with the oils of his time.
I would agree that color wasn't Van Gogh's specialty. His brush marks and the texture and movement that resulted from it is what made him special. One thing about his color was it wasn't realistic, it was stylized and in this way maybe he can be seen as a colorist.
I do think Van Gogh would have loved acrylics, because his paintings were heavily layered and you could tell he worked fast.
Here's one that's now in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History permanent collection and will be shown in the Santa Cruz Collects show at the end of this montnh.
It would be cool, but it would probably have to be a virtual event, wouln't it? We're spread out all over the place.
I paint as a "hobby" although I hate that word for it. Haven't painted in a long time due to time contraints but have strongly felt the need to paint the past month. I've started on a landscape, here is a segment of the work in progress:
in progress...
Credit: phylp
The frustration is seeing that it's mediocre, but knowing I just have to work through a half dozen mediocre pieces until I get some semblance of skill back, after such a long time away. Additional frustration of thinking I probably don't have the time to work consistently.
Regardless of the product, it's so mesmerizing to be painting again. There's no feeling like it. It's almost as good as being in the zone on a route.
Randisi, who did the window and curtain paintings and is the one with the milky way a painting as well?
This Just In, the painting with the curtains blowing is by Andrew Wyeth (I like the effect, too). The milky way one I found on the Internet, so I'm not sure if it's real, photoshopped or what.
Regardless of the product, it's so mesmerizing to be painting again. There's no feeling like it. It's almost as good as being in the zone on a route.
Aye, I understand the feeling, though just for a minute or two of drawing or doodling squeezed into everything else in life. (So I understand the frustration as well.)
Thanks for sharing the work in progress, and I'm intrigued by your second digital piece, TJI. Love the diversity of the artwork shared by the artists of ST.
Give us some credits/links, Randisi.
Never seen the simple Goya piece - I like it.
And Wyeth's work is just so good I could eat it, although a Thiebaud would likely taste better.
Bullwinkle told me he was contemplating a book of climber art, perhaps we can do a show around the final product if he decides to move forward with it. There is a lot of talent here.
The great debate of what is real art:-) Many believe landscape paintings aren't art, that they are decorations with no artistic merit, because they lack meaning. I disagree with this thought and with Tiki's too. Photography is art, photomanipulation is art, at least in my view, but some people disagree. Art is the expression of one's self (or thoughts) through their meduim of choice.
Tiki, Tollhouse isn't in season, how about some Shuteye?
TJI.....turning a photo RED is considered ART?
Cosmic's photomanipulation is art and that kind has a long standing tradition here on the Stand.
So Mouse....should I piss up your Goldline or mine?
I was being facetious BTW....lighten up!
Yeah tiki some may consider it art. Definitely not a strong piece in my mind, extreme minimalist:-) But I do consider photograpy art and it is a photo. Lucky I am no art critic though, because then I'd love paintings of Campbell soup cans and Marilyn Monroe painted over and over in different colors.
Oh. I'm very sorry about that, if it's the case. I have only gotten to the point in my computer edumacation that I just didn't think of it as "old hat, done that."
I have thought this over enough to say what I think. It is tough to be original in anything. Time, effort, cost of materials all go into art. Some art is less exhausting in these respects than others. There is a Cain and Abel effect among art guys who work, work, work, and art guys who simply need to go click, click, click, apparently.
Take that away and discuss it. I'd just like to see more art, by whatever definition.
"Pulchritude wins out every time over landscapes."--Peter Paul Reubens
Guido is THE MAN!
Tami with the punchline! Guffaw!!I imagined the sound of a vaudville-like snare drum........A 'rimshot' if you will......and nearly spit my coffee onto the screen! Thanks Tami!
Now we know what Art is (thanks Mr E). this is the Friday NIgsht posting while drunk thread, rigsht?
Teacher, Teacher! I know what art is. It confounds the common man and sells for big bucks!
art is talking a good game and getting your outlandish concepts in high end big bucks venues
Credit: Timid TopRope
I know what art is it's Too Big To Fail $100,000.
Credit: Timid TopRope
As I've blabbed about before, the new Oligarchs of global capitalism (ie Russia, China) suffer from Charlie the Tuna Syndrome; they think Starkist wants tunas with good taste instead of tuna that tastes good.
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