Category Archives: ART

Gnomicon 228

Posted on 26 December 2012 by

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon  228 Wednesday 26 December 2012 Read gnomica 1-200 here! 201     202     203     204     205     206     207     208     209     210     211     209     210     211     … Continue reading →

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Gnomicon 221

Posted on 19 December 2012 by

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon  221 Wednesday 19 December 2012 Read gnomica 1-200 here! 201     202     203     204     205     206     207     208     209     210     211     209     210     211     … Continue reading →

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Tiger Lily

Posted on 19 July 2012 by

This painting is part of one whose first half has already been posted.  The original was an adequate painting from a technical point of view, but it was obvious that I had put together a dreadful composition. But rather than … Continue reading →

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Just Onions

Posted on 15 July 2012 by

Here is some more stuff in the same vein as what I offered in yesterday’s little piece – just onions.

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Blue Curtain

Posted on 23 June 2012 by

OK, it’s not really about the curtain, but, obviously, great food! Yes, not a Cotán or a van der Hamen, but, still and all, I could sit down to the repast I’ve painted here. OK?

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Woman in Red Hat

Posted on 21 June 2012 by

Again – comparing the inconsequentially personal with momentous greatness – I had to try my feeble hand at this famous genre painting, best known from a Vermeer and others too, including a modernist take by one Tim Nyberg. Here I’m … Continue reading →

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American-ness through Art

Posted on 21 June 2012 by

In the following non-art-historical lucubrations about art I want to address the question of which three American artists in my view most compendiously represent three non-exhaustive categories of American-ness – of what America is all about, of what it implies … Continue reading →

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Hanging cherries

Posted on 19 June 2012 by

This little effort at a still life was a very early one – and it shows! There are lots of things wrong here, both compositionally and in execution, but I do recall being quite taken with the result: of course; … Continue reading →

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The Beauty of Black Hair

Posted on 18 June 2012 by

This young chinoise does strike me as beautiful in the extreme. Although her face is not accurate to a photorealistic degree, the kind of serendipitous liberty here inadvertently indulged for some of her details works for her in much the … Continue reading →

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Yellow Flower

Posted on 17 June 2012 by

Because they are so very colorful, it is natural that one would like to paint flowers. Here the additions of interlacings of greens add a fillip!

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