Recent content by stlukesguild

The vanitas paintings were usually full of life, with a few symbols of death, like a skull or blown out candle. In Goya's version, it's just death all the way. Checkout the “still life” by Théodore Géricault: He picked up the body parts from the guillotine during the “Reign of Terror”.

The work that shook up the classical music world to the same extent as this shook up the world of painting:

I took down the ruined work-in-progress and measured the piece in order to cut the new paper to the same size… which is about the limit of what I can work on in my current work space. I discovered that I am using a work surface that falls almost within the “golden rectangle”. My earlier works...

I just came across this artist, Michelle Morin, today. She lives in Maine and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art. There are elements that remind me of one of my favorite painters, Pierre Bonnard. I quite like her work.

The Blanton-Webster Band was arguably Duke Ellingtons greatest group. The works from this 3… or is it 4 CD set dates from the early 1940s.

I’m working on NOTHING today. I woke up with a nasty stomach virus 🦠…or food poisoning 🤢. I spent most of the day in bed. Only now… evening… have I been able to eat. I ordered some metal tacks online and they arrived around 4 this afternoon so I’ll be able to hang the new paper tomorrow.

Well… I’m about to do something that I haven’t done in years: abandon a work in progress. The last time I did this I was about halfway finished with the painting and had taken it to the college class that I was taking for necessary professional development hours needed to renew my teaching...

I wish I had come up with this one:

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This one builds of the thread of art you dislike started by Brian. 😝

Be that as it may, I certainly wouldn't describe Rococo derrières as callipygian! That is certainly true. Courbet & Rubens were more fond of the Callipygian. Or Queen & Sir Mix-a-Lot 😂

I developed a dislike of fiber arts back in art school… along with a lot of other painting majors due to some political issues at the school that are far too complex to go into here. Perhaps the final straw occurred when the school administration decided force some cross discipline rapport by...